Author: Steven Sahiounie

China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, stressed the necessity of respecting Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in any discussion of the issue of delivering humanitarian aid to Syria. “China’s stance on the humanitarian issue in Syria is firm and clear, and we have always stressed that humanitarian assistance to Syria should be provided in a way that respects its sovereignty,” Xinhua news agency quoted Zhang as saying during a meeting of the UN Security Council. Zhang called for confronting the negative impacts of unilateral sanctions on humanitarian aid delivery, abandoning double standards and the politicization of humanitarian…

The Group underlined that it will continue to support “the efforts of international mechanisms, such as the International Criminal Court (ICC)” The countries of the Group of Seven (G7) will continue to exert economic and political pressure on Russia in connection with its special operation in Ukraine. This is stated in the G7 declaration on the general principles of long-term security guarantees for Ukraine, adopted on Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius. “This includes working to ensure that the costs to Russia <…> continue to rise, including through sanctions and export controls, as well as supporting…

“If the sides agree or want us to mediate, we would be happy to do so. Just as Istanbul has become a center for the grain corridor, we are always ready to be a mediator in such steps,” the Turkish president stated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday expressed readiness to be a mediator in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, although he said he hadn’t been offered the role. “If the sides agree or want us to mediate, we would be happy to do so. Just as Istanbul has become a center for the grain corridor, we are…

“We need to keep up and further expand our support to help Ukraine liberate its land and deter future aggression,” Jens Stoltenberg noted NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg opened the inaugural meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on the sidelines of the alliance’s summit in Vilnius on Wednesday. The event is being attended by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. “Welcome to the first meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council. This is truly a historic moment: allies and Ukraine, sitting side by side as equals to address our common vision of Euro-Atlantic security,” the NATO chief said in his opening statement. “We need to…

Peter Szijjarto highlighted that Ukraine received neither an invitation nor a timetable for joining the alliance NATO’s Vilnius summit has produced only modest, small-bore results for Ukraine, with Kiev failing to obtain any timetable for accession to the bloc, while getting formal interaction upgraded to the council level as a consolation prize, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. “The big question before the NATO summit was what Ukraine would obtain. Compared to the [pre-summit] expectations, held mostly by the Ukrainians themselves, the actual practical results were exceedingly modest,” Szijjarto, who is attending the summit together with Prime Minister Viktor Orban,…

The newly elected head of state in Paraguay will join festivities on Wednesday celebrating the 66th anniversary of Paraguay-Taiwan relations. Paraguay’s incoming president Santiago Pena said that his administration will maintain close relations with Taiwan under his five-year term, making his country the island’s only diplomatic ally in South America and one of the few worldwide. Pena, who will assume office next month, made his statement after arriving in Taipei on Tuesday, where he is scheduled to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen and Vice President William Lai before joining an event on Wednesday celebrating the 66th anniversary of Taiwan-Paraguay ties.…

Arguing against the December trial date, Trump’s lawyers claim that challenges will arise in selecting a jury before the 2024 election. The federal judge overseeing the Mar-a-Lago case was asked by former US President Donald Trump to indefinitely postpone scheduling a trial date on Monday and suggested that the trial not take place until after the 2024 presidential election. The request in the papers submitted by Trump’s lawyers as a reply to the US Justice Department’s motion to hold the trial this coming December showed Trump’s clear wish to delay proceedings, hoping that the case may be dropped if he wins the upcoming…

Wang Wenbin stressed that this bilateral relationship differed fundamentally from the North Atlantic Alliance, which focuses on creating exclusive closed circles while promoting bloc-based confrontation The current ties between Moscow and Beijing effectively outclass the outdated Cold War-style model of a military-political alliance, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday. Asked by a TASS reporter to comment on NATO’s Vilnius Summit Communique, which stated that the deepening strategic partnership between China and Russia runs counter to the bloc’s interests, Wang said: “Relations between China and Russia are based on the principles of non-alignment and non-confrontation, and are not…

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed it is “absurd” that his country has not been given a roadmap to join the US-led military bloc G7 nations are expected to declare support for Ukraine on the sidelines of the ongoing NATO summit in Lithuania. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky expressed anger on Tuesday when Kiev was not offered a timeline for accession into the US-led military bloc. The group of industrialized nations, not all of which belong to NATO, will announce an “international framework for Ukraine’s long-term security arrangements,” according to the office of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The G7 declaration “will set out…

The former US president has urged his successor to stop the “insanity” of war In sending Kiev cluster bombs, the US government is “dragging us further toward World War Three,” former US president Donald Trump warned on Tuesday. President Joe Biden “should be trying to end the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration,” Trump said in a statement posted on his Truth Social platform. The 45th US president objected to the use of cluster munitions on both humanitarian and strategic grounds, pointing to the fact that unexploded ordnance “will be killing and maiming innocent Ukrainian men, women,…