Anna van Densky, Brussels, European Parliament. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban faces the fury of Brussels for rejection of the EU resettlement plan of the flows of migrants (in the version of the Commission just a thousand ‘refugees’), and coping of the US transparency rules for foreign NGO. In a debate with the Members of…
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Moscow for ‘politically important’ dialog with Pyongyang
A US-sponsored draft of UN Security Council statement condemning Pyongyang’s missile test, which some media claimed had been blocked by Russia, was actually withdrawn by Washington after a wording disagreement, Moscow said. The statement was to condemn the latest failed ballistic missile test by North Korea, but failed to get through the top security body…
May to end EU ‘free movement’ to UK
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May will make a pledge ahead of the June 8 election to end European Union free movement of people into Britain, the Daily Mail newspaper reported, citing unidentified party sources. May will also include pledges in her election manifesto to pull out of both the EU Single market and European…
Lavrov holds talks with Iran and Syria on US missile strike
The US missile strike was aimed at undermining the peace process in Syria and the change of power, but attempts to achieve this will not succeed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov said, at following the meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Iran and Syria Mohammad Javad Zarif and Walid Muallem…
NATO ‘understands’ US stirke on Syria
The US President Donald Trump received at the White House NATO Secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday afternoon prior to their joint press conference. It was the first meeting between Stoltenberg and Trump, who had spoken on the phone twice previously. "In #NATO, America has the best friends & allies in the world" – @…
Duma on US ‘sabotage’ of soltuion for Syria
The head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Council of Federation, Konstantin Kosachev, defined as a ‘sabotage’ the statement of the US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley about the inability to find a political solution to the conflict in Syria. He wrote about it in Facebook. In an interview with CNN, Haley…
Stockholm: Five dead and ‘large number’ of injured in terrorist attack
At least five people are dead and many more injured after a terror attack that saw a hijacked lorry plough into pedestrians outside a Stockholm department store. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said it appeared the crash was “a terror attack” and the country’s intelligence service said there was “a large number of injured”. …
NATO Foreign ministers meeting
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg draw the attention of the foreing ministers gatheirng today at Alliance headquaters in Brussels to a wide range of challenges: a more assertive Russia, turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East and terrorism in the streets. The Alliance has already made key steps to reinforce its deterrence and defence…
Two people died in London attack
The UK media reports of two persons confirmed death, and dozens of injured in London attacks. Police attend Parliament and MPs are in lockdown after a shooting and stabbing of a police agent. Two major interactions are reported: at the gate of the Parliament, where the agent was stabbed to death, and at the Westminster…
UN Human Rights Council future in doubt
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-fourth regular session from 27 February to 24 March 2017 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will address the opening session, along with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid…
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