Tag: Donald Trump

EU-Africa committed to Paris agreement

“The European Union and the African Union reaffirm their strong commitment to full implementation of the Paris agreement, and call on all partners to keep up the momentum created in 2015,” – says the  EU-African Union Joint Communiqué on the Implementation of the Paris Agreement. “Ahead of the COP23 in November they pledge to work…

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Twitterati joke: Scandinavia versus Arabia

World leaders don’t generally troll each other, but the prime ministers of the five Nordic countries are giving an ironic picture. Who orbed it better? I am leaning towards the left 😉 cc @larsloekke @SwedishPM @erna_solberg @Bjarni_Ben #dkpol #dkmedier via @BarrettAll pic.twitter.com/261N5VHyLD — Mia Eton-McKinsey (@MiaEtonMcKinsey) May 30, 2017 Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Juha Sipila, Bjarni…

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Taormina hosts G7

The leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and the United States will hold talks on terrorism, Syria, North Korea and the global economy at G7 Summit in an ancient city of Taormina, Italy on 26-27 May, 2017. Talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders of the world’s rich nations at the…

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Trump insists on fair burden-sharing in NATO

At NATO Summit in Brussels headquarters the U.S. President Donald Trump  called allies for fair sharing of the defense spending in face of the growing terrorist threat. “Terrorism must be stopped in its tracks, or the horror you saw in Manchester and so many other places will continue forever,” Trump said, referring to the suicide…

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Donald Tusk welcomes Donald Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump met the heads of European Union institutions in Brussels on ahead of a summit of NATO. #Trump #Brussels #EU https://t.co/ABY37f9AeR via @EC_AVService — Anna van Densky (@AnnaVanDensky) May 25, 2017 Brussels was the fourth destination of Trump, on his foreign trip to Middle East and Europe. He was greeted by European…

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Michel talks to Trump without taboo

Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel (Reformist Movement party) has had talks with the US President Donald Trump for over an hour in Brussels Royal palace. Afterwards, the Prime Minister refered to a “warm encounter”, without taboos . “We did not speak a diplomatic language,” said the Prime Minister. Michel emphasized in the conversation, inter alia,…

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Trump visits Vatican

Pope Francis urged U.S. President Donald Trump to be a peacemaker and the US President Donald Trump promised he would not forget the pontiff’s message, after both talked privately for about 30 minutes with interpreters. Honor of a lifetime to meet His Holiness Pope Francis. I leave the Vatican more determined than ever to pursue…

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Palestinians "ready for peace"

Concluding his stay in Jerusalem, the US President Donald Trump praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas alike, announcing both were ready for peace. However he did not mention Palestinian state, neither touched the issue of his campaign promise to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “I had…

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Trump visits Israel

The US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made addresses, vowing to make a renewed effort for peace with the Palestinians. Trump made his point, saying Iran ‘can never, ever’ have a nuclear weapon. Trump underlined he reaffirms the “unbreakable bond of friendship” between the US and Israel, and added that the…

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