The European Union today “welcomed” a UN report on alleged human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, joining its voice in the UN experts’ call for “close monitoring” of the situation. The long-awaited report, released Tuesday evening by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, “highlights the serious human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang, […]
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Celik for Greece: Locking our aircraft with the S-300 is considered a hostile action towards NATO
After Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hulusi Akar and today Devlet Bakhceli, the baton of the attack against Greece was taken by the representative of Erdogan’s party, Omer Celik, who called the “targeting” of aircraft by the S-300 “hostile action” . Specifically, Celik said: “Locking down our aircraft with S-300s is considered a hostile action towards NATO. […]
Putin held a lesson with students and promoted Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin held an open class called “Talking about important things” with the winners of school competitions in culture, art, science and sports, promoting the Kremlin’s propaganda about the war in Ukraine to school-aged children. About the purpose of the “special military operation” in Ukraine According to Putin, some people accuse Russia of […]
Russia warns Moldova not to threaten its troops in Transnistria
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Moldova today that the threat to the security of Russian troops in the breakaway region of Transnistria risks provoking a military confrontation with Moscow. Russia has stationed peacekeepers in Transnistria since the early 1990s, when pro-Russian separatists wrested most of the region from Moldovan control in an armed conflict. […]
Letter of condemnation of Turkey’s actions from the Spanish prime minister to the Cypriot president
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reiterates the condemnation of the Spanish government for any unilateral actions that endanger stability in the region, including the ongoing illegal actions by Turkey in the closed area of Varosia. In his reply letter to the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, Mr. Sanchez expresses the hope for […]
Delirium Bahtseli: With the ‘locking’ of our F-16s by the S-300s, Greece entered our radar
With his pre-election speech, at the offices of the Nationalist Movement Party (MIP) of Turkey, the president of the party, Erdoğan’s government partner and leader of the Gray Wolves, Devlet Bahtceli, used Greece in an aggressive-nationalist cocktail that had the ultimate goal of the president of Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s Kemal Republican People’s Party (CHP). Beginning his […]
Johnson: Something positive will come out of the war in Ukraine, de-dependence on Russian energy
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today that weaning off Russian energy imports would be a positive outcome of the war in Ukraine as Western countries seek to curb purchases of Russian goods. “Out of this disaster, out of Putin’s war, I think something good will come, that Europe will be independent of Russian hydrocarbons,” […]
Russia: The EU’s decision to suspend the visa agreement is ‘ridiculous’
The EU’s decision to completely suspend its visa facilitation agreement with Russia is “ridiculous”, the Kremlin said today. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added that Moscow was now considering ways to respond. EU foreign ministers yesterday agreed to completely suspend that deal with Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine, meaning Russians will have to wait […]
Germany calls on China to ensure human rights in Xinjiang
Germany today called on China’s government to “immediately allow all residents of Xinjiang to fully exercise their human rights”, a day after the publication of a UN report on alleged abuses in the Chinese province against the Muslim minority of the Uighurs. The long-awaited report “confirms that there is cause for concern,” the German foreign […]
In Kyiv, the vice-president of the Commission, Margaritis Schinas
The vice-president of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, is in Kyiv to discuss and strengthen the European Union’s support to Ukraine in the fields of health, education, youth and culture. Mr. Schinas will visit a children’s hospital together with the Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine, Oleksandr Komarida. The Commission emphasizes that the EU directly […]