Russia warns weapons supplies to Ukraine
Russia has warned the US and Canada about the consequences of arms shipments to Ukraine, TASS reported on Tuesday. Shipments of US and Canadian weapons to Ukraine are pushing the country’s leadership to pursue new military adventures, said Pyotr Ilyichyov, Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN. He cited reports that Canada had announced its readiness to issue licenses to companies for arms deliveries to Ukraine. They include, in particular, the manufacturer of hand-grenade launchers Airtronic USA. “Everyone should understand that the conflict in the Donbass will not be resolved by force,” Ilyichyov said.
Thai election to be held in November 2018
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday he would use a special order giving the military sweeping powers to lift a ban on political activity. The ban has been in place since a 2014 coup. Prayuth, who is also head of the junta, has said that Thailand will hold a general election in November 2018, Reuters reports. Major political parties had been urging the government for months to lift the ban in order to allow parties to prepare for the vote.
US strategic report an Imperial act
China and Russia denounced a US report on national security strategy. President Donald Trump’s first National Security Strategy pillories China and Russia as “revisionist powers” bent on rolling back American interests, according to the hard-hitting text released Monday.
The document designed to serve as a framework for the Trump administration’s approach to the world uses remarkably biting language to frame Beijing and Moscow as global competitors.
The Kremlin denounced the “imperialist character” of the report, accusing Washington of clinging to a “unipolar world.”
“The imperialist character of this document is obvious, as is the refusal to renounce a unipolar world, an insistent refusal,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding the Russian authorities “cannot accept that the country is treated as a threat to the security of the United States”.
China said Washington should “abandon outdated notions such as a Cold War mentality”.
“Any country, or any report, which distorts the facts, or maliciously slanders will only do so in vain,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing.
Cooperation between China and the US will lead to a win-win outcome for both sides, but confrontation will bring mutual losses, China said on Tuesday. The statement came after Washington branded it a competitor that was seeking to challenge US power. Beijing hopes the US can seek common ground while respecting differences, China’s US embassy said. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that China has always been a contributor to global development and a protector of the international order, Reuters reported. In a new national security strategy based on US President Donald Trump’s “America First” vision on Monday, the US described China and Russia together as competitors seeking to erode US security and prosperity.
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