Politics
Saturday 4 May 2024
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“The U.S. administration, which had kept itself aloof from the delivery of long-range missiles, saying that it did not encourage Ukraine's strike on the Russian mainland, has betrayed more clearly its true colors as a harasser of peace, aggravating war by providing Ukraine with such missiles. This time it has adopted such a mean policy as offering even long-range missiles for attacking the Russian territory to their lackeys.”
Washington has made clear that Kyiv cannot use long-range missiles to strike within Russian territory. U.S. said Russia’s targeting and killing of at least 14 civilians in Ukraine with North Korea-supplied long-range missiles motivated Biden’s decision to help Ukraine’s defense by sending ATACMS. -
“HRW alleges that the Burkinabe army deliberately massacred 223 civilians including more than fifty children in the villages of Nodin and Soro on February 24... The government of Burkina Faso firmly rejects such baseless accusations. The media campaign around these accusations clearly demonstrates the intention of its authors, which is to discredit our fighting forces engaged on the frontline...”
Witnesses and survivor accounts, photographs, and videos as well as satellite images place Burkina Faso troops at the scene of the attack reported by Human Rights Watch, an international watchdog with a decades-long history of documenting abuses. -
U.S. officials say that the United States is continuing talks with Nigerien officials, has not withdrawn any of U.S. military personnel from Niger and does not rule out a continued U.S. military presence there.
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“On Ukraine, China’s position has been just and objective. The United States keeps making groundless accusations over the normal trade and economic exchanges between China and Russia... China firmly rejects this."
There is significant evidence documenting how China has gone beyond “normal trade” to supply military equipment and components to Russia. In addition, China's Defense Minister pledged Chinese support for Russia in the war and expanded military cooperation. -
"In Kenya, we see our President talk about fertilizers for our farmers. In Uganda, they do not use fertilizers. Their land is very fertile and there is enough rain.’’
Uganda has been using fertilizers since World War II. The first lady's comments came amid a fake fertilizer scandal unfolding in Kenya's presidential administration. -
“…Unlike Western troops which were always often on the opposite side of the fighting in the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Russian troops have helped various states to regain the territory.’’
The U.S. invested more than $3 billion in Sahel’s security and trained nearly 86,000 counterterrorism troops in the region over the last two decades. Russia’s military presence is linked with aggravated violence and war crimes. -
“Russian delegation in the UN Security Council left the meeting before Israel's speech.”
Russia’s top diplomats walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting when Israel’s representative took the stage. -
"…I and many residents, and even the majority of residents of Gagauzia, and even of Moldova, are against Moldova joining the European Union.”
Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for the nation's accession to the European Union. -
“The Philippines keeps accusing China of ‘intimidating smaller countries’ without mentioning at all the Philippine occupation and encroachment on China’s territory in Nansha Qundao. That is a real propaganda ‘trap.’ The Ren’ai Jiao issue is not a case of the big bullying small but unfulfilled promises and deliberate provocations…”
There is no official “promise” between the Philippines and China. Tensions have grown due to “gray-zone” activities by China in the Philippines' EEZ. The sovereignty claims made by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson openly ignore the PCA at The Hague's 2016 ruling on the South China Sea. -
“…. Why are we being accused of supporting M23. ... For those accusing us, actually, I should accuse them of not supporting M23 because it is as if they agree with the injustice that is being done to this community.’’
Kagame is condoning and supporting a group that stands accused of serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The U.S. and the U.N., both of which have sanctioned the M23 militants, have accused Kagame’s government of supporting the group. -
"Recently, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko adopted a resolution prohibiting any cultural or educational events in Russian from being held in Kyiv. Even in everyday life, if anyone speaks Russian at school during breaks, or addresses a shop assistant in Russian, they can face administrative charges.”
In July 2023, the Kyiv City Council introduced a moratorium on the use of “Russian-language cultural products,” such as books, songs, and films, in the city. While people are permitted to speak Russian in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, as of 2023, most Ukrainians spoke only Ukrainian in daily life. -
“I come from the distant regions of Iran, from the mountains of the Hindukush and Panjshir."