Day: April 16, 2017

Photo: TASS The official representative of the defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov said that Washington’s refusal to release information about the chemical attack in Syria speaks to the lack of indisputable evidence. About it reports TASS. So Konashenkov commented on the recent media reports that American intelligence intercepted Syrian military preparing himataki. “Dark recently favorite activity of us intelligence to maintain the image of the Almighty secret organizations. According to tradition, each violation of international law, and especially the Commission of U.S. military aggression against sovereign countries, the Pentagon always covers a certain “indisputable” evidence of crimes”, – said the representative of the Ministry of defense. In his opinion, “can be more than these pseudodisease, the more they are “secret”. Earlier this week, the TV channel CNN, citing sources among American officials said that US intelligence intercepted Syrian military on the preparation of the attack with sarin in Idlib province. The

Photo: RIA Novosti The signing ceremony of agreements on allocation of Russia by the UN of $1.5 million for the provision of assistance to Cuba in the aftermath of the hurricane “Matthew”, which hit the Caribbean in October last year, took place on Thursday in the Russian Embassy in Havana. One million dollars will be transferred to the budget of the United Nations development Programme (UNDP), $500 thousand to the budget of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Signatures under the document was signed by Russian Ambassador to Cuba Mikhail Kamynin, representatives of UNDP and UNICEF in Cuba, Mirta Kaulard and Maria Teran Machicado. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Ministry of foreign Affairs and the Ministry of foreign trade and foreign investment of Cuba. Funds allocated from the Federal budget of the Russian Federation on financing of expenses related to the repair and rebuild housing and infrastructure in

Lavrov questioned the adequacy Turchynov MOSCOW, April 15 — RIA Novosti. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov questioned the adequacy of the head of the national security Council and defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, said the Ukrainian military necessity “to move to the East”. Earlier, the Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov said that the Ukrainian military in the Donbass should “meter by meter, mile by mile move to the East”, “the main thing is not to rush the border.” “Sustainable doubt on the adequacy of the Ukrainian politicians have appeared for a long time. This is not the first statement of this kind, to Mr. Turchinov the same threatening rhetoric, militant regularly employed and President (Petro) Poroshenko and (speaker of Parliament Andriy) Parubiy, and other officials. This means that the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian leadership does not want to perform the Minsk agreement, even

Lavrov has demanded urgently to send experts to the OPCW in Idlib Moscow. April 15. INTERFAX.RU Moscow considers it necessary to urgently send experts of the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) to Syria to investigate the incident with chemical weapons in Idlib, said the Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at press conference following talks with his Qatari counterpart Mohammed al-Thani. “We shared with our Qatari colleagues and the Russian assessment of the situation, how it was discussed during the visit of U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and the foreign Ministers of Syria and Iran,” — said the Russian Minister. Consider it absolutely necessary as soon as possible an unbiased and impartial investigation in the framework of the OPCW will continue at the UN in new York to insist on the investigation of incidentally Lavrovgave the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation April 4 in

The EU will offer the UK the “Norwegian model” of cooperation Brussels considers “soft” version of the state’s withdrawal from the European Union. The EU may offer Britain a “soft” exit from the Union, inviting the authorities “Norwegian model” of interaction. Writes Politico, citing a source in the European Commission, the United Kingdom will offer to join the European free trade Association (EFTA). Its members are Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, giving these States access to the single market of the Union, said, “Federal news Agency”. After that, the UK can become a member of the European economic area (EEA), which will reduce the economic impact of the withdrawal of Britain from the EU.