Day: June 15, 2017

Parliament of Egypt on Wednesday, 14 June, approved the transfer of the two disputed Islands of Saudi Arabia, reports ABC News. We are talking about the Islands of Tiran and Sanafir located in the Red sea. Thus parliamentarians approved the ratification of the agreement with Riyadh on the demarcation of the Maritime boundary between the two States, said TASS. The next step should be the signing of the agreement, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, after which the document will come into effect. In April of last year, Cairo and Riyadh signed an agreement on Maritime demarcation. The condition of the Saudis was a mandatory transfer of two Islands in the Red sea. However, the agreement has caused outrage among the Egyptians, as this could harm the tourism industry, because the Islands are located in the territory of the national Park of RAS Mohammed near Sharm El-Sheikh is popular with divers.

USA is concerned about the rapprochement between Russia and Turkey. This was at a hearing of the Committee on foreign Affairs of the house of representatives said the state Secretary Rex Tillerson, reports TASS. Commenting on the cooperation between Moscow and Ankara, the head of American diplomacy said about the concerns at the White house this dialogue. He also declared “of extraordinary importance” of relations with Turkey for the US and for Europe and NATO. While Tillerson acknowledged the claims of Turkey to the United States. “It is clear that they have real questions about how we implement their military plans in Syria to defeat the “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia as a terrorist organization),” commented a diplomat of the supply of arms to Kurdish groups, which Ankara considers a terrorist separatiskie movements. Also the head of the state Department said that the U.S. is “concerned about the developments

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has maintained regular contacts with Barack Obama on the situation around Ukraine since the crisis began in 2014. The President told in the film by American Director Oliver stone, the third of which came out on Showtime. Putin noted that his dialogue with the ex-President on events in Ukraine “was not a heart, but not confrontational, business — like, concerned. Consent was not. We have different estimates were, and now they are different,” he said, adding that “this is a useful dialogue.” Putin also confirmed that he and Obama were on the same level, “you”, called one another “Barack and Vladimir.” Earlier, Putin said that the EU and the US supported the military seizure of power in Ukraine. Answering the question about the events in Ukraine, which began after the decision of Viktor Yanukovych to further examine the Association agreement with the EU, Putin said that