Day: June 30, 2017

China’s Ambassador to the US expressed dissatisfaction with Washington’s sale of weapons to Taiwan MOSCOW, 30 Jul — RIA Novosti. China’s Ambassador to Washington said that the sale of weapons to Taiwan, and sanctions against Chinese companies undermine bilateral relations, reports Reuters. On Thursday, the state Department said that the United States will sell Taiwan weapons for $ 1.4 billion, but will not abandon the policy of “one China.” It is the first such deal with Taiwan from the current administration of Donald trump. On the same day, the United States included in the sanctions list several Chinese companies, accusing them of ties with the DPRK. “All these actions — sanctions against Chinese companies, and especially arms sales to Taiwan is without a doubt negatively affect the mutual trust between the two sides, as contrary to the spirit of the summit in Florida,” — said the Chinese diplomat Cui Tiankai.

© Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. Meeting of presidents of Russia and USA Vladimir Putin and Donald trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg needs to clarify the issue of cooperation between the two countries. This was stated Friday by the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, speaking at the “Primako readings”. “Of particular importance in today’s world is given to the relations between Russia and the United States, on which depends the solution of many international problems, ranging from the provision of strategic stability, settlement of regional crises,” – said the head of depodesta.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov July 13, plans to visit Berlin to participate in the closing ceremony of the cross year of youth exchanges in Russia and Germany, RIA “Novosti”. “With the success of reciprocal years of youth exchanges. We Sigmar Gabriel planned to take part in its closing ceremony in Berlin on 13 July,” — said Lavrov. Also, according to Lavrov, Moscow is satisfied that, despite continuing disagreements, the dialogue with the Berlin remains constructive. “We are pleased that, despite continuing disagreements on several major international issues, the Russian-German dialogue has been constructive, maintain regular political contacts, including at the highest level, restored bilateral cooperation formats that were previously frozen, but not at Russia’s initiative, by the way,” said he. Earlier, Lavrov invited the President of Germany Frank Walter Steinmeier to visit Russia.

Photo: RIA Novosti Foreign intelligence services conduct operations in Russia to exert influence on the internal processes that occur in our country. On Wednesday, June 28th, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in the headquarters of the foreign intelligence Service. Putin noted the growing activity of foreign special services, which are directed not only against Russia but also against its allies. “The new methods of collecting and spreading information, cyber attacks, attempts to recruit agents to access data on the defense, economic, and resource potential of Russia”, – said the President. He added: “operations Are carried out with the aim to influence political and social processes in our country.” At the same time, Putin admitted that the Russian security services operate effectively, and their work became an important guarantee of “sovereign development, security and stability” in the country. We will remind that on Monday, June 26, the same topic the President