Day: August 25, 2017

Qatar and Iran have officially reconciled Qatar’s foreign Ministry announced that the Emirate plans to restore relations with Iran. The level of diplomatic representation in the Islamic Republic was lowered a year and a half ago, but only as a sign of solidarity with Saudi Arabia, the main ally of Doha at that time. Now, when Saudi Arabia from the main ally became the main opponent, the country has to set priorities and to return Ambassador to Tehran. “The state of Qatar declares that the Emirate’s Ambassador in Tehran, will soon return to his diplomatic duties”, — said today the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the country, adding that relations between Qatar and Iran is planned to be developed “in all areas”. In January 2016, when Qatar’s foreign Ministry recalled its Ambassador from Iran, reducing the level of diplomatic representation, the balance of forces in the region were as follows:

Photo: Reuters The question of ownership of the Crimea can be “frozen” in that case, if Moscow “will stop the spiral of escalation”. This statement was made by the candidate in German chancellors, the leader of the Free democratic party Christian Lindner. His words, reports Deutsche Welle. “We need to check whether it is possible to break through the spiral of escalation and arms race that exists at the moment,” said Lindner. Lindner added that German authorities do not recognize Crimea part of Russia, the sanctions will remain in force, but this question will cease to be a priority in relations between the two countries. According to policy, if the Kremlin would demonstrate a willingness to continue to move towards decreasing the voltage, the restrictive measures can gradually be removed. 11 August Lindner have already expressed a similar position. According to opinion polls, 44.4% of German citizens support the idea

Photo: RIA Novosti The head of the CEC of Russia Ella Pamfilova with humor reacted to the idea of online Dating about finding their mate and the joint campaign for the elections, and noted that the Central election Commission to this is irrelevant, but creativity is welcomed. On Wednesday, Pamfilova took part in the international youth legal forum “Arvola”. Previously, the TV channel “Rain” reported that the Internet-a portal of acquaintances “Mamba” has created a mobile app “however, the elections” , through which users will be able to meet and together go to the gubernatorial elections. “I have to treat it with humor: in his own way. CEC has no relationship,” Pamfilova told journalists at the forum, answering a question about his attitude to this idea. “You know what I like? If there is creative, it needs to be, let them race. Most importantly, to raise interest in the elections.

Photo: Cliff Owen/AP Former Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak in a brief interview with CNN, he told about his vision of relations between the two countries in the future, and again denied allegations that is the ” spy.” The correspondent of TV channel “caught” the Russian diplomat when he got out of the car, and immediately began to ask questions. Kislyak noted that he had arrived in Russia, ” to talk with the Russian people,” but did not deny him an interview. The former Ambassador, however, refused to comment on the journalist’s question about what Kislyak before the end of their powers trying to build a secret channel of communication between Washington and Moscow at a meeting with the American President son-in-law Jared Kushner. “I have said many times that we don’t discuss the conversations with our American partners. Out of respect for him,” said Kislyak. Also, the