WP: the White house is growing concern because of the crisis over Qatar WASHINGTON, September 18. /TASS/. Concern about the crisis over Qatar continues to grow in the White house after more than three months after the beginning of the conflict in the Persian Gulf. This was reported in the Sunday newspaper the Washington Post, citing sources in the Washington administration. “We put a lot of investment, — quotes the edition of the representative of the White house. — Is it acceptable that American business starts talking to us about the cancellation of their contracts because of the situation in the [Persian] Gulf?”. He also pointed to a potential threat to the American airbase, which fly the aircraft for anti-terrorist operations. “We all start to feel a crisis [around] Qatar prevents what we want to do,” said a source. He noted that the White house is trying to encourage the
Day: September 18, 2017
Lavrov arrived in new York to participate in the work of the UN General Assembly
Lavrov arrived in new York to participate in the work of the UN General Assembly The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov has arrived in new York to participate in the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. About it the correspondent of RIA Novosti. As reported earlier, the official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, the work program of Lavrov in the coming week includes several dozen high-level events. In particular, the Russian foreign Minister will speak at the UN, will take part in the traditional meeting of foreign Ministers in multilateral and regional formats on the sidelines of the General Assembly. In addition, Lavrov will hold bilateral talks, including with the UN Secretary-General antónio Guterres and US Secretary of state Rex Tillerson.
Ukraine can present its own draft resolution on the placement of the UN mission in the Donbass
Ukraine can present its own draft resolution on the placement of the UN mission in the Donbass UN, September 18. /TASS/. USA and Ukraine expressed their unwillingness to work on the text of the draft resolution on the deployment of security for the UN mission in the Donbas, with Kyiv may submit an alternative document. This was stated Monday in an interview with TASS, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia. “This project has already been discussed in the framework of the Security Council, it was the reaction from partners, the diplomat said. — We offered work on the text, but the delegations of Ukraine and the United States after the first debate said they hereinafter are not willing to work, they will have substantive comments, and perhaps the Ukrainians will be a counter-proposal on the issue of deploying a peacekeeping mission in the Donbas.” “The Ukrainian side has
Nebesa: Kiev may present its draft resolution on the placement of the UN mission in the Donbass
Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia © Valery sharifulin/TASS UN, September 18. /TASS/. USA and Ukraine expressed their unwillingness to work on the text of the draft resolution on the deployment of security for the UN mission in the Donbas, with Kyiv may submit an alternative document. This was stated Monday in an interview with TASS, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia. “This project has already been discussed in the framework of the Security Council, it was the reaction from partners, the diplomat said. – We offered work on the text, but the delegations of Ukraine and the United States after the first debate said they hereinafter are not willing to work, they will have substantive comments, and perhaps the Ukrainians will be a counter-proposal on the issue of deploying a peacekeeping mission in the Donbas.” “The Ukrainian side has long walked with this issue –
The most likely end to human civilization
Physicist Max Tegmark from the Massachusetts Institute of technology (USA) in an interview with IEEE Spectrum devoted to the recently published in his book “Life 3.0”, called the most likely negative scenario for the future of human civilization. The greatest danger to the inhabitants of the Earth, says the scientist, is artificial superintelligence, not conscious. “When I talk about consciousness, I simply mean a subjective experience: it feels something like me,” said the scientist. In his opinion, the study of artificial intelligence often ignores the problem of consciousness, in particular, the distinction between conscious and unconscious systems of information processing characteristic of living and nonliving nature. Tegmark is against “carbon chauvinism”, accepting that life can be based and, in particular, silicon. The expert believes that intelligence and consciousness can be described by equations. “If we educate children who continue to follow the dreams, which have not reached us, then we
From the lesser Antilles tropical storm Maria intensified to hurricane
Tropical storm “Maria”, which was previously formed in the Atlantic ocean, it strengthened to a hurricane. This was reported on the website of the National center for prevention of storms USA. According to information agencies, a hurricane approaches the Small Antilles. In the area of its potential impact, in particular, the USA owned island of Puerto Rico and Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Currently, Maria is moving to the North-West at a speed of 24 kilometers per hour. The speed of wind gusts up to 120 kilometers an hour. In addition, in the Atlantic ocean near the East coast of the USA the hurricane Jose. At the end of August on the Texas hurricane “Harvey”. He was the most destructive natural disaster in the U.S. over the past 12 years. The victims of the hurricane and the resulting flood of steel 60. 10 Sep Florida was hit by another hurricane,
The sending of the UN mission in Donbass will be discussed at the meeting of the security Council
The subject of the security mission in the Donbass will be discussed at a meeting of the UN Security Council high-level during the Ministerial week of the session of the General Assembly. This was stated in an interview with TASS Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia. Thus, according to him, Ukraine and the United States expressed unwillingness to work on the text of the draft resolution on the deployment of security mission. However, Kiev may submit an alternative document. “This project has already been discussed in the framework of the Security Council, it was the reaction from partners, — said the diplomat. — We offered work on the text, but the delegations of Ukraine and the United States after the first debate said they hereinafter are not willing to work, they will have substantive comments, and perhaps the Ukrainians will be a counter-proposal on the issue of deploying
Putin had a telephone conversation with Macron
Photo: RIA Novosti The President of Russia Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with President of France Emmanuel Macron. This was reported to journalists the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “The President in Moscow has just held a telephone conversation with President of France by Macron. Just it ended. Soon we will give the message,” said Sands. On Friday, Putin, according to his press Secretary, scheduled routine meetings. “During the day he will also hold a meeting with permanent members of the security Council”, — said Peskov.
In “Fair Russia” offer to punish the overbooking
In “Fair Russia” offer to punish the overbooking MOSCOW, 18 Sep — RIA Novosti. CP has prepared a bill requiring airlines to return passengers to ten times the cost of the ticket if he can’t fly because of overbooking, writes “the parliamentary newspaper”. The Ministry of transport in 2015, has prepared a bill allowing airlines overbooking is sale of a larger number of tickets than seats on the plane. It was planned that the law will take effect by the summer of 2016. In June 2017, transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said that the issue of legislative approval of overbooking in Russia is not on the agenda. “If the passenger paid for the flight, suddenly not enough seats on the plane, the carrier will be required to return the ticket price tenfold. The bill this week is going to bring in the state Duma first Deputy Chairman of Committee of the
The most likely end to human civilization
The most likely end to human civilization Physicist Max Tegmark from the Massachusetts Institute of technology (USA) in an interview with IEEE Spectrum devoted to the recently published in his book “Life 3.0”, called the most likely negative scenario for the future of human civilization. The greatest danger to the inhabitants of the Earth, says the scientist, is artificial superintelligence, not conscious. “When I talk about consciousness I mean subjective experience: it feels something like me,” said the scientist. In his opinion, the study of artificial intelligence often ignores the problem of consciousness, in particular, the distinction between conscious and unconscious systems of information processing characteristic of living and nonliving nature. Tegmark is against “carbon chauvinism”, accepting that life can be based and, in particular, silicon. The expert believes that intelligence and consciousness can be described by equations. “If we educate children who continue to follow the dreams, which have