Day: September 26, 2017

Donald Trump The US President Donald trump said that a military solution to the conflict with North Korea remains possible, but it is undesirable as will be devastating. This statement, as RIA Novosti reported, he made in a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Spain, Mariano Rajoy. “The second option is still possible, but we don’t want, this could be devastating for North Korea,” — said the American leader. In addition, trump has called on all States to act immediately in order to achieve the complete denuclearization of North Korea. “All Nations must act now to be sure that the North Korean regime carried out complete denuclearization,” said the US President. On 25 September the foreign Minister of the DPRK ri Yong Ho said that trump declared war on his country. Prior to that, he said that North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons is a means of self-defense. 23

The US does not support a referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan. As reported RIA Novosti, said state Department spokesman Heather Nauert. According to her, U.S. Secretary Rex Tillerson talked recently with representatives of both parties. “We have expressed their deep concerns. We see this as a unilateral referendum,” she added, expressing doubt that any of the members of the international anti-terrorist coalition approved it. Neuert also stressed that the United States “support a United democratic Iraq.” In Iraqi Kurdistan, on 25 September held a referendum on independence. According to preliminary data, more than 93 percent of voters supported independence of the region. Strongly opposed the holding of a plebiscite vote Baghdad, Ankara and Tehran. Western countries have called on the authorities of the Iraqi Kurdistan region not to hold a plebiscite. In the United States stated that “the holding of a referendum in the disputed areas is a

The EU does not link the introduction of peacekeepers in Donbass since the beginning of the lifting of sanctions against Russia, said the EU Ambassador in Moscow Vygaudas Usackas in an interview with the newspaper “Kommersant”. “Such a position the EU has no, but the desire to see progress in the normalization of the situation in the East of Ukraine is shared by all EU countries. How this will be achieved is difficult to say,” he explained. According to Usackas, France and Germany, which are members of the “Normandy format”, have a special importance in the evaluation of proposals of the Minsk agreements as are parties to this agreement. The Ambassador stressed that sanctions are not an end in itself. “We in the EU had a choice how to respond to illegal actions of Russia against our neighbor. There were different voices in favor of the fact to provide military