TASS (2023-09-07). US-led coalition's drone flies dangerously close to Russian plane in Syria. tass.com According to the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria Vadim Kulit, aircraft of the US-led coalition continue to create dangerous situations in the Syrian airspace, flying in breach of deconfliction protocols and violating the country's aerial borders…
News Desk, The Cradle. (2023-09-06). New Reinforcements Reach US-Occupied Syria. popularresistance.org The Pentagon deployed new reinforcements from Iraq to Syria late on 5 September, as local reports say a military convoy consisting of 30 trucks entered the oil-rich Hasakah governorate via the illegal Al-Waleed border crossing. | This was the second military convoy headed for US occupation bases in northeast Syria to cross from Iraq on Tuesday and the third since the start of September. According to the Sputnik correspondent in Hasakah, the convoys consist of dozens of trucks carrying "military and logistical equipment, electric generators, fuel tanks, cement blocks, and closed boxes."
Ana Luisa Brown (2023-09-07). Fearab condemns U.S. blockade imposed on Syria and Cuba. plenglish.com Damascus, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) The final declaration of the 50th Extraordinary Conference of the Federation of Arab Entities in Latin America (FEARAB) held in this capital, condemned on Thursday the economic blockade imposed on Syria, Cuba, Venezuela and other nations.
MEE staff (2023-09-07). US-backed SDF issues 'general amnesty' to rebelling Arab tribes in Syria. middleeasteye.net
US-backed SDF issues 'general amnesty' to rebelling Arab tribes in Syria | Commander of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces acknowledges 'flaws' in governance after bloody fighting between SDF and Arab tribes | Thu, 09/07/2023 – 19: 13 | Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the SDF, at a press conference near the northeastern Syrian Hassakeh province, on 24 October 2019 (AFP) | The US-backed Syrian Demo…
Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-06). Syrian FM: Illegal Presence of US, Turkish Forces Will Eventually End. orinocotribune.com Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has stressed that US and Turkish illegal military presence in the Arab country will eventually end. | Speaking at a conference in Damascus on Monday, Mekdad said "Turkey knows that its withdrawal [from Syrian territories] is the sole way to restore ties between the two countries." | Turkey deployed forces in Syria in October 2019 in violation of the Arab country's territorial integrity. | Ankara-backed militants were deployed to northeastern Syria after Turkish military forces launched a long-threatened cross-border invasion in a declared attempt to push militants of the Kurd…
News Desk, The Cradle. (2023-09-06). New Reinforcements Reach US-Occupied Syria. popularresistance.org The Pentagon deployed new reinforcements from Iraq to Syria late on 5 September, as local reports say a military convoy consisting of 30 trucks entered the oil-rich Hasakah governorate via the illegal Al-Waleed border crossing. | This was the second military convoy headed for US occupation bases in northeast Syria to cross from Iraq on Tuesday and the third since the start of September. According to the Sputnik correspondent in Hasakah, the convoys consist of dozens of trucks carrying "military and logistical equipment, electric generators, fuel tanks, cement blocks, and closed boxes."
Ana Luisa Brown (2023-09-06). Syrian Minister praises Prensa Latina's media work. plenglish.com Damascus, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) The Minister of Information, Boutros Al-Halaq, praised today the objective coverage of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina about what has been happening in Syria since the beginning of the war imposed on this Arab nation in 2011.
Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-06). Syrian FM: Illegal Presence of US, Turkish Forces Will Eventually End. orinocotribune.com Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has stressed that US and Turkish illegal military presence in the Arab country will eventually end. | Speaking at a conference in Damascus on Monday, Mekdad said "Turkey knows that its withdrawal [from Syrian territories] is the sole way to restore ties between the two countries." | Turkey deployed forces in Syria in October 2019 in violation of the Arab country's territorial integrity. | Ankara-backed militants were deployed to northeastern Syria after Turkish military forces launched a long-threatened cross-border invasion in a declared attempt to push militants of the Kurd…
Ana Luisa Brown (2023-09-06). Syrian Minister praises Prensa Latina's media work. plenglish.com Damascus, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) The Minister of Information, Boutros Al-Halaq, praised today the objective coverage of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina about what has been happening in Syria since the beginning of the war imposed on this Arab nation in 2011.
Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-06). Argentina is ready to cooperate with Ethiopia in framework of BRICS. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Argentina is ready to cooperate with Ethiopia and seize the new opportunities that the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have opened to both countries, Argentine Ambassador Gustavo Teodoro Grippo said, quoted by local press on Wednesday.
Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-06). Cuban Deputy FM receives Swiss Ambassador Stefano Vescovi. plenglish.com In the ceremony, held at Cuba ¥s Foreign Ministry (MINREX), the Swiss diplomat presented the copies of style as new ambassador to the government of the Republic of Cuba, according to MINREX. | In April 2023, the Counselor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation Ignazio Cassis paid an official visit to Cuba, an occasion that reaffirmed the interest in continuing to strengthen bilateral ties with a long history of friendship and cooperation.
TASS (2023-09-07). DPRK adheres to 'nuclear weapons against nuclear weapons policy' — ambassador. tass.com Sin Hong Chol noted that "today, the Korean Peninsula is becoming one of the hottest spots where the vicious circle of confrontation and tensions repeats itself again and again due to the brutal hostile policy of the United States against the DPRK"
Jeff Wright, Mondoweiss. (2023-09-06). United Nations Committee Releases Exhaustive Study On Israeli Occupation. popularresistance.org Last week, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) issued a study two years in the making: The Legality of the Israeli Occupation of the Occupied Territories, Including East Jerusalem. | Committee Chair Ambassador Cheikh Niang introduced the study commissioned by the CEIRPP and prepared by the Irish Human Rights Centre of the National University of Ireland in Galway. Niang said, "The relevance and urgency of this study cannot be overstated… It is incumbent upon us, the international community, to deepen our understanding of the legal issues raised by this pr…
Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-06). Saudi Arabia and Iran take next step in re-establishing ties, exchange ambassadors. peoplesdispatch.org The Saudi and Iranian embassies had already resumed operations over the previous months. The developments are a result of an agreement in March which was brokered with Chinese mediation…
C.J. Atkins (2023-09-07). South African Communists call for U.S. ambassador's expulsion over Russia weapons allegations. peoplesworld.org
The South African Communist Party is calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to expel U.S. Ambassador Reuben Brigety over the diplomat's accusations that South Africa provided weapons to Russia for the war in Ukraine. "Brigety baselessly accused South Africa of supporting" Russia's campaign against Ukraine, an SACP statement issued Tuesday said. "In defense of our democratic …
Editor (2023-09-06). Mass protests against French troops intensify in Niger as the deadline for their withdrawal approaches. mronline.org
France refuses to withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger, and reiterates its threat of supporting military invasion by ECOWAS, while the regional bloc itself is "determined to bend backwards to accommodate diplomatic efforts".
Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-06). Argentina is ready to cooperate with Ethiopia in framework of BRICS. plenglish.com Addis Ababa, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Argentina is ready to cooperate with Ethiopia and seize the new opportunities that the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have opened to both countries, Argentine Ambassador Gustavo Teodoro Grippo said, quoted by local press on Wednesday.
Editor (2023-09-06). Mass protests against French troops intensify in Niger as the deadline for their withdrawal approaches. mronline.org
France refuses to withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger, and reiterates its threat of supporting military invasion by ECOWAS, while the regional bloc itself is "determined to bend backwards to accommodate diplomatic efforts".
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2023-09-06). Is CIA director Bill Burns a Biden yes-man, a Putin apologist or a peacemaker? nationofchange.org The insight on Russia that he provided to his government during many years as a diplomat and then ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow will answer some critical questions regarding his current role in the Biden administration.
Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-06). Cuban Deputy FM receives Swiss Ambassador Stefano Vescovi. plenglish.com In the ceremony, held at Cuba ¥s Foreign Ministry (MINREX), the Swiss diplomat presented the copies of style as new ambassador to the government of the Republic of Cuba, according to MINREX. | In April 2023, the Counselor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation Ignazio Cassis paid an official visit to Cuba, an occasion that reaffirmed the interest in continuing to strengthen bilateral ties with a long history of friendship and cooperation.
Jeff Wright, Mondoweiss. (2023-09-06). United Nations Committee Releases Exhaustive Study On Israeli Occupation. popularresistance.org Last week, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) issued a study two years in the making: The Legality of the Israeli Occupation of the Occupied Territories, Including East Jerusalem. | Committee Chair Ambassador Cheikh Niang introduced the study commissioned by the CEIRPP and prepared by the Irish Human Rights Centre of the National University of Ireland in Galway. Niang said, "The relevance and urgency of this study cannot be overstated… It is incumbent upon us, the international community, to deepen our understanding of the legal issues raised by this pr…
Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-06). Saudi Arabia and Iran take next step in re-establishing ties, exchange ambassadors. peoplesdispatch.org The Saudi and Iranian embassies had already resumed operations over the previous months. The developments are a result of an agreement in March which was brokered with Chinese mediation…
kwjorinoco (2023-09-06). Venezuela and Vietnam Meet and Boost Bilateral Solidarity. orinocotribune.com The cooperative relations between Venezuela and Vietnam have been strengthened to the point of becoming a "Comprehensive Association," as highlighted by the ambassador of the Asian country, Vu Trung My. | In an opinion article in which he recalled the 78 years since the independence of the Asian nation, the diplomat indicated that relations between both countries began on December 18, 1989, and were consolidated in 2007. | "Since then, we have regularly maintained exchanges of high-level delegations, generating political trust," stated Vu Trung My. | He highlighted that since the arrival of the Bolivarian revolut…
Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-06). 'Our Major Interest Is Copper': Britain Backed Pinochet's Bloody Coup in Chile. orinocotribune.com By Mark Curtis — Sep 4, 2023 | When the Chilean military overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically elected government in September 1973, UK officials supported and worked with the new junta as it indulged in widespread atrocities, declassified files show. | ‚Ä¢ "For British interests… there is no doubt that Chile under the junta is a better prospect than Allende's chaotic road to socialism", the foreign secretary said | ‚Ä¢ "The prospects for British business in Chile are clearly much brighter under the new regime", Britain's ambassador in Santiago agreed. | ‚Ä&…
kwjorinoco (2023-09-06). Venezuela and Vietnam Meet and Boost Bilateral Solidarity. orinocotribune.com The cooperative relations between Venezuela and Vietnam have been strengthened to the point of becoming a "Comprehensive Association," as highlighted by the ambassador of the Asian country, Vu Trung My. | In an opinion article in which he recalled the 78 years since the independence of the Asian nation, the diplomat indicated that relations between both countries began on December 18, 1989, and were consolidated in 2007. | "Since then, we have regularly maintained exchanges of high-level delegations, generating political trust," stated Vu Trung My. | He highlighted that since the arrival of the Bolivarian revolut…
Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-09-06). 'Our Major Interest Is Copper': Britain Backed Pinochet's Bloody Coup in Chile. orinocotribune.com By Mark Curtis — Sep 4, 2023 | When the Chilean military overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically elected government in September 1973, UK officials supported and worked with the new junta as it indulged in widespread atrocities, declassified files show. | ‚Ä¢ "For British interests… there is no doubt that Chile under the junta is a better prospect than Allende's chaotic road to socialism", the foreign secretary said | ‚Ä¢ "The prospects for British business in Chile are clearly much brighter under the new regime", Britain's ambassador in Santiago agreed. | ‚Ä&…
MEE staff (2023-09-06). Saudi Arabia and Iran exchange ambassadors after seven-year fallout. middleeasteye.net
TASS (2023-09-06). Russia, US ties unlikely to mend ties in near future — ambassador. tass.com Staffers of the Russian Embassy in Washington's consular department are holding a visiting session in San Francisco…
TASS (2023-09-06). Russia gives assent to Nigel Casey as London's candidate for British ambassador to Moscow. tass.com According to the diplomatic agency, Great Britain had requested the Foreign Ministry's approval of the appointment in spring…