Hollande not to G20 meeting
November 14, 2015 07:15French President François Hollande does not go to the G20 meeting in Turkey Sunday and Monday. This was reported by the presidential palace in Paris Saturday.
French President François Hollande does not go to the G20 meeting in Turkey Sunday and Monday. This was reported by the presidential palace in Paris Saturday.
US President Barack Obama has condemned the attacks in Paris Friday. He called it a " disgraceful attempt to terrorize people." Obama said the United States to monitor the situation closely and France where it can will help. "France is our oldest ally. The French and American people have always stood shoulder to shoulder," Obama said. They stressed that the US also now stand behind France "in the fight against terrorism and extremism."
US Secretary of State John Kerry hopes that the participants in the consultations on the war in Syria will not put the heels in order to defend their own interests. He said Thursday in Washington that to start with the United States should overcome their disagreements with Russia and Iran on the tenure of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad.
The Austrian police have broken up a human trafficking gang that between February and mid-September, an estimated 1800 migrants via Serbia and Hungary has brought to Vienna. The gang would have expected from Belgrade are guided and per person between 250 and 300 euros for the illegal trip.
Nine days after the devastating fire in a nightclub in Bucharest increased the death toll to 44. The disaster prompted massive street protests, which resulted in the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta. Many Romanians corruption and thus lead the government as responsible for the event.
The German minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Foreign Affairs has again confident that the civil war in Syria can be solved. " For the first time in years, there is reason to hope that the people in Syria in a not too distant future be able to live in peace in their own country," said Steinmeier to Bild am Sonntag.
The main decision of the ministers and diplomats from the seventeen countries Friday in Vienna talked about the struggle in Syria, was about two weeks to gather again komen.Toch important decisions lie ahead. A cease-fire would already be in the short term. For the longer term were discussed elections and the formation of a transitional government.
At the international meeting on Syria in Vienna would circulate a proposal that mention of a proposal for a ceasefire. Then there would be a transitional government to be installed. In the transitional regime, there should be room for President Assad and the Syrian rebels, as reporting anonymous diplomats.
The consultations Friday in the Austrian capital Vienna has started the war in Syria is the,null, beginning of a serious discussion, '' said development minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs).,null, It's a small start. ''
The participants in the Syria- concert in Vienna must be flexible. UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has said, the BBC reported Friday. He calls the five main parties in the course of consultations to abandon " national interests " and that can be exchanged for "international leadership". It is the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
US and Russian foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry, each speaking Thursday in Vienna on the civil war in Syria. It is an introduction to the international Syria- consultation is scheduled Friday in the Austrian capital. Kerry has arrived Thursday morning.
The Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Friday in Vienna takes part in international discussions on the civil war in Syria. He did this on Wednesday.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan thinks talks between Russia and the United States could lead to some form of peace in Syria. Annan left Tuesday local time managed to see the two countries as key actors.
Washington is in fact in retrospect engage Iran in political dialogue on the civil war in Syria. Earlier, the US opposes any Iranian role, but a government spokesman said Tuesday that it assumes that Iran will be invited to attend international talks on Syria in Vienna. Supports Iran, like Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also militarily.
Russia is trying to a political process in Syria to launch that should lead to a peace. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov opened Saturday a diplomatic offensive by counterparts from the Middle East and the United States calling.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov will meet Friday in Vienna to discuss possible solutions to the Syria crisis. After Kerry came Friday the Russian Foreign Minister in the luxury Imperial Hotel on. The civil war in Syria is a major cause of the current refugee crisis.
Hungary has no intentions to open a corridor for migrants. That left the government Wednesday.
Iran expects to execute the historic nuclear deal with six world powers later this year. The agreement provides for the dismantling of Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions against the country . That said, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi Monday after meeting with top officials from the United States, Russia, China , Britain , Germany and France in Vienna.