VIETNAM CONCERNED ON CHINESE MILITARY DRILL IN S.CHINA SEA
China urged Vietnam on Friday to take a calm and rational view of its military drills in the South China Sea, after Vietnam expressed opposition, as tension between the neighbors worsens over the disputed strategic waterway. Vietnam was deeply concerned about the exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin area, at the north end of the South China Sea,
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said, but did not make clear what drills were being referred to. “Vietnam proposes China to cease and refrain from repeating acts that complicate the situation in the East Sea,” Hang said, employing Vietnam’s name for the South China Sea.
All foreign activities in Vietnamese waters must comply with Vietnamese and international laws, she added. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the drills were routine annual exercises and were being carried out in the northwestern part of the South China Sea.
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TRIO NATION SYRIAN CRISIS MEET
Next round of talks between Russia, Turkey and Iran on settling the Syrian civil conflict will take place in Kazakhstan on September 14-15 and focus on forces that the three nations plan to deploy there, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Kazakhstan hosts the talks which have in the past few months focused on establishing de-escalation zones in Syria. “According to the information from the guarantor states, during the upcoming meeting they plan to review several documents covering the work of de-escalation control forces, and continue work on agreeing the make-up of control forces in Idlib,” the ministry said.
Moscow, Ankara and Tehran plan to map out de-escalation zones in Idlib, Homs and Eastern Ghouta, and discuss other matters such as prisoner exchange, it said.
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MURIEL PENICAUD:BROADER ECONOMIC REFORMS ON CARDS
French govt to implement broader economic reforms along with consistent set of policies included reforms on job training on cards to surge employment as per French labor minister,Muriel Penicaud.
France’s labor minister has conceded that her planned reforms to the country’s work practices won’t on their own miraculously reduce the unemployment rate.
Muriel Penicaud said Friday on France Info radio the labor reform plan outlined on Thursday “is not a magic wand” for reducing unemployment.That, she said, will require a “consistent set of policies” including reforms to job training that will be launched next year.
Her comments come a day after President Emmanuel Macron’s government unveiled measures to trim union powers, make it easier for firms to hire and fire and give a bigger voice to small businesses. The CGT union said 65 demonstrations are scheduled across France on September 12.
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ERDOGAN: UN AGENDA ON ROHINGYA EXODUS
Maynmar killing of hundreds of Rohingya in Myanmar and thousand flee at no mans land, is to be discussed in the ensuing United National General Assembly in the mid of this September by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan , as per the media reports which run as follows.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the death of hundreds of Rohingya in Myanmar over the past week constituted a genocide aimed at Muslim communities in the region.He said the issue would be discussed in detail when world leaders convene for the UN General Assembly on September 12 in New York.
Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar’s northwest for a week, new official data showed, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in decades.“There is a genocide there. They remain silent towards this. All those looking away from this genocide carried out under the veil of democracy are also part of this massacre,Erdogan said in Istanbul. Media agencies
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