Moon said in his first speech as president he would immediately begin efforts to defuse security tensions on the Korean peninsula and negotiate with Washington and Beijing to ease the row over a U.S. missile defense system being deployed in the South.
US President Donald Trump will receive Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov in the White House, the president’s press service said. The White House said the meeting is scheduled for 10:30 local time.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel summoned Ambassador of Turkey to Tel Aviv Kemal Okem over the recent remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Israeli legislation that will ban the use of loudspeakers by mosques in the country, demokrathaber.org reports.
He also raised the issue of the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, expressing hope that Macron will assist the works directed towards the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey and the restoration of rights of the Armenian people.
She says the economic policies Berlin advocates for Europe had worked well for Germany and added: “German support can’t replace French policies.”
The acting president of France Francois Hollande said the president-elect Emmanuel Macron will assume office on May 14, Figaro reports. Hollande’s term as president expires May 14 midnight.
He added that Armenia’s society pays great attention to the issue of Russia selling arms to Azerbaijan, especially when these very weapons are engaged in case of escalation, like it happened in April of 2016.
“There are specific topics, directions, where new formats of cooperation might arise as result of our joint work. Namely, I have already mentioned the cooperation in the air defense field. There are topics, which we must very actively discuss together,” Sargsyan said.
“We believe the OSCE office was committed to its mandate, it carried out very useful work, proving how important the OSCE contribution is. We are sure the most important value of the OSCE is to be present on spot, and work on spot. The OSCE office in Yerevan was the best example of this with its specic and practical work, which was done on spot,” he said.
France’s presidentelect Emmanuel Macron’s first political visit will be to Germany, MEP Silvi Gular from the Democratic Movement party, who endorses Macron said on air CNews.
