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09/13/2024September 13, 2024
UK, US to talk Russia-strike permissions for Kyiv
is in Washington for talks about whether to let Kyiv use long-range missiles against Russia, in what could be their last meeting ahead of a US election that could upend policy on Ukraine.
Starmer is expected to meet at the White House on Friday amid pleas from Ukraine to lift restrictions on the use of Western weaponry against Russian targets.
Kyiv wants Washington and London to lift a restriction preventing the use of weaponry made in the US and UK, like Storm Shadow missiles, for long-range strikes inside Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that giving Ukraine the green light would mean NATO was “at war” with Moscow.
British media has reported that Biden, wary of provoking any nuclear conflict, is prepared to let Ukraine deploy British and French missiles using US technology but not US-made missiles themselves.
Kyiv complains that not being allowed to hit the Russian air bases from which glide bomb attacks against Ukraine are launched is like making it fight this war with an arm tied behind its back.
The talks come with Biden is on his way out of office and November’s US election on a knife-edge between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.
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09/13/2024September 13, 2024
China says discussion is only way to peace
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun has said “negotiation” is the sole solution to conflicts such as the war Ukraine, as he addressed a global gathering of military officials in Beijing.
Scores of delegates are attending the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing.
State media says is hosting more than 500 representatives from over 90 countries and organizations across three days.
Dong told the opening ceremony: “To resolve hotspot issues such as the crisis in Ukraine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, promoting peace and negotiation is the only way out.”
“There is no winner in war and conflict, and confrontation leads nowhere,” Dong said.
“The more acute the conflict, the more we cannot give up dialogue and consultation. The end of any conflict is reconciliation,” he added, calling on all countries to promote “peaceful development and inclusive governance.”
Russia and China have in recent years, with both railing against what they see as the US domination of global affairs.
rc/kb (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters)
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