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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - June 2018

Jun 2018

May 25, 2019

U.S. to Deploy Additional Troops to West Asia

President Donald Trump announced that some 1,500 additional U.S. troops would be deployed to West Asia against a backdrop of soaring tensions with Iran.
The deployment includes reconnaissance aircraft, fighter jets, engineers, and the extension of the presence of a Patriot missile defense battalion that accounts for 600 of the personnel.

N. Korea Says Talks Won't Resume

North Korea said that nuclear negotiations with the U.S. will never resume unless President Trump's administration moves away from what Pyongyang described as unilateral demands by U.S. for disarmament.

May 23, 2019

Rampahosa Re-elected South African President

South African lawmakers re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as the nation's President, two weeks after the ruling ANC party returned to power in legislative elections. Mr. Ramaphosa was the only name nominated by lawmakers in Cape Town.

May's Reworked Deal

Prime Minister Theresa May implored British MPs to back her reworked EU divorce deal but saw pro-Brexit Conservatives and Opposition parties savage her bid for a compromise to end months of political crisis.
Ms. May urged lawmakers, who have repeatedly rejected her plan, to vote for it in early June so that the country can finally leave the bloc later in the summer. "The opportunity of Brexit is too large and the consequences of failure too grave to risk further delay," the Prime Minister, who has vowed to stand down following the crunch parliamentary vote, told the House of Commons. "Reject it and all we have before us is division and deadlock."

May 22, 2019

British PM Sets Out New Brexit Deal

British Prime Minister Theresa May set out what she called a new Brexit deal, with safeguards and legal assurances on aspects of her controversial withdrawal agreement in the hope of getting cross-party backing for the bill when it returns to the House of Commons in June.
In a major compromise to a demand from the Opposition benches, she promised to include the option of a parliamentary vote on holding a second referendum on her deal if it clears the Commons.

Bangladesh Halts Visas for Pakistani Nationals

The Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad has stopped issuing visas to Pakistani nationals for one week over a fresh diplomatic row, amid strained bilateral ties since 2013 when Dhaka decided to hang several of the 1971 war criminals.
Dhaka denied visa to the Pakistan High Commissioner in 2018.
The Foreign Office in Dhaka, however, is yet to make any formal confirmation and no official notification has been issued on the halting of visas to the Pakistani nationals.

May 21, 2019

JVP to Move Trust Vote

As per reports, Sri Lanka's Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will move a 'no-confidence motion' against President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Cabinet.
The move was sparked by government's neglect of prior warnings on the Easter attacks, and the security lapse that resulted in the loss of over 250 lives in April.
The party's parliamentary group will submit the motion to the Speaker.

Volodymyr Zelensky Calls Snap Elections

Ukraine's new President Volodymyr Zelensky used his inaugural speech to call snap parliamentary polls after shooting to power in a country wracked by a separatist conflict and severe economic problems.
Mr. Zelensky announced his first priority was ending the five-year conflict with Moscow-backed separatists in the industrial east that has claimed over 13,000 lives.
He announced he would dissolve Parliament in order to call early elections, originally scheduled for October.

US Sanctions Hit India-Kazakhstan Plans

Kazakhstan's efforts to forge greater connectivity with India via an eastern expansion of the North-South corridor running through Iran have hit a speed bump because of US sanctions.
Despite the hiccup, Astana continues to be hopeful of building closer trade and transit ties with New Delhi through Iran's Bandar Abbas Port and even extending connectivity to the strategic Chabahar Port once a new railway link is built.
Kazakhstan is focusing on India to attract investments and to access the country's market of more than one billion people.
Bilateral trade was worth almost $1 billion in 2017.
Kazakhstan is the largest supplier of uranium to India and both sides have strong defence and strategic ties.
India has been keen on the eastern expansion of the International North-South Trade Corridor (INSTC), and there are plans to connect Gujarat's Mundra port to Bandar Abbas and then link it to the Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan railway link to cut the time for transporting goods from Central Asia and to access markets in the landlocked region.

May 20, 2019

Iraq Slams U.S. Company

Iraq slammed as "political" a decision by U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil to evacuate staff from a southern oil field after Washington ordered personnel to quit its Baghdad Embassy.
The temporary withdrawal of employees has nothing to do with security in southern Iraqi oil fields or any threats.
He called the move to pull out staff from the West Qorna oil field west of the southern port city of Basra unacceptable and unjustified.

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