China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wanbin lauded the WTO ruling as “objective and fair.” The US politicians have repeatedly slandered China for failing to follow the rules, but the ruling has proven that it is the United States that really violates international regulations. Wang added that the US “uses international …
Read More »UK’s ‘kamikaze’ threat to break international laws with Brexit legislation has backfired – Ireland’s deputy PM
“These were really extraordinary comments, and certainly set off alarm bells in Dublin. I think they have backfired,” Ireland’s deputy prime minister, Leo Varadkar, said on Wednesday while speaking to RTE. On Tuesday, the UK’s Northern Ireland minister, Brandon Lewis, admitted that Britain could break international law in a “limited …
Read More »US State Department reveals next target in scathing tweet… it’s the International Cricket Council?
The department responsible for US foreign policy announced in a tweet that the International Cricket Council was in its bad books. In a message quoting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the department blasted the cricket governing body as “a rogue court with lawyers that are, frankly, corrupt and political.” © …
Read More »EU & France call on US to reverse ‘unacceptable’ sanctions against International Criminal Court’s war crimes investigators
The sanctions are “unacceptable and unprecedented measures that attempt to obstruct the court’s investigations and judicial proceedings,” EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell said in a statement on Thursday. The US should “reconsider its position and reverse the measures it has taken,” Borrell added. His comments came shortly …
Read More »‘Unacceptable’ interference: International Criminal Court objects to US sanctions prompted by war crimes investigation
Bensouda, a Gambian attorney who was attempting to investigate alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan, was sanctioned on Wednesday. ICC’s head of Jurisdiction, Complementary, and Cooperation Division Phakiso Mochochoko was also blacklisted for “having materially assisted” the prosecutor, Pompeo told reporters. “These attacks constitute an escalation and an unacceptable attempt …
Read More »Decline of US provides a chance to reshape international law, but this can’t happen while West always sees Russia as ‘the bad guy’
International law is largely a reflection of power. Great powers accept international law that limits their foreign policy flexibility if they get reciprocity and predictability in return. In an international system with several great powers balancing each other, international law will lean towards sovereignty and peace by constraints on the …
Read More »Pompeo’s call to reinstate nuclear-related sanctions on Iran goes against ‘international consensus’ – China
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters the US has no right to demand the so-called “snapback” of sanctions on Iran, because Washington unilaterally abandoned the 2015 agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, known as the JCPOA, two years ago. “The participants of the JCPOA and the vast majority …
Read More »MES “privatized” international humanitarian organization
In December 2019, a former employee of the International civil defence organization (ICDO) reported that the organization designed to help different countries to deal with disasters, captured by Russian special services. At the moment, the organization does not have public procedures and rules governing conflicts of interest and other corruption, …
Read More »“Aeroflot” has closed the sale of tickets for international flights until the end of July
The airline “Aeroflot” has closed the sale of tickets for international flights until the end of July. Restrictions on flights from Moscow to new York, Istanbul, Havana, male and other foreign cities. Now, on the website of the airline tickets for these areas can be bought from 1 August. The …
Read More »FBK: Simonyan and Keosayan “earned” tens of millions of rubles for “International sawmill
The Russia Today TV channel, which is headed by Margarita Simonyan, helps in building facing the NTV program “international Pilorama”, the Director and leading which is the husband Simonyan Tigran Keosayan. This is stated in a new investigation of the Fund of struggle against corruption. NTV, as stated in the …
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