Vladimir Putin will not visit the United Nations General Assembly in September

2023-08-19 06:05:06

Cover image: Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 16, 2023. Mikhail Klimentyev / AP

Vladimir Putin will not be visiting the UN General Assembly in September. The Russian president, against whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant, signed a decree on the composition of the Russian delegation which will be led in his place by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov.The United States has approved the sending by Denmark and the Netherlands of American F-16 fighter jets to Ukraineonce Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly them. “Great news from our friends in the United States! »welcomed on X (formerly Twitter) Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov.Grigori Melkoniants, co-chairman of voter rights NGO Golos, was remanded in custody by a Russian court on Fridayaccused of being involved in the activities of a “undesirable organization”. This decision comes a few weeks before the regional elections in September and less than a year before the 2024 presidential election in Russia.Ukraine and Romania have reached an agreement to speed up the delivery of goodsmade more difficult since the withdrawal of Russia, in July, from the agreement which allowed the export of Ukrainian cereals.The Moscow City Court on Friday ordered the dissolution of the Sakharov Center association, one of the last pillars of the defense of human rights in Russia. The center opened in the 1990s had been forced to close its doors at the beginning of the year.Russia announced on Friday that it was sanctioning the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan., who had issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin in mid-March, as well as British ministers and journalists. The Russian Foreign Ministry justified these new sanctions by “unwavering military support from London” in Kyiv and “the aggressive implementation (…) of a hostile anti-Russian policy”.

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