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Trilateral naval drills between China, Russia and Iran start on Friday
January 20, 2022 05:55
DUBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - China, Russia and Iran will hold joint naval drills on Friday, a public relations official from Iran's armed forces told semi-official ISNA news agency on Thursday.
The "2022 Marine Security Belt" exercise will take place in the north of the Indian Ocean and is the third joint naval drill between the three countries, Mostafa Tajoldin added.
Since coming to office last June, Iran's hardline President Ebrahim Raisi has pursued a "look east" policy to deepen ties with China and Russia. Tehran joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in September, a central Asian security body led by Beijing and Moscow.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian visited China last week and Iran's president was meeting his Russian counterpart in Moscow on Thursday.
China, Russia and Iran started joint naval drills in 2019, and will continue them in the future, Tajoldin said.
"The purpose of this drill is to strengthen security and its foundations in the region, and to expand multilateral cooperation between the three countries to jointly support world peace, maritime security and create a maritime community with a common future," the Iranian official told ISNA.
Both navies from Iran's armed forces and Revolutionary Guards will take part in the drills, which include various tactical exercises such as rescuing a burning vessel, releasing a hijacked vessel, and shooting at air targets at night.
Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-china-iran-hold-joint-naval-drill-friday-isna-2022-01-20/
Moscow Times:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/12/27/russia-china-iran-start-joint-naval-drills-in-indian-ocean-a68766
French parliament condemns China’s treatment of Uyghurs as genocide
Motion was passed just weeks before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
France’s parliament has passed an opposition-led motion asking the government to condemn China for “crimes against humanity and genocide” against its Uyghur Muslim minority and to take foreign policy measures to make this stop.
The non-binding motion, led by the Socialist party and supported by several other opposition parties, was adopted on Thursday. with 169 votes for and one vote against.
It reads that the National Assembly “officially recognises the violence perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China against the Uyghurs as constituting crimes against humanity and genocide.” The motion calls on the French government to take necessary actions against China over the abuse.
Coming ahead of the start of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month, the motion also asked the government to protect Uyghur residents in France against any intimidation or harassment by China. Activists and UN rights experts say at least one million Muslims are being detained in camps in the remote western region of Xinjiang. The campaigners and some Western politicians accuse China of using torture, forced labour and sterilisations. China denies any human rights abuses in Xinjiang and says its camps provide vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.
Following a similar vote in the Dutch parliament in February 2021, the Chinese Embassy in The Hague said any suggestion of a genocide in Xinjiang was an “outright lie” and that the Dutch parliament had “deliberately smeared China and grossly interfered in China’s internal affairs”.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in December that he did not want to “politicise” the Olympics.
The United States, Australia and Britain are among Western nations that have said they will not send officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in order to send China a message over its human rights record.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-parliament-china-uyghurs-genocide-b1997201.html
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>Do you not see the implications and that now any of barry's records related to Russiagate will end up being released as well due to the precedent set here.
Agreed 100%. The plan is fucking brilliant.
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>>15419243 Adam Schiff The Supreme Court’s decision , How do you legally introduce evidence? FISA is about to bring down the house
>This is not comms to you, Anon.