Turkey PM meets China’s Wen after Xinjiang trip
Turkey’s Prime Minister discussed the Syrian
crisis with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing Monday after an
unprecedented stopover in the Asian nation’s ethnically-tense
Xinjiang region. Ankara has in the past heavily criticised Beijing’s
actions in Xinjiang -- home to mainly Muslim Uighurs who complain of
repression under Chinese rule -- but the two nations have
nevertheless forged closer ties in recent years.
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Focusing on pressing regional and global security
issues :
G8 Foreign Ministers to tackle Syria, Iran and N Korea
Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G8)
major economies will meet this week in Washington to tackle pressing
regional and global security issues like Syria, Iran and North
Korea. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's expected talks with
her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the margins of the G8
meetings on Wednesday and Thursday could prove especially important
as Russia plays a key role on all three issues.
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Clinton warns Suu Kyi: Democracy isn’t easy
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday
offered advice for Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as
she enters parliament -- it isn’t easy. Clinton, a former first lady
and senator who made a run for the US presidency in 2008, hailed Suu
Kyi at the US premiere of “The Lady,” a biopic on the Nobel peace
laureate by French director Luc Besson. “I did tell her in one of
our recent telephone conversations -- she was moving from an icon to
a politician. Having made sort of the same journey to some extent, I
know that that’s not easy,” Clinton said.
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