Stéphane Dujarric was speaking a day after the Security Council voted to send the non-UN mission to the Caribbean country, where armed groups have taken control of large areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and terrorized civilians for more than a year. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the development, he said. Full UN support …
Canadian CP-140 Orva aircraft, file photo Canada will deploy its military aircraft to Japan to enforce UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea. Yesterday, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand announced the deployment of Air Force CP-140 Aurora aircraft to Japan. The aircraft will monitor for six weeks violations of maritime sanctions, particularly ship-to-ship transfers of…
“We are gravely concerned that extreme violence continues to spiral out of control in Haiti,” said Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Volker Türk. In the first two weeks of March alone, clashes among gangs left at least 208 dead, 164 injured, and 101 kidnapped. Mirroring those grave concerns, UN…
Russian President Putin announced the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles, saying that Russia will continue to develop hypersonic systems for the Air Force. Addressing the nation on the completion of one year of the Russia-Ukraine war, he said that the Surmat missile will force the enemies of Russia to think again, the range of this…
