Tag: NATO

Ukraine implements 18% of NATO standards: Defence Minister

Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said that his country had implemented 18 per cent of the standards of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

May 3, 2023

SCO meet throws up expected outcomes

There were more accusations than acceptance between them. Rajnath Singh, as the host, held bilateral discussions with all his counterparts. All were productive except the one with China.

May 3, 2023

US-S.Korea nuclear deal to undermine global stability: Russian Foreign Ministry

The recent nuclear agreement reached by the US and South Korea will have a negative effect on regional security and undermine global stability, said the Russian Foreign Ministry.

April 29, 2023

S.Korea urges global cooperation on Pyongyang nuke issue at NATO meeting

South Korea and the Indo-Pacific partners of the NATO discussed expanding cooperation to counter North Korea's escalating provocations, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

April 22, 2023

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg makes surprise visit to Kyiv

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday paid a surprise visit to Kyiv, marking his first trip to Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale invasion last year.

April 20, 2023

Russia’s threat to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus ‘unacceptable’: G7

Earlier, Putin made a statement about plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in the territory of Russia's neighbour and ally.

April 18, 2023

NAM Redux?

While India will seek ‘strategic independence‘ it will simultaneously seek connection and engagement with all and sundry, cutting across varied and competing ‘blocs‘. China as the master of realpolitik has demonstrated the real value in keeping its own gunpowder dry and in quietly increasing its own stockpile when its rivals (US and Russia) were busy burning their own resources to no good use in the battlefields of the Middle East, Afghanistan or even Ukraine

April 13, 2023

Russia plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus: Putin

Putin said work would be completed on building storage units for tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus on July 1, a move he likened to US nuclear deployments in Europe.

March 26, 2023

Rivalries that will leave the world denuded

The Ukraine war is a litmus test of Principle over Practicality, with Nato (basically the US calling the shots), having a mindset that the principle of sovereignty overrides everything else.

March 26, 2023

China warns Philippines against military cooperation with US

Philippines government was advised by the Chinese embassy to stay out of the US efforts to uphold global hegemony.

March 13, 2023

The Rest is striking back

Today, every major Western event starts with an obligatory video or physical address by President Zelenskky.

March 12, 2023

The Ticking Clock

Arms manufacturers, the world over, are in clover. A year-long high intensity war, which shows no signs of ending, has sent the profits of arms manufacturers soaring to stratospheric levels. Plus, there has been the unexpected bonanza of testing hardware in live battlefield conditions. Oil companies have recorded windfall profits. The US has benefited by capturing the energy market in Europe from the Russians. Mercenaries, like the Wagner group are rolling in money by supplying convicts and other cannon fodder to the warring countries 

February 26, 2023

New world order

Unipolarity has run its course and the lesson of the Ukrainian war is the inevitable movement towards multipolarity. The increased military assistance to Ukraine will only prolong that country’s agony just as it was in the case of Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s. A new world order is emerging with new centres of power. The war in Ukraine will accelerate this irreversible process 

February 24, 2023

UN chief condemns Russian ‘affront’ in Ukraine

"It is a violation of the UN Charter and international law. It is having dramatic humanitarian and human rights consequences and the impact is being felt far beyond Ukraine," said Guterres.

February 23, 2023

The war in Ukraine must end, forthwith

The war has resulted in high inflation, higher energy prices, less money with households and higher interest rates. The IMF director general feels that 2023 would be economically far worse.

February 17, 2023

‘Turkey won’t approve Sweden’s NATO bid as long as Quran-burning protests continue’

Turkey will not approve Sweden's bid to join NATO as long as it continues to allow Quran-burning protests, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that his country looks positively on Finland's application for membership of the military alliance.

February 2, 2023

NATO chief to visit S.Korea next week

Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), will visit South Korea early next week on a regional swing that will also take him to Japan, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

January 23, 2023