Tag: Summit
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EU budget summit ends with no deal
Brussels, Feb 22 (AFP/APP): An EU summit called to set the bloc’s next seven-year budget ended in impasse late Friday, riven by competing groups among the 27 member states and pressure to fill a funding gap left by Brexit. Differences were “still too great to reach an agreement,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters at…
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Stormy EU budget summit enters day two
Brussels, Feb 21 (AFP/APP): EU leaders clashed through the night early Friday as a stormy summit to decide the bloc’s seven-year, trillion euro budget entered a second day. The meeting to decide the EU’s first budget since the UK left the bloc exposed bitter divisions between penny-pinching rich nations, poorer ones wanting to preserve spending…
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China, ASEAN foreign ministers hold special meeting on jointly fighting COVID-19
VIENTIANE, Feb. 20 (Xinhua/APP): China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) kicked off a Special Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Coronavirus Disease here Thursday to discuss coordinating efforts in fighting against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The meeting started with a rallying cry of “Stay strong, Wuhan! Stay strong, China! Stay strong, ASEAN!” by…
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Five reasons the COP25 climate talks failed
Paris, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): The climate summit in Madrid earlier this month did not collapse — but by almost any measure it certainly failed. Four years after the fragile UN process yielded the world’s first universal climate treaty with all nations pitching in, COP25 was billed as a mopping-up session to finish guidelines for carbon…
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Saudi Arabia denies pressurizing Pakistan to skip Kuala Lumpur Summit
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21 (APP): The Embassy of Saudi Arabia Saturday denied the reports that the Kingdom had exerted any pressure on Pakistan discouraging it to participate in the Kuala Lumpur Summit held in Malaysia recently. In a statement issued here Saturday, the Embassy said the news promoted by some parties about any pressures exerted on…
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Tech & skill-based education can lead country to progress: President
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16 (APP): President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday terming education vital for the country’s progress said a combination of technology and skills could help meet the challenges of contemporary world. Addressing at the ILMpossible Summit held here organized by British Council, the President said education could help raise a generation with proper know-how…
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Russia, Ukraine leaders in Paris for crunch talks on ending war
Paris, Dec 9 (AFP/APP): Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris for summit talks Monday seen as a critical opportunity to take steps to end five years of conflict in the east of Ukraine. No comprehensive peace deal is expected from the meeting — mediated by French President Emmanuel Macron…
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Trump meets Erdogan one-on-one at NATO summit
Watford, United Kingdom, Dec 4 (AFP/APP): US President Donald Trump held a previously unannounced bilateral meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO summit on Wednesday. Turkey has faced criticism among the allies at the London meeting and has threatened to impede a stronger defence policy for the Baltic states…
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Trump in London for NATO summit amid election race
London, Dec 3 (AFP/APP): US President Donald Trump landed in Britain ahead of the NATO summit, arriving in London just 10 days before a crucial general election. En route, Trump boasted that he had convinced European allies to boost their defence spending, tweeting: “Since I took office, the number of NATO allies fulfilling their obligations…
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Putin and Ukraine’s Zelensky set for Paris Summit
Moscow, Nov 28 (AFP/APP): Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky are likely to have a one-on-one meeting during four-way summit talks in Paris next month, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Putin and Zelensky plan to join French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on December 9 for a summit aimed at…