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Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan completed troops withdrawal from border - Border Service
The joint commission comprising representatives of defense ministries of both countries continue working, the Service noted. The situation on the border and in adjacent areas is ‘stable’ now, without incidents and shooting
May 3, BISHKEK - Bishkek and Dushanbe ended the process of withdrawing their military units from the border, the Kyrgyzstan’s Border Service says on Monday.
"The parties completed the withdrawal of extra forces and means from the state border line inward to their territories," the Service reports.
The joint commission comprising representatives of defense ministries of both countries continue working, the Service noted. The situation on the border and in adjacent areas is ‘stable’ now, without incidents and shooting.
The situation on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan near the Golovnoy water intake facility escalated on April 28, after clashes had sparked between residents of the two countries’ border areas. On April 29, armed skirmishes between Kyrgyz and Tajik servicemen broke out. Kyrgyzstan accused Tajikistan of using mortars, machine guns and Mi-24 military helicopters. On the evening of April 29, the sides agreed to a ceasefire and the pullout of troops. source from
The joint commission comprising representatives of defense ministries of both countries continue working, the Service noted. The situation on the border and in adjacent areas is ‘stable’ now, without incidents and shooting
May 3, BISHKEK - Bishkek and Dushanbe ended the process of withdrawing their military units from the border, the Kyrgyzstan’s Border Service says on Monday.
"The parties completed the withdrawal of extra forces and means from the state border line inward to their territories," the Service reports.
The joint commission comprising representatives of defense ministries of both countries continue working, the Service noted. The situation on the border and in adjacent areas is ‘stable’ now, without incidents and shooting.
The situation on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan near the Golovnoy water intake facility escalated on April 28, after clashes had sparked between residents of the two countries’ border areas. On April 29, armed skirmishes between Kyrgyz and Tajik servicemen broke out. Kyrgyzstan accused Tajikistan of using mortars, machine guns and Mi-24 military helicopters. On the evening of April 29, the sides agreed to a ceasefire and the pullout of troops. source from
US to soon launch talks with WTO to overcome COVID vaccine IP issues
These are keeping critical COVID-19 vaccines from being widely distributed globally
May 3 - The US top trade negotiator will begin talks with the World Trade Organisation on ways to overcome intellectual property issues that are keeping critically needed COVID-19 vaccines from being more widely distributed worldwide, two White House officials said Sunday.
The White House has been under pressure in recent weeks to join an effort from lawmakers at home and governments abroad to waive patent rules for the vaccines so that poorer countries can begin to produce their own generic versions of the shots to vaccinate their populations.
The US has been criticised for focusing first on vaccinating Americans, particularly as its vaccine supply begins to outpace demand and doses approved for use elsewhere in the world but not in the US sit idle.
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai will be starting talks with the trade organisation on how we can get this vaccine more widely distributed, more widely licensed, more widely shared," said White House chief of staff Ron Klain.
Klain and national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the administration will have more to say on the matter in the coming days.
Sullivan said the administration believes pharmaceutical companies should be supplying at scale and at cost to the entire world so that there is no barrier to everyone getting vaccinated.
Klain said the US has sent India enough of the raw materials it needs to make 20 million vaccine doses immediately. India is battling a deadly new surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.
Tai's office did not respond Sunday to an emailed request for additional detail after Klain's and Sullivan's comments.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is among a group of Democratic senators who are pressuring the White House on the issue, said the situation is morally objectionable. Sanders said that, when millions of lives are at stake, the drug companies must be told to allow other countries to have these intellectual property rights so that they can produce the vaccines that are desperately needed in poor countries.
There is something morally objectionable about rich countries being able to get that vaccine, and yet millions and billions of people in poor countries are unable to afford it, Sanders said.
Klain appeared on CBS' Face the Nation, Sullivan on ABC's This Week and Sanders on NBC's Meet the Press. source from
These are keeping critical COVID-19 vaccines from being widely distributed globally
May 3 - The US top trade negotiator will begin talks with the World Trade Organisation on ways to overcome intellectual property issues that are keeping critically needed COVID-19 vaccines from being more widely distributed worldwide, two White House officials said Sunday.
The White House has been under pressure in recent weeks to join an effort from lawmakers at home and governments abroad to waive patent rules for the vaccines so that poorer countries can begin to produce their own generic versions of the shots to vaccinate their populations.
The US has been criticised for focusing first on vaccinating Americans, particularly as its vaccine supply begins to outpace demand and doses approved for use elsewhere in the world but not in the US sit idle.
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai will be starting talks with the trade organisation on how we can get this vaccine more widely distributed, more widely licensed, more widely shared," said White House chief of staff Ron Klain.
Klain and national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the administration will have more to say on the matter in the coming days.
Sullivan said the administration believes pharmaceutical companies should be supplying at scale and at cost to the entire world so that there is no barrier to everyone getting vaccinated.
Klain said the US has sent India enough of the raw materials it needs to make 20 million vaccine doses immediately. India is battling a deadly new surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.
Tai's office did not respond Sunday to an emailed request for additional detail after Klain's and Sullivan's comments.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is among a group of Democratic senators who are pressuring the White House on the issue, said the situation is morally objectionable. Sanders said that, when millions of lives are at stake, the drug companies must be told to allow other countries to have these intellectual property rights so that they can produce the vaccines that are desperately needed in poor countries.
There is something morally objectionable about rich countries being able to get that vaccine, and yet millions and billions of people in poor countries are unable to afford it, Sanders said.
Klain appeared on CBS' Face the Nation, Sullivan on ABC's This Week and Sanders on NBC's Meet the Press. source from
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May 2, 2021
May 2, 2021
‘Wokening’ Military Justice
The last thing we need is more bureaucracy.
May 3 - Emboldened by President Biden’s social experimentation on our military, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) may soon succeed in her years-long quest to take away military commanders’ ability to decide whether or not to prosecute sexual assault cases. If she succeeds, it will be because two key Republicans — Texas’s Ted Cruz and Iowa’s Joni Ernst — have inexplicably decided to support her bill.
Biden has already done much to harm the military. He has revoked former President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military despite the fact that “trans” soldiers have a very high rate of psychological problems and suicides.
Biden’s appointed Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, also ordered a military stand-down — an extraordinary remedy only invoked to solve urgent, demonstrable problems — to train soldiers on “extremism.”
The basis for that stand-down was the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which a few veterans and active duty soldiers participated. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin carried out this order despite the fact that there was no “extremism” problem among the troops.
The training, I’m told, focuses on the dangers of right-wing extremism and ignores the Antifa/BLM riots that consumed cities and took lives last year (and continue in Portland, Oregon)... more
The last thing we need is more bureaucracy.
May 3 - Emboldened by President Biden’s social experimentation on our military, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) may soon succeed in her years-long quest to take away military commanders’ ability to decide whether or not to prosecute sexual assault cases. If she succeeds, it will be because two key Republicans — Texas’s Ted Cruz and Iowa’s Joni Ernst — have inexplicably decided to support her bill.
Biden has already done much to harm the military. He has revoked former President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military despite the fact that “trans” soldiers have a very high rate of psychological problems and suicides.
Biden’s appointed Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, also ordered a military stand-down — an extraordinary remedy only invoked to solve urgent, demonstrable problems — to train soldiers on “extremism.”
The basis for that stand-down was the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which a few veterans and active duty soldiers participated. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin carried out this order despite the fact that there was no “extremism” problem among the troops.
The training, I’m told, focuses on the dangers of right-wing extremism and ignores the Antifa/BLM riots that consumed cities and took lives last year (and continue in Portland, Oregon)... more
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