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In a significant development, Taleh Kazimov, the chairman of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, reconvened with economists and experts in a meeting held on December 3, marking a return after a 6-month break. The meeting, which brought together key minds in the financial landscape, offered insights into the central bank’s…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has intensified his pressure on the European Union to change its policy towards Ukraine, threatening to block key decisions at the upcoming EU summit in mid-December. Orbán has demanded a “strategic discussion” on the EU’s objectives and feasibility of supporting Ukraine, which is facing a full-scale Russian invasion.
Orbán’s move has been giving tough time to the EU bloc that provoked criticism and frustration from other EU leaders.
Viktor Orbán sees the European Union policy towards Ukraine as disastrous and leads towards confrontation.
The EU has withheld €13 billion in funds for Hungary over concerns that the country is violating the bloc’s standards. Orbán has rejected the EU’s criticism and accused it of interfering in Hungary’s internal affairs.
Australia and neighboring Papua New Guinea signed a bilateral security agreement Thursday that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and counterpart James Marape said showed the closeness of the two nations.
The deal is designed to bolster Papua New Guinea’s internal security through more assistance in policing, defense and the judiciary as the Pacific Islands’ largest nation seeks to develop its economy.
Amid strategic competition between China and the United States in the region, PNG signed a defense deal with the United States in May to upgrade its military bases and is also boosting trade ties with China.
Marape told reporters on Thursday the security agreement with Australia showed they were “brother and sister nations,” but added PNG would not pick sides and had a foreign policy of “friends to all.”
“This is a comprehensive and historic agreement. It will make it easier for Australia to help PNG address its internal security needs,” Albanese told a press conference in Canberra.
He paid tribute to the support PNG’s population gave to Australian servicemen during World War II, and said it was a defense relationship forged through giving lives.
“For our interests going forward, we have no closer friends than Papua New Guinea,” Albanese said.
The structure of PNG’s judiciary, public service, and borders were established by Australia before PNG became an independent nation 48 years ago, Marape said.
“You have always given support to us,” he said. “What happens up north of your borders has deep, deep shared effect, benefit, consequences, on our region.”
Australia and neighboring Papua New Guinea signed a bilateral security agreement Thursday that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and counterpart James Marape said showed the closeness of the two nations.
The deal is designed to bolster Papua New Guinea’s internal security through more assistance in policing, defense and the judiciary as the Pacific Islands’ largest nation seeks to develop its economy.
Amid strategic competition between China and the United States in the region, PNG signed a defense deal with the United States in May to upgrade its military bases and is also boosting trade ties with China.
Marape told reporters on Thursday the security agreement with Australia showed they were “brother and sister nations,” but added PNG would not pick sides and had a foreign policy of “friends to all.”
“This is a comprehensive and historic agreement. It will make it easier for Australia to help PNG address its internal security needs,” Albanese told a press conference in Canberra.
He paid tribute to the support PNG’s population gave to Australian servicemen during World War II, and said it was a defense relationship forged through giving lives.
“For our interests going forward, we have no closer friends than Papua New Guinea,” Albanese said.
The structure of PNG’s judiciary, public service, and borders were established by Australia before PNG became an independent nation 48 years ago, Marape said.
“You have always given support to us,” he said. “What happens up north of your borders has deep, deep shared effect, benefit, consequences, on our region.”