WORLD NEWS April 5, 2018 5 Russia Ready to Facilitate UN Team Visits Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh MOSCOW (Dispatches) -- Russia has launched Korean Detente: Putin a floating nuclear power plant to supply far- On Friday Moon and North Korean flung Arctic outposts with energy. The Akademik leader Kim Jong Un embraced after Lomonosov vessel left its shipyard in St Petersburg pledging to work for the “complete for its maiden voyage. It is due to sail across the denuclearization of the Korean Baltic and Norweigian Seas to the Russian naval peninsula”. port of Murmansk, the Interfax news agency reported. The power plant’s two reactors are then Pope Francis Sunday praised due to be equipped with nuclear fuel, state news North and South Korean leaders for agency TASS quoted Pavel Ipatow from plant their “brave commitment” to peace operator Rosenergoatom as saying. In the summer after they agreed to work towards of 2019, Academik Lomonosov is due to sail from the denuclearization of the Korean Murmansk to the Arctic Sea to supply electricity and peninsula. heat to Russian outposts and desalinate seawater. The pontiff hailed the “positive The power plant can supply about 200,000 people outcome” of their historic summit in with electricity. The destination port is Pewek Seoul on Friday, when Kim promised in Siberia. The project has been criticized for its to close North Korea’s atomic test site risks by environmentalists. Greenpeace recently next month and invite U.S. weapons warned that there was a danger of a “Chernobyl experts to the country, according to on ice,” referencing the 1986 nuclear disaster at Seoul. the Chernobyl reactor in Soviet-controlled Ukraine Francis said Kim and his southern that prompted a mass evacuation and left swathes of Ukraine and neighboring Belarus uninhabitable. counterpart Moon had shown a United Nations Security Council envoys arrive at Cox’s Bazar airport in Russia wants to secure the rich deposits of oil and “brave commitment... to follow Bangladesh, April 28, 2018. gas that are believed to be in the region around the a sincere path to peace towards a North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korean President North Pole. Due to climate-induced melting of ice, Korean peninsula free of nuclear Moon Jae-in embrace after signing the Panmunjom Declaration for KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) -- A have been accused of rape, killing, torture and new ship routes are opening up in Russia’s north. weapons.” UN Security Council team visiting Bangladesh the burning of Rohingya homes. Thousands are Moscow is as a result strengthening its military Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula. The pontiff, speaking during the promised Sunday to work hard to resolve a crisis believed to have been killed. presence in the region. Regina Coeli prayers at St Peter’s involving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya The diplomats, comprising representatives *** MOSCOW (Reuters) -- President Korea, the Kremlin said Sunday. Square, said he prayed for the Muslims who have fled to the country to escape from the five permanent Security Council LAGOS (AP) -- After more than a year in Vladimir Putin has told his South In a telephone call with Moon, Putin “cooperation to continue, bearing military-led violence in Myanmar. members - China, France, Russia, the United office, President Donald Trump for the first Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in said Russia was ready to help with fruit that will benefit the beloved The diplomats, who visited the sprawling Kingdom and the United States - and 10 non- time is hosting an African president at the that Russia is ready to facilitate trilateral infrastructure and energy Korean people and the entire world.” camps and border points where about 700,000 permanent member states, talked to some 120 White House. The meeting with Nigerian cooperation between North and South projects on the Korean peninsula. Rohingya have taken shelter, said their visit was refugees, including some rape victims. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday an opportunity to see the situation firsthand. Peru’s ambassador to the UN, Gustavo Adolfo comes after an uncomfortable start to the Trump Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Meza Cuadra Velasqez, said he and his fellow administration’s approach to the world’s second Dmitry Polyansky, said he and his fellow team team members were ready to “work hard” and most populous continent. Security and economic Armenian Opposition Stages Show of members would not look away from the crisis were “very concerned” about the crisis. issues top the agenda for the bilateral meeting after their visit, though he warned that there The refugees are seeking UN protection and working lunch. Nigeria, Africa’s most were no simple solutions. to return home. The UN refugee agency and populous country with almost 200 million people, Force With Rally “It’s very necessary to come and see Bangladesh recently finalized a memorandum is the continent’s largest economy and its leading crude oil exporter. Buhari was one of the first two “Everything will be fine, we just everything at place here in Bangladesh and of understanding that said the repatriation African leaders Trump called after he took power, need to consolidate our victory.” Myanmar. But there is no magic solution, there process must be “safe, voluntary and dignified is no magic stick to solve all these issues,” he ... in line with international standards.” along with South Africa’s president. Nigeria’s The Prosperous Armenia Party, Islamist extremist group Boko Haram launched a which holds 31 seats, threw its weight said at a news conference at the Kutupalong Karen Pierce, the UK’s ambassador to the refugee camp in the coastal town of Cox’s United Nations, said the Security Council violent insurgency in the northeast nine years ago behind Pashinyan on Saturday. Bazar. would continue to work on enabling the with the aim of creating a Takfiri state. A smaller party, the Armenian The team members will conclude their three- refugees to return to Myanmar. *** Revolutionary Federation, quit the day visit to Bangladesh on Monday, when they Rohingya are denied citizenship in Buddhist- TAIPEI (AFP) -- Seven people - five of them ruling coalition and said it would leave for Myanmar. majority Myanmar, where they’ve faced firefighters - died in a fire that broke out late Saturday also back the opposition leader. The recent spasm of violence in Myanmar persecution for decades. They’re derided as in an electronics factory in northern Taiwan, the Earlier this week Pashinyan began when Rohingya insurgents staged a “Bengalis,” and many in Myanmar believe they local fire department said. The inferno raged received a hero’s welcome in a series of attacks on Aug. 25 on about 30 security are illegal migrants from Bangladesh. Muslims through the eight-floor building of a circuit board maker, located in an industrial district in Taoyuan number of towns and villages outside outposts and other targets. In a subsequent in an overwhelmingly Buddhist nation, most City. Seven firefighters were trapped by large fallen the capital as he drove around the crackdown described by UN and U.S. officials live in poverty in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, objects as they tried to search for people inside the landlocked South Caucasus country as “ethnic cleansing,” Myanmar security forces next to Bangladesh. factory. They were rescued early Sunday but only with his supporters in a convoy. two survived. The two others killed were factory Sarkisian, who became prime workers from Thailand. Seven other firefighters minister on April 17 after serving Immigration Policy Scandal were injured, five of them suffering burns from an a decade as president in what was unidentified liquid, according to the fire department. seen by opponents as a power grab, Traces of diesel and toxic chemicals were also found Supporters of Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan attend a resigned on Monday after 10 days Grows in Britain at the scene, it said. The disaster follows a string rally in the small town of Dilijan on April 28, 2018. of protests. of recent accidents in Taiwanese factories, raising Fears of Destabilization questions about safety standards. A huge fire broke YEREVAN (AFP) -- Supporters votes short of the 53 he needs from The opposition has accused him out at a refinery of the state-run CPC Corporation of Armenia’s protest leader Nikol the 105-seat legislature. of having failed as president to in January, also in Taoyuan. There were no injuries Pashinyan took to the streets He needs the backing of the ruling tackle poverty, corruption and in that incident. Sunday, hoping that a massive show Republican Party, which has 58 the influence of oligarchs in the *** of force will propel the opposition seats, and said it would announce country of 2.9 million people. ROME (AP) -- Italy’s political leaders are politician to power in a key election its position on Monday. Observers have expressed fears watching the latest regional election in hopes the outcome will boost their clout in the struggle two days away. Eduard Sharmazanov, vice that the turmoil could destabilize to form a new national government. Some 1.1 Ex-Soviet Armenia has been in the speaker of parliament and the ruling the Moscow-allied nation which has million people in the northeastern region of Friuli grip of a severe political crisis for the party’s spokesman, has said he been locked in a territorial dispute Venezia Giulia were eligible to vote Sunday for their past two weeks, with the country’s personally doubted that Pashinyan with Azerbaijan for decades. governor and regional legislature. The outgoing veteran leader Serzh Sarkisian was a suitable candidate for the top Moscow has urged compromise governor is from the Democratic Party, which was stepping down after a decade in job.