NicaNote: Stop the RENACER Act! Further Action is still necessary!
05/06/2021 | 05:46pm EDT
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Message : Thank you for actions you have already taken to call and write your Congresspersons. This is important because the RENACER Act (new sanctions on Nicaragua) is now being discussed in both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It is relatively unusual to have a bill considered at the same time in both houses. Clearly the powers that be in the United States want this bill with more illegal coercive measures against Nicaragua passed ASAP to try to hurt Nicaragua in the lead-up to the November elections.
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India s ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu (File photo)
WASHINGTON: India has appreciated the Biden administration s decision to support a proposal moved by it and South Africa to temporarily waive some Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) rules amid the coronavirus pandemic.
For the past several weeks, India s ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, along with the diplomats from South Africa, had been meeting US lawmakers and officials regarding the proposal. We appreciate the US administration s announcement today of its support for waiver of IPR for Covid-19 vaccines,” Sandhu told PTI on Wednesday.
Making the announcement, US trade representative Katherine Tai said this is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures.
The leading Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee called on the Biden administration to shore up restrictions on emerging technology by nominating someone with "real national security experience" to oversee export curbs, particularly when it comes to trade with China.
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WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on Tuesday that Washington would work with partners in the region to maintain pressure on Venezuelan regime leader Nicolas Maduro for a peaceful return to democracy.
In pre-recorded remarks to a conference on Latin America, Blinken also said the Biden administration would continue criticism of the “repression of human rights” in Cuba.
Blinken’s stern words came just a day after a senior White House official made clear in an interview with Reuters that the administration was in no rush to ease sanctions on Maduro’s Socialist government or make major gestures toward Communist-ruled Havana.