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KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a phone call on Tuesday to support Kyiv’s aspirations to join the NATO military alliance, the president’s office said.
Zelenskiy earlier urged NATO to lay out a path for Ukraine to join, after days in which Russia has massed troops near the conflict-hit Donbass region.
“As a special partner of Ukraine, Canada could take the lead among allies who support a MAP (Membership Action Plan) solution for Ukraine. Canada’s support will be an important signal of support from true friends,” Zelenskiy said, according to a statement.
Ukrainian news Ukrainian news Kuleba And Polish Foreign Minister Rau Discuss Russian Escalation Of Situation In Donbas And On Border
Kuleba And Polish Foreign Minister Rau Discuss Russian Escalation Of Situation In Donbas And On Border Таня Герасимова
Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Poland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Zbigniew Rau have discussed the escalation of the situation in the Donbas by Russia and the massing of Russian troops on the Russian-Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this in a statement, the Ukrainian News Agency reports. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba has held talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland Zbigniew Rau, who was on an urgent visit to Ukraine at his invitation. Kuleba informed Rau in detail about Russia s systemic escalation of the secu
Mike Pence Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pence, the 48th vice president of the United States.
Personal
Birth place: Columbus, Indiana
Father: Edward Pence, gas station owner
Mother: Nancy Pence-Fritsch
Education: Hanover College (Indiana), B.A., 1981; Indiana University School of Law, J.D., 1986
Religion: Evangelical Christian
Other Facts
After two early unsuccessful runs for Congress, Pence wrote an essay, “Confessions of a Negative Campaigner.” In the 1991 piece, he pledged not to use insulting language or air ads disparaging opponents.
During the 2010 Value Voter Summit, Pence took the stage and said, “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”
DeSmog
On June 18, the government of Canada declared a national climate emergency. The next day, the same government approved the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX), which will be able to move almost 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to the Port of Burnaby in British Columbia.
If this seems like a contradiction, you are not alone.
To date, Canada is the largest single jurisdiction to have declared a national climate emergency, following nations like Scotland, regions like Catalonia in Spain and cities like Vancouver and San Francisco.
Climate Emergency vs. State of Emergency
Altogether, 83 million people, living 623 jurisdictions, are now living under a state of climate emergency. The vast majority of these declarations have occurred in the last six months. The term climate emergency intentionally evokes a state of emergency and implies imminent action on the part of the government.