· 2020-10-27 · Source: Xinhua News Agency
Workers disinfect medical supplies donated by the World Health Organization at Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, on September 4 (XINHUA)
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In a video message to the conference, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the COVID-19 pandemic the greatest crisis of our age.
Guterres called for worldwide solidarity to meet the challenges of the epidemic: Developed countries must support health systems in countries that are short of resources. Since the novel coronavirus took hold more than nine months ago, lives and livelihoods have been lost and economies and societies have been upended, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in his message.
German FM refuses to end weapon sales to Turkey despite Greek request
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Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has refused to end his country’s weapons sales to Turkey despite its near daily threats against Greece.
“I do not find the demand of an arms embargo against Turkey strategically correct,” he said on Monday, adding “It is not easy to do this against a NATO partner.”
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on June 3, 2020. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
However, the next part of his statement revealed an outright lie by claiming that the U.S. refused to sell a missile defense system to Turkey.
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