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UNITED NATIONS -- "We are working to prevent recent developments and tensions on the ground from escalating, and instead to pivot to stability and a political compact which will enable an end to the crisis in the country," Ghassan Salame, UN Secretary-General's special representative for Libya, told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Salame, who is also the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), said that the mission has supported two rounds of preparatory talks between the advisors of Prime Minister Fayez Serraj and General Haftar.
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PARIS -- "We send a simple and clear message to the British ... there are only two options to leave the European Union: ratify the agreement or an exit without accord," French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers referring Brexit.
"In case of a favorable vote, we'll be obviously open to technical extension for several weeks to allow British institutions to finalize the text's ratification. On the other hand, in the absence of a vote, the main scenario is a leave without agreement and we are ready for that," he added.
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LONDON -- "This delay is a matter of great personal regret for me. It is high time we made a decision" over Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May said, passionately asking MPs to back her Brexit deal, which was rejected twice in the parliament since January.
In a live televised speech from Downing Street after her Brexit delay request, May told the British people nationwide that "I am on your side" while criticized hostile MPs for blocking the agreement on Brexit in the parliament, which leads to the Brexit delay.
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GENEVA -- "The crisis around the INF Treaty clearly shows that the nuclear arms race reduction process can no longer be based on the bilateral Russian-U.S. reduction basis," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Attending the two-day Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva, Lavrov expressed his concern over the crisis around the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Enditem
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