WASHINGTON -- "It is a welcoming sign that we now have the phase-one deal, sign in terms of reducing some of the uncertainty," International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said at an event hosted by Peterson Institute for International Economics, a thinktank based in Washington D.C.

The newly signed China-U.S. phase-one trade deal will reduce the uncertainty that has impeded global economic growth, Georgieva said Friday.

- - - -

KIEV -- "I decided to give you and your government a second chance," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday evening during a meeting with the country's Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk.

Zelensky declined a resignation offer by Honcharuk, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Friday.

- - - -

OTTAWA -- "It is not the compensation that we expect will come and should come from Iran in due course, but these families need help now and we will be getting this money to them as quickly as we possibly can in the coming days," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a news conference in Ottawa Friday morning.

Trudeau on Friday announced that his government will provide financial aid for families of Canadian victims in the Ukrainian plane crash in Iran over a week ago, which killed all 176 people on board.

- - - -

YAOUNDE -- "This institution is extremely important to the state of Cameroon and to the Ministry of Secondary Education," Cameroon's Minister of Secondary Education, Pauline Nalova Lyonga told reporters. "It is a clear representation of the excellent bilateral friendship between our two countries."

Lyonga on Friday hailed as "excellent" the cooperation with China in high school education. Enditem

Related

Go to Forum >>0 Comment(s)