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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN peacekeeping chief on Thursday said it is critical for member states to pay their assessed contributions in full and in due time.
"We are going through pressures on the peacekeeping budget," Jean-Pierre Lacroix, under-secretary-general for Peace Operations, said during a virtual news briefing in response to Xinhua's questions.
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NEW DELHI -- The Indian media report related to Shenzhen Zhenhua Data Information Technology Co., Ltd. is "groundless," a spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in India said Thursday.
"Relevant report makes groundless accusations on the 'presumption of guilt', purely trying to find excuses aiming to blame others," Ji Rong, counselor and spokesperson of the embassy, said in response to untrue report on the tech company.
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WASHINGTON -- A former aide to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and said she will vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the November election.
"Towards the middle of February, we knew it wasn't a matter of if COVID would become a big pandemic here in the United States, it was a matter of when," said Olivia Troye, Pence's former lead staff member on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. "But the president didn't want to hear that because his biggest concern was that we were in an election year and how is this going to affect what he considers to be his record of success?"
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GENEVA -- China has done "the right thing at the right time" in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Fiorenzo Manganiello, first vice president of the Swiss private bank Banque Profil de Gestion.
China's further economic opening-up and a simplified regulatory environment are good news for foreign investors, Manganiello told Xinhua in a recent interview.
"China became an example of efficient dealing with uncertain events like the global pandemic. It was because of the resources China has, whether manpower or technology," Manganiello said. Enditem
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