Myanmar, UN Security Council to coup junta: free Aung San Suu Kyi

Today's headlines: Taiwanese jets scrambled to ward off Chinese air raid; Demonstrators in Gwadar order the Chinese to leave the port of Gwadar; Japan extends the life of its nuclear power plants; Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates against the Taliban over university ban on women; At least 7.8 million Ukrainians fled after Russian invasion; Armenians and Azeris negotiate to break stalemate over Karabakh access.

MYANMAR

For the first time since the coup in February 2021, the UN Security Council yesterday passed a resolution on Myanmar. It demands a halt to violence in the ongoing civil war and calls on the ruling military junta to release all political prisoners, including democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

TAIWAN-CHINA

Taipei scrambled fighter jets today to ward off 39 Chinese military aircraft that had entered the southern sector of its air defence zone. After a visit to the island in August by the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Beijing stepped up air and naval raids around what it considers a 'rebel province'. 

PAKISTAN-CHINA

The leader of a protest group for the rights of the local population ordered Beijing to leave the port of Gwadar, considered a key junction of the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping's infrastructure megaplan to strengthen China's commercial and geopolitical position in the world.

JAPAN

The Kishida government decided today that the country's nuclear reactors will be allowed to be used beyond their current 60-year limit; the replacement of older plants with the latest generation is also planned. For Tokyo, this is a significant change of policy direction, justified by the fight against climate change and the post-Russian invasion energy crisis in Ukraine.

GULF-AFGHANISTAN

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates condemn the Taliban's decision in Afghanistan to ban women from university. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi point out that the Afghan fundamentalist government's move is not only a violation of human rights, but also goes against the teachings of Islam.

UKRAINE-RUSSIA

As the representative of the Kiev Centre for Economic Strategies, Anna Sakhno, explained, 7.8 million Ukrainians were forced to flee the country after the Russian invasion. They have found shelter in Europe; 2.25 million children, 43% of the entire Ukrainian school population (5.4 million), now attend schools in European Union countries.

ARMENIA-AZERBAIGIAN

The councillor of the Armenian government of Nagorno-Karabakh, Artak Beglaryan, is in Yerevan, where he informed that negotiations are underway under the auspices of the Russian peacekeeping forces for the reopening of the 'Lačinsk corridor' with Azerbaijan. For its reopening, Baku has set a number of conditions whose details have not been made public, the priority of which would be access to the Kašen mine.

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