The Taiwan government urged China to resume bilateral exchanges “without preconditions” after China announced it would once again allow tourists from Fujian Province to travel to the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands,
breaking news on this story because in the last few minutes ukraine s president has said ukrainian and russian delegations will meet without preconditions. they will meet on ukraine and belarus at bordeaux. the earlier ukraine s a president dismissing any talk of negotiations in the belarus capital minsk, on the border. clearly those discussions have been continuing and now it has been confirmed from the office of the president of ukraine that talks will take place at the border and i will repeat that phrase, without preconditions . an interesting development as we have had those elements out of moscow that i was just telling you about and we are seeing the situation deteriorating rapidly on the ground. there is a street fighting in the second city with an increase in the intensification in terms of the
russian bombardments across different locations of ukraine. so just a glimmer of something positive, which is that talks will take place. interesting that phrase, without preconditions . a few days ago vladimir putin had appealed to ukraine s are military to surrender, to lay down their weapons and to negotiate, in a sense making that appeal over the head of president zelensky. that of course was not followed up in terms of ukrainian reaction. they held firm. but now these talks are going ahead on the border between belarus and ukraine, between the two delegations, the russian delegation, the ukrainian delegation, without preconditions. that news just coming into us, we ll keep an eye on that and bring you more as it develops, as it clearly well, because no timeline exactly on that. so much detail to add to just those couple of sentences released
ANKARA, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) Turkey on Friday said the first meeting between Turkish and Armenian envoys in Moscow was positive and that they will continue negot