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Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in a virtual bilateral meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (AP) Asharq Al-Awsat
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Turkey and all US allies on Wednesday to refrain from making further purchases of Russian weaponry, saying this could trigger more sanctions.
US-Turkish relations have been strained over issues ranging from Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems over which it was the target of US sanctions to policy differences over Syria, human rights and a US court case targeting Turkey’s majority state-owned Halkbank, Reuters reported.
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April 28, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Turkey shouldn’t make any additional purchases of Russian weaponry, warning that doing so could provoke further US sanctions. It s also very important going forward that Turkey, and for that matter all US allies and partners, avoid future purchases of Russian weaponry, including additional S-400s, Blinken said during a virtual briefing at Washington s Foreign Press Center.
Turkey acquired the multimillion dollar S-400 missile defense system from Russia in 2019, which the United States says poses a threat to NATO’s air defense capabilities and may compromise the security of its own F-35 stealth fighter jets.
A senior adviser to two former U.S. presidents delivered a stark message Friday to Canadians hoping for the resurrection of the Keystone XL pipeline: get over it.
The project is gone and not coming back, said John Podesta, who was White House chief of staff in the final years of Bill Clinton s second term and a senior counsellor to Barack Obama. I think Keystone s dead, Podesta told an online panel discussion hosted by Canada 2020, a prominent think-tank with deep ties to the federal Liberal party.
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