Trump for 2-sTaTe soluTion
US PRESIDENT ACCUSES CHINA OF MEDDLING IN BY-ELECTIONS RUSSIA, IRAN ACCUSED OF AIDING SYRIA’S BUTCHERY SECOND TRUMP MEETING WITH KIM IN VERY NEAR FUTURE PALESTINIAN OFFICIAL REJECTS TRUMP’S COMMENTS
new york — For the first time since taking office, US President Donald Trump endorsed a twostate solution as the best way to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Trump, in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations, also said he wanted to unveil a peace plan in the next two to three months.
“I like a two-state solution. That’s what I think works best... That’s my feeling,” said Trump, who is attending the annual UN gathering of world leaders.
He added that Israel will have to do something good for the other side without elaborating. “It is a dream of mine to get that done prior to the end of my first term,” Trump said of an agreement on the conflict.
Trump accused China of seeking to meddle in the November 6 US congressional elections, saying Beijing did not want his Republican Party to do well because of his pugnacious stance on trade.
“China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election, coming up in November. Against my administration,” Trump told a UN Security Council meeting. China rejected the charge.
Trump also used the session to defend the US withdrawal in May from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, hint at progress in US efforts to curb North Korea’s nuclear programme, and to criticise Iran and Russia for supporting Syrian President Bashar Al Assad in the country’s war, now in its eighth year. “The Syrian regime’s butchery is enabled by Russia and Iran,” Trump said.
Trump said he would be announcing the timing and location of his next meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the “very near future”.
We did not and will not interfere in any country’s domestic affairs. We refuse to accept any unwarranted accusations against China
Wang Yi, Chinese govt’s top diplomat
new york — US President Donald Trump accused China of seeking to meddle in the Nov. 6 US congressional elections on Wednesday, saying Beijing did not want his Republican Party to do well because of his pugnacious stance on trade.
“China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election, coming up in November. Against my administration,” Trump told a UN Security Council meeting whose ostensible subject was nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Trump did not provide any evidence for his allegation, which he made while chairing the Council meeting.
China rejected the charge. “We did not and will not interfere in any country’s domestic affairs. We refuse to accept any unwarranted accusations against China,” the Chinese government’s top diplomat Wang Yi told the Security Council.
Trump also used the session to defend the US withdrawal in May from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, hint at progress in US efforts to curb North Korea’s nuclear programme, and to criticize Iran and Russia for supporting Syrian President Bashar Al Assad in the country’s war, now in its eighth year. “The Syrian regime’s butchery is enabled by Russia and Iran,” Trump said.
Trump’s focus on China and his allegation of election meddling came as a surprise during a formal meeting around the Security Council’s iconic horseshoe that was expected to concentrate on the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. “They do not want me or us to win because I am the first president ever to challenge China on trade and we are winning on trade, we are winning at every level. We don’t want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election,” said Trump, who is attending the UN’s annual gathering of world leaders. Trump himself is not up for re-election until 2020 but November’s voting will decide whether his Republican Party can keep control of the US House of Representatives and the Senate. Some opinion polls show that the Democratic Party could make a strong showing, notably in the House.
During his roughly 10-minute speech, Trump made no reference to US allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election that brought him to power. The allegations have dogged his presidency and have given rise to an investigation by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller into potential collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign. In July at a summit in Helsinki, Trump accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials. Trump frequently describes investigations into the interference as a political witch hunt. —