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GUYANA CHRONICLE Tuesday January 21, 2014
Ban Ki-moon withdraws Iran’s invite to Syria talks ( R e u t e r s ) - U . N . S e c re tary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday withdrew an offer for Iran to attend Syria peace negotiations after Tehran declared it does not support the June 2012 political transition deal that is the basis for the talks. “He (Ban) continues to urge Iran to join the global consensus behind the Geneva communiqué,” Ban’s spokesman Martin Nesirky said. “Given that it has chosen to remain outside that basic understanding, (Ban) has decided that the one-day Montreux gathering will proceed without Iran’s participation.” Ban said earlier that Iran’s public statement that it did not support the 2012 Geneva deal calling for a transitional government for Syria was “not consistent” with assurances he had been given by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Ukrainian leader urges dialogue after street battles
Pro-European integration protesters carry Molotov cocktails during clashes with police in Kiev January 20, 2014. assert his authority after scores of people were injured in Kiev (Reuters) - PRESIDENT Vikon Sunday in pitched battles betor Yanukovich, reeling from tween protesters and police that the worst violence for decades could seriously hurt his chances in the Ukrainian capital, apof re-election next year. pealed for compromise on With tension still high, Monday as police and demabout 1,000 protesters cononstrators clashed again in United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon gives a thumbs up sign at fronted police on Monday the streets. the end of the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for near Kiev’s main government Yanukovich is battling to reSyria held at Bayan Palace in Kuwait, January 15, 2014. headquarters. Scores of mainly young people hurled projectiles at police throughout the day and ignored appeals to disperse. After weeks of mass protests over Yanukovich’s decision to shun a trade pact with the European Union and turn instead towards Russia, demonstrators have been further enraged by sweeping laws rammed through parliament to curb public pro(Reuters) - ISLAMIST militants stormed a village in remote test, northeast Nigeria on Monday, torching houses and spraying them “I ask you not to join those with bullets in an attack that killed 18 people, witnesses said. who seek violence, who are tryThe latest Boko Haram assault, on Sunday night, came hours ing to create a division between before Nigeria’s four top military chiefs handed over to fresh the state and society and who commanders in a ceremony on Monday. want to hurl the Ukrainian peoPresident Goodluck Jonathan announced the reshuffle of his ple into a pit of mass disorder,” entire military leadership last week in a bid to reinvigorate the fight Yanukovich said in an appeal on against the insurgents. his website. “Most of those who survived the attack have fled the village He called for “dialogue and as they do not know if they will be attacked again,” said Bulama compromise” to end the unrest. Ibrahim, the chief of Alau Ngawo village, which was attacked But he made no mention of sometime after 10 p.m. on Sunday. He said he had counted 18 possible concessions, nor did bodies after the shooting and many houses burned. he refer to peace talks with the A former local councilor, Mustapha Galtimare, who was on opposition which were to have the scene after the attack, concurred with the numbers of dead. got under way on Monday. The village lies in remote northeastern Borno state, the epicenThe opposition warned ter of the insurgency and relic of Nigeria’s oldest medieval Islamic him not to use these as an caliphate, which once prospered from trans-Saharan trade routes effort to buy time, while boxpassing though the largely Muslim north. er-turned politician Vitaly Boko Haram is fighting to re-establish an Islamic kingdom in Klitschko, one of its leaders, northern Nigeria, breaking away from the largely Christian south. insisted he wanted YanukovIts fighters have killed thousands of people since they launched ich to take part personally an uprising in mid-2009. in the talks. As of Monday “They had been in the village for nearly two hours without evening it was unclear if and any security personnel coming to the aid of the villagers,” when talks would take place. Ibrahim said.
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