KABUL Cheap Jordan 12 Wholesale , Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Foreign Minister of Iraq Hoshyar Zebari has urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign the controversial Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), commonly known as the security pact, with Washington, local newspapers reported on Tuesday. "Our expectation of the government is to sign the BSA with the U.S. because Afghanistan needs U.S. support," quoting the Iraqi foreign minister who paid unannounced visit to Afghan capital Kabul on Monday Cheap Jordan 12 Youth , the English paper Daily Outlook wrote in its Tuesday edition.
The Iraqi foreign minister, whose country has been facing the increasing wave of militancy and bloody terror attacks since the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country in 2011, in the meeting with his Afghan counterpart Zarar Ahmad Usmani also stated that " The agreement and continued cooperation with the U.S. was in Afghanistan's best interests".
Another newspaper the Daily Afghanistan wrote that the Iraqi top diplomat had also met President Hamid Karzai and shared the experiences of his country in the past decade in combating terrorism.
Karzai has already said that the BSA would not be signed until after the presidential election planned for April 5, 2014 unless Washington brings security to Afghanistan, ensures holding transparent elections and U.S. support to the peace process with Taliban militants.
Meantime Cheap Jordan 12 Mens , the Daily Mandegar has lashed at President Karzai's preconditions for inking BSA, saying delaying the pact is contrary to Afghanistan's national interests. "The president's demands for releasing Taliban militants from Guantanamo prison, halting operations in Afghan villages, bringing Taliban outfit to the negotiating table for peace within month are in fact providing immunity to the Taliban rebels which is against the national interests of Afghanistan," Daily Mandegar maintained in an article.
It also stated in the article that President Karzai's efforts over the past decade to bring Taliban into negotiated table has failed and how it is possible to convince Taliban within month to hold talks with government.
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Australian communications minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday said he believed there was "a reasonable prospect" of the country changing its laws to allow same-sex couples to marry.
His comments follow the nation's top court on Thursday striking down a landmark gay marriage law in the nation's capital Cheap Jordan 12 Womens , ruling that only the national parliament, not state and territory authorities, has the power to decide who could wed.
The conservative government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott is opposed to gay marriage and the party has previously refused to allow a conscience vote among its members, in contrast to the Labor opposition.
But Turnbull said he was confident this would change.
"I think it is very likely there will be a conscience vote agreed to by the coalition party room," he told broadcaster ABC.
He added that a private members bill was expected to be introduced to parliament proposing a change to the existing law Cheap Jordan 12 Retro , which allows marriage only between a man and a woman.
"As to whether that would result in the bill being passed, it's probably a bit early to say because the new parliament, there's a lot of new members," he said, with the government only being elected in September.
"But I think there is a reasonable prospect of a change to the law in this parliament."
Gay marriage was explicitly outlawed under a 2004 revision of the national Marriage Act by the conservative prime minister at the time Cheap Jordan 12 , John Howard.
Same-sex couples can have civil unions or register their relationships in most states across Australia, but the government does not consider them married under national law.
For legal purposes they are considered de facto couples and have exactly the same rights as married couples. Campaigners, however, insist that the right to marry is a more fundamental human right.
Since the Act was revised, the issue has gained increasing national traction with polling commissioned by marriage equality campaigners putting support for same-sex marriage in Australia at 64 percent.
Despite this http://www.cheapjordan12forsale.com/ , Australia continues to lag behind a growing number of countries on the reform including neighbouring New Zealand, Britain and 16 US states.
Turnbull acknowledged that jurisdictions across the world were making changes to marriage legislation.
"I just note that if you look around the world you know the big English speaking countries we feel ourselves culturally close to, all of them now recognise same-sex marriage," he said.
The Labor opposition has called on Abbott, whose sister is a lesbian who hopes to marry her partner Cheap Air Jordan 12 Clearance , to allow a conscience vote, where lawmakers would be free to cast their vote on personal rather than party lines.
A previous ballot in September 2012 failed by 98 votes to 42, after Abbott imposed the party line on his MPs.
(Agencies)
BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- China's sovereign wealth fund ChinaInvestment Corporation (CIC) said Tuesday that its overseasinvestment returned to profit in 2016.
CIC posted a U.S. dollar-denominated net return of 6.22 percentin overseas investment last year, compared with a loss of 2.96percent in 2015.
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Facing a complex global landscape fraught with uncertainties,CIC achieved encouraging results through internationalized,market-oriented and professional operations, Tu said.
The fund has seen a net cumulative annualized return of 4.76percent in overseas investment since its establishment, accordingto the report.
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