Tag: International Law
The UN General Assembly on September 4 adopted an important resolution by a vote of 164 in favor, 1 against, and 6 abstentions, encouraging countries to replace world maps drawn using the Mercator projection with new maps created under the Equal Earth project that more accurately reflect the actual area of each continent. The old-style Mercator map artificially enlarged regions such as North America and Europe while shrinking the true areas of developing regions such as Africa and South America, and has long drawn criticism.
On September 8, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK announced their intention to introduce national restrictions, support European restrictions, or actively consider measures against trade in goods with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
In un contesto di tensioni crescenti con la Turchia , la Grecia sta aumentando la spesa militare per modernizzare il proprio esercito (circa il 3,5% del PIL) e nei mesi scorsi ha acquistato un sistema difensivo multistrato
The NATO puppet “state” of Kosovo, without the forbidden reference to Metohija, fulfils an anti-Serbia mission, writes Stephen Karganovic.
