SEOUL: A senior Chinese official met North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on

Martes, 9 de Febrero de 2010

SEOUL: A senior Chinese official met North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Monday and a top U.N. political envoy was slated to arrive a day later in a new push to get the reclusive state to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks. Chinese Communist Party international affairs chief Wang Jiarui met Kim and conveyed a verbal message from Chinese President Hu Jintao, North Korea’s official KCNA news agency reported.
KIEV: Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich pressed rival Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat Monday after a narrow victory in a presidential election that could tilt the ex-Soviet state back towards Moscow.
Adding to pressure on the fiery Tymoshenko, international monitors declared the election an “impressive display” of democracy and urged her to shake hands with her opponent.
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka arrested former army commander and losing presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka at his office Monday night, for what the army said were military offences.
Fonseka lost by an 18 percent margin to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a Jan. 26 election, and since then has accused his former commander-in-chief of rigging the vote. The government in turn has accused him of a coup and assassination plot.
“He was dragged away in a very disgraceful manner in front of our own eyes,” Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader Rauff Hakeem said. Military spokesman Major-General Prasad Samarasinghe said the arrest related to offences from Fonseka’s time in the army, which ended in November when he quit and entered the presidential race.
–REUTERS

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