WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the Trump administration will not tolerate Russian interference in the 2018 congressional midterm elections.
Pompeo told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday that the administration will take “appropriate countermeasures” to fight what he called “continued efforts” by Russia to meddle in November’s vote. He did not elaborate on the Russian interference or say what the countermeasures would be but said there was much more work to be done to stop Russia’s efforts.
He said the US had not yet been able to establish “effective deterrence” to halt them.
The top-ranking Democrat on the committee, Eliot Engel, however, contended that the Trump administration “is giving Russia a pass” because Russian President Vladimir Putin “supported President Trump over Hillary Clinton” in the 2016 presidential election.
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Mike Pompeo: US will fight Russian interference in 2018 elections
Mike Pompeo: US will fight Russian interference in 2018 elections
- Secretary of State says the Trump administration will not tolerate Russian interference
- Said the US had not yet been able to establish “effective deterrence” to halt them
UN rights chief: World must not ‘revert to violence as an organizing principle’
- ‘The world cannot stand by as the edifice of international humanitarian and human rights law is dismantled before our eyes’
GENEVA: The UN rights chief voiced alarm Friday at the normalization of the use of force to resolve disputes, warning that conflicts create “a human rights wasteland.”
“We must not revert to violence as an organizing principle,” Volker Turk said as he provided an update on rights situations around the world to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
“The world cannot stand by as the edifice of international humanitarian and human rights law is dismantled before our eyes.”
“We must not revert to violence as an organizing principle,” Volker Turk said as he provided an update on rights situations around the world to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
“The world cannot stand by as the edifice of international humanitarian and human rights law is dismantled before our eyes.”
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