New NATO secretary general Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that China had become a decisive enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine.

Mark Rutte, the new NATO Secretary General, after assuming office, announced that he would work on supporting Ukraine and strive to bring it closer to the Alliance. "Support for Ukraine is the right thing to do,

We must support the Ukrainian initiative...; it ensures a process that can lead to lasting peace,” said Stoltenberg. “Of course, the Ukrainians, as the main victims of the full-scale invasion, must ultimately decide which terms are acceptable.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The United States has dropped a push for the U.N. Security Council to ask for a plan to transform a security mission helping fight armed gangs in Haiti into a formal U.N. peacekeeping operation, a move some diplomats said was made to appease Russia and China.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously renewed a multinational security support mission (MSS) in Haiti to combat armed gangs after the U.S. dropped a push to enlarge the effort into a peacekeeping force.