

A | Russian President Vladimir Putin, on his first trip abroad since being indicted by the International Criminal Court in March, on Friday called on an alliance of former Soviet states to expand relations with non-Western countries.In an address to the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Putin also defended Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an attempt to prevent war and blamed the United States as an integral cause of the current war between Israel and Hamas fighters. His comments did not break ground but the trip was significant as his first venture outside Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine after the ICC indictment for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. The indictment would oblige any country that is party to the ICC to arrest him on their soil.The CIS consists of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Armenia. Tajikistan has acceded to the ICC; Armenia, which recently approved joining the court, did not participate in the summit amid rising disputes with Russia. Putin told the CIS heads of state that “it is important to work together, together with like-minded people from other regions of the world — with the countries of the so-called world majority, the Global South, whose views are very close to us.”He deplored the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which broke out last week when Hamas launched raids on Israel, but took aim at the United States' role.“For many years, the one-sided line of the Americans led the situation further and further into a dead end," he said. “The large-scale tragedy that Israelis and Palestinians are now experiencing was a direct result of the failed U.S. policy in the Middle East.”On Ukraine, he reiterated Russia's contention that sending troops into the country was justifiable because of years of fighting between the Ukrainian military and separatist forces in the country's east.Our special military operation is not the beginning of a war, but an attempt to stop it," Putin contended.。

B | 澳大利亚是英联邦成员,视英国君主为国家元首。按照现行法律,澳大利亚的硬币必须刻印英国君主头像,不过,纸钞不受此规约束。按照安德鲁·利的说法,澳方在5澳元纸钞上印伊丽莎白二世头像,并非因为对方的君主身份,而是表达对女王个人的尊重,因此,如果决定更换头像,不会“自动”替换成英国新国王。当记者问到澳政府是否考虑把头像换成某个澳大利亚名人时,安德鲁·利表示,政府会就此展开讨论,“不着急下决定,当务之急是更改硬币设计”。澳大利亚铸币厂同一天宣布,明年不会发行任何带有伊丽莎白二世像的流通币。自伊丽莎白二世1953年加冕以来,澳大利亚累计发行总币值大约150亿澳元的女王像硬币。路透社报道,伊丽莎白二世的去世再次引发澳大利亚等英联邦国家有关是否废除君主立宪制、改为共和制的讨论。在1999年一次公民投票中,澳大利亚选民选择继续以英王为国家元首,当时支持和反对票差距很小。(完)(沈敏)返回搜狐,查看更多责任编辑:

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