UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses a special event to mark World Children's Day at the United Nations headquarters in New York Cheap Nike Air Max 270 Light Bone , on Nov. 20, 2017. (XinhuaLi Muzi) UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday expressed concern over a possible cut in U.S. contributions to a UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
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It is reported that U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to withhold tens of millions of dollars for UNRWA, which was created in 1949 as a relief and human development agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
BEIJING Cheap Air Max 270 Womens Flyknit , Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Leading Party members with the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on Wednesday studied President Xi Jinping's latest anti-corruption instructions.
Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, delivered a speech to the second plenary session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC last week, calling for more anti-corruption efforts to "fundamentally improve the political ecosystem of the Party."
Yu Zhengsheng Cheap Air Max 270 Mens Flyknit , chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, presided over the meeting of the Leading Party Members' Group of the 12th CPPCC National Committee.
The meeting agreed that Xi's speech explained strategic guidelines for Party governance, summarized experiences of exercising full and rigorous governance over the Party and analyzed challenges and risks ahead, said a statement released after the meeting.
It also said that the Leading Party Members' Group should follow the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and contribute to strict governance over the Party.
The meeting listed the study and implementation of the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress and Xi's latest anti-corruption instructions as CPPCC's primary political task.
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The statement said the CPPCC should take the lead in implementing the CPC's eight-point code