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When the U.S. president declared he would withdraw his country from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, he triggered a worldwide discussion on the issue. For Europe it was a "major disappointment," while similar assessments came from the U.N. secretary general, China, India and others.

Several Asian nations are seeking to bolster informal alliances among themselves, regional diplomats and officials said, unsettled by growing fears that the United States could not be relied on to maintain a buffer against China's assertiveness.

ST PETERSBURG - The St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) kicked off on Thursday with a business breakfast on the strategic partnership between the Eurasian Economic Union and India.

SPIEF, held under the patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, ends on June 3.

ST PETERSBURG - The Serbian booth at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) is set for Thursday's opening of the event, the biggest economic forum in this part of the world.

Russia is ready to supply Turkey with S-400 air defense systems, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

Speaking to journalists at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin said that the issue was discussed earlier with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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Serbia will forever remain a friend of Russia and will never impose sanctions on it, Acting PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in St. Petersburg Thursday.

President Donald Trump announced on June 1 that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, prompting a furious global backlash and throwing efforts to slow global warming into doubt.

There has been widespread international condemnation of President Trump’s announcement that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
UN chief Antonio Guterres’s spokesman called it “a major disappointment” while the European Union said it was “a sad day for the world”.
However, senior Republicans and the US coal industry backed the move.

India's gross domestic product data produced another shock on May 31 as economic growth unexpectedly slumped to its lowest in more than two years in the March quarter, stripping the country of its status as the world's fastest growing major economy.

Greek construction group GEK Terna and India's GMR Infrastructure hope to start building a new 850-million-euro airport on Crete early next year, a source from GEK Terna said on Wednesday.

Greece on Tuesday awarded the contract to the Greek-Indian joint venture, which was the sole bidder.