A Chinese Song Class diesel-electric submarine was in Colombo during President Xi Jinping’s visit last week making it the first foreign port of call made by a Chinese submarine as well as the first confirmed appearance of a Chinese sub in the Indian Ocean.It was part of a task force which consisted of a large submarine support ship named Chongxing Island which came to the Colombo Port South Terminal built with Chinese funds during Xi’s visit.This move could be the first step made by China to project its power in the Indian Ocean.It is also reported that the Type-039 conventional submarine (NATO codenamed Song) is a second-generation conventional submarines designed and built by China.It is the first Chinese submarine Class to be fitted with an integrated electronic support measures/radio direction finder/ radar warning receiver system.It is armed with torpedoes and anti-ship missiles.According to the Chinese media PLA Naval fleets would visit Colombo in October and November this year as well.(Supun Dias)
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The Speaker of the Russian Lower Member Board of the parliament Sergy Narishikin that owing to the negligent action of the Americans the path has been laid for a bloody cold war.He had further that as a result all member countries of NATO has agreed to supply arms to Ukraine.
This was confirmed by the Ukraine Defense Minister Velari Gillet.It is also known that Vladimir Putin’s forces are infiltrating into Ukraine via its the western borders.This bshaviour has been brought to light by several western countries
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Outgoing NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has named Islamic State, or IS, and Russia as the key threats facing the military alliance, accusing Russia of "trampling" on post-Cold War peace.
Speaking Monday at a meeting of the Carnegie Europe think tank in Brussels, Rasmussen said NATO member states faced challenges in the east and the south "on a scale we have not seen over two decades, and they will endure for years to come."
"To the east, there is Russia. We have tried long and hard to build a partnership with Russia in a way that respects Russia's security concerns and based on international rules and norms," Rasmussen said, according to a video of the speech published online by NATO.
"Regrettably Russia has rejected our efforts to engage. Instead, Russia considers NATO — and the West more broadly — as an adversary. Russia has trampled all the rules and commitments that have kept peace in Europe and since the end of the Cold War," he added.
Rasmussen, who is stepping down at the end of the month after five years in the job, has been a vocal opponent of Russia's "reckless" policy on Ukraine, urging Moscow to drop its perceived support for pro-Russian separatists in the east of that country.
The 61-year-old Dane also warned against the new threat posed by Islamic militant group IS, which has taken over large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq in recent months.
While ruling out NATO military intervention against the group, Rasmussen said the "horrific atrocities" carried out by IS could provide the basis for United Nations action in the Middle East.
The U.S. has already carried out several air strikes on IS forces in Iraq, though Russia warned last week it would consider any strikes carried out without a UN mandate over Syria — a Russian ally — as an act of aggression.
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A report has revealed that in his tour to Europe Barak Obama will try to make economical weapons against Russia.
It is said that Obama will leave for Europe to uplift the corporation of NATO governments against the behaviour of Russia in front of Ukraine crisis.
Several media reports that the Russian President will direct the attention away from Obama’s lectures.
If Putin does not change his stand point about Ukraine, Obama has stated that there will be more sanctions against Moscow ruling.
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