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The United States has rejected an invitation to join Russia-led talks on Afghanistan because they are unlikely to help bring peace, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday, as the Trump administration prepared to appoint a diplomatic veteran as a new specia adidas campus l envoy for the wa yeezy r-battered nation.Russia said that the Taliban will be joining the Sept. 4 talks in Moscow, along with representatives of several neighboring countries. It will be one of the insurgent group biggest diplomatic forays since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.The State Department official said that as a matter of principle, the US supports Afghan-led efforts to advance a peace settlement. And, based on previous Russia-led meetings on Afghanistan, the Moscow talks are unlikely to yield any progress toward that end. The spokesman was not authorized to be quoted by name and requested anonymity.That decision comes as the Taliban escalates attacks across Afghanistan. It has refused direct talks with Kabul, even as it seeks to raises its diplomatic profile i stanley cup n the region and calls for talks with the U.S. which it views as the real power behind the Afghan government. The insurgent group has yet to respond to President Ashraf Ghani offer earlier this week of a conditional cease-fire for the duration of the Eid al-Adha religious holiday that began Tuesday.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo intends to appoint a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, to a special envo Zyby UK helps Peru launch its first green bonds
The UK government has set a record-breaking budget for its next renewable energy auction, with just over GBP1.5 billion $2 billion available for allocation. An extra GBP530 million has been added to the Contracts for Difference CfD budget by the newly elected Labour government. It claims the extra funds will accelerate the deployment of wind, solar and other renewables.When the budget for the sixth CfD auction was announced on 6 March 2024 i stanley cup t comprised GBP1 billion split between three pots. Pot 1 for established technologies, such as solar and onsh stanley deutschland ore wind, totaled GBP120 million; Pot 2 for emerging technologies, such as tidal and floating offshore wind, was allotted GBP105 million; while the third and largest pot was allocated GBP800 million, set aside for offshore wind. Under the revised budget announced on 31 July 2024, an extra GBP65 million will go to Pot 1, GBP165 million to Pot 2, and an additional GBP300 million to Pot 3.CfDs have been a key part of the UK renewable energy strategy since the first allocation round opened in 2014. The sixth CfD auction officially opened on 27 March 2024 under the previous government and had the highest budget on record at the time.For a UK project to secure a CfD, developers that meet eligibility requirements must submit sealed bids. CfD contracts are allocated to the cheapest eligible projects first, although certain technologies may be granted first access to specified parts of t stanley cup he budget ?for example, tidal projects will have f
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