Daily Current Affairs of 28th February 2019
International Current Affairs
- Today (Last Day of February) is Rare Disease Day.
- This day aims to raise awareness about relatively unknown diseases and their impact.
- Started as a European event, over 80 countries across the world have joined the campaign.
- Note : According to the World Health Organisation, a disease found in less than 6.5-10 people per 10,000 people is defined as rare.
- Theme of Rare Disease Day 2019 : 'Bridging health and social care'.
- U S President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met each other on in Hanoi, Vietnam, beginning the 2nd summit between the two countries.
- The White House has said that no agreement has been reached with North Korea after the second summit.
- In a statement, the US said that the two leaders had a "very good and constructive meeting" and their teams "look forward to meeting in the future".
- Trump said that the summit with North Korea failed to reach an agreement due to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's demands to lift all US-led sanctions.
- In a significant gain for India in its push to isolate Pakistan internationally on the issue of terrorism post-Pulwama attack, China and Russia agreed for a closer policy coordination to eradicate the breeding grounds of terrorism.
- Their commitment came at the conclusion of the Russia, India and China Foreign Ministers' meeting at Wuzhen in the east Chinese city.
- In a joint communique, the three nations said, extremist groups cannot be supported and used in political and geopolitical goals.
- External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj along with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and their Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov called on the international community to strengthen UN-led global counter-terrorism cooperation by fully implementing the relevant UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.