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Washington mdash; The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10 billion to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday. It s the Pentagon s first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of replenishment funds. It wasn t until recent days that officials publicly acknowledged they weren t just out of replenishment funds, but $10 billion ove stanley cup rdrawn. The replenishment funds have allowed the Pentagon to pull existing munitions, air defense systems and other weapons from its reserve inventories under stanley cups presidential drawdown authority, or PDA, to send to Ukraine and then put contracts on order to replace those weapons. National security adviser Jake Sullivan announced the new package at the White House press briefing and said it consists of artillery rounds to help Ukraine repel Russian advances. stanley cup Ukrainian troops running low on supplies amid military aid holdup 02:09 One of the senior defense officials who briefed reporters said the package represented a one-time shot mdash; unless Co Lwvc Poll: After San Bernardino attacks, American concern about terror threat rises
CBS From CBS News John Bentley: John McCain met with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, today in Aspen, Colorado, as a way to show solidarity with the Tibetan spiritual leader in seeking autonomy from China. The Dalai Lama has time and again emphasized that he asked only that the Tibetan people are provided with basic rights to preserve their culture, language and religious beliefs, McCain said. I urge the Chinese leaders to engage in talk stanley canada s and make progress with his Holiness representatives in addressing the just grievances of the Tibeta stanley cup n people. I urge the Chinese government to release Tibetan political prisoners, account for Tibetans that have, quote, disappeared since the protests in March and engage in meaningful dialogue and genuine autonomy for Tibet. With the Beijing Olympics less than a month away, McCain sought to put pressure on the Chinese government to improve its record on human rights. The United States welcomes good relations with China, but it does no service to the Chinese government and certainly no service to the people of China for the United States and other Democracies to pretend that the suppression of rights in China does not concern us, he said. It does, will, and must concern us. The Dalai Lama referred to McCain as his old friend, but made it clear he was not endorsing him. This time my visit is non-political, the Dalai Lama stanley cup said. He [is] showing genuine concern about the democracy and human rights and religious freedom and environm
Washington mdash; The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10 billion to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday. It s the Pentagon s first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of replenishment funds. It wasn t until recent days that officials publicly acknowledged they weren t just out of replenishment funds, but $10 billion ove stanley cup rdrawn. The replenishment funds have allowed the Pentagon to pull existing munitions, air defense systems and other weapons from its reserve inventories under stanley cups presidential drawdown authority, or PDA, to send to Ukraine and then put contracts on order to replace those weapons. National security adviser Jake Sullivan announced the new package at the White House press briefing and said it consists of artillery rounds to help Ukraine repel Russian advances. stanley cup Ukrainian troops running low on supplies amid military aid holdup 02:09 One of the senior defense officials who briefed reporters said the package represented a one-time shot mdash; unless Co Lwvc Poll: After San Bernardino attacks, American concern about terror threat rises
CBS From CBS News John Bentley: John McCain met with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, today in Aspen, Colorado, as a way to show solidarity with the Tibetan spiritual leader in seeking autonomy from China. The Dalai Lama has time and again emphasized that he asked only that the Tibetan people are provided with basic rights to preserve their culture, language and religious beliefs, McCain said. I urge the Chinese leaders to engage in talk stanley canada s and make progress with his Holiness representatives in addressing the just grievances of the Tibeta stanley cup n people. I urge the Chinese government to release Tibetan political prisoners, account for Tibetans that have, quote, disappeared since the protests in March and engage in meaningful dialogue and genuine autonomy for Tibet. With the Beijing Olympics less than a month away, McCain sought to put pressure on the Chinese government to improve its record on human rights. The United States welcomes good relations with China, but it does no service to the Chinese government and certainly no service to the people of China for the United States and other Democracies to pretend that the suppression of rights in China does not concern us, he said. It does, will, and must concern us. The Dalai Lama referred to McCain as his old friend, but made it clear he was not endorsing him. This time my visit is non-political, the Dalai Lama stanley cup said. He [is] showing genuine concern about the democracy and human rights and religious freedom and environm
