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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a phone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, Interfax news agency reported.
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(CNN) — On September 19, the day Azerbaijan began its offensive in the majority Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Marut Vanyan heard an ominous noise in the sky over his hometown.
“I’m not a military expert,” Vanyan, a journalist, recalled. “But I heard very, very clearly… the roar above me. I’m sure it was a drone.”
Vanyan, a lifelong resident of Stepanakert, once Nagorno-Karabakh’s largest city, recognized the sound from 2020, when Azerbaijan waged a 44-day war for the territory and surrounding regions with the help of Turkish and Israeli weapons.
Vanyan took a video of the sky above Stepanakert, gray and cloudy, the whine of a propeller distinct in the background, and posted it on X.
According to Leonid Nersisyan, a defense analyst and researcher at the Applied Policy Research Institute (APRI) Armenia, an independent think tank, it was the sound of Israel Aerospace Industries’ Harop, a loitering munition known for the piercing noise it produces as it descends on a target.
Azerbaijani forces used the Harop – often referred to as a “suicide drone” – and other Israeli drones throughout the war of 2020. CNN has contacted IAI for comment.
Though their relationship is relatively discreet, Israeli equipment makes up most of Azerbaijan’s arms imports, according to arms researchers. Azerbaijani officials touted Israel’s weapons as integral to their country’s success in Nagorno-Karabakh during the 2020 war.
Now, as over 100,000 ethnic Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh in the latest conflict there, Israeli-Azerbaijani ties have come under scrutiny, with an editorial in Israel’s most prominent left-wing newspaper Haaretz proclaiming that the country’s “fingerprints are all over the ethnic cleansing” in Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Drones were used constantly” in the 2020 war, as well as in this latest conflict, a former lieutenant colonel in the Artsakh Defense Army – the Armenian separatist republic’s military force in Karabakh – told CNN on the condition of anonymity. (Artsakh is the Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh and the self-proclaimed republic that existed there.)
Azerbaijan “used Harop kamikaze strike drones…Hermes-450 and Orbiter-1K, Orbiter-2, Orbiter-3 reconnaissance drones,” the ex-officer said. All were produced by Israeli arms companies.
Azerbaijan won the 2020 war in a little over a month, regaining much of the territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but populated and governed, until now, almost exclusively by ethnic Armenians, following the expulsion of ethnic Azeris in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
September’s battle barely took 24 hours, leaving the whole of Karabakh under the control of Azerbaijan after months of blockade. All of the roughly 120,000 ethnic Armenians in the territory have either fled to Armenia or are expected to flee, fearing full-fledged ethnic cleansing or mass atrocities, although Azerbaijan has insisted that it would respect their rights there.
Azerbaijan and Israel are close military partners. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), more than 60% of Azerbaijani weapons imports came from Israel between 2017 and 2020, making up 13% of Israeli exports during the same period. SIPRI research reveals that Azerbaijan purchased a wide variety of drones, missiles, and mortars from Israel between 2010 and 2020.
However, according to SIPRI senior researcher Pieter Wezeman, certain specifics are unknown about the extent of the ongoing Azerbaijani-Israeli weapons trade.
“We had quite some information before 2020 and then it stops,” Wezeman said. “And that doesn’t really make sense because in 2020 Azerbaijan used a significant amount of its equipment… Most likely they have continued their relationship with Israel, but that’s about as far as we know.”
The trade is believed to be particularly active in periods just before Azerbaijan has gone to war. A March 2023 investigative report by Haaretz found that flights by an Azerbaijani airline between Baku and Ovda air base, the only airport in Israel through which explosives can be flown, spiked in the months just before Azerbaijan attacked separatist positions in Karabakh in September 2020.
Likewise, Haaretz reported in mid-September that the same company flew between Baku and Ovda less than a week before Azerbaijan began its latest assault in Nagorno-Karabakh. CNN reached out to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense and the airline in question, but did not receive a response. The Israeli Ministry of Defense, which oversees Ovda Airport, had no comment.
“We don’t know what was on board, but very likely it is something related to the military equipment that Israel already has supplied to Azerbaijan before,” Wezeman said.
The weapons trade between Israel and Azerbaijan mirrors their diplomatic relationship, once described in a leaked US diplomatic cable as “like an iceberg, nine-tenths of it… below the surface.” Despite decades of bilateral cooperation, Azerbaijan only opened an embassy in Israel this year.
But their ties go beyond guns and ammunition: OEC figures show that Israel bought 65% of its crude oil from Azerbaijan in 2021. The countries are also believed to share intelligence on Iran, Israel’s archenemy, with which Azerbaijan shares a border and which has a substantial ethnic Azeri population that constitutes the country’s largest minority. Azerbaijan has also reportedly allowed the Israeli spy agency Mossad to use it as a hub to spy on Iran. (The Israeli Ministry of Defense declined to comment on the matter.)
According to Efraim Inbar, an expert on Israel-Azerbaijan relations and president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, ties between the two have grown stronger since 2020.
“Oil and arms sales continue. Azerbaijan feels greater pressure from Iran whose international position is improving,” Inbar told CNN in an email. “There is no great sympathy (in Israel) for Armenia that is seen as an Iranian ally.”
In a recent interview with the Jerusalem Post, Armenia’s ambassador to Israel said Israeli weapons are being fired at “peaceful civilians” despite Israeli civil society being “very pro-Armenia in the case of Nagorno-Karabakh and recognition of the Armenian genocide.” (Israel’s government does not recognize the mass murder of Armenians by Ottoman forces during World War I as genocide, fearing damage to its relationship with Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire.)
But there is little political opposition in the country to selling arms to Azerbaijan, Inbar said.
“Arms sales do not receive much publicity,” he added. “The contribution of Israeli drones to Azerbaijan’s war is well known, however. Israelis are proud of their weaponry. Arms sales are considered good for Israel.”
Yet despite their high visibility in Karabakh, the role of drones should not overshadow that of other Israeli weapons, according to Nersisyan, the defense analyst at APRI Armenia.
“People consider them to be some kind of a super weapon,” he said. “Of course, they are very important, but there are roles of other types of weapons.”
Among those are Israel’s LORA missiles, which Azerbaijan first purchased from Israel in 2017 according to SIPRI.
In October 2020, Azerbaijan repeatedly struck the area near an electrical substation in Stepanakert using Israeli-made weapons. The former lieutenant colonel in the Artsakh Defense Army told CNN he witnessed one of these attacks personally. The diameter and depth of the crater there showed that the Azerbaijani military had used a LORA missile, he said, adding that it hit a residential building.
The question remains as to how far Israel is willing to go in supporting Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia. An ongoing border crisis between the two countries has resulted in Azerbaijani incursions into Armenian territory, and Azerbaijani troops currently occupy land well within Armenia’s borders in its southern Syunik province. Many in Armenia worry that an emboldened Azerbaijan will attempt to invade their country, which Azerbaijan denies. Some fears center around Nakhchivan, a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan that borders Turkey and Armenia, and Baku’s desire for a transport corridor linking it with the rest of the country.
“Azerbaijan doesn’t have any military goals or objectives on the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia,” Hikmet Ajiyev, the foreign policy advisor to Ilham Aliyev, told Reuters on October 1.
Some in the international community are calling for action against Azerbaijan in the wake of the Armenian exodus from Karabakh. In the United States, where there is a large Armenian diaspora, nearly 100 members of Congress have called for sanctions on Baku, and lawmakers in the European Union have also called on the bloc to consider punitive measures.
Wezeman, the researcher at SIPRI, said Israel could come under pressure from its Western allies to reconsider arms sales to Azerbaijan.
“It will damage its relations with Azerbaijan, but at the same time, Israel will have to think about its relations with European states, which are more important partners.”
A spokesperson for the Israeli Ministry of Defense said they had no comment when reached by CNN.
Efraim Inbar said Israel wants to keep its reputation of being a reliable supplier to Azerbaijan.
“In any case,” he added, “Azerbaijan is much more important for Israel than Armenia. It is realpolitik that drives Israeli foreign policy.”
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s presidential election race is putting abortion access and women’s rights in the spotlight, sparking fierce debate in a country that has been a pioneer in expanding reproductive rights in Latin America.
The election frontrunner, economist Javier Milei, opposes abortion and wants to hold a referendum on whether the 2020 legalization of abortion before the 14th week of pregnancy should be repealed. He also wants to shut the ministry of women, gender and diversity, which he has called a type of “affirmative action” that is degrading towards women.
His closest contenders are economy minister Sergio Massa for the incumbent Peronists and conservative ex-security minister Patricia Bullrich, the most high-profile female candidate. She would leave abortion laws unchanged, though also close the women’s ministry.
Milei’s stance has caused fears among feminists of a risk of backtracking on gains in women’s rights in recent years, but has helped him win votes among young Argentine men who feel disenfranchised, as well as conservative female voters.
“The Milei phenomenon is not just an ultra-right movement. It is a patriarchal reaction against all the advances women in Argentina have had,” leftist presidential candidate Myriam Bregman, who polls less than 5%, told Reuters.
Milei, the surprise winner of an August open primary, is riding high on backing from voters angry at 124% inflation, a painful cost of living crisis, and rising poverty. He has talked of waging a “cultural battle” against socialism and feminism.
Eugenia Rolon, a social media influencer who volunteers with Milei’s campaign and identifies as anti-feminist, said policies to support women were “discriminatory.”
“They ridicule the women who are part of the movement by, for example, demanding that women have public office by quota,” said Rolon. “A woman should not be in power because she is a woman, she should be in public office because of her suitability and her capacity.”
Milei’s strident views – and those of his backers – have riled up opponents, with women marching in Buenos Aires in late September to mark International Safe Abortion Day, some carrying placards criticizing him and defending abortion rights.
Many wore green and waved green handkerchiefs, an echo of earlier protests that contributed to the 2020 law change and is sometimes known as the “green wave.”
“Milei is another example of the patriarchy that wants to reverse our rights,” said Nelly Borquez, a feminist activist at one protest. “But he is going to find us back out on the streets.”
‘THIS IS NOT BY MAGIC’
Milei’s support is over 60% male, according to a poll by Taquion Research. Still, he has won over some female voters, and has high-profile women on his team, including his sister and campaign adviser Karina and running mate Victoria Villarruel.
“Javier doesn’t hate women,” said Valentina Brites, an 18-year-old law student, during a march in his favor, echoing his view that women were already empowered and so do not need a specific ministry. “The laws are there to protect us, and there’s no need for a ministry to represent us,” she said.
Milei’s critics accuse him of ignoring the existence of gender violence and discrimination in Argentina, where last year a woman was murdered every 35 hours and women earn 27% less than men.
“He doesn’t believe in equality, social justice or that gender violence exists,” said women’s minister Ayelen Mazzina, adding that she had invited Milei to the ministry to learn about its work, but that he had declined.
Argentina has led the region in progressive policies on gender equality and LGBT rights for years, becoming the first Latin American country to implement a gender quota law in politics in 1991 and legalizing same-sex marriage in 2010.
“This is not by magic,” said Mazzina, adding it was the commitment of successive governments to close the gender gap that kept things moving forward. Massa would keep this going, she said, while Milei would be a significant setback.
“Where would these women ask for help? Where would they knock on the door?”
Bullrich would also close the women’s ministry to reduce bureaucracy, but would prioritize fighting femicide, narrowing the gender wage gap and improving women’s healthcare, among other policies, said Silvia Lospennato, who is leading Bullrich’s gender policy.
Repealing the abortion law is not on their agenda, because “Argentina already had that debate,” she told Reuters.
Lospennato, a congresswoman for the conservative PRO party, said Bullrich offered a middle ground between Milei’s anti-feminist stance and the government’s overly bureaucratic model.
“To improve the lives of Argentines, we have to improve the lives of Argentine women,” said Lospennato. “We are half of the population and we have specific problems which need specific solutions.”
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A rout in government bond markets deepened on Wednesday with U.S. yields reaching their highest in 16 years, souring appetite for riskier assets as investors bet that interest rates will remain persistently high, boding ill for the world economy.
The U.S. Treasury 10-year yield rose 6.9 basis points (bps) to 4.872%, its highest since 2007, after climbing nearly a dozen bps on Tuesday’s job openings data that pointed to resilience in the U.S. economy.
Thirty-year Treasury yields rose above 5% for the first time since August 2007, just before the global financial crisis.
European bonds followed suit, with yields on Germany’s benchmark 10-year debt rising above 3% for the first time since 2011. The country’s 30-year yield climbed to its latest 12-year high.
Even Japan’s 10-year yield , which is capped by the Bank of Japan (BOJ), rose 4.5 bps to a decade high despite the BOJ offering to buy $4.5 billion worth of bonds on Wednesday.
Australian, Canadian and British government bond yields have also surged this week.
“It’s a very difficult market,” said Sandrine Perret, multi-asset portfolio manager at Unigestion.
“It is all back to yields, that’s the main driver of markets. The pivot that most investors were expecting in September has not come yet – that’s the big driver of all market pricing at the moment.”
The moves in bond markets sucked money from all corners into dollars.
Still, the dollar , measured against a basket of currencies, eased 0.3%, helping European stocks (.STOXX) turn positive after losing as much as 0.6%. Asian shares sank to 11-month lows.
The MSCI world equity index (.MIWD00000PUS), which tracks shares in 47 countries, fell 0.2%. On Wall Street, S&P 500 futures eked out gains of 0.1% after earlier trading down 0.5%.
Earlier, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) had fallen 1%, its second straight daily drop of over 1%.
U.S. yields in real terms – subtracting inflation – are also at almost 15-year highs, in part because their move has not come with much of a shift in market gauges of inflation expectations.
“With the risk-free rate so high, it’s not really compelling for people to allocate away from short-term cash-like investments,” said Mel Siew, a portfolio manager at Muzinich & Co in Singapore.
The yen was just on the stronger side of 150 per dollar on Wednesday, after an unexpected but short-lived surge in the previous session stoked speculation that Japanese authorities may have intervened to support the currency.
The Japanese currency had breached the 150-per-dollar level on Tuesday before suddenly shooting to 147.3. There was no confirmation from Tokyo, where Japan’s finance minister and top currency diplomat have made no direct comment on the move.
The yen last stood at 149.10 per dollar.
The dollar’s march pushed the euro to its lowest in 10 months at $1.0448 overnight and sterling to a seven-month trough at $1.20535.
The euro last traded at $1.05, up 0.3% on the day. The pound was up a similar amount at $1.212.
“For now, the FX market is a bystander,” said SocGen strategist Kit Juckes, “watching Treasuries and waiting for them to break something.”
Federal Reserve officials see rising yields on long-term U.S. Treasury debt as not triggering alarm bells yet.
In commodity markets, the firm dollar has helped put the brakes on oil prices and higher yields have weighed on gold.
Brent crude oil futures were down 1.7% to $89.38 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 1.8% to $87.67 per barrel.
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Futures tracking Wall Street’s main indexes were muted on Wednesday as investors awaited more data for clues on the state of the labor market, while a relentless rally in long-term U.S. Treasury yields kept markets on edge.
Adding to investor anxiety was the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy by some Republicans in the House of Representatives just days after the government narrowly averted a shutdown.
While the 30-year Treasury yield crossed above 5% for the first time since August 2007, the 10-year and five-year yields hit their highest since 2007.
Megacap growth stocks including Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta Platforms (META.O), Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Tesla (TSLA.O) were down about 0.2% each in premarket trading, with Apple (AAPL.O) shedding 0.9% following a KeyBanc downgrade to “sector weight” from “overweight”.
At 7:06 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were up 9 points, or 0.03%, S&P 500 e-minis were up 0.5 point, or 0.01%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 5 points, or 0.03%.
The CBOE volatility index (.VIX), Wall Street’s “fear gauge”, briefly hit a five-month high and topped its long-term average of 20.
A day after U.S. job openings unexpectedly rose in August, investors will closely monitor September ADP National Employment data at 8:15 a.m. ET and non-farm payrolls data on Friday for more clues about a fairly resilient labor market.
“Markets had become overly confident in pricing a rapid easing of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy,” said UBS Global Wealth Management’s Chief Investment Officer Mark Haefele, who expects near-term choppy and range-bound trading in equity markets.
On the political front, Haefele noted, “Absent a new House speaker, no action can be taken on bills, from routine matters to the funding of the federal government … increasing the risk of a government shutdown in late November.”
The Institute for Supply Management’s non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, S&P Global’s final composite and services PMI surveys, factory orders and remarks by Fed policymakers including Chicago President Austan Goolsbee and Board Governor Michelle Bowman will also be monitored during the day.
Traders’ bets of at least another 25-basis point interest rate hike in November and December stood at 29% and 44%, respectively, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.
All three major U.S. stock indexes ended more than 1% lower on Tuesday, with the Dow (.DJI) turning negative on a year-to-date basis for the first time since June.
Chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) gained 1.9% on Wednesday on plans to operate its programmable chip unit as a standalone business and hold a public offering for stock in the business over the next two to three years.
Eli Lilly (LLY.N) said the head of its diabetes and obesity division, Mike Mason, will retire by the end of the year. The drugmaker’s shares fell 1%.
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An Iranian teenaged girl is in critical condition in hospital, two prominent rights activists told Reuters on Wednesday, after falling into a coma following what they said was a confrontation with agents in the Tehran metro for violating the hijab law.
Armita Geravand’s case is highly sensitive, raising concerns the 16-year-old might face the same fate as Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman whose death in a coma last year in the custody of morality police sparked months of nationwide protest.
While authorities have denied claims by rights groups that Geravand went into a coma on Sunday after a confrontation with officers enforcing the Islamic dress code, Iranian-Kurdish rights group Hengaw posted her picture unconscious at a Tehran hospital where she was taken after the incident.
There was no immediate response from Iran’s interior ministry to a request for comment about the incident.
“We are following her case closely. She is in coma at Intensive Care Unit of the hospital and her condition is critical … her relatives said there is a heavy presence of plain clothes at the hospital,” one of the activists in Iran said.
The second activist said security forces had forbidden Geravand’s parents from posting her picture on social media or from talking to human rights groups.
The activists spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
CCTV footage, shared on IRNA, showed Geravand without mandatory hijab accompanied by two female friends walking toward the train from the metro platform. Upon entering the cabin, one of the girls is seen immediately backing off and reaching for the ground, before another girl is dragged unconscious from the cabin by passengers.
Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the footage.
The head of the Tehran Metro Operating Company, Masoud Dorosti, told IRNA the CCTV footage showed no sign of verbal or physical conflict between passengers or company employees.
An Iranian journalist was briefly arrested on Monday when she went to the hospital to inquire about Geravand’s situation, Iranian media reported.
“Iranian security institutions have said her condition was caused by low pressure – an oft-repeated scenario from such institutions,” Iran-based rights group Dadban said on social media.
In a video posted on the state news agency IRNA, her parents said that their daughter had suffered a drop in blood pressure, lost her balance, and hit her head inside the metro cabin.
“I think my daughter’s blood pressure dropped, I am not too sure, I think they have said her pressure dropped,” her mother said. But she added that there was no point in creating controversy.
Rights groups on social media have called on authorities to publish the footage from inside the cabin, claiming that her parents’ statement was made under duress.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on social media platform X said: “Once again a young woman in #Iran is fighting for her life. Just because she showed her hair in the subway. It is unbearable. The parents of #ArmitaGarawand do not belong in front of cameras, but have the right to be at their daughter’s bedside.”
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Karabakh: Azerbaijan rejects the EU’s invitation to talks with Armenia mediated in Granada Read the news on Agenzia Nova
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Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has refused to attend a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan scheduled to be held in Granada, Spain, on Thursday, October 5, the Azerbaijani media reported on Wednesday.
European Council President Charles Michel, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron were also expected to attend the meeting.
Azerbaijan insisted on Turkey’s participation in the meeting, however France and Germany opposed the proposal.
According to the reports, the reason for Azerbaijan’s refusal was the recent statements of Armenia, France, Germany and the European Council head.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has refused to attend Thursday’s meeting on the Karabakh settlement in Granada, Spain, in which the participation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and leaders from EU, France and Germany was expected.
Azerbaijan insisted on Türkiye’s participation too but Germany and France strongly opposed it, Azerbaijani news agencies reported on Wednesday, citing sources in the presidential administration.
Baku said it does not see the need to participate in negotiations of this format after pro-Armenian statements by French officials, a visit by French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna to Armenia, statements about the supply of weapons and ammunition, and accusations by the President of EU Council Charles Michel against Azerbaijan.
“Azerbaijan does not need such a format. Baku sees no need to discuss the problems of the region with countries far from the region,” the Azerbaijani presidency was quoted as saying.
It was suggested that Karabakh issues should be discussed and resolved within the region, and Azerbaijan could participate if the former trilateral format of the EU-Azerbaijan-Armenia dialogue is revived.
Any format in which France participates is unacceptable for Azerbaijan, the reports stressed.
The Azerbaijani army initiated an anti-terrorism operation in Karabakh on Sept. 19 to establish constitutional order in the region.
Illegal Armenian armed forces in Karabakh surrendered after the 24-hour operation.
Following the operation, Azerbaijan, having established full sovereignty in the region, has called on the Armenian population to become part of Azerbaijani society.
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The announcement will be made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awarded the Physics prize Tuesday to three nuclear scientists for their individual experiments in “exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.”
The academy said Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “have demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes in which electrons move or change energy.”
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal of Denmark for their work in advancing the field of so-called click chemistry, described by the academy as a functional and simple form of chemistry “in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently.”
The Nobel announcements began Monday with the prize in Medicine going to Hungary’s Kataline Kariko and Drew Weissman of the United States for their joint research that led to the rapid development of the mRNA COVID vaccines.
The recipients of the literature and peace prizes will be announced Thursday and Friday, respectively, with the final prize for economic sciences to be announced next Monday.
All the categories except economics were established in the will of 19th century Swedish businessman Alfred Nobel, who made a fortune with his invention of dynamite.
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, five years after his death.
The economics prize was established in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank Sveriges Riksbank in Nobel’s memory, with the first laureates, Norway’s Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen of the Netherlands, announced the next year.
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