Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Nov. 8

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt -- The developed countries should fulfill their promise of providing 100 billion U.S. dollars in climate finance as soon as possible and draw a road map for doubling the adaptation fund, China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Xie Zhenhua said Tuesday.

Xie, also the special representative for Chinese President Xi Jinping, made the remarks in an address to the Climate Implementation Summit at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Egypt's coastal city of Sharm El-Sheikh. (Egypt-COP27 Finance Promise-Chinese Envoy)

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ANKARA -- Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Tuesday promised to meet Turkish security demands in an effort to get Türkiye's approval of his country's bid to join the NATO.

"We will fully implement the trilateral memorandum," Kristersson said at a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the capital Ankara. (Türkiye-Sweden-NATO Bid)

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TEHRAN -- A senior Iranian oil official said on Tuesday that Iran is engaged in "intensive negotiations" with old and new customers for increasing its oil exports, Shana News Agency affiliated to the Iranian oil ministry reported.

"Oil exports have improved in recent months, but we are negotiating with new and old customers to develop the market," said Mohsen Khojasteh-Mehr, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), on the sidelines of a national oil conference held in the capital Tehran. (Iran-Oil Exports-Talks)

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TEHRAN -- Iran plans to further increase the operational range of its recently upgraded homegrown surface-to-air Bavar-373 missile system to 400 km, a senior Iranian military commander said Tuesday.

Making the remarks in an exclusive interview with the official news agency IRNA, Commander of the Iranian Army's Air Defense Force Alireza Sabahi-Fard said the system is currently capable of hitting targets within a range of 305 km. (Iran-Missile Range-Increase)