Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi met UK Foreign Secretary Miliband for talks during the 81st United Nations General Assembly.

Prime Minister NETANYAHU said Israel is protecting the security of numerous delegations departing the host country.

The People’s Bank of China disclosed an administrative penalty on China Guangfa Bank for 10 violations, including breaches of financial-statistics rules, account and clearing management, bankcard acquiring, data security, anti-counterfeit-currency controls, occupying fiscal deposits/funds, violations of credit-information rules, failure to perform customer ID checks and failure to report large transactions. The PBOC issued a warning, confiscated illegal proceeds of CNY16,200 and imposed a fine of CNY17,124,000, totaling about CNY17.14 million.