Posted on September 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
U.S. President Barack Obama presided over the UN Security Council meeting today that adopted Resolution 1887, which notes, among other things, that “enjoyment of the benefits of the NPT by a State Party can be assured only by its compliance with the obligations thereunder”. That is a nice, consensus phrase — and [...]
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Filed under: China, Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, Russia, UN Security Council, US in UN, USA
Posted on February 13th, 2009 by Marian Houk
What more is there to say than this?
Apparently, there is only “little risk” to the international space station — not no risk, just a little one.
Remember the fuss about space debris when China deliberately shot down one of its “weather” satellites (apparently to try to focus attention on China’s belief that it is urgent to [...]
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Filed under: China, Conference on Disarmament, Russia, Space Race, USA
Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva strongly condemned ongoing Israeli military operations in Gaza, on Monday, and also condemned Israel’s “grave violations” of the human rights of the people of Gaza, in an emergency session that began last Friday. The resolution also called for the urgent dispatch of an international mission to Gaza [...]
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Filed under: China, Gaza, Human Rights, Palestine & Palestinians, Russia, United Nations
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Not 24 or even 48 hours after the satellite shoot-down by a (ballistic) missile fired from a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific some 130 miles up into space at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour, but days later, there is a qualified statement of success.
The AP reported that “The Pentagon said Monday it [...]
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Filed under: China, Russia, Space Race, USA
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
In a long and tantalizingly-titled article (”Superpower Divide over Kosovo Widens“), the Associated Press is reporting that China is angry with Taiwan’s announcment that it recognizes Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence.
Did Taiwan receive one of the 192 letters that the Kosovar leadership sent out yesterday asking for recognition?
(And if not, why did Taiwan feel obliged to [...]
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Filed under: China, Former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, UN Security Council
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
China shot down one of its own “old” space satellites in January 2007 — apparently with hopes of influencing debate at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, where China has been fighting for years to see work begin on a treaty on the prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS).
The U.S. has refused, [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The very useful Reaching Critical Will newsletter (a project of the Women’s international league for Peace and Freedom) is reporting that “During the 25 January plenary [of the Conference on Disamament in Geneva], Russian Ambassador Valery Loshchinin announced that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would be visiting the CD in February to submit a proposal [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The very useful CD (Conference on Disarmament) Report put out by the excellent ReachingCriticalWill project reports on the conclusion of this year’s CD work by implying that there might have been a very slight movement forward.
Reading this CD Report, however, one gets the distinct impression that what is being viewed as progress is a mobbing [...]
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Filed under: China, Conference on Disarmament, Disarmament, Nuclear technology and weapons, Russia
Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Christopher Hill, who is the chief American negotiator on North Korea, told journalists in Australia over the weekend that teams from the three major nuclear-weapons states (the U.S., Russia, and China) are expected to be in Pyongyang on the evening of 11 September.
Hill [...]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told journalists Monday evening in Geneva that the just-ended two-day round of talks with North Korea in Geneva was “the fourth of five working groups that we’ve held in connection with getting ready for the next Six-Party plenary. The fifth working group will take place next week in [...]
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