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 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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Filed under: China, Conference on Disarmament, Disarmament, Russia, United Nations
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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Filed under: China, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons
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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Filed under: China, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, Russia
Posted on August 31st, 2007 by Marian Houk
The exact and up-to-the minute state of play between the U.S. and North Korea was described to journalists in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday by U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill (Assistant U.S. Secretary of State) speaking on the eve of a two-day round of direct talks hosted by the Swiss government.
Did Hill really mean it when he [...]
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Filed under: China, Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iraq, Japan, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, US in UN
