Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
In Bucharest today, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and U.S. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley indicated they were very pleased by the support they feel the U.S. has gotten from the NATO alliance for its missile defense proposals in Europe.
Rice told journalists: “…we have a breakthrough document on missile defense for the Alliance. Again, [...]
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Filed under: Conference on Disarmament, Disarmament, Russia, Space Race, USA
Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Russian Federation Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of the Russian Federation will assume the Council’s rotating presidency for the month of March, the UN Spokesperson told journalists on Friday.
This is interesting.
A vote that the U.S., Britain and France wanted to have either on Friday or on Saturday (in other words, before the Russian presidency in the Security [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons, Russia, UN Security Council
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press is reporting just now that ” Serbia’s minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, crossed the border Monday to visit Serb communities in Kosovo. The top UN official in Kosovo, Joachim Ruecker, said he allowed Samardzic into Kosovo on the condition that he issue a public statement ‘making it very, very clear [...]
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Filed under: Kosovo, Russia, UN Security Council
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It’s probably fair to say that fewer states have recognized Kosovo today, a day after its Declaration of Independence, than had been expected or hoped. Many are probably holding off until the results of an open UN Security Council meeting that is to start today.
Today, Nick Burns took questions from journalists in various parts of [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Russia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Kosovo’s parliament declared independence on Sunday. The Associated Press reported from Pristinia, KOSOVO that the speaker of Kosovo’s parliament declared that “Kosovo is a republic — an independent, democratic and sovereign state” — and the announcement was greeted with a burst of applause.
This AP report said that “Sunday’s declaration was carefully orchestrated with [...]
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Filed under: Kosovo, Russia, UN Security Council
Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
According to a report from the Associated Press, “Russia said Saturday that U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of America’s missile defense system. The Pentagon failed to provide ‘enough arguments’ to back its plan to smash the satellite next week with a missile, Russia’s [...]
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Filed under: Conference on Disarmament, Russia, Space Race, US in UN
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 December 7th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Reuters has picked up a report on the Itar-Tass news agency quoting First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov as saying on Friday that Russia must achieve nuclear arms parity with the United States: “Military potential, to say nothing of nuclear potential, must be at the proper level if we want … to just stay independent [...]
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Filed under: Conference on Disarmament, Disarmament, Russia
Posted on October 13th, 2007 by Marian Houk
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was shocked, taken aback — according to the news reports.
Why? She should have known.
The Russians have made it clear — they’ve said so in the Conference on Disarmament, and Putin said so at a security conference in Germany last year, before saying it again yesterday before assembled journalists, [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, Russia, USA
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
