Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The main focus in U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s visit to the Muqata’a Presidential Compound in Ramallah this afternoon was whether or not the Palestinians had agreed to resume post-Annapolis “core issue” and “final status” talks with Israel that have been disrupted since Israel’s ferocious assault on Gaza over the past week.
Rice was unusually [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Well written, these phrases, from the NYTimes: “the feelings of anger, sorrow and betrayal over the loss of Kosovo cut across all segments of Serbian society. The world is waiting to see whether the riots on Thursday were the final spasm of anger in Serbia or the first tremor in a new Balkan earthquake. [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Um, according to Agence France Presse, “top Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused the United States of unbalancing IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei’s ‘mental state’ by submitting secret documents just days before the report. ‘The US has submitted a stack of documents to disrupt ElBaradei’s mental state and has been successful to some extent’, said the [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Sanctions, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This is worth a read.
Remarks at Foreign Press Association in London
R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs
London, England
February 11, 2008
UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Thank you very much. The question was about Iran. Let me just say, first of all, I agree with everything that Secretary Rice said here in London last week. I know you’re [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Sanctions, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Even before the publication next week of the awaited International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran’s compliance with international demands for full disclosure of its nuclear program, Britain and France on Thursday evening tabled a draft resolution that would impose a third level of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran.
The U.S. Ambassador to the UN, [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, UN Security Council, US in UN
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 December 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the UN General Assembly has adopted a two-year budget — though the U.S. voted against it.
The JPost wrote that “The 142-1 vote in the 192-member world body climaxed weeks of discussions and an all-night session that failed to reach consensus because of US objections that the budget included $6.7 [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Marian Houk
So, the U.S. got out of the way, and joined a consensus resolution at the Climate Change Conference in Bali that calls for two years of negotiations on something to replace the emissions reductions targets contained in the 1997 Kyodo Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The consensus resolution, which the U.S. eventually [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Christian Science Monitor’s Scott Peterson has reported, in a just-published article, that “Mr. Khatami – the reformist cleric who was twice elected in landslide victories - has just told him that ” ‘The solution is for both sides to resort to logic, refrain from provocative rhetoric, and put the emphasis on negotiations … We [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Are they serious? The U.S. proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at enshrining and endorsing the Annapolis Joint Understanding signed by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators — and then they withdrew it, because Israel objected!
Israel reportedly does not want the UN Security Council involved…
Israeli officials have also complained that they were not informed [...]
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