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2008-10-28 … year old former Morgan Stanley banker and White House aide, son-in-law of cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder, a funder of the Republican party and ambassador under Reagan, Warsh was nominated for his Board role at the Fed by Bush and happens to be the only board member with any capital markets experience. …
2009-04-14 … stability of Kenya … Kenya is too important to fail. It is not me saying this, this is shared by the highest level of my Government,” said America’s ambassador to Kenya, Michael Rannerberger last week. In order for Obama to ensure stability in Kenya, he must engage with the current political leaders. The …
2009-06-30 … Meanwhile, as Bloomberg reports above, troops also seized Honduras’ foreign minister, Patricia Rodas. In comments broadcast on Telesur, Venezuela’s ambassador to Honduras, Armando Laguna, asserted that his colleagues from Nicaragua and Cuba were also beaten and briefly detained after trying to defend Rodas …
2009-06-09 … Joseph Douglas in Red Cocaine, Raul Castro, now president of Cuba, and Tomas Borge, then Nicaragua’s Maoist interior minister but now that country’s ambassador to Peru, played important roles in Moscow’s drug offensive against the capitalist countries. No doubt, they continue to do so. US Treasury officials …
2009-05-27 … before we draw any final conclusions it should be thoroughly checked,” Russian defense ministry officials said dismissively. According to Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting later that day to discuss the North Korean provocation. …
2009-05-27 … the Interior Ministry as spearheading the charge against freedom in Nicaragua, much as the Sandinista Interior Minister Tomas Borge (now Nicaragua’s ambassador to Peru), targeted anti-communists in the 1980s. CENIDH director Bayardo Izaba noted that ever since the government of President Arnoldo (“Fatso”) …
2009-05-15 … country's North Atlantic Autonomous Region. On a recent visit to Puerto Cabezas Fagoth allegedly witnessed US Department of State officials and US ambassador to Nicaragua Robert Callahan holding talks with leaders of the Liberal Constitutionalist Party and Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance. The putative subject …
2007-12-15 … for the mission to be extended. ‘The Iraqi government considers this a last request for extending the mission of the multinational force’ -says the ambassador. The diplomat already talked about this with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he is soon going to meet with the Ministry of Defence. President …
2009-07-05 … diplomatic relations, an Israeli defence source confirmed that Mossad maintained “working relations” with the Saudis. John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations who recently visited the Gulf, said it was “entirely logical” for the Israelis to use Saudi airspace. Bolton, who has talked …
2009-06-29 … action to protect his country’s diplomats in the country. Published: 7:05AM BST 29 Jun 2009 Chavez said Honduran soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army’s coup against his leftist ally, Manuel Zelaya, the …
2008-02-21 … to walk straight.Exchanged on February 11, 1986 for a pair of Soviet spies, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, he was handed over to the American ambassador to West Germany. He was presented with an Israeli passport with his Hebrew name, Natan, and arrived in Israel to a hero’s welcome and reunion with …
2009-07-03 … referendum.” And when it comes to containing and undermining Central American leftists, few know the playbook by heart like Negroponte, who as U.S. ambassador to Honduras during the Contra wars personally oversaw both death squads and the drug trade. Indeed, against all the left-liberal defenders of the …
2009-06-23 … the president". The five-page document, written by Blair's foreign policy adviser, Sir David Manning, and copied to Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the UK ambassador to the UN, Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff, the chief of the defence staff, Admiral Lord Boyce, and the UK's ambassador to Washington, Sir …
2009-05-26 … that they were using these positions to gather information that could be used against him. Recently, Chavez ordered the removal of the Israeli ambassador in Caracas in protest against the assault upon the civilian populace of Gaza. One should not dimiss the possibility that the hostility towards …
2009-06-16 … for Middle Eastern Studies Steven A. Cook Beyond Cairo: Translating 'Important' Obama Message into Policies 06/04/09 An interview with former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Edward Djerejian VOA News Online US Bloggers Take On Iran's Elections 06/15/09 BBC News 'Mass opposition rally' in Tehran 06/16/09 Shots …
2006-11-19 … affairs so a new approach is likely. 9. Backing up this point, Democrats are likely to throw out any further attempt to ratify John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN, a body which he has suggested should be disbanded. Implications for Presidential Race in 2008 The elections have had quite an impact on …
2006-11-05 … to say, ‘the situation is hopeless but not serious’”. Ian Hislop, BBC, Radio 4, 28th October, 2006. On Saturday morning, 28th October, the former ambassador to USA, Sir Christopher Meyer, presented a radio 4 programme based on the West Wing, asking why such a reverential and optimistic series would be …
2006-10-25 … with the principals including Bush, claims that once the CIA said they could not kill Saddam, he decided to invade. In early 2003 the Saudi ambassador was informed and, according to the author Blair too. As US troops moved to the Gulf, various rationales were offered for the attack most people had …
2006-10-22 … in 1964 from Kim il Sung University; he learnt English while at Malta University during the 70s. His brother Kim Pyong was sent by his father as ambassador to eastern Europe to avoid power struggles with the favoured son. Kim is known to be vain-viz bouffant hair- and not unaddicted to western …
2009-07-06 … has got other things on his mind." That is the real problem, Grey states. He concludes that, "Britain's interests need to be combined into one role, an ambassador that combines the role of both military commander and civil commander." If such a person exists, he has yet to emerge but, unless he (or she) does – …
2008-12-14 … want at least 20,000 more forces, but cannot get them unless some leave Iraq. After a 10 1/2 hour fight, Mr. Bush was met at the airport by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander Gen. Raymond Odierno. The president then climbed aboard a helicopter for a five-minute flight to the …
2009-06-24 … themselves to removing the Jewish character of the state of Israel. US TO HAVE FULL SYRIA EMBASSY […] The United States is to appoint a new ambassador to Syria after a gap of four years, the strongest sign yet of Obama's desire to re-engage the pariah state and draw it away from the influence of …
2009-05-28 … box […] THE HOLY ROMAN […] Sacrum Romanum / Heiliges Römisches] B16 meets with Lady Thatcher Obama picks Cuban liberation theologian as ambassador Vatican Radio to air advertising The Vatican a refuge […] EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION [Imperium Nationis Germanicae / Reich Deutscher …
2007-04-25 … Nasrallah, paid a four-day visit to Tehran starting on April 2. He was accompanied by his political adviser, Hussein Khalil (IOL 537) and Iran’s ambassador to Syria, Hassan Akhtari. Nasrallah met with Iran’s spiritual leader, Ali Khamenei; president Mahmud Ahmadinejad; the commander in chief of the …
2007-04-25 … remains close to the Saudi royal family and serves as personal consultant to the ruler of Oman, sultan Qaboos Bin Sayed (he is also Oman’s ambassador to London and Geneva). One way of avoiding pressure on banks has been to conduct clearing operations between several capitals and a number of big …
2009-06-30 AMBASSADOR BIDEN? Peter Feaver ponders the news that the Vice President will now serve as America's unofficial point man in Iraq. With good reason, Peter asks …
2009-06-30 … of American States had worked for weeks to try to avert any moves to overthrow President Zelaya, said senior U.S. officials. Washington's ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, sought to facilitate a dialogue between the president's office, the Honduran parliament and the military. That was …
2008-12-02 … mind!! So, for that change backwards I have some suggestions for other positions in th administration: John McCain would be a perfect choice as Ambassador to the UN or should take over the Veteran Affairs. George Bush would probably love to be responsible for Homeland Security. Richard Lugar would make …
2009-06-09 … are being used as bargaining chips as the United Nations debates a resolution to punish North Korea following nuclear tests last month. Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson said North Korea is playing a “high-stakes poker game.” He predicted on NBC’s Today show that negotiations for a “humanitarian …
2007-05-30 … Iran: Why are we meeting with the people responsible for killing Americans? Lt. Col. Rick Francona, MSNBC News-On May 28 –- Memorial Day –- U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker sat down with his Iranian counterpart in Baghdad for the first official talks between the two countries in over two and a half …
2009-05-24 … known in WTO jargon as modalities, and go straight into detailed bilateral negotiations on cutting individual tariffs, known as scheduling. U.S. ambassador Peter Allgeier told Wednesday's meeting this was not about skipping modalities or dropping multilateral talks but supplementing them in the …
2009-07-08 … 24 hours of the June 28 coup in Tegucigalpa Chavez declared that he had placed his armed forces on alert and threatened to intervene if Venezuela’s ambassador was killed. It is significant that Honduran soldiers singled out the Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan ambassadors for rough treatment, suggesting …
2009-06-24 … living memory. So far, he’s been good with the optics, ditching the fancy dress, keen to do interviews – on the grounds that the Speaker should be an ambassador for Parliament to the broader public – and doesn’t hold with this idea that the Speaker should be an aloof, cloistered figure. It remains to be seen …
2009-06-21 … were arrested late Saturday. On Sunday evening, it said the four others had been released but that Hashemi remained in detention. However, Iran’s ambassador to France Seyed Mehdi Miraboutalebi said on France’s RFI radio that Hashemi had been released. Last week, state television showed images of Hashemi, …
2009-05-26 … and southeast Asia and beyond, but also represents a grave challenge to the international non-proliferation regime,” South Korean disarmament ambassador Im Han-tauck told the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNATION The U.N. Security Council condemned the …
2009-04-30 By David Brunnstrom BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO has expelled two Russian diplomats over a spy scandal, a move Moscow’s ambassador said was intended to set back efforts by Russia and the United States to repair relations. Tensions between the former Cold War foes also rose on …
2009-06-16 … had a sharper response than America: As reported by CNN, “German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told ARD Sunday that the Iranian ambassador in Berlin would be summoned to explain the treatment of protesters against the result. ‘I have already prompted Iran, together with European …
2009-07-07 … Suspension of Credibility.” Obama Meets, Greets, and Self-Inflicts Defeats Posted: 06 Jul 2009 06:04 PM PDT Some months ago I teased a European ambassador by saying, "You Europeans have spent years pulling back the United States from one direction and now you're going to have to pull it back from the …
2009-07-07 … point though they’re becoming aware that they’re wrong and are starting to get angry about it. Of course the administration is returning the U.S. ambassador to Damascus at a time when it probably nows that the Syrian regime was directly involved in murdering former Lebanese prime minister and a dozen …
2009-07-06 … And so, part of the understanding would require us to deny that there had been any cooperative communication with the Saudis […] Former US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, who recently met with Arab leaders in the Gulf, weighed in with similar thoughts: "None of them [Arab leaders] would say …
2009-07-02 … either here or there, stood up or protested: “What construction? What agreement?” The speech was met with laud applause, among others by the US ambassador to Israel at the time – who was among the guests of honor at the Herzliya Conference, and who recently made a point of denying the existence of the …
2009-07-02 … the Old City of Jerusalem is the main impediment in finding a solution to the Israel-Arab problem in the Holy Land. Michael Bell, a former Canadian Ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Israel, presented a plan entitled the Jerusalem Old City Initiative. The plan does not call for the internationalization of …
2009-07-02 … defined as unbreakable; Indeed, our bond with the US is unbreakable," Netanyahu said, speaking at the US Independence Day reception at the American ambassador's residence in Herzliya. Netnayhu went on to praise the US, calling the country a model for freedom and values. In an allusion to the Iranian …
2009-07-07 … diplomatic arm-twisiting and economic sanctions can convince Iran not to enrich uranium and use it for a nuclear weapon. John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, wrote in the Washington Post last week that America’s attempts are doomed to failure and that an Israeli strike on Iran is …
2008-05-28 … you believe this guy?!: Author George Monbiot (original inspiration for the term “moonbat”) has declared that this coming Wednesday, after former UN Ambassador John Bolton speaks, that he plans to arrest the American for “war crimes.” After running through a jawdropping series of falsehoods, exaggerations, …
2008-11-24 … held to his head when he arrived for a meeting with KLA officers during one of his shuttle missions to Kosovo. As recently as February 25, U.S. Ambassador Chris Hill, another of the negotiators, said, “The KLA must understand that its members have a future as members of political parties or local …
2009-04-12 … Annenberg aboard an Air Force jet carrying them to the funeral of Anwar al-Sadat. Annenberg, the philanthropist and wife of late publisher and ambassador Walter Annenberg, died early Thursday March 12, 2009, at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. , according to a family spokeswoman. She …
2009-07-04 … Friday called for an end to the violence in Iran and urged the authorities to find a peaceful solution. The Foreign Ministry also summoned Sweden’s ambassador to protest a break-in by demonstrators at Iran’s embassy on Friday, IRNA reported Meanwhile, opposition supporters, faced with a senior cleric’s …
2008-09-04 … South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity, having evidence that Georgia planned a military strike before the month was out, told Denis Keefe, Britain’s ambassador to Georgia, that a Georgian invasion was imminent. [2] Georgia had increased its military budget from $30 million to $1 billion per year, under its …
2008-06-24 … the market reforms, the IMF and others, including the United States, have been recommending for the past few years,” lectured the former US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell. This means “a free-market economy and security of property to investment and economic growth.” [24] Britain’s Prime …
2008-04-27 … 13. The Guardian (UK), August 22, 2002. 14. US Department of State, April 5, 2007. 15. http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/ 16. “Zimbabwe ambassador: Self-determination is at the root of the conflict,” FinalCall.Com News, April 22, 2008. http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4611.shtml …
2009-07-06 … of these—except the ones lucky enough to die before the trials started. Many people believed this story at the time, among them the American ambassador to Moscow. They had good evidence: the evidence of the confessions extracted by Comrade Stalin’s advanced techniques of interrogation. Two years …
2009-07-04 … villagers from burying the dead Ahmed "This is a complete fabrication and these are unfounded allegations," said Berhanu Kebede, Ethiopia's ambassador to the UK. "The Ethiopian government has no intention of harming civilians, it is the ONLF that uses civilians as human shields." Near the deserted …
2008-09-16 … Saint’ Imam Reza and his relatives […] 3] National Intelligence Estimate. Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities. November 2007. Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton even called the NIE “a quasi-coup of the intelligence services […] intended to have political and policy effect […] 4] But …
2007-09-27 … Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff opined recently. The result has been “major bottlenecks,” in the words of a leaked cable from the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker. Instead of the 7,000 Iraqi refugees supposed to get here this fiscal year, perhaps 1,600 will. “The numbers are totally …
2007-09-26 … incursions inside their territory to undermine its leadership, provoke a response, and provide cover for a US attack. Without a touch of irony, US Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iranian Ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qumi held four hours of face-to-face talks in Baghdad in May that was the first official bilateral …
2009-05-21 … which we have very close links – and from which we have faced several militant threats. While the Obama administration has appointed the formidable Ambassador Richard Holbrooke as an envoy to both Afghanistan and Pakistan, there is no British equivalent capable of dealing with the Taliban in both countries …
2008-06-26 … the market reforms, the IMF and others, including the United States, have been recommending for the past few years,” lectured the former US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell. This means “a free-market economy and security of property to investment and economic growth.” [24] Britain’s Prime …
2008-11-30 … a title like that. Some other's a speculating wildly, and others are settling down to theses and books to explain the war. Well... Georgia's former ambassador to Russia has thrown a spanner in the works of Georgia's propagandists. Erosi Kitsmarishvili told the commission that the war was planned back in …
2008-05-25 … and Forever!" the surrealists actively called for the overthrow of French colonial rule. That same year, in an "Open Letter" to writer and French ambassador to Japan, Paul Claudel, the Paris group announced: "We profoundly hope that revolutions, wars, colonial insurrections, will annihilate this Western …
2009-07-06 … “guys” including Rahm Emanuel, James Carville, Paul Begala, etc. to discuss the “shill” of the day. 2. “This Week” is produced by the HUSBAND of Ambassador to the United Nations; Susan Rice. Now, is it any wonder, why ABC produced Obama’s infomercial about Healthcare? Now Read this: July 05, 2009 Biden …
2009-07-05 … the U.S. to devote 0.7 percent of Gross National Income to foreign aid. Now, as President, Obama can bypass the Congress and simply direct his Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice to approve the U.N. conference document. Then the pressure will be increased on Congress to come up with the money and …
2006-02-18 … for a meeting by 11 Ambassadors from the Muslim countries, Copenhagen received a stern warnin delivered by the Egyptian government to the Danish ambassador in Cairo. There was the explicit warning of a “possible escalation” of the situation. It was after these warnings were ignored by Copenhagen that …
2009-04-22 … Abdulla who restored democracy and justice through stick of General Kiyani and also restored our national sovereignty through Hillary Clinton and ambassador Holbrooke. My friend Raza Rumi called it “night bitten dawn”, so as Abbas Ather but this dawn is black. Black is this Dawn, or should I say Mirza …
2008-12-07 … Syria. The article also suggests the raid could have been driven by a desire to prevent Syrian influence in Iraq just after Syria sent its first ambassador to the country since 1979. Did Secret Orders Keep US Commandos in Somalia? Fifteen years ago, a botched Special Forces raid targeting warlords in …
2009-06-30 … General José Miguel Insulza, to bring Cuba back into the supposedly democratic organization. The OAS response is no surprise. Former Argentine Ambassador to the U.N. Emilio Cárdenas told me on Saturday that he was concerned that "the OAS under Insulza has not taken seriously the so-called 'democratic …
2008-09-26 … force too. NATO soldiers keep the peace when they are called upon. NATO can also help allies work through difficult times of disasterous situations. An ambassador from each member country is part of permanent delegation at NATO HQ. NATO is chaired by the Secretary General of NATO, who helps members agree on …
2009-07-02 … to greatly improve labour conditions for teachers, joining the Venezuelan Petrocaribe program, and delaying recognition of the new United States ambassador after the Bolivian government implicated the US embassy in supporting paramilitary groups destabilising Bolivia. The Socialist Alliance also …
2008-09-15 … "committed the extraordinary misjudgment of betting on a Democratic victory" in 1968 - by appointing a friend of Dem candidate Hubert Humphrey as US ambassador to Washington. Today's Tories are much smarter about not allying themselves exclusively to the McCain camp, sending shadow ministers to the Dem …
2008-09-02 … IS NOW CLEAR HOW RUSSIA INTENDS TO USE INTERNATIONAL LAW - TO INTIMIDATE OTHER NATIONS AND TO SECURE AN ENERGY MONOPOLY AT THEIR EXPENSE.] Japan's ambassador to Moscow, Yasuo Saito, was blunter. He criticized the "unilateral" Russian decision as "lacking transparency". The British government said it was …
2008-05-20 … ]. Furthermore, as the result of these and other correspondences, Czech President Vaclav Klaus agreed to meet with Lawrence Kogan and former U.S. Ambassador and U.S. Secretary of the Navy, J.W. Middendorf, II, in New York City on September 25, 2007, following the President's September 24, 2007 address to …
2008-03-20 … he was convicted but under indictment, Creamer was hired by the Soros-funded Open Society Policy Center to sabotage John Bolton’s nomination as Ambassador to the U.N. One of the claims made against Bolton was that he had yelled at somebody 20 years ago. The allegation was made by a specialist in …
2009-05-13 … termed Bangladesh as a unique example of democracy in South Asia region, and as a model for democracy and tolerance by Harry K Thomas—ex U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh. Disregarding the support and appreciation of International community for Bangladesh’s role in the war against terrorism, Indian media …
2009-06-11 … Regulations, has created a far worse situation with its rules, than the ills the rules were designed to prevent. Picture At Top and Above - British Ambassador to The Philippines, Sir Peter Beckingham. At top, he stands behind a group of kids. The circumstances that exist in far flung corners of the world …
2009-03-15 … in Washington convicted Libby of lying and obstructing an investigation into who blew the cover of CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had criticized the Iraq war. Bush earlier commuted Libby’s 2-1/2-year prison sentence but before leaving office in January, Bush …
2009-06-29 … kidnapped, jailed and detained be released and accounted for immediately, bringing Vasquez and coup leaders to justice, investigating what U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, did or didn’t know about the coup. With the bad taste left by the widely alleged U.S. involvement in recent coup attempts …
2008-02-20 … would start trading in euros. But according to Nozari transactions at this early stage will be in Iran’s currency, the rial. Anyway the Iranian ambassador to Moscow Gholam-Reza Ansari has already advanced that “in the future, we’ll be able to use the ruble, Russia’s national currency, in our …
2008-10-08 … society and democratic achievements against Wall Street, the Pentagon, increasing corporate power and a bunch of insane imperalists…. The former US ambassador to Russia , Jack Matlock said in “Conversations with History” in 1997 and later in an interview with the Carnegie Council for an Ethic Foreign …
2009-04-19 … U.N. has not enforced sanctions against North Korea since Resolution 1718 was passed in October 2006. See what I mean about smoke and mirrors? U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said the draft was a: “…strong message to the DPRK that their violation of international law will not be treated with impunity”. Ms. Rice …
2007-11-02 … Bill Harding, newly famous for initiating the process of World Federalisation. A Swedish blonde bombshell, Ingrid Sorensen, from Shanghai, a UNICEF ambassador promoting JYG (Junior Youth Group) Animator Training courses in Uganda after massive success in China. Simon awoke in the dank heat of a Kampala …
2008-02-04 … the Israeli agent and his old partner, Eli Lavon, unearth a plot that leads to the kidnapping by Islamic extremists of the daughter of the U.S. ambassador in London. While most intelligence agencies consider Gabriel persona non grata because of his unorthodox methods and the trail of bodies he leaves …
2009-07-05 … Ambassador in Israel have had repeated contact with Gilad’s family and emphasized our support for Gilad’s immediate release. Last September, the Ambassador helped to deliver over 2,000 Jewish New Year cards for Gilad to the ICRC as part of a campaign organized by the UK Jewish community. I repeat the …
2009-02-27 … leadership these days. It helps when you don’t have a lot to lose. Maybe that’s what it took […] Well, they were bold. There was the former UN Ambassador, John Bolton, the one who was never confirmed and had to leave the post, joking – maybe the bad guys should nuke Obama’s Chicago, to teach him a …
2009-05-13 … Though it is unlikely that she had plotted with the rebels, some of them were known to have approached her. Mary's closest confidant, Charles V's ambassador Simon Renard, argued that her throne would never be safe while Elizabeth lived; and the Chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, worked to have Elizabeth put …
2009-03-10 … Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned that Sudanese officials were discussing with the Saudi government the possibility of expelling Bin Laden. US Ambassador Timothy Carney encouraged the Sudanese to pursue this course. The Saudis, however, did not want Bin Laden, giving as their reason their revocation …
2007-12-08 … program. The reaction from Bush regime is disgraceful who still insists that Iran is the biggest threat to world peace. John Bolton the former UN Ambassador believe that the intelligence agencies has under estimated Iran nuclear program to compensate their report on Iraq WMD. Bush still believe that …
2009-06-21 … in injured protesters contacted the Foreign & Commercial Office in London to confirm. The British Foreign Ministry spoke directly to the British Ambassador in Tehran who said that the reports of the British Embassy taking in injured were incorrect. I would say fraudulent. So at the very least the Brits …
2009-06-27 … democracy or human rights […] Authoritarian regimes, naturally, have welcomed the new approach. According to the Associated Press, Egypt's ambassador to the United States expressed satisfaction "that ties are on the mend and that Washington has dropped conditions for better relations, including …
2009-07-06 … Obama has also called for Zelaya’s reinstatement, and the deposed president’s wife and youngest son are being protected at the residence of the U.S. ambassador in Tegucigalpa. Zelaya may return to Washington as soon as tomorrow should he be barred from landing in the Honduran capital, a U.S. administration …
2009-07-05 … diplomatic relations, an Israeli defence source confirmed that Mossad maintained “working relations” with the Saudis. John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations who recently visited the Gulf, said it was “entirely logical” for the Israelis to use Saudi airspace. Bolton, who has talked …
2009-06-28 … their country's constitutional order. Blocks away from the White House, the Organization of American States met in an emergency session. Honduras' ambassador to the body [Carlos Sosa Coello] demanded what he termed an 'emphatic condemnation" of the coup. OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza echoed …
2009-07-02 Can't We Seize Resources Right Anymore? (Snark Tag is "On.") There was a time when a US President could call the ambassador of a country on the carpet and say […] your democracy […] your country, and […] you. You're nuthin' but a fly on an elephant's ass." (Quotes …
2009-07-06 Can't We Seize Resources Right Anymore? (Snark Tag is "On.") There was a time when a US President could call the ambassador of a country on the carpet and say […] your democracy […] your country, and […] you. You're nuthin' but a fly on an elephant's ass." (Quotes …
2009-01-22 … when it seems to be in a state of calm, still carries war within itself just as the slumbering thunder-cloud contains the storm […] Australian ambassador Wiremu Panapa addressing the United States Congress, 1947 […] 1 September 1932 * Columbia City, Federal District United States of America Senator …
2009-01-04 … International organisation participation: Greater European Economic Union (founding member) Diplomatic representation in the USA: Chief of Mission: Ambassador Charles STRICKLAND Diplomatic representation from the USA: Chief of Mission Ambassador Laurence LOPEZ Flag description: red cross (St George’s …
2008-10-22 … mish-mash of inaccuracies, misconceptions, and unrealistic drama. She focuses back on the screen, where Lane is meant to be meeting with the German ambassador to discuss terms for ending the war. Never mind that Lane never met face-to-face with any German diplomatic representative until the war was over. …
2008-09-28 … Sakhalin which had first been occupied and then recaptured late in 1932. In the end, Australia was the first nation to offer peace. The Australian ambassador in Sweden was sent on a diplomatic mission to St Petersburg to negotiate an immediate ceasefire, with a more permanent peace deal to follow based on …
2008-08-17 … a unique brand of diplomacy during his presidential election campaign, 1932 […] Why have you declared war on Britain […] Neil Browning, British ambassador to Russia, during a last-ditch effort to persuade the Russian Tsar to withdraw the Russian declaration of war, 8 July 1930 “Because every great game …
2008-07-24 … sounded more resigned than anything else, which let Ingersoll venture an opinion of his own. “Better to find out beforehand, surely? We still have an ambassador in Geneva. So does Germany.” “Not enough time,” Mullins said, with a firm shake of his head. “Germany is going to make a second landing any day now. …
2008-06-24 … After the war, he became an advocate of international cooperation to prevent the horror of a Second Great War. He was named as Ireland’s first ambassador to the Council of Nations, a post which he held until his death in 1946 […] A living thing is born, and we must see to it what clothes we put on it. …
2008-02-03 … sources, we now know that informal British proposals for a negotiated surrender began almost as soon as the German-American ceasefire. The British ambassador in Geneva made contact with his German counterpart to discuss peace terms, and the King of Sweden was also approached to act as a mediator. “Yet the …
2008-01-24 … of the Massif Central. In this time, when the French government was driven out of their wartime capital of Tours, President Marceau finally asks his ambassador in Sweden to contact the German ambassador to the same nation and find what terms Germany will accept for the end of the war. The reply of …
2009-07-01 … and Ed Markey (both D-MA). The People's Republic of Bay State is a bastion of Hugo-ism. Former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III (whose granddad, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., thought Hitler was misunderstood), current head of the Citizens Energy Corporation, gets cheap oil from Chavez. This allows …
2009-05-25 … blaming Zionism for undermining that coexistence is yet another completely baseless myth. Before the UN vote on partition in November 1947, Egypt's ambassador to the UN, Heykal Pasha, warned
2008-02-12 Delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.: Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far …
2008-09-19 … Reema bint Bandar al-Saud, a co-owner of a women’s spa in Riyadh called Yibreen and a daughter of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the United States. “She struggles with her weight. She overcame depression. She rose from poverty and from abuse. On all these levels she appeals …
2008-12-31 … one by selling the Pentagon weapons of mass destruction, the other from access to Mid-East oil. SUSAN RICE, African-American, the next U.S. Ambassador to the UN, strives to cover U.S. war-making with a humanitarian fig leaf. As a Stanford professor and Clinton aide, she has written extensively …
2008-07-22 … information about Professor Sachs, please visit http://www.sachs.earth.columbia.edu Amb. Pickering on Iran Talks and Multinational Enrichment Former Ambassador Thomas Pickering calls for talks without preconditions and advocates a plan for a multinational uranium enrichment consortium in Iran. Iran has …
2009-05-31 … Leaders, a former Speaker of the House, and a career foreign service officer and future president of the Brooking Institution to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Japan. In President George W. Bush’s second term, he let the standard slip a bit with the appointment of Tom Schieffer. But at least Mr. …
2008-12-14 … however my QC asked General Richards about the good work that Iran was doing for Afghanistan. General Richards replied that he had met the Iranian Ambassador a few times and it was clear that Iran was doing a lot of good work for Afghanistan, then either the Prosecution or judge asked if Iran was helping …
2008-10-30 … Brussels excluding the participation of Yugoslavia at any conferences with regard to the reconstruction of the area. I had discussed this also with Ambassador Cicanovic in Brussels and how best to deal with this matter. I am of the view, and so stated publicly yesterday to ANSA, REUTERS, and AP that …
2007-05-31 … Immeditaely after Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, Castro Llanes told Castro Barredo that they were hopeful that Intriago would be appointed as ambassador to Venezuela. While this goal did not come to fruition, Intriago did give the Castro family increased access to Washington, D.C., after President …
2009-07-08 … by the day, as they construct warhead-capable missles with a range that takes them closer and closer to Hawaii... So - shortly after the American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said that the Security Council was working on a resolution “with teeth that will bite in North Korea,” the Kim regime shot …
2009-07-08 … to be; the very honor of Islam has been stained. The brother of the victim makes it clear that German justice will not suffice: Ramzi Ezz, Egypt’s ambassador in Germany told Al Arabiya the results of the investigations could be released in a few days, but noted that Egyptian law calls for life …
2009-07-01 … solved the code. But Jefferson did believe the cipher was so inscrutable that he considered having the State Department use it, and passed it on to the ambassador to France, Robert Livingston. The cipher finally met its match in Lawren Smithline, a 36-year-old mathematician. Dr. Smithline has a Ph.D. in …
2009-06-24 … of his swift reflexes on the boat. We had set out for a night sail on the ocean, and Bill’s Yale friend Van Galbraith—later President Reagan’s ambassador to France—had got tipsy from repeated shots of Tia Maria in his coffee. He fell overboard while the boat was under full sail. In a flash, Bill threw …
2009-06-01 … […] 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations: 'Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle […] 2 …
2008-12-31 … there four years ago, and wondering how they are faring, and imagining their terror as the bombs fall on that giant, open-air prison. The Israeli ambassador speaks movingly of the terror felt by Israeli children as Hamas rockets explode in the night. I agree with him—that no child should have her sleep …
2009-06-01 … […] 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations: 'Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle […] 2 …
2009-06-01 … […] 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations: 'Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle […] 2 …
2009-06-29 … and the errors, there are emotions, opinions and peoples hedging their bets. A few wise men have written op-eds in support, among them former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton - a keen observer as ever - and former Spanish PM, Jose Maria Aznar. Rejectionists talk of the geopolitical need for a stable …
2009-02-11 … today and join the Lincoln's Birthday celebration. Geert Wilders: Persona Non Grata in Britain On behalf of the British Government, her Majesty's ambassador to the Netherlands served Dutch MP Geert Wilders today with a letter declaring him persona non grata in UK. Wilders is due for a screening of his …
2009-07-04 … that role--see near end of this post starting "As for Bombardier […] The event, which attracted more than 150 invited guests, included Iceland’s Ambassador to Canada, Her Excellency Ms. Sigridur Anna Thordardottir and Georg Larusson, director general of the Icelandic Coast Guard. The event was also …
2008-05-16 … roles mentioned above. No one mentioned anything about growing up to be a mother. One of the students wrote about wanting to be the wife of an ambassador in my middle school. This incident was picked up during the CR as evidence of how the bourgeois education of our school had corrupted innocent …
2009-06-01 … Catholic Notable Commentary & Analysis: Fr. Alberto Cutie Leaves The Church For The Episcopals - Tito Edwards, Am Cth Obama Names Miguel Diaz US Ambassador To Vatican - Christopher Blosser, AC Newt Gingrich Opens Up On Catholic Conversion - Tito Edwards, American Cthlc New Website For Young Catholics: …
2009-05-29 … Peek At The New Mass Translation - Gary Z., The Catholic Truth ...for the new Mass translation rough copies click here... Obama Names Miguel Diaz US Ambassador To Vatican - Christopher Blosser, AC An Illiberal Education - James Schall, The Catholic Thing Miguel H. Diaz Is A Latino, Yeah! - Tito Edwards, …
2009-04-13 … Flawed' - Stephen Adams, Telegraph A Catholic Narrative Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Tim Shipe, Amrcn Cthlc Vatican Blocks Caroline Kennedy Ambassador Appointment - Alex Spillius, Tlgrph ...rejected 3 Obama Candidates thus far... Report To The Emperor-First Draft - Donald R. McClarey, American …
2009-07-03 … Council's implementation of Resolution 1820 in Congo -- the very place that inspired it -- has been an utter failure […] President Obama and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice should send a very clear message to the world. It is within U.S. power, as a member of the Security Council, to push for measures to end …
2009-05-08 … UNICEF to use for education for the estimated 18,000 children in Kandahar. Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk and Ron Hoffmann, Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan joined Harper on Thursday. “Canada was spread thin in the past,” Hoffmann told reporters as the prime minister handed out coffee to …
2009-04-23 … where lives may be at risk,” the official said in an e-mail to news organizations. Fowler is a special UN envoy to Niger. He was once the Canadian ambassador to Italy. Guay is Fowler’s assistant. There are also reports that a German woman and a French woman were also released. Fowler and Guay were …
2007-06-08 … million people. There is some accountability as our UN ambassador is responsible to an elected government. This cannot be said of North Korea whose ambassador is responsible to one man. In effect Kim Jong-il has equal representative power to our entire population. So does Castro, the House of Saud etc. The …
2009-04-28 … text: KING: From Bridgewater, Connecticut, we welcome the wonderful, talented Mia Farrow, the actress and activist. She is, as well, a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador. And she began a hunger strike today. Why, Mia? MIA FARROW, UN GOODWILL AMBASSADOR: Because, Larry, more than a million people are going to die …
2009-04-23 … Doctors Without Borders, CARE, Oxfam and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) along with three highly respected Sudanese agencies. Sudanese U.N. Ambassador Abdalhaleem claimed his government would have no problem filling in any gaps created by the expulsions. But U.N. humanitarian affairs chief John …
2009-07-07 … weapons of mass destruction. A Parliamentary inquiry ruled that the death had been suicide, though it also included testimony from a former British ambassador who quotes Kelly as having said, “I will probably be found dead in the woods” if Iraq were invaded. The new report says Kelly had spoken with an …
2009-05-20 … commission will be formed somewhere and intellectuals will meet. For example, people like İlter Türkmen (former Minister of External Affairs and Ambassador) and you will gather; a mechanism like this will start and begin to work […] A mechanism like this will be accepted by the state as an addressee …
2009-06-30 … as "inhuman" and which she attributes to her having a "foul Catholic mouth". At the same time she claims that the possibility of being sent as Ambassador of France to the Holy See is "interesting and serious." Note: So Sarko removes her because of her "foul Catholic mouth", but offers to send her to …
2009-07-01 … to an air force base and put him on a plane to Costa Rica. Zelaya told TeleSUR from San Jose, Costa Rica, "They threatened to shoot me." Honduras' ambassador to the Organization of American States, Carlos Sosa Coello, reports that the president has been beaten up. Zelaya told TeleSUR that he doesn't …
2009-07-05 … in BSS cooperation programme From: BelTA The Swedish EU Presidency will promote Belarus’ participation in the programmes of the Baltic Sea States, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sweden to Belarus Stefan Eriksson told reporters on 1 July. According to the diplomat, the key issue on the …
2009-07-01 … on a comprehensive strategy to achieve it," Igor Yurgens, a senior advisor to President Medvedev, said in Moscow via telephone on Monday. Former US Ambassador to Russia James Collins noted that President Obama was a "truly post Cold War president". He said this was important because Obama didn't start his …
2009-06-28 … say if they consider this feasible under WTO rules or not," Johannesson said in a telephone interview from Brussels, where he serves as Iceland's ambassador to the EU. He also has steered Russia's WTO accession talks. "There are a lot of questions," he said, adding that none of the three ex-Soviet …
2009-06-21 … Belarus’ Ambassador says From: BelTA The common past serves the solid foundation for the continuity of links between Belarus and Russia, said Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia Vasily Dolgolev addressing a round table “Belarus and our common victory. Sixty-five years …
2009-06-17 … for an additional month because it would have required an abandonment of Georgia's sovereignty. Rosemary DiCarlo, the United States' third-ranking ambassador at the United Nations, said Washington "deeply regrets" the Russian veto and that it reaffirms its committment to Georgia's territorial integrity …
2009-06-14 … Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Belarus Ramesh Chander as he met with Grodno oblast senior officials on June 11. According to the Ambassador, the global crisis did not hit India’s economy as hard as it did in Europe and the US. At the same time India made substantial progress in such …
2009-06-07 … partner of Belarus and Southeastern Asia, and Belarus hopes to reach the markets of other states via this country. The Speaker expressed hope the Ambassador would assist advancement of the Belarusian MTZ, MAZ and BelAZ to Southeastern Asia. Belarus also hopes for a constructive cooperation in the foreign …
2009-05-27 … underlined. The diplomatic relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Sultanate of Oman were established on July 23, 1992. In July 2007 Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman in the Russian Federation Abdullah bin Zaher bin Saif Al Hosni was accredited Ambassador in Belarus on-concurrent. The …
2009-05-24 … on June 16. This important bilateral event is being prepared jointly with the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology, BelTA learnt from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Germany Vladimir Skvortsov. The Belarusian delegation is led by Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei …
2009-05-10 … it is necessary to attain full transparency in relations between Belarus and Russia. The President made the relevant statement as he met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Belarus Alexander Surikov on May 6. The head of state remarked he is …
2009-04-29 … Russian-leaning president, Vladimir Voronin, pointedly accused neighboring Romania -- an EU member -- of fomenting the unrest. Moldova then expelled the ambassador to Romania and imposed a summary visa regime on Romanian visitors. And sources in Brussels say Voronin told Kalman Miszei, the EU special envoy, …
2009-04-26 … “At the first stage, Belarus and Israel intend to abolish consular fees. In 2010 or maybe earlier we will be able to cancel the visa regime,” the Ambassador said. Eduard Shapira noted that the cost of the Israeli visa is $17 for visitors from all countries and the cost of the Belarusian visa for Israeli …
2009-04-22 … and achieve their political goals. Relations between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization remain tense. Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to the U.S.-led Alliance, on April 14 angrily protested NATO plans to hold new military exercises in Georgia. The Cooperative Longbow/Lancer 2009 …
2009-04-19 … Vladimir Voronin accusing Romania of trying to topple his government by supporting the anti-communist protesters. Moldova expelled Romania's ambassador and introduced visas for Romanians. The EU has stepped up diplomatic contacts with Belarus since the authorities in Minsk released political …
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