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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007In this video former US ambassador to the United Nations talks about possible UN sanctions against Iran. He was kicked out of office because he used to be very undiplomatic…;)…This video once again proofs this “evaluation”.
IAEA report: Iran is co-operating but not enough
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Mohamed ElBaradei said yesterday, Iran is making progress in resolving suspicions about past nuclear activities but must do more before the IAEA can verify important aspects of the country’s nuclear program. ElBaradei also said that the agency’s knowledge of Iran’s current nuclear activities was diminishing and that he could not declare with certainty whether Iran’s […]
Putin takes initiative
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, proposed a new way to help resolve the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program during an extraordinary meeting with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the country’s chief nuclear negotiator on Wednesday. The negotiator, Ali Larijani, told reporters that Mr. Putin, who was granted an audience with Ayatollah Khamenei on […]
Ban Ki-moon enhances pressure on Iran
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Iran had to meet Security Council demands to suspend its enrichment programs and not only cooperate with U.N. nuclear inspectors, secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. Fresh from a trip to Sudan, Chad and Libya, the U.N. Secretary-General was questioned on an agreement between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy […]
Serbia threatens with force
Thursday, September 6th, 2007A senior Serbian official warned on Wednesday that Serbia is ready to use force to prevent Western states from recognizing Kosovo as an independent state. Dusan Prorokovic, Serbia’s state secretary for Kosovo, outlined an array of tough measures to squeeze Kosovo that he said Serbia was ready to take in the event that Kosovo’s Albanian-dominated […]
Who owns the North Pole?
Friday, August 10th, 2007Russia’s symbolic claim to Arctic mineral wealth must be decided by a UN commission, and then only if experts determine the area is an extension of the Siberian continental shelf, Russian experts said on Thursday. One week after Russian explorers used a submersible vehicle to place their country’s flag on the […]
It never stops: USA versus Russia
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007The Kosovo case & The sanctions debatte about Iran prove that the old conflict survived the end of the cold war
Does anybody remember Dick Cheney’s harangue in Lithuania last year, the growlingly bellicose one that the Russians regard as heralding a new Cold War? Here’s how that dreadful man, who is 800 percent responsible for […]
Independence possible
Saturday, July 21st, 2007Initiative by Kosovo’s Prime Minister
Agim Ceku , Prime Minister of Kosovo, called on parliament on Friday to declare unilateral independence from Serbia on November 28, faced with diplomatic stalemate between the West and Russia at the United Nations. Western powers looked likely on Friday to shelve the latest U.N. draft resolution.
Ceku said the […]
UN Security Council: Game Over
Saturday, July 21st, 2007Kosovo Independence Measure withdrawn from UN Council
One feels reminded to the times of the Cold War: The UN Security Council is deadlocked. Russia is not willing to accept a resolution which might establish a mechanism which would lead automatically to an independent state called Kosovo. That’s why the sponsors of a resolution putting Kosovo […]
New sanctions against Iran not before September
Friday, July 20th, 2007The extensive debate about a new resolution refering to the status of Kosovo slows down the process of tighter UN sanctions against Iran. Western powers have put off efforts to toughen UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program until September in hopes of improved cooperation with U.N. inspectors, European diplomats say. […]
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