Turkish Minister Stresses U.S. trip home voting panel

March 9th, 2010

Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan canceled his trip to the United States in response to the adoption of a resolution of the United States labeling events of 1915 as “genocide” local daily News reported on its website Tuesday.

Caglayan, is director of foreign trade, has been scheduled for U.S. Departing on 19 March with a large business delegation, said the report.

The decision was made Monday at a meeting with the Turkish ambassador in Washington, Namik Tan, who had already recalled in a protest demonstration.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Turkey would not send its ambassador to the United States before we reported clear results, the semi-official Anatolia news agency.

U.S. position in the next time it was very important, “said Erdogan, adding that he does not think the U.S. would sacrifice its strategic partner for simple political talks.

On March 4, Turkey, his ambassador to the United States temporarily Namik Tan minutes after a congressional committee U. S., a resolution on Turkey.

The resolution of Armenian allegations on the incidents of 1915 was adopted based on the House of Representatives U. S. Foreign Affairs Committee by a vote of 23-22.

Normalize Turkey and Armenia have signed two protocols in October last year, relations, however, the parliaments of both countries have not yet passed.

Turkey categorically rejects the genocide charges and sees the events as a civil war in time of war, the lives of many Turks and Armenians claimed.

Turkey and Armenia are locked in dispute over the killing of Armenians, and do not have diplomatic and economic relations since Armenia declared its independence in 1991.

Israel, Palestinians, referring to the proximity talks

March 8th, 2010

Israelis and Palestinians finally agreed once again find themselves in a cumbersome process, the old quarrel of several decades in the Middle East after a hiatus of 15 months.

The two sides agreed to start proximity talks under the mediation of the United States, the U.S. special envoy George Mitchell, said Monday night.

Development was the first time for the two neighboring countries in the peace talks in the Middle East since U. S. Barack Obama President and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office on behavior in early 2009.

AFTER A LONG IMPASSE indirect talks

The U.S. ambassador said in a statement he was “delighted” that the two sides adopted the proposal of the United States for talks reconciliation.

“We started to discuss the structure and scope of these conversations, and yet I continue to the region next week in our discussions,” Mitchell in his last trip to the Middle East, said in a statement.

While expressing the hope that the indirect negotiations would lead to direct negotiations between the two enemies in the Middle East, he urged all parties’ statements and actions that inflame tensions and jeopardize the outcome of these talks could not use it. ”

Was related to the proximity talks that Mitchell to mediate between Israel and the shuttle to visit the Palestinian territories, Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, said Sunday that talks would be a period of four months and pays little attention to the limitations and security issues.

Mitchell said the indirect talks began shortly after U. S. Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel for a four-day visit to the Jewish state and the Palestinian territories. Biden is scheduled to meet with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders before leaving for Jordan on Thursday.

The indirect talks began negotiations to end 15 months of deadlock, since collapsed when the Jewish state of a devastating military offensive against the Gaza Strip, the end of 2008 left nearly 1,400 Palestinians have been killed on the enclave on the coast.

The Obama administration has long tried to push both sides back to the negotiating table. But gaping holes on the issues of settlements and East Jerusalem stopped monitoring their return to peace, and once overwhelmed the US-Israeli relations.

During a transitional period, the United States recently suggested that Israel and the Palestinians leading to the first indirect talks that would pave the way for face to face negotiations. The Liberation Organization (PLO) on Sunday gave the green light for indirect negotiations, after shaking the Arab League, the American proposal.

More than 200 people killed in new violence in Nigeria N

March 7th, 2010

More than 200 people were killed and several others seriously broken on Sunday in a new disorder, who failed in Jos, said the capital of northern Nigeria in Plateau State, residents and the police.

The development comes after more than 300 people died during the crisis, January 17 erupted in the city of Jos in northern Plateau State, where some youths attacked the faithful to the Anglican church of St . Nasawara Gwom to Michael.

A resident of Jos, David kyang, said the group had attacked the village in the early hours of the day.

“They came and attacked us, when everyone was asleep, she first put the house on fire, and only sporadically in the air to frighten the state-bodied men,” he told reporters .

He also said that the group immediately jumped into a nearby village, Ramsat.

The Chief Medical Director of the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Pam Datong, noting that many victims who have suffered various forms of injuries treated in hospital.

Speaking in the same vein, President of Jos South local government, Moses Dalyop, described the group that committed acts of cruel and barbaric.

“They are inhuman,”he said.

Reopening of the Russian-Georgian border is positive, says Putin

March 4th, 2010

The reopening of the border, the only crossing point between Russia and Georgia is a positive sign marking facility of bilateral relations, “Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday.

“This is a new installation, it creates the good, new opportunities for direct contacts between people,” Putin said during a meeting with the Georgian opposition leader Nino Burjanadze.

“This is the first step, as a symbol for the development of an action is of Russian-Georgian relations,” Putin said, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.

Verkhny Lars (Russia) – Kazbegi (Georgia) border crossing reopened early Monday. The border crossing in the Caucasus mountains has been closed since mid-2006 from Russia that relations between the two countries tense.

Russia closed the checkpoint Verkhny Lars, July 8, 2006 stating the reasons for repairs, and announced the completion of repairs last May.

Russia and Georgia agreed to the border last year to reopen.

Iran provides the necessary cooperation with the IAEA

March 3rd, 2010

The president of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran’s Parliament, Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Wednesday that Iran has the necessary cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency provided reported (IAEA), the official news agency IRNA.

“) Has, at any stage (nuclear program, Iran has ambitious cooperation with the IAEA and we have made under the provisions of the agency,” said Boroujerdi, the reactions to the new head of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano on the nuclear activities of Iran.

The IAEA chief on Monday, Iran accused of not cooperating sufficiently with an investigation into its nuclear activities.

“The Agency will continue to check it … not the diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran, but we can not confirm that all nuclear material in Iran for peaceful activities, because Iran had not provided the Agency with the necessary cooperation,” said a Board of Governors Amano.

A report Amano said he was known in the past, the cooperation of Iran with the IAEA not Boroujerdi told IRNA.

The United States and its Western allies to throw Iran secretly developing nuclear weapons under the disguise of a civilian program. Iran has rejected the allegation and said its nuclear program solely for peaceful purposes.

Britain rejects U.S. help during the Falklands conflict with Argentina

March 2nd, 2010

Britain has rejected a U.S. proposal called for resolving the dispute over the Falkland Islands (Argentines as the Malvinas) between Britain and Argentina, local media reported Tuesday.

During his visit to Argentina, offered to U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help negotiations with both countries on their claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.

“If we do not help in such an attempt is in May, we are ready to help do this,” she said.

However, a spokesman said Prime Minister Gordon Brown: “We welcome the support of Secretary of State in respect of ensuring that we continue to open diplomatic channels, but there is still no necessity of direct participation. ”

He stressed that self-determination is the key issue of Islanders and Great Britain believed that oil was “both the right thing to do and it is quite legitimate.”

Argentina objected to a recent exploratory drilling by an oil company British Petroleum from the Falkland Islands, and requested that all vessels in relation obtained from the Falkland Islands, Argentina dock. Argentina rejected the demands of Great Britain.

Argentina and Great Britain against the sovereignty over the islands for decades and their differences led to a short but bloody war in 1982.

Tensions between the two countries re-emerged as Britain announced it would begin exploring the waters around the disputed islands for oil.

Sanctions against Iran should not target civilians

March 1st, 2010

Russia may agree to consider new sanctions against Iran if international diplomatic efforts stalled on the nuclear issue of Iran to the condition that sanctions do not target Civil Iranian president said Monday’s visit to Moscow address.

“Russia is ready to consider the imposition of sanctions (against Iran) with other partners,” said Dmitry Medvedev during a joint press conference with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy after their meeting at the Elysee .

“Our demand (Iran) working for a civilian nuclear program under the supervision of the international community not to the present, to bear fruit … We have no progress in the last period of time, however, the situation deteriorates, “Medvedev did.

Earlier, Nicolas Sarkozy told the same press conference that Russia was “open to the question of sanctions, as they are not these humanitarian tragedies.”

Sarkozy expressed his content on the same opinion between France and Russia to the Iranian nuclear issue, Russian President during his intelligence, has reported the problem by insisting on the penalty should not “target (civilian) population .

For many years the United States and its Western allies accuse Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons under the disguise of a civilian program. Iran denies the charge and says its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.

Yukiya Amano, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has accused Iran on Monday due to lack of cooperation with an investigation into its nuclear activities.

“We can not confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is pressing for peace, because Iran is not the body with the necessary cooperation,” said Yukiya Amano at a meeting of IAEA board .

However, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran insisted on Sunday fully later with the agency monitoring international energy throughout the day.

Medvedev began his visit to France on Monday. Under the banner of the inauguration of Russia-France Culture Crossing, exchange year, the President led the delegation of high profile to longer chains of political manipulation, economic and military ties with France.

He expected to meet French Prime Minister François Fillon and reveal the “Holy Russia” special exhibition at the Louvre on Tuesday.

IAEA urges Iran not under the pressure of the westward

February 28th, 2010

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Sunday that the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations would lose its legitimacy if it bends under pressure from the United States on nuclear program of Iran, said on television by the local press.

“Some experiments to prove and reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International organization that does not react independently,” Press TV quoted Khamenei as saying.

“The IAEA is not under pressure from the United States and certain other countries, because these unilateral measures not abuse the trust in the agency and the United Nations, he said, adding:” It is also the reputation of international bodies such damage. ”

A confidential report leak that was made earlier this month, said the Vienna-based IAEA has been developing on any activities in Iran into a nuclear warhead of a rocket.

The United States and its Western allies accuse Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons under the disguise of a civilian program. Iran denies the charge and says its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.

Sarkozy’s trip to Rwanda to Landmark

February 25th, 2010

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Thursday Cut about three years since the first visit to this African country in 25 years by a French president after the two sides of the relationship about diplomatic lines connected to the genocide of 1994.

French President paid tribute to victims of genocide at the memorial before the meeting with his colleagues, Paul Kagame of Rwanda.

Relations between Paris and Kigali for years, accuses Rwanda tense as France, to play a role in the 1994 genocide in which some 800,000 people were slaughtered mostly minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Visit Nicolas Sarkozy is the first bloody by a French president since the massacre.

Tension in the severance of diplomatic relations three years ago, culminating after a French judge has issued an indictment said Kagame and his entourage were involved in the assassination of former Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana.

Russia threatens NATO expansion to meet

February 24th, 2010

Russia has to answer regarding the expansion of NATO eastward by active and parking plans of the United States, the elements of a defense system missile defense in Europe, said the Russian officer said Wednesday.

“If we say that we must address all possible threats, we should respect each other and trust each other, instead of strengthening military blocs near the Russian border,” said General Nikolai Makarov, chief of General Staff of Russian armed forces on the television channel Russia Today.

“That means we must respond to appropriate action,” said Makarov.

What began at the repeated request from Poland for the demilitarization of the region of western Russia, Makarov no nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad have Baltic.

“Last year we have over 600 tanks, 600 armored vehicles and 600 guns of the Kaliningrad region back. As we enter a building missile defense system. Double Standards Alert us, “he said.

The general said the missile shield is designed to defend an air strike from the illusion of Russia. “The fear is that this missile defense system directed against Russia.”

A new Russian military doctrine, approved by President Dmitry Medvedev in early defined NATO expansion and deployment of missile defense as the main external threats of war, Russia is facing.