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...Peace talks had been scheduled to begin Monday between tribal elders, militants and the military in pursuit of an agreement on the lines of the one concluded in September with militants in North Waziristan, in which they pledged to stop cross-border activities and attacks on government forces in exchange for those forces withdrawing from the area...
...General Sultan says the attack was necessary to prepare the ground for fruitful peace talks. "Some of these militants are a hard nut to crack," he says. "They may not come easily to negotiation. We need to show them what is at risk." The agreement in North Waziristan, he points out, was also preceded by several months of military activity - in which the Pakistani military lost some 800 men, about the same number of militants it was able to capture during the operation. But few outside of Pakistan have hailed the Waziristan deal as a success. NATO leaders in Afghanistan...
...climatic changes but also global ones. The global changes affect Asia and vice versa. The U.S., whose citizens consume 10 times more energy per capita than the Chinese, must also reduce its environmental impact. The U.S. government has been reluctant to work within international frameworks, such as the Kyoto agreement, which are needed to address the global environmental problem. The U.S. must join such international environmental efforts before it is too late. Katz Tomono Tokyo...
...example of the University of Miami, where janitors and a subcontractor reached an agreement on union representation this past May, provides a potential prototype for a Harvard campaign...
...Iran may also be encouraged by the limited form of sanctions adopted against North Korea, and the diplomatic battle it took to win agreement on those. Already, there are clear signs of disagreement in the Council over the extent of sanctions to pursue against Iran. China and Russia remain skeptical of their value in resolving the issue, and Moscow has rejected as too harsh a European Union draft resolution - which has also been criticized by the U.S. for being insufficiently harsh...