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...Council members Russia and China remain resolutely opposed to sanctions, which conflict with their own national economic interests, and it's not immediately clear exactly what outcome the U.S. - which currently holds the rotating Security Council chair - would seek from a Council discussion on the Iran issue. While U.S. ambassador John Bolton warned that Iran will face "tangible and painful consequences," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stressed that sanctions were unlikely to be an immediate option. So, even if the matter does get to the Security Council in the coming weeks, Iran will likely be given a new deadline...
...with President Karzai to go over everything from the hunt against Al Qaeda to Afghanistan?s still heavy drug trade. Meanwhile, the First Lady met with female officials from the Karzai government to discuss health and education. Bush helped dedicate the American embassy in Kabul, joking with the new ambassador, Ron Neumann, whose father had also been ambassador to Afghanistan. ?There?s nothing wrong in a son following a father?s footsteps,? said Bush to laughter. Later he thanked U.S. troops at Bagram air base and praised Afghanistan?s transition to democracy. Before leaving Afghan soil, Bush also vowed that...
...world,” said Janaki N. Kibe ’08, an Adams resident. “As young people, we need to feel as though we can make a difference.” Participants launched a three-pronged calling campaign. Some students called the office of U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton; HDAG hopes that Bolton will use his remaining time as president of the UN Security Council to deploy peacekeeping forces into Darfur. Others dialed up Massachusetts state politicians to voice their support for Massachusetts Senate Bill 2166. The bill would divest all state funds from...
...Iraq, but whether or not the sectarian violence that has killed hundreds in the past week devolves into full-blown conflagration will depend on choices made by political leaders. As bodies continued to pile up, Tuesday, following a series of suicide bombings that killed at least 55 people, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad suggested the crisis had passed because Iraq's elected leaders had decided to work together to avoid a civil war. Khalilzad has been working behind the scenes to coax the main Sunni parliamentary parties back to the negotiating table and to tamp down the belligerence of Abdul-Aziz...
...BEEN A WHILE SINCE THE U.S. AMBASSADOR LEFT, AND A REPLACEMENT HAS YET TO ARRIVE. IS THAT AN EMBARRASSMENT, OR AN ANNOYANCE? We would like an ambassador, obviously. It hasn't affected the warmth of the relationship, but that having been said, we'd like an ambassador. We think it's time there...