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...Foreign Relations Committee had similar messages for the German foreign minister this week. TIME has learned that in separate, private meetings in Washington with Joschka Fischer, Germany's top diplomat, both Helms and Biden warned that a major German oil company is negotiating to acquire huge oil deposits in Libya controlled by U.S. companies. Such a purchase, the senators cautioned, could harm U.S.-German relations by triggering sanctions under the Iran-Libya Sanctions...
...passed by Congress in 1996, threatens foreign companies with sanctions if they invest more than $20 million in a single year in oil and gas projects barred to U.S. firms through unilateral U.S. sanctions. The bipartisan warning from Helms and Biden is likely to raise the profile of the Libya issue at a time when the Bush administration is increasingly concerned with the high cost of oil and energy...
...Both senators apparently feel strongly about the Wintershall matter and informed Fischer that while a deal with Libya might not be illegal under German law, it could lead to sanctions under ILSA. German government sources in Washington confirmed the conversation, but pointed out that the European Union, of which Germany is the largest member, has no sanctions against Libya and does not recognize ILSA. They said it was likely the German government would inform Wintershall or its parent, BASF, of U.S. objections, but could do little more...
...roadblocks of felled trees outside the town?constructed to block military access?suggest that's no exaggeration. In such villages GAM is trying to set up the rudiments of a parallel administration. It is also stepping up military training in makeshift camps where GAM senior cadres?some trained in Libya, others former Indonesian soldiers?put village youths through their paces...
...permanent court to replace the ad hoc tribunals established by the Security Council. The U.S. was one of seven nations that voted against the creation of an ICC, a move that alienated us from almost all of our allies and grouped us with nations such as China, Libya and Iraq—not exactly the bastions of liberal humanitarianism. An eleventh-hour signing of the Rome Statute to create such a court, authorized by former President Clinton, was a halfhearted and empty move. It was an utterly meaningless maneuver, and yet President George W. Bush and the Republican majority...