(Civil.Ge) — Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was “very clear” about “rule of law expectations” in Georgia when she met Georgian Foreign Minister, Maia Panjikidze, in Washington no November 29, the U.S. Department of State said. In remarks made before the meeting, the Secretary of State said the October 1 parliamentary election was “a successful [...]
Secretary Clinton, Georgia’s FM Meet In Washington
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Rice Stresses UN Resolution Doesn’t Establish Palestine As A State
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice deplored the Thursday vote by the U.N General Assembly to grant Palestine non-member observer State status at the United Nations, saying that the resolution does not establish Palestine as a state. The resolution on the status of Palestine in the UN was adopted by a vote of 138 [...]
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Exit Strategies Out Of Goma: A Five-Point Agenda
By Theogene Rudasingwa The international community (read, Western powers) have put pressure on Kagame to have his creation and proxy, M23, withdraw from Goma. President Kabila is being pressured to talk to M23, to listen to their grievances. As we have argued, the problems of eastern DRC are partly a Congolese problem of internal weaknesses [...]
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US And Netherlands Sign Agreement On Science And Technology Cooperation
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano Thursday joined Netherlands Ambassador to the United States Rudolf Bekink to sign an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation, with an emphasis on cybersecurity research. “Continued innovation is critical to keeping cyber networks and systems safe,” said Secretary Napolitano. “This agreement demonstrates concrete and practical steps that the United [...]
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‘AAPP Burma’ Condemns Government Crackdown On Anti-Copper Mine Peaceful Protesters – OpEd
By Zin Linn Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) strongly condemns the use of excessive force and brutally crackdown on peaceful protestors by riot police in the early hours of 29 November, 2012. Numerous protesters including several Buddhist monks have been hurt as riot police used tear-gas, inflammable bombs and water cannon this morning at [...]
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Palestine: Newest ‘Observer State’ Should Act On Rights Treaties, Says HRW
Palestinian leaders should pursue ratification of core international human rights treaties and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Thursday Human Rights Watch, adding that governments that have pressed Palestine to forgo membership in the ICC, including the United Kingdom, or have said that they will impose sanctions on Palestine if it [...]
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The Proper Focus Of Immigration Reform – OpEd
Immigration reform has seemingly become an important part of the agenda. It is good that attitudes of tolerating the presence of illegal immigrants rather than wanting them deported have overtaken the majority. A higher percentage of Americans also favor more immigration rather than less, which is also a happy development. Yet I fear that the support [...]
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School Is Out For The School Of The Americas – OpEd
By Isabella Troconis Thousands of students, human rights defenders, and religious leaders held a large-scale rally at the gates of the School of the Americas (SOA), currently known as the “school of coups,” during the third weekend of November (Nov. 16-18, 2012) at Fort Benning, Georgia. The protestors gathered outside of the infamous SOA, now [...]
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EU Moves Closer To Free Trade Talks With Japan
The European Council approved Thursday a mandate for the EU Commission to negotiate a free trade agreement with Japan. It also authorised the opening of negotiations with Japan on a framework agreement. The agreements will be negotiated in parallel and will create a strengthened overall framework for the EU’s relations with Japan. Both mandates are [...]
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EU Foreign-Policy Chief Wraps Up Central Asia Tour
(RFE/RL) — The European Union’s foreign-policy chief, Catherine Ashton, has held talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev in Astana. Ashton told journalists they discussed economic and trade ties between the EU and Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan’s joining the World Trade Organization, regional security, and regional integration. This is Ashton’s fourth and last stop on her tour of [...]
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US 2012 Hurricane Season Continues Decades-Long High Activity Era In Atlantic
November 30 marks the end of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane season, one that produced 19 named storms, of which 10 became hurricanes and one became a major hurricane. The number of named storms is well above the average of 12. The number of hurricanes is also above the average of six, but the number of [...]
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Hamas, Jihad Leaders Welcome UN Recognition Of Palestine
Top Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials on Friday welcomed the recognition of Palestine as a non-member state at the United Nations, the signature move of their political rival Fatah. Since Israel’s eight-day war on Gaza ended last week, the long-warring factions have made a number of concessions, raising hopes they might reconcile their separate governments [...]
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Sri Lanka: Student Crackdown Sparks More Protests
A military crackdown on a student protest earlier this week sparked further demonstrations yesterday over violence that left at least 50 students with injuries. Students from the University of Jaffna had gathered on Tuesday to commemorate Martyr’s Day, which honors Tamil Tigers who died during the country’s civil war. Soldiers reportedly attacked the students, who [...]
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US Prison Officials Thwart Compassionate Release, Says HRW
The Federal Bureau of Prisons blocks all but a few federal prisoners from compassionate release, Human Rights Watch and Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) said in a report released Friday. Congress gave federal courts authority to grant early release – commonly referred to as “compassionate release” – for “extraordinary and compelling” reasons such as imminent [...]
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Iran Continues Nuclear Fuel Plate Production
Iran’s top nuclear official says the country has succeeded in delivering some four or five batches of fuel to the Tehran Research Reactor, stressing that the Islamic Republic will press on with fuel plate production. “The production of fuel plates and their conversion into fuel complexes to be used in the Tehran Research Reactor currently [...]
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Gulf of Mexico Clean-Up Makes Deepwater Horizon Spill 52-Times More Toxic
If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse – 52-times more toxic. That’s according to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology [...]
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Kosovo: Haradinaj Verdict Could Mean Government Reshuffle
By Linda Karadaku and Ivana Jovanovic Thursday’s (November 29th) not guilty verdict by the ITCY for former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj opens a door for the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander to regain his footing on the country’s political scene. Kosovo media is speculating that Prime Minister Hashim Thaci will reshuffle his coalition [...]
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Füle Pours Cold Water On Ukraine’s EU Hopes
(EurActiv) — Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, has poured cold water over Ukraine’s ambition to hold a summit with the Union and sign an Association Agreement. Füle said the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area agreement (DCFTA), could be signed no earlier than November 2013. This [...]
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Israel Authorizes Construction Of 3,000 New Settlements
Israeli authorities will allow the construction of 3,000 new settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The decision follows Thursday’s UN General Assembly vote to upgrade Palestinians’ diplomatic status to ‘non-member observer state’. Celebrations within Palestine that the UN has implicitly recognized its right to statehood might be short-lived according to the latest Israeli media [...]
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Organizing McDonalds And Walmart, And Why Austerity Economics Hurts Low-Wage Workers The Most – OpEd
What does the drama in Washington over the “fiscal cliff” have to do with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Domino’s Pizza? Everything. Jobs are slowly returning to America, but most of them pay lousy wages and low if non-existent benefits. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates [...]
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