Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
1st September, 2012
Not a single Indian journalist, it seems, bothered to cover the meeting of the trade ministers of the 10 ASEAN countries and six partners (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand) in Cambodia on Thursday. The Indian press corps instead headed westward — to Tehran, which is probably more sexy than Siem Reap.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
Berezovsky, she concluded, was not credible. “On my analysis of the entirety of the evidence, I found Mr Berezovsky an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes.
“At times the evidence which he gave was deliberately dishonest; sometimes he was clearly making his evidence up as he went along in response to the perceived difficulty in answering the questions in a manner consistent with his case.
“At other times, I gained the impression that he was not necessarily being deliberately dishonest, but had deluded himself into believing his own version of events. On occasions he tried to avoid answering questions by making long and irrelevant speeches, or by professing to have forgotten facts which he had been happy to record in his pleadings or witness statements.”
31st August
The Chelsea football club owner, Roman Abramovich, has won a high court action against his rival Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky over a disputed £3bn debt.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
2nd September, 2012
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for Tony Blair and George Bush to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague and delivered a damning critique of the physical and moral devastation caused by the Iraq war.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
2nd September, 2012
The UN Security Council’s push for a human corridor in Syria, which critics say could bring military intervention, has sparked protests in Germany. About 1,000 people gathered in Frankfurt demanding an end to foreign meddling in the Syrian conflict.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
1st September, 2012
Amidst the old familiar platitudes, one ‘action point’ stood out in the NAM summit in Tehran that is about to conclude later today — initiative on Syria. The details are yet to be unveiled, but the content is immaterial since it is going to be robustly contested anyway and may not endure. The big powers have their own axe to grind.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
Kaveh Afrasiabi
1st September, 2012
Egypt and Iran this week took a giant step toward overcoming their diplomatic estrangement, brought together by the exigencies of a global movement and, even more so, a complex regional calculus that has a long history of being shaped by foreign powers.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
Mehmanparast pointed to NAM’s discussion on the Syrian crisis and noted that all the members of the NAM agreed upon a number of points on Syria, including opposing any foreign interference in Syria and sanctions against the country and supporting the efforts of the UN-Arab League’s new peace envoy to Syria.
31st August, 2012
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman reaffirms the Non-Aligned Movement’s (NAM) determination to transform the world’s unipolar structure and establish a global management system based on justice, Press TV reports.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
28th September, 2012
TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – Foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement issued a draft statement on Tuesday in which they stated the Syrian crisis must be resolved without foreign intervention and welcomed Lakhdar Brahimi as the representative of the UN secretary general for Syria, replacing Kofi Annan.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
1st September, 2012
The UN Security Council has no right to support a revolution or foreign intervention in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned. Any plan to withdraw government troops while fighting continues is untenable, and naïve at best, he added.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2012
30th August, 2012
Strongly pitching for coordinated global actions against international terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked the Non-Aligned Movement to take a lead in this and also take a stand based on “universally accepted principles” on Syria.
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