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by Ali Akbar Bareini , AP/ Iran approves building 10 enrichment sites - washingtonpost.com , Nov. 29, 2009 -- TEHRAN, Iran -- The Iranian government approved a plan Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of U.N. demands it halt the program. The decision comes only two days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran, demanding it immediately stop building a newly revealed enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom and freeze all uranium enrichment activities. A Cabinet meeting headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to begin building five uranium enrichment sites that have already been studied and propose five other locations for future construction within two months. In Vienna, spokeswoman Gillian Tudor said the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency would have no comment. But the announcement is likely to stoke already high tensions between Iran and ...
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WTO: 2009 PRESS RELEASES PRESS/586 29 November 2009 DIRECTOR-GENERAL Lamy expresses regret at violence in Geneva Director-General Pascal Lamy expressed regret today that the peaceful protest march organized by well meaning members of non-governmental organizations on 28 November had deteriorated into a confrontation which resulted in destruction of property and several arrests. “It is unfortunate that a peaceful expression of discontent from those who have honest differences with the WTO should have been disrupted by the violent acts of a few who want neither dialogue nor constructive interaction. The WTO has been and continues to be open to debate with civil society,” Mr. Lamy said. The events occurred as the 153 WTO Members prepared for the organization's 7th Ministerial Conference to be held 30 November-2 December in Geneva. More than 2,700 delegates are expected to attend along with 400 journalists and nearly 500 members of civil ...
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by Daniel Christopher Jones 29 November 2009 How will new global geopolitics effect oil and gas exploration? GDS Publishing The global political landscape has shifted significantly in recent years. With America's foreign policy taking them on a number of conquests to confront the world's enemies, Russia's fading power and China's emergence as one of the world's fastest growing economies, geopolitics have changed forever. But in the light of changing political relationships between the world's most powerful and important nations, how will these changes affect the future of global oil and gas exploration? Despite a huge amount of weight placed behind alternative sources of fuel over the last decade, the two fossil fuels still remain the world's most expensive commodities, and oil and gas exploration continues to be of great importance to the world. Now, with commodity prices finally beginning to stabilise after a tough recession for the industry, the ...
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by C. Fred Bergsten, Peterson Institute for International Economics Testimony before the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives September 10, 2009, Testimony: Testimony: The United States–China Economic Relationship and the Strategic and Economic Dialogue. The Policy Context The United States and China are the two most important national economies in the world: China will shortly pass Japan to become the world's second largest economy behind the United States; the two together accounted for almost one half of all global growth during the four-year boom prior to the crisis; they are the two largest trading nations; they are the two largest polluters; they are on opposite ends of the world's largest trade and financial imbalance: the United States is the largest deficit and debtor country while China is the largest surplus country and ...
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by Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor , Vol. 6, Issue 216, Nov. 23, 2009 -- (Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko; Photo). R ussian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko declared on November 16 that the Nord Stream pipeline on the Baltic seabed would not be used for diverting gas volumes away from Ukraine’s transit pipelines to Europe. In effect, this statement acknowledges that the Nord Stream pipeline, from Russia directly to Germany, is not a Ukraine-bypass project (Interfax, November 16). As if on cue, the Gazprom-led Nord Stream consortium confirmed for Western audiences that this project is not about avoiding East European transit routes, but is simply targeting North European gas markets other than those being supplied through the Ukrainian transit pipelines (Wall Street Journal, November 18). In a similar vein, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared on November 14 that the South Stream project –from Russia via the Black Sea to southern and ...
