MountainRunner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this month, I made a comment that most Americans don’t know who is the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (see the very end of this post). While most of the readers probably know who Sean is,...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
DPA Washington, July 20 (DPA) The US Saturday urged Tehran to respond soon to a package of incentives offered by world powers in exchange for an Iranian pledge to suspend uranium enrichment. US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the US would support additional UN Security Council sanctions if Iran failed to accept the offer. McCormack’s comments [...]
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - North Korea and its five negotiating partners must agree a clear process for verifying Pyongyang's declarations on its nuclear disarmament, top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said on Tuesday....
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Rice is expected to meet North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun in an informal meeting of the top diplomats of the six countries negotiating Pyongyang's denuclearization program, spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday. China, Japan and Russia, the other four states involved in the six-party talks, McCormack said. It's really a meeting to review where the six-party process is at the moment," the...
SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Iran was on Sunday facing a two-week deadline to give a final answer to world powers seeking a breakthrough in the nuclear crisis, after talks with the EU foreign policy chief ended in stalemate. Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana hailed their latest talks in Geneva on Saturday as [...]
J6D Newsblog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7515589.stm Iran must decide between confrontation and co-operation in the dispute over its nuclear plans, the US has warned. At talks in Geneva, envoys from the US, EU and UN asked Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment in return for a pledge not to introduce new sanctions. Iran gave no guarantees it would halt its activities, so the [...]
J6D Newsblog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,386542,00.html A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled Saturday, with Iran stonewalling Washington and five other world powers on their call to freeze uranium enrichment. In response, the six gave Iran two weeks to respond to their demand, setting the stage for a new round of U.N. sanctions. Iran’s refusal [...]
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Iran must choose between cooperation and confrontation: US
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Source: [b]Reuters[/b] WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday after inconclusive international talks with Iran's nuclear envoy that Tehran must choose between cooperation or confrontation and give up sensitive nuclear work. "We hope the Iranian people understand that ...
Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Some optimistic souls are describing the Bush administration's decision to send undersecretary of State for political affairs Burns to negotiations in Geneva, and talk of opening a special interest section in Tehran, as a seismic shift in Iran policy. Others, more cynical, are describing it simply as the US pretending to play good cop to Israel's bad cop. Blake Hounsell of FP Passport is among the...
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
It just makes you wonder who works at the US Embassy in Seoul when they make comments like this: “I think you leave it to both South Korea and Japan to each describe that relationship,” State Department Sean McCormack was quoted as saying in a daily briefing by Yonhap News. “We independently have good relationships with [...]
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Washington - The US said on Monday it is bolstering its security in Sudan after conceding that international efforts to arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir could spark a violent backlash. State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack told reporters that not only has the US taken "appropriate" security steps, but has reminded Beshir's government of its international duties to ensure the safety of...
rediff News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
"This is a very significant step forward for India in terms of its development of civilian nuclear power but also it is a very important step for the international non proliferation regime," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008 | World
(CNN) — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been released on bail after he was arrested Wednesday for questioning about a sodomy case, Malaysia’s home affairs minister told CNN. The arrest, which the U.S. State Department said raises serious questions and concerns, is the second time Anwar, one of Asia’s best-known opposition leaders, has been incarcerated on charges including sodomy and...
rediff News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The Bush administration wants to learn more about the work of Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan and his network activities even as Islamabad maintains the matter related to him as "a closed chapter".
