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Russia not seeking West clash, but will punch weight: Ivanov
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 10, 2008Resource-rich Russia is not seeking confrontation with the West, but the resurgent country still intends to punch its weight on the world stage, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday. In a speech to the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy -- where President Vladimir Putin last year gave a speech blasting the United States -- Ivanov played down renewed tensions. ... more Bush pledges no permanent bases in Iraq 
Washington (AFP) Feb 10, 2008President George W. Bush acknowledged the United States would seek a military presence in Iraq for "years" but pledged in an interview aired Sunday that he would not establish permanent bases. Bush brushed aside concerns expressed by critics that a Status of Forces Agreement Washington is discussing with the Baghdad goverment would commit future US presidents to a long-term deployment in Ira ... more Bush hails 'headway' on highlighting Iranian threat 
Washington (AFP) Feb 10, 2008President George W. Bush said in an interview aired Sunday the United States had made headway convincing Middle East states that Tehran is a threat, and that sanctions are having an impact on Iran's economy. "In my trip in the Middle East, I made it abundantly clear to nervous nations that Iran is a threat," Bush told Fox News Sunday. "I think I made pretty good headway in the Middle ... more Driven By Iran And North Korea, US DoD Allocates 1.59 Percent Of Its Budget For Missile Defense 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance informed a national audience of the organization the importance and significance of the budget request as it relates to ballistic missile threats to our national security for the new fiscal year, 2009. A summary of his comments and observations follows: "This week, the highest ranking members of the United States ... more Russian deputy PM promises to keep talking on US shield 
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 10, 2008Russia will keep talking with the US about American plans to build a missile defence shield in Europe even though it is fiercely opposed to the project, deputy premier Sergei Ivanov said Sunday. "The Russia-US talks are still going on even if the talks are not positive," Ivanov, one of Russia's two deputy prime ministers, told reporters after meeting US Defence Secretary Robert Gates in Muni ... more |
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Fort Washington PA (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Mikros Systems has announced that its ADEPT Radar Test Set equipment is a candidate for inclusion in the equipment baseline of the United States Navy AEGIS Cruiser and Destroyer Modernization program. The ADEPT system, developed by Mikros under the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research program, has been extensively tested by the Navy on land and at sea, and has proven to be ... more US says missile shield antithesis of Cold War arms race 
Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2008The United States maintained Friday its missile shield program was the antithesis of the Cold War arms race, responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that Moscow would respond to US weapons build-up. "Certainly this is the antithesis of the kinds of arms building that you have seen in the past," said Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman. "It is a small and limited ... more US general says Pakistan nukes safe despite rising militancy 
Islamabad (AFP) Feb 9, 2008The chief of the US military said Saturday that Pakistan's atomic weapons were secure despite rising Islamic militancy in the nuclear-armed South Asian country. Admiral Mike Mullen told reporters after talks with President Pervez Musharraf and army chief Ashfaq Kayani that his discussions focused on the security situation in the region. As the general spoke, a suspected suicide bombing ... more Russia will 'always respond' to new 'arms race': Putin 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 8, 2008Russia will "always respond" to the challenges of a new "arms race" and is developing more high-tech weapons, President Vladmir Putin said Friday in a televised address. "There is a new turn in the arms race," Putin said. "Russia will always respond to this new challenge," he said, promising "new weapons that have the same characteristics, and in some cases better characteristics, as ... more NATO reviewing technical aspects of US missile shield: chief 
Vilnius (AFP) Feb 8, 2008NATO is looking into how a planned US missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic could relate to the alliance, on both technical and political levels, its secretary general said Friday. We are working at a technical level to answer a number of technical questions but we are of course also discussing this at the political level in answering the question (of) how NATO responsibility on ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Feb 8, 2008NATO is closely watching China's military expansion, with an attitude of rising concern and wariness. Led by the United States, NATO members are starting to view China as a possible emerging common adversary. In June 2007 the Stockholm Peace Research Institute of Sweden claimed in a published report that China's military spending had overtaken that of Russia by a very large margin. U.S. ... more Europe Playing With Fire In Afghanistan Warns Lee 
Singapore (UPI) Feb 8, 2008NATO's future is at stake in Afghanistan, warned Asia's senior statesman, and unless America's European allies abandon appeasement and the United States realizes Afghanistan cannot succeed as a democracy, the world balance of power will shift in favor of Russia and China. In an exclusive interview with United Press International, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, long known as the Kissinger of ... more Failure in Afghanistan would threaten Europe: Gates 
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 8, 2008Failure in Afghanistan would directly threaten European security, US Defense Secretary Roberts Gates warned Friday as he sought to mobilize NATO allies and more especially public opinion in Europe. Gates, who arrived in this southern German city to attend an international security conference, said he would seek to convince reluctant Europeans of the need to send reinforcements to fight the ... more An Interview With Lee Kuan Yew 2008 
Singapore (UPI) Feb 8, 2008I do not want to say anything that would hurt President Bush because I believe he went in with the best of intentions. He put his trust in Dick Cheney. And I had trust in Dick Cheney as the voice of experience -- oil business executive, defense secretary during the first Gulf War (1990-91). But I don't know what happened to Dick Cheney. He allowed himself to believe with Richard Perle and the neocons you could change Iraq. How could you change Iraq, a 4,000-year-old society that is not malleable? Everybody knows the troubles the British had during and after World War I. ... more McCain lays out tough Republican policy platform 
Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2008No nuclear Iran, more war in Iraq, and no surrender to "evil" Islamic extremism -- the Republican Party's 2008 White House foreign policy platform, courtesy of presumptive nominee John McCain. In his first few hours as his party's inevitable presidential pick, McCain wasted no time laying out a hawkish vision, strikingly similar to the outgoing Bush administration's foreign policy creed. ... more
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