Havana Wants to Talk Washington but ………

Raul CastroCuba’s President, Raul Castro, has showed interest to talk to the Obama administration and relieve more than 50 years of enmity following olive branches from the Washington. Cuba’s leader said he agreed to respond to USA’s effort to recast their diplomatic relations. However, he insisted Cuba’s socialist system was solid and would not be negotiable. He said, “We are ready to talk about everything but not to negotiate our political and social system,” he told the national assembly on Saturday.

In a standing ovation, Raul told he had not been elected Cuba’s President to return capitalism or surrender the revolution. He said “I have to say; with all due respect to Mrs Clinton … they didn’t elect me president to restore capitalism in Cuba, nor to hand over the revolution. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue perfecting socialism, not destroy it.”

February 24, 2008 Castro was elected President for National Assembly as his ailing brother Fidel Castro made announced his objective not to stand for President once more  on 19, February, 2008.

78-year-old Cuba’s President said there was now an opportunity for negotiations that the White House had drabbed Bush-era aggression towards Havana. Castro said “It’s true there has been a diminution of the aggression and anti-Cuban rhetoric on the part of the administration.”

The USA is the only one country in the hemisphere to not get diplomatic ties with Cuba. Many critics consider it as anachronistic and self-defeating. However, Obama has authorized the continuation of discussion over migration and disaster preparedness which were severed throughout the Bush administration.

India and China in Same Point on Green House Issue

green house emissionsIndia’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh has informed that India would not sign up to officially binding greenhouse obligations for no less than 10 years. Ramesh told absolute reduce in greenhouse gas emissions would not even be considered till 2020.

This comment was made ahead of the decisive negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark in December. The strengthening of New Delhi’s position coincides with China’s discontent at what it regards as Western pressure. Earlier India and China complained the so-called developed world as they failed to meet its own targets. Both countries blame them responsible for the historic global emissions.

Obama Wants to Build Solid Relationship with Iraq

Barack Obama and Nouri al-Maliki

US Prsident Barack Obama has vowed all American troops must be out of Iraq by 2011. He said it when he welcomed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to the White House. Obama said hard times were likely for Iraq; however, the USA was ready to make a solid relationship. Maliki joined US President in Washington D.C after talking in New York with UN executives on ending the sanctions imposed on his country following Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

President Obama warned of the much tough days ahead as still some would be ready to sabotage any progress. He said: “There are still those in Iraq who would murder innocent men, women and children. There are still those who want to foment sectarian conflict. But make no mistake, those efforts will fail.” He said the Iraqi people already rejected “the forces of division and destruction” and US troops would all the time be ready to help.

Prime Minister al-Maliki assured Obama that everything was going well in Iraq.  Minster added he shared the objective of Obama to make a new liaison on far above security concerns. Maliki said: “We will work very hard not to allow any sectarian behavior an opportunity to flourish. We will work on a national plan where all sons of Iraq and all daughters of Iraq are equal in their contribution and their services.”

Tipaimukh Dam will be visited on 29 July

Tipaimukh Dam Bangladeshi Prime Minister met her counterpart Indian Manmohan Singh Sheikh Hasina at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Wednesday. Both leaders met for the first time after their respective electoral victories. During the meeting the two prime minister talking some of their bilateral issues like

  • Use of Bangladesh Territory by Indian Insurgent Groups
  • Contentious Tipaimukh Dam
  • Railway Projects
  • Business Development
  • Some Other Relevant Issues

Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said getting the use of Bangladesh territory by Indian insurgent groups, Sheikh Hasina assured Mr. Singh that this must not be allowed and necessary step would be taken. On the other hand, on the issue of proposed the Tipaimukh dam which is opposed by Bangladeshi politicians and environmentalists it was settled that a Bangladeshi observing team would visit the site on 29 July. The dam would be built across the Barak River in Manipur.

Menon said ‘We’re ready to look at all kinds of creative solutions.’ He illustrated ties between India and Bangladesh as ‘close & intimate’ and mentioned there always would be issues ‘but no issues that can’t be solved with goodwill’. He said both sides were pleased with the approach the relationship was going.

Dmitry Medvedev Meet Barack Obama Soon

barack_obama_portrait_2005The chief of two powerful countries are going to meet each other very soon as the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has recently set a date for meeting with his counter part newly elected US president, Barack Obama. Both presidents will get together on first April in London, on the eve of the G20 summit in London. Experts think that the meeting will melt the ice on the current relation between two countries.

Following a meeting with members of a US commission on Russian relations, Mr Medvedev said moves by US toward Russia had recently been very positive. Medvedev said although relations had deteriorated between the two powerful countries over the past several years, however, a new page in Russia-US relations is going to open due to positive signals from US president Barack Obama. Relations have been particularly frayed between two countries through differences over the 2008 Georgia war and missile defenses in Europe.

According to analysts Russia’s war in Georgia in August 2008 sent relations between Russia and the West plummeting to the lowest level not seen since the Cold War. Russia reacted furiously to plans by the former government of George W Bush to set missile facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic. The recent announcement from Moscow made a hope to develop the relation between two countries.

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