MME SECRETARY , LOOKING TO Caucasus | 18.09.2008 "West Must Confront Russian Aggression", Rice Says THE SOVIET AGGRESSION IN CAMBODIA THROUGH THE VIETNAMESE IN 1979 IS IT THE SAME AS THE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION TO GEORGIA TODAY ?
AMERICA -VIETNAM-CAMBODIA 2008. AS OF TODAY SEPTEMBER 18 2008,CAMBODIA AS UN MEMBER , REMAINS OCCUPIED BY ANOTHER UN MEMBER THAT IS VIETNAM from 1979-2008 through the cpp/hun sen regime.against 10 UN resolutions , not respected despite the call from the US president , President Reagan. THE FACTS ARE: 10 UN RESOLUTIONS, (1979-1988) VOTED BY 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES ,CALL VIETNAM TO CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY ARE NOT RESPECTED. America calls Vietnam to restore Cambodia Independence . President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." WE,THE CAMBODIAN,WE ARE CALLING TO U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte TO HELP RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM WITH VIETNAM IN ORDER TO RESTORE INDEPENDENCE TO CAMBODIA IN COMPIANCE TO THE SPIRITS OF US PRESIDENT REAGAN AND THE 10 UN RESOLUTIONS. LOOKING TO Caucasus | 18.09.2008 West Must Confront Russian Aggression, Rice Says Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: US Secretary of State Rice wants the EU and USA to take a tougher line with Moscow Russia will not accomplish its "war aim" of removing the government of Georgia, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. She said the US and Europe have to show Moscow it is internationally isolating itself. The United States and European Union have to stand up to Moscow's "bullying" and keep Russia from benefiting from its military move into Georgia, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a harshly-worded speech on Thursday. In her first major speech on Russia since its military incursion into Georgia last month, Rice said the Russia-Georgia war would not achieve the strategic objective Moscow had hoped for. Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Rice's comments are the harshest yet heard from the US government "Russia's leaders will not accomplish their primary war aim of removing Georgia's government," she said in the excerpts released by the State Department ahead of her speech to the German Marshall Fund later Thursday. "Our strategic goal now is to make it clear to Russia's leaders that their choices are putting Russia on a one-way path to self-imposed isolation and international irrelevance." Rice said the United States and Europe must not allow Russia's "aggression" against the Georgian government of President Mikhail Saakashvili to achieve any benefit. She said Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization was now in question, as well as its attempt to join the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Russian forces drove deep into Georgia in August after repelling an attempt by Tbilisi to retake separatist South Ossetia. Moscow then recognized South Ossetia and separatist region Abkhazia as independent states. No country except Nicaragua has followed suit. Georgia monitor mission talks freeze Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Russia is demanding that South Ossetian authorities decide on the OSCE mission Rice's comments came as talks on sending more monitors to Georgia broke down because of disputes with Russia on where they should be deployed, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said Thursday. "We don't see the point of continuing negotiations in Vienna at this stage. They have been put on hold. The area of responsibility for monitors is the main sticking point," said Antti Turunen of Finland, currently chairing the policymaking Permanent Council of the 56-nation OSCE. "This is no longer, for the time being, a matter for diplomats," said OSCE spokesman Martin Nesirky. "This is elevated to the political level and needs to be dealt with in capitals." Georgia's OSCE envoy blamed Russia's refusal to let monitors into breakaway South Ossetia and Moscow's demand that local authorities should decide the future OSCE mandate because it now considers the region "independent." Russian envoy Anvar Azimov said South Ossetia was loath to let monitors back in because, it said, they had failed to alert them to Georgia's offensive to wrest back the region, and so they should be stationed in territory "from which the aggression came." "They did not inform South Ossetian authorities about the possible aggression, they did not prevent this aggression," he said. Russian forces to stay: Kouchner Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Diplomacy alone may not be able to shift Russian forces from South Ossetia or Abkhazia France's foreign minister said the world should not expect Russia to pull out of Georgia's two breakaway provinces anytime soon. Bernard Kouchner's comment was the clearest sign yet that the European Union may be accepting the possibility that Georgia will not regain control of South Ossetia or Abkhazia. Russia plans to station nearly 8,000 troops for a long-term stay in the two regions. Asked by France-Culture radio whether Russia troops would pull back to Georgia's internationally recognized borders, Kouchner replied: "No, I don't think so. Don't count on it." DW staff (dm) AMERICA -VIETNAM-CAMBODIA 2008. AS OF TODAY SEPTEMBER 18 2008,CAMBODIA AS UN MEMBER , REMAINS OCCUPIED BY ANOTHER UN MEMBER THAT IS VIETNAM from 1979-2008 through the cpp/hun sen regime.against 10 UN resolutions , not respected despite the call from the US president , President Reagan. THE FACTS ARE: 10 UN RESOLUTIONS, (1979-1988) VOTED BY 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES ,CALL VIETNAM TO CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY ARE NOT RESPECTED. America calls Vietnam to restore Cambodia Independence . President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." WE,THE CAMBODIAN,WE ARE CALLING TO U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte TO HELP RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM WITH VIETNAM IN ORDER TO RESTORE INDEPENDENCE TO CAMBODIA IN COMPIANCE TO THE SPIRITS OF US PRESIDENT REAGAN AND THE 10 UN RESOLUTIONS. Toasting good time in Phnom Penh ... with an autocratic ruler who was a former Khmer Rouge soldier Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (R) toasts with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte after attending a meeting to sign agreements with the U.S. at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh September 15, 2008. The U.S. Government and the Royal Government of Cambodia signed a four-year bilateral agreement that will see the U.S. provide $26 million in funding to support Cambodian priorities in economic growth, according to a U.S embassy press release. REUTERS/Chor SokuntheaCambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) shakes hand with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte before a meeting to sign agreements with the U.S. at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh September 15, 2008. The U.S. Government and the Royal Government of Cambodia signed a four-year bilateral agreement that will see the U.S. provide $26 million in funding to support Cambodian priorities in economic growth, according to a U.S embassy press release. REUTERS/Chor SokuntheaCambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, second left, talks to the journalists after witnessing a signing ceremony with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte in Cambodia, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. The United States has decided to help fund the Cambodian genocide tribunal's work in putting former Khmer Rouge leaders on trial, a government official said Monday. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)Click to Read More... US$24 million for economic development And Monday, September 15, 2008 US diplomat tours Cambodia's famed Angkor temples Sunday, September 14, 2008The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte toured centuries-old Angkor temples in northwestern Cambodia on Sunday as he began a three-day visit to the Southeast Asian nation, an embassy official said.Negroponte was scheduled to arrive in the capital, Phnom Penh, on Monday to hold talks with Cambodian officials, including Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, U.S. Embassy spokesman John Johnson said.The deputy secretary of state was also expected to attend the signing of an agreement under which the United States will provide US$24 million for economic development projects in Cambodia, the embassy said in a statement.Negroponte's visit is the latest sign of improved relations between the two countries.Last year, the United States lifted a decade-old ban on direct aid to the Cambodian government. Washington cut off direct funding to Cambodian government projects in 1997 after Prime Minister Hun Sen ousted Prince Norodom Ranariddh, then his co-premier, in a coup.Before the ban was lifted, U.S. aid to impoverished Cambodia was mostly channeled to projects implemented by private groups.The U.S. has also recently resumed non-lethal military aid to Cambodia. Last week, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln hosted a rare tour for a group of Cambodian military and government officials as it passed through the region on its way home from Iraq. Early X'mas for Hun Sen: Negroponte brings in a $24 million gift to the Hun Sen gov't Cambodian economy gets an additional US$ 24 million bonanza 13-09-2008 Cambodge Soir Hebdo in EnglishClick here to read the article in French The American government announced a donation to help Cambodian economic development. The Agreement will be signed during John Negroponte’s visit.Erin Soto, USAID mission director and Sok An, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers of Cambodia, will sign an agreement for US$ 26 million on behalf of their respective countries on Monday September 15. The ceremony will be presided over by John Negroponte, the US Deputy Secretary of State and Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of Cambodia. This amount aims at strengthening and developing the Cambodian economy. The US, through their Agency for International Development (USAID) will inject US$ 24 million, whereas the Cambodian government will commit US$ 2 million.A four-year long agreement, it will facilitate growth. The USAID project for micro-companies and small and medium companies will be strengthened and enlarged to the private sector. The public domain will be included in the programme to guarantee a conducive background for companies and businesses.USAID, in 2008, plans a US$ 57.5 million budget distributed through different programmes. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte , left, greets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, right, at the Government Office in Hanoi,Vietnam, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)U.S. diplomat revisits a fast-changing Vietnam Friday, September 12, 2008The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam: The second-highest-ranking U.S. diplomat, back for the first time since the Vietnam War, said Friday that he was impressed by the pace of economic change in the country and its good will toward its former foe.Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte urged Vietnam to increase political freedom and improve its legal system but said the two sides have developed a "close partnership" that the United States would like to deepen."I'm very optimistic about the future of our relationship," Negroponte said during a press briefing in Hanoi on Friday morning.Negroponte worked at the U.S. embassy in the former Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, during the Vietnam War. This is his first trip back to Vietnam since 1973.Even though the two sides fought a "bitter and difficult" war, Negroponte said, "on both sides, there seems to be a tremendous amount of good will."He praised Vietnam's economic growth, which has averaged roughly 7 percent a year for the last decade, describing it as an "economic miracle" that had lifted millions of Vietnamese out of poverty.Negroponte's is the most recent in a series of high-level visits between the two countries. U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Hanoi in 2006, and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visited Washington in June.Negroponte met with Dung in Hanoi on Thursday, as well as the education minister, the foreign minister and various other officials. He is planning to meet Friday and Saturday with business leaders in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's southern business hub, before visiting neighboring Cambodia.He said he had raised the issue of human rights in all his meetings, but did not raise specific cases.Negroponte spoke just two days after Vietnam sentenced an Internet writer and activist to 30 months in prison for tax fraud.Human Rights Watch issued a statement decrying the verdict against Nguyen Hoang Hai, calling it part of a "crackdown on democracy activists in Vietnam."Hai, whose pen name is Dieu Cay, has criticized Vietnam's government for its handling of a dispute with China over the Spratly and Paracel islands, located in an area of the South China Sea believed to contain rich oil and gas reserves. See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part of your life. See Now</html_________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. 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