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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Pakistan invited to NATO summit, is considering whether to attend

Pakistan announced today that it has been officially invited to the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), based in the U.S. city of Chicago on 20 and 21 next, and is considering whether to attend.   According to a government statement, the secretary general of the Atlantic alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, telephone transmitted the invitation to President Asif Ali Zardari. The president replied that "in light of the recommendations of Parliament and the Government" will consider the proposal to assist the summit, whose main objective is to define the role of the international community following the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in late 2014. The note said that the invitation is not qualified to reopen supply routes for forces NATO stationed in Afghanistan, blocked for nearly six months in response to a bombing of two control points on the border with the neighboring nation that killed 24 soldiers.Local analysts, however, commented that both the U.S. and NATO have had "intense pressure" to release the tracks and Islamabad have conditioned themselves to that decision for attending the summit in Chicago, where they will present more than 60 leaders and heads of state. one day ago, Rasmussen himself warned that relations with the South Asian nation would be "seriously affected" if he refused to reopen the roads. Yesterday, on the other hand, the Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said that Pakistan can not sustain indefinitely the measure for being aware of their responsibilities in the war on insurgency and because you can not afford a confrontation with the 48 NATO states.

Dalai Lama in London protesting against China meeting with Cameron

China has a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron protested the Dalai Lama in London. The meeting between Cameron and the spiritual leader of Tibet was a "serious interference in the internal affairs" of China and an "affront to the Chinese people," the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Tuesday in Beijing. Cameron had met with the Dalai Lama before he was honored in London for his contribution to the spirituality of the lucrative Templeton Prize. The Chinese government protested regularly, when the Dalai Lama will be received from other governments. The meeting with the Camerons Dalai Lama on Monday, which was attended also Cameron's deputy Nick Clegg was not classified as an official reception of protocol. Nevertheless, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman called for, Britain had to make up for the resulting "damage". The award ceremony for the Dalai Lama was made ​​more than 2,000 people at London's St. Paul's Cathedral. The meeting with Cameron and Clegg took place before. The Dalai Lama lives in exile in India since 1959. China accuses him of running from there to the secession of Tibet from China.Since early 2011, set fire to 34 Tibetans, many of them Buddhist monks and nuns, even in protest to against Chinese rule in Tibet. Beijing has occupied Tibet 195.

Hanged a man for Iran was a spy for Israel


Accused of being a spy for Israel, Jamali Majid Fashi was executed by hanging in Iran. He was sentenced last August for the murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist, in January of 2010. The engineer was killed in the explosion of a bomb placed under a motorcycle in front of his house. The Iranian authorities say the man allegedly confessed to being the author of the attack and are certain that he worked for the Mossad. In recent years a number of Iranian scientists, all working in the nuclear field, were killed. And every time Tehran has pointed the finger at Israel and the United States. Washington has always denied this, Israel has never commented. The international community, primarily in Israel, suspects Iran is developing a nuclear program for military purposes. Tehran denies this and talk about civilian purposes.

Merkel receives Hollande with military honors at its first meeting


German Chancellor Angela Merkel , today received the new French president, Francois Hollande , with military honors on arrival at the Federal Chancellery to start shortly after their first encounter bilateral. Hollande became the seat of government Germanic with delay time and room on the schedule, and he was forced to change planes in Paris, after the apparatus in which initially began traveling was hit by lightning shortly after off. The Socialist politician came to Berlin on his first visit abroad within hours after being sworn in as the seventh head of state of the V French Republic. Merkel and Sarkozy will have a first exchange of views and then appear together before the press and then hold a working dinner before returning to Paris Chirac. Both the Chancellor and his spokesman, Steffen Seibert, have stressed in recent days that the event is known as a fundamental purpose, since never before have found personally, but is sure to address the crisis in the euro area. Seibert said yesterday that it is not "a summit-making, but a first meeting to get to know", but the appointment has been prepared carefully by both sides since the election victory in the presidential galas Hollande. Both Berlin and Paris also have reiterated in recent days the importance of traditional Franco-German friendship for Europe and its role as a combination in the European Union.