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[1] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Mar 14, 2006 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] Hindus, Muslims rise above riots Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels taught his indian compatriots to repeat it again, again and again then it will be a true! please don't distrub them. let varanasi burn, gujrath destroy, kashmir to burn, the show must goes on......... regi. Mukul Dube <uthappam@gmail.com> wrote: This is incorrect. India has, and has always had, more Muslims than Pakistan. "Hindus account for about 80 per cent of India's 1.1 billion people and Muslims about 13 per cent, giving the country the largest Muslim population after Indonesia and Pakistan." MD Ram Narayanan wrote: > http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=64269 > ----------------------- [2] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Mar 15, 2006 Subject: US delaying WTO entry: Russia FM [China had to fight long and hard to gain entry into the WTO eventually in 2001. What finally changed US attitude was the excellent cooperation that the Chinese offered to stabilise the international financial order in the aftermath of the economic melt down of the East Asian Tigers. The overture was soon rewarded with a prolonged visit by Bill Clinton in July 1998. (In those days the US had taken the lead role in imposing sanctions against India, and Pakistan, in response to nuclear blasts carried out by them in the preceding May.) It still took more than three years to formalise China' s entry into the WTO. Russia, however, has not yet proved as fortunate. It is rather amazing that in spite of being a member of the G8, it is still cooling its heels in order to gain entry into the WTO. Iran and Syria are two other major nations, which continue to be denied entry.] http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=277536&category=Frontend&C ountry=world US delaying WTO entry: Russia FM Tuesday, March 14,2006 MOSCOW: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he suspected Washington was holding up Russian entry to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for political reasons. Lavrov said in a newspaper interview published yesterday that the trade issues US negotiators cite as stumbling blocks to Russia's WTO entry do not seem to trouble the industry groups whose interests the White House says it is protecting. "We cannot fail to see a political subtext in the position of the American negotiators," Lavrov said in an interview published yesterday in the Vremya Novostei daily. The United States and Columbia are the only two countries yet to sign the bilateral deals that would allow Russia - the biggest economy still outside the trade club - to join after more than a decade of membership talks. The key sticking point in talks with Washington is access to Russia's financial markets. Moscow says it will not allow foreign banks to open branches in Russia because it is trying to protect its still-developing domestic banking sector. Disagreements over farm trade, Russian aircraft imports and intellectual property theft also need to be ironed out. Lavrov said Washington was setting the bar higher for Russia's entry than it had for other recent entrants. "From us they are demanding what they call WTO plus. Each time, the Americans demand from us things that we thought we had settled in principle. Like the opening of direct branches of foreign banks in Russia," said Lavrov. "The conditions we are offering have for a long time suited American bankers, which is what the heads of Citibank and other leading US financial corporations have told us. "Everything suits the bankers, but the administration wants something more. Even though the administration, you would think, should take care of its bankers." Lavrov said he raised the issue during a visit to Washington earlier this month. "This gives us cause for concern and I, at the instruction of the president of Russia, told (US President) George Bush about it. And he, in my presence, gave an order that this situation should be sorted out and he should be informed every 10 days about the state of play." Lavrov said it appeared that Russian neighbour Ukraine, which is led by a Western-leaning administration, was getting preferential treatment in its application to join the WTO. The US House of Representatives voted last week to revoke the Jackson-Vanik amendment in respect of Ukraine. The amendment is a provision left over from the Cold War that restricted US trade ties with the Soviet Union. Revoking Jackson-Vanik is a key precondition for WTO entry. It is still in force with Russia. "The situation is getting to be indecent where the restrictions imposed by the Jackson-Vanik amendment continue to apply ... when the reasons for introducing those restrictions in the first place have long gone," said Lavrov. -------------------- [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Mar 14, 2006 Subject: Alice in Nuclear Blunderland http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/alice-in-nuclear-blunderland080306# Subject: Alice in Nuclear Blunderland http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/alice-in-nuclear-blunderland080306# ------------- |
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