Epstein Secrets

ruling council. The council has consolidated its grip on the country after Gaddafi's capture and death late last month. Russia supported an initial U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Gaddafi and his government, but abstained from a resolution in March that allowed military intervention. The natio

O Nu. U. 2."! I ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia lost tens of billions of dollars in potential revenues from arms deals with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's fall, the official in charge of Russia's arms exports said on Wednesday. Russia, the world's No. 2 arms exporter, has frequently cited losses of $

uiring nuclear weapons can rarely be dissuaded. Take North Korea, which succeeded in building its weapons despite countless rounds of sanctions and U.N. Security Council resolutions. If EFTA00671817 Tehran decides that its security depends on possessing nuclear weapons, sanctions are unlikely to change its mind.

's chemical weapons programme. Unlike Libya, which had signed the Chemical Weapons Convention and was in the process of dismantling its stocks when Muammar Gaddafi's regime collapsed, Syria has not joined the convention and thus has never made any formal declarations of its stocks. Indeed as Charles Blair, a Se

antaged. China is the world's second-biggest oil consumer and last year obtained 3 percent of its imported crude from Libya. China did not use its U.N. Security Council veto power in March to block a resolution that authorized the NATO bombing campaign against Gaddafi's forces, but it condemned the expanding strikes

in Beijing August 23 2011 By Chns Buckley BEIJING I Mon Sep 5, 2011 9:00am EDT (Reuters) - Chinese arms firms held talks with representatives of Muammar Gaddafi's beleaguered forces in July over weapons sales, but behind Beijing's back, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The revelation is nonethele