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ted on Sunday the deal should not be seen as a threat. "This agreement cannot be at the expense of any country in the region," he told reporters in Kuwait. "We look at Saudi Arabia as an important and influential regional country and we are working to strengthen cooperation with it for the benefit of

ould be wise to nurture this rare bipartisan unity as much as the international coalition it has assembled against Iran. It was Condoleezza Rice's State Department, after all, that originated the notion of a two-track policy of steadily increasing economic pressure on Iran while seeking a diplomatic settlement

new U.S. ambassador said Friday. Janet A. Sanderson, former ambassador to Algeria, also has served at diplomatic missions in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait and Bangladesh. "With the election of a new president, new perspectives now present themselves to Haiti," she said while presenting her credentials

onsored community policing training course. Drug trafficking accounts for an estimated 20 percent of the country's gross domestic product, the U.S. State Department said in its annual narcotics report released last week. Local media regularly report crimes that are believed to be related to drugs, the report sai

the United States have been on the upswing this year -- a reversal of previous policy that favored sales to China -- and the kingdom, together with Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, has stockpiled oil in ships off the coast of Al- Fujairah, outside the critical shipping chokepoint of the Strait of H

presumed to be an abuse of power — one intended to mask many other abuses. Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the U.S. State Department, is professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. Foreign Policy Is relying on Saudi Arabia in times of war a smart t

new U.S. ambassador said Friday. Janet A. Sanderson, former ambassador to Algeria. also has served at diplomatic missions in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait and Bangladesh. "With the election of a new president, new perspectives now present themselves to Haiti," she said while presenting her credentials

onsored community policing training course. Drug trafficking accounts for an estimated 20 percent of the country's gross domestic product, the U.S. State Department said in its annual narcotics report released last week. Local media regularly report crimes that are believed to be related to drugs, the report sai

ilitary engagements that will be finished swiftly and with few casualties. Much-ballyhooed successes — like bombing Saddam Hussein's armies out of Kuwait and helping to drive Slobodan Milosevic from power — as well as minidramas like the 1975 rescue of the American cargo ship Mayagiiezfrom the Khmer

ban has certainly been unacceptable, on other questions the EFTA00585495 16 Pakistanis do have a point. Some U.S. officials -- especially in the State Department -- themselves recognize that what happened to Davis is strong evidence that it is not, in fact, a good idea to have hundreds of Special Forces type

new U.S. ambassador said Friday. Janet A. Sanderson, former ambassador to Algeria, also has served at diplomatic missions in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait and Bangladesh. "With the election of a new president, new perspectives now present themselves to Haiti," she said while presenting her credentials

onsored community policing training course. Drug trafficking accounts for an estimated 20 percent of the country's gross domestic product, the U.S. State Department said in its annual narcotics report released last week. Local media regularly report crimes that are believed to be related to drugs, the report sai

an Assange, began posting thousands of classified State Department cables online. Candid descriptions of foreign lea

ively pursue a secure withdrawal option. The second group that will have to pay retail for stability is the Arab monarchies — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco. These governments have for decades bought stability with reform wholesale — by offering faux reforms, like reshuffling cabinets, th

lity must eventually give way to the more mundane realities of running the department. She is midway through a five-year plan to increase the size of the State Department’s foreign- service staff by 25 percent and double USAID. And she’s taken a leaf from the Pentagon playbook and launched a “Q.D.D.R.”— Quadrennial Diplo

ld of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, the State Department poured hundreds of millions into a new public- di

by force in a member state. SPIEGEL: Still, the Arab League has been militarily active in the past. In 1961, for example, it sent a special force to Kuwait to protect it from an imminent Iraqi invasion. Don't you need this kind of a strike force, not unlike the UN peacekeeping force? Elaraby: Given the