Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Obama marks Paris milestone: Statue in wax museum
Complete with new gray hairs and two fake bodyguards, a wax version of President Barack Obama took a trip on Monday to the Eiffel Tower.
After visiting France’s most famous monument, the statue traveled to Paris’ Musee Grevin wax museum, where it will stand alongside the likenesses of Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin.
Sculptor Eric Saint Chaffray had never seen Obama in person. “The main difficulty is making it without meeting him, from press photos,” he said as the statue was unveiled today. The hot summer sun at the Eiffel Tower threatened to melt the fake president’s face, prompting helpers to shade him with an umbrella,
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After visiting France’s most famous monument, the statue traveled to Paris’ Musee Grevin wax museum, where it will stand alongside the likenesses of Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin.
Sculptor Eric Saint Chaffray had never seen Obama in person. “The main difficulty is making it without meeting him, from press photos,” he said as the statue was unveiled today. The hot summer sun at the Eiffel Tower threatened to melt the fake president’s face, prompting helpers to shade him with an umbrella,
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
We need unconditional support to fight terror: Zardari
Pakistan is fighting terrorism for its own survival and will not succumb to any pressure from militants, President Asif Ali Zardari told two key US envoys as he sought “unconditional support” in fields like training and provision of equipment to defeat alQaeda and Taliban.
Pakistan is “fighting a battle for its own survival,” Zardari told US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke and Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a meeting late last night. Besides the regional security situation, the US officials, who arrived here after a two day visit to Afghanistan, discussed with Zardari the Afghan Pak strategy announced by President Barack Obama recently and a surge in militancy and extremism in the region. Zardari said the Pakistan government will “not succumb to any pressure by militants” though the process of dialogue should be initiated “with those who lay down their arms and do not challenge the writ of the government”.
The Pakistan President said the military action “is only one aspect of the solution.”
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Pakistan is “fighting a battle for its own survival,” Zardari told US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke and Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a meeting late last night. Besides the regional security situation, the US officials, who arrived here after a two day visit to Afghanistan, discussed with Zardari the Afghan Pak strategy announced by President Barack Obama recently and a surge in militancy and extremism in the region. Zardari said the Pakistan government will “not succumb to any pressure by militants” though the process of dialogue should be initiated “with those who lay down their arms and do not challenge the writ of the government”.
The Pakistan President said the military action “is only one aspect of the solution.”
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
United States strikes to continue in Pakistan
Describing Afghanistan as the greatest military challenge for the US, Defence Secretary Robert Gates has indicated that missile strikes in Pakistan will continue to root out Al Qaeda members based across the porous border.
“There is little doubt that our greatest military challenge right now is Afghanistan,” Gates said in his first comments to the Congress as President Barack Obama’s defence secretary Tuesday.
Later, in response to a question from the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Senator Carl Levin, he said missile strikes in Pakistan will continue in an effort to root out Al Qaeda members who have based themselves across the border from Afghanistan.
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“There is little doubt that our greatest military challenge right now is Afghanistan,” Gates said in his first comments to the Congress as President Barack Obama’s defence secretary Tuesday.
Later, in response to a question from the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Senator Carl Levin, he said missile strikes in Pakistan will continue in an effort to root out Al Qaeda members who have based themselves across the border from Afghanistan.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Obama’s Kashmir ‘faux pas’ on debate in Washington
The director of Asia Programme at the Centre for International Policy and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International, S Harrison has received flak for his comments regarding US president elect Barrak Obama’s statement on Kashmir. S Harrison’s views were published in The Washington Times.
Two days after his views were published; a columnist Aimee Kligman in NY Foreign Policy Examiner questioned his opinion saying his views were difficult to understand. But in the same opinion piece Aimee has observed that “there is little reason to believe that the U.S. would do anything that would diminish the renewed and strong relationship with India.”
A Kashmir initiative by America, however “veiled”, can undermine improving Indo-US ties, Harrison had said and had went on to say “President-elect Barack Obama has made his first big foreign policy mistake pledging US intervention in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.”
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Two days after his views were published; a columnist Aimee Kligman in NY Foreign Policy Examiner questioned his opinion saying his views were difficult to understand. But in the same opinion piece Aimee has observed that “there is little reason to believe that the U.S. would do anything that would diminish the renewed and strong relationship with India.”
A Kashmir initiative by America, however “veiled”, can undermine improving Indo-US ties, Harrison had said and had went on to say “President-elect Barack Obama has made his first big foreign policy mistake pledging US intervention in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.”
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
United States may re-design policy on India, Pakistan
The peril of re hyphenating India and Pakistan in the United States foreign policy lexicon is looming large once again. Two American think-tanks in their separate reports have called for formulating a new US policy linking Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
A report prepared by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and released by a senior aide of the president-elect Barrack Obama believed that problems in these three countries were “inextricably linked”.
John Podesta who is Chairman of the Transition Team of Obama and president of the CAP called for a proper US policy to address South Asia. The report has asked new administration to work with Pakistan’s neighbors, other global powers, and international organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, and the United Nations in order to assist Pakistan over the long term.
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A report prepared by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and released by a senior aide of the president-elect Barrack Obama believed that problems in these three countries were “inextricably linked”.
John Podesta who is Chairman of the Transition Team of Obama and president of the CAP called for a proper US policy to address South Asia. The report has asked new administration to work with Pakistan’s neighbors, other global powers, and international organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, and the United Nations in order to assist Pakistan over the long term.
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Labels: Barack Obama, Center for American Progress, india, John Podesta, new U.S. administration, new US policy linking Afghanistan, pakistan, Transition Team of Obama, United States may re-design policy
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Clinton may be special envoy on Kashmir
While political leaders cutting across party lines here hailed election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, an underlying fear of his possible pro-active role on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir was palpable here.
Reports said that Obama was considering appointing former US President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to settle Kashmir and negotiate a settlement between India and Pakistan. Clinton had earlier negotiated a settlement between Britain, Irish militants and Republic of Ireland to permanently settle the thorny issue of Northern Ireland.
Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also cautioned government to remain vigilant against the pet agenda of Democrats on CTBT, Jammu and Kashmir and imposing special taxes on outsourcing industries. The party spokesman Prakash Javdekar said while his party hails the election of first black to the American presidency, India should launch a diplomatic blitzkrieg to make Democratic government in Washington to understand its concerns on these three issues.
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Reports said that Obama was considering appointing former US President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to settle Kashmir and negotiate a settlement between India and Pakistan. Clinton had earlier negotiated a settlement between Britain, Irish militants and Republic of Ireland to permanently settle the thorny issue of Northern Ireland.
Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also cautioned government to remain vigilant against the pet agenda of Democrats on CTBT, Jammu and Kashmir and imposing special taxes on outsourcing industries. The party spokesman Prakash Javdekar said while his party hails the election of first black to the American presidency, India should launch a diplomatic blitzkrieg to make Democratic government in Washington to understand its concerns on these three issues.
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Labels: Barack Obama, Bharatiya Janata Party, Britain, Democratic government, former US President Bill Clinton, G-20 meeting, Irish militants, Kashmir issue, Northern Ireland, special envoy, thorny issue
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