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By Gore Vidal
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The Asian Human Rights Commission appreciates and welcomes the announcement by the new government of Pakistan to commute death sentences to life imprisonment. The AHRC hopes that the government of Prime...
Marking World Refugee Day on Friday 20 June, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said that providing protection for refugees today is vastly more challenging than when his office began work...
On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. Amnesty International...
By Gore Vidal
On June 10, 2008, a counterrevolution began on the floor of the House of Representatives against the gas and oil crooks who had seized control of the federal government. This counterrevolution...
Reporters Without Borders is worried about the kidnapping of leading cyber-dissident Huang Qi, the founder of the human rights website 64Tianwang (http://www.64tianwang.com). He and two other activists...
More than 1,000 journalists gathered in the Kremlin for the news conference, which has set a record lasting about three and a half hours.
Putin says he never considered running for a third term. Nor was he tempted to change the Russian constitution, which forbids him from doing so.
Vladimir Putin has sought to ease concern about a possible power-sharing row if he becomes Prime Minister after March’s presidential election. He’s told his last annual news conference that if favourite Dmitry Medvedev wins the election, the pair will work in a ‘practical relationship’.
The Russian President told the journalists that regardless of recent disagreements, America remains Russia’s most important trading partner.
"Whatever they say during the election campaigns, the fundamental interests of Russia and the U.S. will inevitably push the leadership of both countries towards developing a positive and, at least, partnership dialogue," the Russian president noted.
However he said that NATO is discussing energy security in a way that is ‘clearly unfriendly to Russia. We can see it’. America's insistence on a weapons shield has forced Russia to consider aiming missiles at Eastern Europe, according to Vladimir Putin. "If it comes into life, we are likely to aim some part of our missile system at these sites," the Russian leader stressed.
The President repeated Russia’s stance on Kosovo’s future, saying support for its independence was ‘immoral’.
“Europe has double standards on territorial issues. Unified principles should be applied. International law doesn’t guard the interest of small countries”.
He also explained why Russia had suspended its role in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty.
“We signed a treaty on the nation and control of weapons in Europe, the CFE treaty. We have ratified it and shrunk our contingents in Europe. We don't have any single military unit in Europe.” said Putin.
Putin dismissed concerns about Russia wanting to dominate the Arctic.
The Russian flag is just a symbol, not a territorial claim, just like the American flag on the Moon, he said. “Our research is aimed at proving that Russian Federation has the right on part of this shelf, but we are doing it in the existing international law framework, in the framework of the UN,” Putin said.