“Negotiations were very hard and complicated but we reached a preliminary agreement on an expertise level,” Hossein Mousavian told Iranian state television (via Reuters), “It is a framework that contains the viewpoints of all sides. All four delegations are supposed to go to their capitals and if the capitals agree with the agreement, it will …
Paris Negotiations Update 7: How do you spell "considerable progress" in Persian?
by | 2004-11-07 | No Comments
Danilov Conviction
by | 2004-11-06 | No Comments
A Russian court has convicted Russian physicist Valentin Danilov of of selling state secrets to China, overturning his earlier acquittal that angered the FSB (nee KGB). The case parallels that of Igor Sutyagin, a scholar at Moscow/’s Institute of USA and Canada Studies (ISKRAN), who was convicted on trumped-up espionage charges and sentenced to 15 …
ElBaradei Speech at Stanford
by | 2004-11-06 | No Comments
Mohamed ElBaradei gave the Drell Lecture at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, urging that “If we are ever to build a global security culture based on human solidarity and shared human values — a collective security framework that will serve the interests of all countries equally, and make reliance on nuclear …
Still no Ambassador to the IAEA
by | 2004-11-06 | 1 Comment
I managed to miss that the Bush Administration withdrew James Cunningham’s nomination as Ambassador to the IAEA on October 8. At least until Richard Boucher admitted yesterday that he had no idea who was representing the United States in Vienna: QUESTION: Related to [Iran-EU3 negotiations], what’s the status of your representation at the IAEA now …
