APS Diplomat News Service articles from March 2009

APS Diplomat News Service archives from March 2009

UAE Least Dependent On Oil.(United Arab Emirates)(Report)(Brief article)
March 2, 2009... A new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report says the UAE is the least dependent of all the GCC states on oil exports, making its economy more robust - thanks to Abu Dhabi whose per capita GDP now is the highest in the world. It put the UAE...

Iran's Wilayat ul-Faqih Vs A US Leadership Yet To Back A Multi-Polar World Order.
March 9, 2009... *** It Turns Out That Obama Wants To See The GME Democratised As Much As Bush's Neo-Cons Planned And The PLO-Led Palestinians To Have Their Own State In The West Bank & Gaza *** A Netanyahu Govt Of Right-Wing & Religious Hawks Will Not...

US Joins Arab/EU Front To Draw Syria Out Of Iran-Led Axis.(United States and European Union)
March 9, 2009... In the race for a dialogue with the US between Syria's 'Alawite/Ba'thist regime of Bashar al-Assad and the Shi'ite theocracy, Saudi Arabia and France have managed to convince the Obama administration to begin talking with Damascus before...

Iran-US Dialogue Efforts & Tehran's Ambitions Face A Serious Sunni Arab Challenge:.
March 23, 2009... *** Khamenei Says Obama Has Not Learned From The 'Bush Mistakes' *** British PM Brown On March 17 Heightened The Pressure On Iran By Threatening Tough New UNSC Sanctions Unless The Shi'ite Theocracy Accepted An Olive Branch From Obama And...

US Nuke-Powered Submarine Collides In Hormuz; WTI Hits $52/B.(West Texas Intermediate)
March 23, 2009... Two US Navy vessels - a nuclear-powered submarine and an amphibious ship - collided before dawn on March 20 in the Strait of Hormuz, through which 17m b/d of the world's oil pass. There was no damage to the sub's nuclear propulsion system and...

Israel Raises The Stakes Against Hamas.
March 23, 2009... Israel late on March 18 and in early March 19 arrested 10 Hamas leaders in the West Bank, including four MPs, in what Hamas said was an attempt to pressure the Islamist group after the collapse of negotiations for the release of captive Israeli...

Israel Govt Deadline Extended.(Brief article)
March 23, 2009... President Peres on March 20 granted Netanyahu another two weeks to form a cabinet. Netanyahu already has the option of forming a majority cabinet with far-right and religious parties, which together control 65 in the new 120-seat Knesset to...

The Main Terrorist Threats To Saudi Arabia.
March 30, 2009... Experts in Riyadh this week said Saudi Arabia's main Neo-Salafi threats now came from the Shi'ite theocracy in Iran, as well as Yemen where a number of Saudi extremists had regrouped in the neighbouring country's mountainous areas of Shi'ite...

Saudi Shi'ites Are Restive.
March 30, 2009... The hopes of Saudi Arabia's Ja'fari Shi'ite minority for greater representation were in February 2009 dashed when Riyadh shook up its government and religious establishment. King 'Abdullah appointed reformers to strategic posts in government...