APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from April 2005

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from April 2005

Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-J - Iraq 10 - Into The Green Zone.
April 11, 2005... Iraq now has a republican and federal democracy, for the first time in its history, led by a central government based in Baghdad's Green Zone which is heavily protected by the US and where the US and British embassies are located. In this...

The Role Of Khalilzad.
April 11, 2005... It was on April 5 that the Bush administration nominated Khalilzad, the ambassador to Afghanistan, to become the new ambassador to Iraq. In her announcement, expected weeks earlier, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Khalilzad - a...

The Role Of Talabani & Regional Reaction.
April 11, 2005... Talabani has spent a lifetime fighting for Kurdish rights, forming a secret student association at the age of 13 and even taking up arms against the Iraqi government. Now, as president of Iraq, he takes his battle from the green, rolling hills...

The US Military Presence.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... One of the first orders of business for the new government under Ja'fari will be to strike a deal over the terms and conditions of the 150,000-troop-strong US military presence. A UN Security Council resolution authorising the occupation ends...

The Shiite Position.
April 11, 2005... The political impasse which has caused such a long delay in forming a cabinet is being viewed by the four senior-most Shiite religious men of Najaf - the Marja'iya - as a symbolic defeat for their aspirations of seeing a Shiite-dominated...