APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from February 2005

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from February 2005

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6H - The People Win 1st Round.
February 7, 2005... The elections in Iraq on Jan. 30 produced encouraging surprises, which caused rulers in the Arab world to fall silent: With extraordinary courage, despite suicide bombings by terrorists, millions of Iraqis voted for a transitional National...

IRAQ - The EU Will Help.(European Union)
February 7, 2005... Spurred by the Jan. 30 elections, which are being viewed positively in Europe, EU governments are rethinking their involvement in Iraq, with an eye to increasing stability and security. The Dutch, for example, while reaffirming that they will...

IRAQ - The Baghdad Timeline.(Brief Article)
February 7, 2005... The 275-seat National Assembly will act as both a legislature and a panel to draft a new constitution. The following will be its timeline to end-2005: To meet and elect its own officials, including the speaker who will be a Shiite and two...

IRAQ - Iraqi Leaders Warn Against US Leaving.
February 7, 2005... At a new conference on Jan. 31, Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Jan. 31 called on Iraqis to join together to rebuild a society shattered by decades of war, tyranny, economic sanctions and military occupation. He said: "The terrorists now...

IRAQ - A US Exit Strategy.
February 7, 2005... The US is thus entering a new phase during which it should work out an exit strategy for the coalition forces. Two Republican former secretaries of state, Henry A. Kissinger and George P. Shultz, in an article published on Jan. 26 by the...

IRAQ - Coalition Staying Through 2006.
February 7, 2005... The US Army expects to keep its troop strength in Iraq at the current level of about 120,000 for at least two more years, according to its top operations officer, Lt Gen James Lovelace Jr. While allowing for the possibility that the levels...

IRAQ - The US Midwives Of Iraqi Democracy.
February 7, 2005... American and US-funded instructors on democracy worked hard in preparing for the Jan. 30 elections - but behind towering gray blast walls which encased every Western enterprise in the new Iraq. This set of groups, in an anonymous cluster of...

IRAQ - Iraq Costing Almost $300 Bn.
February 7, 2005... The notion that the US came after Iraq's oil, rather than to liberate it from dictatorship, is dwarfed by the fact that what the Americans are paying for this enterprise might take decades of Iraq's petroleum income to match. Bush on Jan. 25...

IRAQ - Iraqi Takeover.(Brief Article)
February 7, 2005... British Premier Blair has signalled that the US and UK will begin handing over control of large parts of Iraq to the country's security forces after the Jan. 30 elections, seeking to underscore the legitimacy of the newly-elected government. In...

IRAQ - The Coming Domestic Issues.
February 7, 2005... The following are extracts from an article by prominent Iranian journalist Amir Taheri published on Jan. 26 by Gulf News: "Are the insurgents and their terrorist allies in the Sunni Triangle doing Iraq a favor without knowing it? The question...