APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from March 2006

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from March 2006

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-U - Unity.
March 20, 2006... The US Ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, is trying to forge unity among the main sectarian and ethnic factions in Iraq by having them negotiate the country's first permanent post-invasion government to represent them and other parties...

IRAQ - The US Mediator.(L. Paul Bremer)
March 20, 2006... As the Bush administration's envoy for Iraqi politics, Khalilzad had considerable experience dealing with opponents of Saddam's Ba'thist dictatorship. Before the war, Khalilzad was the White House's point man in meetings with Iraqi exile...

IRAQ - Violence Continues.
March 20, 2006... More than 46 people died in Sadr City, Baghdad's main Shi'ite area, on March 12 as a number of suicide bombs and mortar strikes seemed designed to follow up on the Feb. 22 bombing of the Shi'ite shrine in Samarra' and provoke civil war....

IRAQ - US-Led Offensive.
March 20, 2006... The US military on March 16 launched a major attack on insurgent strongholds north-east of Samarra'. The Pentagon described this as the largest air/land assault since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Gen. John Abizaid, head of the US Central...

IRAQ - UN/Arabs In Regional Stabilisation Efforts.(United Nations)
March 20, 2006... The UN is appealing to Iraq's neighbours to play a more constructive role in averting a worsening of sectarian violence through establishment of a new "contact group" of regional powers. In an address to the Security Council (UNSC) on March 16,...

IRAQ - Bush's Assessment.(George W. Bush)
March 20, 2006... President Bush on March 12 launched a round of speeches on Iraq, his most intractable problem. The initiative, as the third anniversary of the start of war approaches, is unlikely to offer any changes in US policy. But with Bush facing the...

US Tries To Take Iran Off The Energy Market - Asian Powers Resist.(Industry overview)
March 20, 2006... US efforts to isolate Iran are colliding with the energy concerns of Asia's economic powers, testing Washington's ability to form a diplomatic coalition and its influence on oil and gas markets. The FT on March 13 quoted officials as saying the...

The Lebanon Game For Iran.
March 20, 2006... Not long after the Feb. 14, 2005, assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri, Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon, unleashing a wave of patriotism in Beirut which prompted many to declare that the Lebanese might finally be able to take...

Iran Nuke Plans On Trial?
March 20, 2006... The March 8 decision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report Iran to the UNSC has placed Washington and its allies on a collision course with Tehran. Unless the parties in the dispute come up with a new strategy to overcome...

Saddam Trial.(Saddam Hussein)
March 20, 2006... The court trying Saddam on March 12 heard testimony from his co-defendants, with three minor Ba'th officials denying they took part in a 1982 wave of repression against a Shi'ite village which forms the basis of the charges. Although the trial...

The Energy Sector.
March 20, 2006... Three years after a war some critics said was all about oil, Iraq is scrambling to save the vital industry from collapse and a swift recovery is unlikely in the near future. Attacks on energy installations, political wrangling, lack of funds...