APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from March 2008

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from March 2008

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 25 - Iraq, Five Years After The US Invasion.
March 24, 2008... Baghdad on March 20 finished the fifth year since the US invaded Iraq. Three days earlier Iraq was visited by US Vice-President Dick Cheney. Already Arizona Senator John McCain had arrived in Baghdad with a US Congressional team to assess the...

IRAQ - The Petroleum Law Debate.
March 24, 2008... US State Department's Co-ordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq Charles Ries was on March 17 quoted as saying the debate on Iraq's petroleum law was political, not technical. He said the proposed law was not necessary for Iraq to produce oil...

IRAQ - Cheney & McCain Hold Steady.(Dick Cheney, John McCain)
March 24, 2008... Cheney, who arrived in Baghdad with his wife and daughter, and McCain both promised on March 17 that Washington's commitment to Iraq would not waver despite signs of a recent resurgence in violence in the country. Their comments, made on...

The Global Economic Perspective.
March 24, 2008... The world's economy is in a bad state and the situation in the US could get worse in the coming months. Caused by the sub-prime crisis in the US housing sector in 2007, the problem is affecting the real estate markets across the world. ...

US-Saudi Talks.
March 24, 2008... Cheney flew to Saudi Arabia on March 21 and met the king of the world's largest oil exporter with a request that Riyadh make a move that would calm the oil market. Although Saudi Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Ali al-Na'imi argued...

Stolen Oil Sustains The Insurgency.
March 24, 2008... The Bayji refinery may be the most important industrial site in the Sunni Arab parts of Iraq. On a good day, 500 tanker trucks leave the plant filled with fuel worth $10m. At least one-third of this goes to the black market. Tankers are...

What The Next President Will Do.
March 24, 2008... However adamant they are now about their respective plans, the three candidates to the US presidency will have to conform their positions to whatever security and political situations they confront as commander in chief next year. The two...

Global Prestige At Stake For USA.
March 24, 2008... Dr. Henry Kissinger, the former Republican secretary of state, in February told Der Spiegel: "A rapid [US] withdrawal [from Iraq] would be a demonstration in the region of the impotence of Western power. Hamas, Hizbullah and al-Qaeda would...

A Review From March 2003.(Excerpt)
March 24, 2008... These are extracts from an article published on March 16 by The New York Times written by its correspondent John F. Burns (with some name spelling and underlining by APS): "Five years on, it seems positively surreal. On the evening of March 19,...