APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from October 2006

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from October 2006

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 9 - Iraq/OPEC Relations.
October 16, 2006... From being in Iraq the US is learning a lot. The most valuable lesson, worth more than all the petroleum resources which Iraq and its neighbours have, is the need for the US to cease being so heavily dependent on conventional oil and natural...

IRAQ - Sunni & Shi'ite Clerics Meet In Makkah.
October 16, 2006... Iraq's Sunni and Shi'ite religious leaders are set to meet in the holy city of Makkah on Oct. 19-20 to endorse a call for an end to all sectarian bloodshed. The meeting, to be convened by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and...

IRAQ - Towards Disarming Militias.
October 16, 2006... With the US repeatedly calling for all armed groups to be dissolved - but with the Kurds' Pesh Merga in the north called an exceptional case by the Americans - Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani has been under considerable pressure from Western...

IRAQ - Iran-US Nuke Confrontation.
October 16, 2006... Quoting "official sources", Agence France-Presse on Oct. 13 said the EU states were set to announce on Oct. 17 that talks with Iran over its nuclear ambitions had failed and to leave it up to the UN Security Council (UNSC) to consider punitive...

IRAQ - Federalism Approved.
October 16, 2006... Iraqi MPs at the House of Representatives on Oct. 11 approved a law which lays out a mechanism for forming federal regions. The decision was taken in a session boycotted by the main critics of federalism and is likely to cause further acrimony...

IRAQ - Over 600,000 Killed.(Survey)
October 16, 2006... Conflict in Iraq has killed more than 600,000 people since the US-led invasion in March 2003, according to a controversial study published on Oct. 11 by the Lancet. This is a leading medical journal. Gilbert Burnham of Johns Hopkins University,...