Led NATO war with Georgia accuses Russia

Led NATO war with Georgia accuses Russia
Moscow, Sept. 19. The Russian president, Dimitri Medvediev, said today that his government does not seek to hide behind a new "iron curtain", and accused the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) for causing the war in Georgia.

"We are in effect being pushed into a path that is not based on alliances with other civilized countries, but in an autonomous development, behind thick walls, behind an iron curtain," the president said today during a meeting with various groups civil society.

However, the president stressed that "this is not our way. For us it makes no sense to return to the past. We have made our choice. "

Medvedied also said that the recent armed conflict with Georgia proved that NATO is unable to generate an atmosphere of security in Europe, so it is necessary to create another system that is really effective on the continent.

"What NATO protected?, What assurances NATO? NATO only provoked the conflict, and nothing more than that, "said the Russian president.

Distortion "terrible"

Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry denounced the U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, "terribly distorted" the facts during his speech this week on war with Georgia.

It also accused Washington of having blocked the attendance of representatives of the separatist republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to the UN General Assembly, next Tuesday in New York, but ruled out any possibility of war with the United States, a country with which aims for what he called "positive relations".

For its part, NATO rejected the accusation that Russian-led war in the Caucasus, and felt that to express their solidarity with Georgia can not be considered a "provocation."

At the end of a meeting in London with European ministers of defense, the secretary general of the Atlantic military alliance, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer denied that the agency should rethink its military strategy after what happened in Georgia, a country to which he reiterated his support.

Meanwhile, the U.S. president, George W. Bush, announced that he will call on Russia to fulfill its commitments to withdraw from Georgian territory, while the European Union said that the aid of 500 million euros to Tbilisi will not be used for military purposes.

UN begins annual meeting

UN begins annual meeting
The UN General Assembly starts on Tuesday in New York for its annual debate in an international climate affected by the East-West tensions after the conflict in Georgia and a global economic crisis that threatens to postpone the objectives of combating poverty.

Poverty focus

More than 120 heads of State or Government addressed at the rostrum of the UN and in numerous bilateral and multilateral meetings the many hotbeds of tension in Georgia, Iran, the Middle East or in the process of conflict settlement in Bolivia. The appointment of world diplomacy this year will focus on efforts to achieve the Millennium Goals (MDG) of halving poverty by 2015, in the midst of rising prices of food and energy.

A summit on the MDGs will be held on Thursday, with the participation of figures from the private sector and civil society. On Wednesday, world leaders will talk about mediation and conflict resolution.

The 63rd annual session of the General Assembly of the UN is chaired by former Nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockman, who debuted last week served with a harsh criticism against the hegemony of the United States.

"Our world is in a parlous state, inexcusable and, therefore, shameful," said d'Escoto, a Catholic priest for 75 years, the former Sandinista foreign minister for a year to chair the global forum.

One of the highlights of the general debate which opens on Tuesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will be the last speech of President George W. Bush and the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, will participate in the debate and in bilateral meetings after the military intervention in his country in Georgia, that generated strong tensions with the United States.

It is anticipated that the president of Georgia Mikhail Saakachvili on Tuesday launched an international appeal for Moscow after recognition of the independence of the Georgian separatist provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

In Latin America, highlights the participation of Bolivian President Evo Morales and for the first time by Argentina's Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, whose countries also are going through a period of tensions with Washington.

Felipe Calerón the Mexican and Colombian Alvaro Uribe, who will meet in New York with the Republican candidate for vice president Sarah Palin, also attending the event. Instead be absent leaders of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and Cuba, Raúl Castro.

The refusal of Iran to suspend its sensitive nuclear activities, as demanded by the Security Council, will also be an important topic. The foreign ministers of China, United States, Russia, Germany, Britain and France, will meet on the sidelines of the debate to discuss possible new sanctions against Tehran.

On Friday there will be a further meeting of the Quartet for Middle East (U.S., UN, Russia and the EU) to try to relaunch the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

Arrested for trying to assassinate Chavez

Arrested for trying to assassinate Chavez
Caracas - President Hugo Chávez reported that there are several detainees in the investigation of an alleged assassination plan in which would involve a Vice Admiral of his close circle and accused the U.S. of being behind the plot.

"I called the defense minister (Gustavo Rangel Briceno), I explained and told him immediately and send appropriate laws, initiate an investigation ... obviously there's a conspiracy. We been following this for some time already," he said.

"At this moment we already have several detainees," said the agent during a meeting with supporters in the capital.

In the midst of the act Chavez ordered an immediate chain of radio and television to spread the country recording of an alleged telephone conversation where he talks about the plot but did not provide evidence and blamed the United States of being behind the plot. "That is the imperialism behind," he said.

Russia will send ships and planes for maneuvers in Venezuela

Russia will send ships and planes for maneuvers in Venezuela
The plan to deploy a Russian naval squadron and aircraft to Venezuela in order to carry out joint military operations will allow the president Hugo Chávez capitalize on the growing tensions between Moscow and Washington.

They would be the largest Russian military exercises in the Caribbean, and perhaps in the Western Hemisphere since the Cold War.

Moscow announced on Monday it will send a squadron of planes and naval patrol antisubmarinos to Venezuela to conduct military exercises this year, a deployment that seemed retaliation to sending U.S. warships to Georgia after the short war in the former Soviet republic with Russia.

Chavez ridiculed any fears Americans in his program on Sunday to declare that the Russian squadron would be welcome: "Anden Yankees and cry."

"This is the classic Chavez. Almost never loses an opportunity to click and provoke Washington," said Michael Shifter, an analyst with the analysis group Inter-American Dialogue (Inter-American Dialogue), located in Washington.

"It takes advantage of growing tensions in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia, especially the situation in Georgia, Pico eye for Bush. There is nothing that will delight more," he said.

The growing military cooperation with Russia comes after severe criticism by the Venezuelan president to the reactivation of the Fourth U.S. Naval Fleet, based at Naval Station MayPort in the state of Florida, which he says represents a threat to his country and other Latin American nations.

Anna Gilmour, an analyst at the magazine Jane's Intelligence Review, believes that deployments are primarily for the benefit of Venezuela, which has moved increasingly to Russia and has bought billions of dollars in weapons manufactured in that country, from rifles of Kalashnikov assault until the Sukhoi fighters.

"The decision to conduct military exercises may well be a response to the reopening of the Fourth Fleet," said Gilmour. "But to allow Russian ships to arrive posts Venezuelans, Chavez is giving the message that America is not the only active power in the Caribbean."

However, the U.S. government was not worried in the slightest.

Sean McCormack, State Department spokesman, ridiculed the Russian navy, noting that if indeed intends to perform maneuvers in the Caribbean, "then found a few boats that can go as far."

The announcement occurs amid growing tensions between the U.S. and Russia.

Andrei Nesterenko, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, insisted that the decision to send ships and planes to the naval exercises was taken before that Moscow would have its war with Georgia last month.

"This deployment had been planned in advance and is not related to the current political situation and developments in the Caucasus," said Nesterenko to the press.

But the announcement was made just a week after the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, notices that Russia would launch a response to recent shipments of U.S. aid to Georgia.

"We do not understand what they are doing U.S. ships off the coast of Georgia, but this is a question of style, is a decision of our fellow Americans," Putin said. "The second question is why is delivering humanitarian aid in warships armed with more advanced missile systems".

Shifter said that it is clear that Russia is "upset by the growing U.S. presence in the Black Sea" and that "as part of its resurgent nationalism, Russia wants to demonstrate its strength and remind Washington that also has important alliances in the courtyard U.S. rear. "

Nesterenko said that the portamisiles Peter the Great and three other Russian ships will visit Venezuela later this year and they join a patrol antisubmarinos far-reaching. He added that the planes would "temporarily bases in one of the airbases of Venezuela".

The Russian navy spokesman, Igor Dygalo, said that the Russian squad would travel to Venezuela in November. He added that Russian and Venezuelan vessels Practica search and rescue missions.

In his crusade against U.S., Chavez has described the revival of the Fourth Fleet, dissolved at the end of World War II, as a concern of his government.

Other leaders, such as Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shared his view.

"I am concerned about the Fourth Fleet. Because the Fourth Fleet will be just exactly where we find oil," he said in comments to the Sunday edition of The Argentine daily Clarin. She added that she did not understand why Americans are required ships in the area.

U.S. and Bolivia expel ambassadors worst crisis in bilateral diplomatic

U.S. and Bolivia expel ambassadors worst crisis in bilateral diplomatic
The government of Bolivia on Thursday gave a period of up to 72 hours for the U.S. ambassador in La Paz left the country after being declared persona non grata, while Washington decided, in reciprocity, expel the Bolivian ambassador, in the worst Bilateral crisis.
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"When an ambassador is declared persona non grata he gets used to have 48 to 72 hours, and this rule (in diplomatic practice), but this time the ambassadors leave," he said at a press conference the Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca .

The chancellor he said on Thursday that the diplomatic note was delivered to the United States simultaneously in La Paz and Washington, to comply with the decision of President Evo Morales, who on Wednesday called for the expulsion of Philip Golbderg, accusing him of supporting the protests against his regime in five of the nine regions of Bolivia.

Morales said the diplomat who promotes the "division" of Bolivia because-as-he supports the protests in the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija, Chuquisaca, whose leaders rejected its new constitution, even without implementation, and to run formation of self-government liberal arena.

In solidarity with Bolivia, the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, announced on Thursday that ordered the U.S. ambassador in Caracas, Patrick Duddy, to leave the country within 72 hours.

"Go to carajo, Yankees shit," said Chavez at a public event, ally and friend of Morales.

In previous days, the regime of La Paz had criticized Goldberg argued that the meetings in recent days of meetings with prefects rebels Ruben Costas (Santa Cruz), Mario Cossío (Tarija) and Savina Cuellar (Chuquisaca), before the outbreak of the protest demonstrations, which left eight dead.

Almost at the same time the chancellor gave his report of Bolivia in La Paz, in Washington the State Department reported that it was decided to expel the ambassador of Bolivia, Gustavo Guzman, a journalist automatically for reasons of reciprocity.

"In response to an action unjustified and in accordance with the Vienna Convention informed the government of Bolivia formally on our decision to declare the ambassador persona non grata Gustavo Guzman," said State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack.

The very McCormack told hours before that "the action of President Morales is a grave error that has seriously damaged the bilateral relationship".

United States rejected the complaint of alleged Morales accessions of ambassador to the positions of the five regions that meet rebel cuts routes for several days and where they have taken public offices and at least three domestic airports.

Washington revealed that its ambassador learned of the decision to Morales in the Quemado presidential palace, when held a meeting with Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca, at a time when talks on La Paz's decision to expel the U.S. anti-drug agency (DEA) Chapare coca growers, a red zone of drug trafficking.

Bolivia and United States have transited through a diplomatic incident marked, since Morales came to power in January 2006.

Morales came to power with Cuban leader Fidel Castro and the president Chavez opponents-festering U.S.-with whom we signed trade agreements and political Bolivarian alternative for americas (ALBA).

Also, Washington had to call emergency in late June its ambassador Goldberg, after which protesters lined up to officialdom tried to forcibly enter its diplomatic headquarters in La Paz, before the apparent complacency of the executive branch.

The last serious incident was in July when Chapare coca farmers, the cradle policy Morales, expelled the program uses that gave support in the reduction or redeployment of planting with licit crops.

Hugo Chávez expels ambassador to U.S. in support of Evo Morales

Hugo Chávez expels ambassador to U.S. in support of Evo Morales
The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, today granted 72-hour deadline to U.S. Ambassador in Caracas, Patrick Duddy, to leave the country, in which he said was an act of solidarity with the Government of Bolivia who did so yesterday.

Enough of you so much shit, shit Yankees, "Chavez remarked in a political act night in the central state of Carabobo, in which he said has also ordered the immediate return of ambassador to Caracas of Venezuela in the United States, Bernardo Alvarez , "Before he was echen" of Washington.

Moreover, he added, "we started from this moment to assess diplomatic relations with the U.S. government", to which responsibility for what might happen with the sale of oil, the proceeds of which Venezuela is the fifth largest supplier of the United States.

"When you have a new government in the United States will send an ambassador. When (arrives at the White House) a government that respects the people of americas America," he added before exclaim: "Yáyanse al carajo, Yankees shit, here there is a dignified people. Go to a hundred times carajo! ".

Chavez added that was responsible "for all this and what may happen," the U.S. government, which it accused of being "behind all conspiracies against our people", particularly that complaint against him and against the Government of Bolivia.

He warned that if the result of its decision, reflecting a virtual breakdown in relations, the government of U.S. President George W. Bush decides to attack in any way to Venezuela, ordered the suspension of crude exports.

"Enough of you so much shit, Yankees" and "if any come aggression against Venezuela, because there will be no oil for the people or the U.S. government. We Yankees shit, sépanlo, we are determined to be free pass what happens and no matter what it cost us, "he insisted.

The Head of State of Venezuela also expressed the hope that "someday, sooner rather than later," the U.S. people have a government "which can talk and who respects the countries and governments of Latin americas ".

"We are not asking for anything more. We deserve our respect," he said although he clarified that not asked other governments in the region that also expel the ambassadors of the United States in their nations.

Amidst deafening cries of his supporters, including the management of its traditional slogan "So, is that it governs well," Chavez added in this regard: "No. I am going to ask other governments to do what we do "Because" everyone is free to act according to their decisions.

However, he stressed that americas America will be respected "the day I sing like a single rooster" because "there is secrecy." Chavez said that began to think the decision to request the departure of U.S. ambassador on Wednesday, after they so decide his colleague and ally of Bolivia, Evo Morales.

It also believed that currently exists throughout the world "overheating" crisis situations "political and social", which he attributed to "the crisis of global capitalism." Sink neoliberalism and we are at the forefront; Venezuelans are at the forefront opening a path alternative to neoliberalism, determined to build our socialism, but threats roam everywhere, "he added and recalled that in the final hours has been aborted a military plot against him.

"Ojo Pelao (warning); people should be on the street" and "everyone should take their place in the battle" to deal with any conspiracy, appealed.

He recalled in this context the recent revival of the Fourth Fleet U.S. military to monitor the region and following remark that he had not "afraid", recalled that shortly be visiting Venezuela a fleet of Russia.

"It came two Russian planes, but others come around, these are nothing but an advance, and when it reaches the Russian fleet, which comes here, will return crazy" his detractors, he added.

Chavez Gives U.S. ambassador 72 hours to leave Venezuela

Chavez Gives U.S. ambassador 72 hours to leave Venezuela
Bolivia yesterday expelled the U.S. ambassador Philip Goldberg

Today, the country expelled the American ambassador to Bolivia and Venezuela ordered the departure of American diplomat of his country
Caracas, Venezuela .- Venezuela joined today to diplomatic conflict between the United States (U.S.) and Bolivia for their expulsion from their respective ambassadors with the order by President Hugo Chávez the departure of U.S. ambassador of his country and the convening his ambassador in Washington.

On Tuesday, the separatist conflict erupted in Bolivia and President Evo Morales accused the U.S. ambassador Philip Goldberg, of encouraging the wave of violence currently lives in the South American country.

Morales felt that the U.S. plan, along with his opponents, a plan to overthrow it.

Although Morales yesterday ordered the departure of Goldberg, was until today when the U.S. government reacted. The administration of President George W. Bush lamented the situation and found that the Bolivian president's decision was "a serious mistake."

"We regret the decision of President Morales because, in addition, the accusations against the ambassador Goldberg unfounded," said State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack.

In support of Morales, Chavez announced today its decision to expel the U.S. ambassador in Venezuela, Patrick Duddy.

`` Have the ambassador 72 hours to leave the territory and commanded by our ambassador''said the agent in an act to support the official candidate for the elections of mayors and governors in November.

`` In Venezuela, the world's peoples have a united country ... (Bolivia) has millions of us ready to fight for Bolivia''he added.

What is conflict?

The governors of the four opponents richest districts of eastern Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija, seeking to prevent Morales make constitutional reforms.

North Korea missile platform increases

North Korea missile platform increases
SEUL - The South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang-Hee confirmed that North Korea is building a new site for launching long-range missiles, political advisers indicated.

Long-range Missiles

"We are alert about it ... nearly 80 percent of the work has already been done and we are watching this closely," said the advisers quoting Lee in a speech during a closed-door parliamentary committee meeting of Defence. The minister was responding to an MP who asked him whether it was true that the communist country installed a second site for testing and launching intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

The minister did not give further details, the consultants added.

On Wednesday, an independent analyst American, who saw pictures of the site, said that North Korea installed a second site for testing and launching intercontinental ballistic missiles.

"The complex is designed to be an important test program launch," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.Org, a research group that specializes in security matters.

"It is significant because it shows an intention to develop the capacity to build an intercontinental ballistic missile infallible," he told AFP.

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Pike added that the missile launch site was discovered in the west coast of North Korea near China by Joseph Bermudez, an analyst Jane's Intelligence group.

There is also a site for smaller ICBM in Musudan-ri on the east coast.

North Korea used this site to launch Taepodong-1 missile over Japan in 1998. A Taepodong-2 missile was launched from there in 2006, but failed.

Pike said the new site is much larger, more elaborate and with better transport links.

"It's done to make three or four launches per year, instead of every decade," he said.

"The place has a facility for standard tests, a dynamic facility and a relatively sophisticated system for ICBM launch or launches," he said.

North Korea conducted a nuclear test in 2006. It is not known if you have the technical capability to place a warhead on the missile.

The U.S. shield is the sole target Russian missiles, says Lavrov

The U.S. shield is the sole target Russian missiles, says Lavrov
The U.S. missile shield, whose elements will be installed in Poland and the Czech Republic, whose sole target Russian missiles, said on Thursday the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov, visiting Warsaw.

"A simple analysis shows that a military base for the European antimissile defense overall U.S. has not and will not for many years, another white Russian missiles," said Lavrov in an article published on Thursday in the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza .

Poland agreed in August, in full Georgian crisis, the installation on its territory before 2012 a U.S. base with ten interceptors capable of destroying any flight in long-range ballistic missiles.

This facility will be completed with the installation of a powerful radar in the Czech Republic. According to Washington, the objective of this shield is to avoid a possible threat from countries like Iran.

"Any impartial expert understands that the missiles Iran does not pose a threat to Europe and even less for the United States," said Lavrov.

Moscow, however, "leaves the door open for serious negotiations, if the United States and Poland are genuinely interested in ensuring that European anti-missile base will not be directed against Russia," he said.

Until now, Washington and Warsaw have suggested the Russians to inspect the base, whose installation is expected in northern Poland, near the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

Moscow called on his party a permanent presence of Russian inspectors in the Czech and Polish facilities, which refused Prague and Warsaw, who had to Soviet troops stationed on its territory until the early 1990.

Chavez intends to drive an Tupolev Tu-160 Russian

Chavez intends to drive an Tupolev Tu-160 Russian
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, said he was going to fly one of the Russian strategic bombers landed yesterday in Venezuela.

''I will manage a TU-160. Fidel (Castro)'m going to move beyond bajito. Eh, flights are training''said Chavez to intervene on Wednesday by the National Radio and TV.

The Venezuelan leader confirmed the arrival of two Russian planes Tupolev Tu-160 to the aerodrome Venezuelan Liberator, previously announced by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
''We are very interested in strengthening our knowledge, our technology and our defensive capabilities, with our strategic allies and Russia is one of them'', said Chavez.

Chavez denied that the visit of the Tu-160 or any Venezuelan-Russian naval exercises seek to revive the Cold War and relate to the events in the Caucasus.

''This theme of the visit of a Russian flotilla to waters of the Caribbean (what) we are talking with Russia makes us more than a year, "he said.

The Venezuelan leader reported that as part of military technical cooperation, Venezuela is considering the purchase of Russian submarines and''an integrated air defence, long-range radar, with their respective rockets ready to defend the country''. "We care very much good we do every day more advanced agreements", he added.

The supersonic strategic bomber TU-160 Blackjack started out by the Tupolev design office in 1975. The device is designed to destroy nuclear and conventional weapons with the most important objectives in areas geographically distant from theatre and for intercontinental missions of the same type. The Tu-160 made its maiden flight in late 1981. The four crew members staying in a cabin shared tight. Today the Russian Air Force has 20 TU-160 aircraft. (Russian strategic bombers - image gallery)

The Tu-160 is a four-winged monoplane variable geometry. The maximum speed at high altitude is around 2000 k / h and about 1030 k / ha sea level, the practical ceiling is about 16 000 meters; operating with maximum load without refuelling is about 14 000 kilometres The scope with maximum load reaches about 10 500 km.; Take-off (with the maximum load) is about 2200 meters. The scale of the TU-160 is 55,7-35,6 meters (depends on the aflechamiento). The plane measured 54.1 meters long and 13.1 m. high; his wing surface is about 360 to 400 m2.

The device is equipped with navigation equipment and aim it provides an automatic flight and use of weapons of day or night in all weather conditions and area of operations, comprising bistatic radar detection and targeting and electronic-optical viewfinder, ensures a launching bombs with very high precision, whether day or night. Among other TU-160 highlights a system of laser beam to proceed against ground targets semi-guided bombs.

The bomber carrying their weapons in two warehouses in tandem, inside the fuselage. Depending on the type of armament mission is different. For the twelve strategic missions carries cruise missiles X-55 with conventional or nuclear warheads, two launchers installed type "drum" (similar to that of a revolver), and missiles aerobalísticos hypersonic X-15 (24 in four missile launchers) .
Numerous benefits TU-160 have been confirmed by world record 44.

During exercises carried out in April 2006, a Tu-160 came to Canada through the North Pole without being detected by any U.S. air defence system.

Tupolev Bombers do not carry nuclear weapons: Russia

Tupolev Bombers do not carry nuclear weapons: Russia
The Kremlin will downplay the fact that the bombers have flown to Venezuela despite the fact that it was the first such flight characteristics since the end of the Cold War

Russia said on Thursday that the two long-range bombers sent to Venezuela which only made test flights over neutral waters and not carrying live ammunition of war, whether nuclear or any other Kremlin tipo.El he downplayed the fact that bombers have flown to Venezuela despite the fact that it was the first such flight characteristics since the end of the Cold War and said that the warplanes will return to Russia at the beginning of next week.

The military aircraft landed in Venezuela on Wednesday, before some military exercises in Russia and Venezuela that seem a show of force after several warships in the U.S. humanitarian aid arrived in Georgia.

The former Soviet republic last month held a brief armed conflict with Russia.

Russian military analysts said that the presence of Russian aircraft in Venezuela is the first time that Russia bombers landing in the American continent since the end of the Cold War.

Tense relationships in Moscow and Washington

The military exercises in Russia with a government that is a confessed enemy of the United States probably will aggravate an already tense relationship between Moscow and Washington.

The greatest general of the Russian air force Pavel Androsov said in televised comments that the bombers Tupolev 160 carrying only test projectiles.

He said that the planes with jet engines made some test flights over neutral waters and then return to Russia on Monday. That means that the planes would not participate in military exercises that Venezuela and Russia plan to perform in the Caribbean in one day this year.

It is anticipated that the deployment of force - which will include a squadron naval patrol aircraft and powerful - are the biggest Russian naval maneuvers in the Caribbean and perhaps in the American continent since the Cold War.

The flight was on the orders of Russian President

The Russian president, Dimitri Medvedev, said he ordered the Tu-160 flights made at the invitation of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, who has expressed interest in boarding aircraft with a capacity of nuclear attack.

"Pilots are powerful people sensitive. If they (Venezuelans) to us and if we kindly ask permission, he will fly safely and we'll show you the Caribbean Sea from a maximum altitude of operation," he said Androsov.

The Tu-160, known as "Blackjack" in the West, is a strategic long-range bomber capable of conducting nuclear strikes.

For his part, Russian Foreign Ministry rejected speculation that Russia was trying to establish military bases in South America.

"Russia has no military base in americas America. The bombers landed in Venezuela in line with a previous bilateral agreement," said spokesman Andrei Nesterenko in a statement.

The Russian air force has always strictly obeyed the rules of international flights over neutral waters. These flights do not violate the airspace of other nations, "he said Nesterenko.

For his part, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hinted that the reaction to the flight of Russian aircraft and naval exercises next was excessive. He criticized again for using U.S. warships to deliver humanitarian aid on the coast of Georgia on the Black Sea, despite the fact that Russian military forces were in the vicinity.

Putin said that Washington would react strongly if any foreign military aircraft fly over the United States:

"What I mean is that God does not want to have any kind of conflict on the American continent, because this is regarded as' the holiest '" he said.

"And they bring ships with arms to a location just 10 miles from where we are? Is this normal? Is it a fair decision?"

They aircraft Tupolev TU160 the agent that aims to steer

They aircraft Tupolev TU160 the agent that aims to steer
Two Russian strategic bombers Tu-160 landed on Wednesday in the Military Base Eérea Liberator, to carry out flights "training" in the region, announced the Russian Ministry of Defense to local news agencies.

"Two Tu-160 strategic bombers of the Russian air force carried out during several days of training flights over neutral waters, after which they return to their base" in Russia, said a spokesman for the agency Mnterfax.

The planes were followed during part of his journey by fighters of the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), indicated to turn the agency RIA Novosti, citing the same source at the Ministry, reported AFP.

The Tupolev Tu-160, according to the Blackjack code of NATO, is a supersonic bomber with variable-geometry wings. The president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Laureate, Oscar Arias, considers the visit of Russian Northern Fleet to the region as a "logical response" to the U.S. decision to install its missile shield and was totally outraged.

Evo expels the U.S. embassy for alleged conspiracy

Evo expels the U.S. embassy for alleged conspiracy
The president Morales justified the expulsion of the American ambassador, accusing him of plotting against their management and encourage separatism. For diplomats, the decision is atypical and planned.

The president Evo Morales yesterday declared "persona non grata" the U.S. Ambassador (U.S.) in Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, and thus expelled from the country, accused of plotting against their management and encourage separatism in the prefects and civic called crescent.

"Without fear anyone, without fear of the empire, today (yesterday) day in front of you, of the Bolivian people, I declare to Mr Goldberg, U.S. Ambassador 'persona non grata'," said Representative in the Government Palace.

"I ask our Chancellor of the Republic (David Choquehuanca), fulfilling the legal frameworks diplomats, sent today (a note) to the embassy asking to know the decision of national government, its President, to swiftly return to their country, not we want people separatist, divisive, which conspires against the unity or undermines democracy, "he said.

According to diplomatic sources, the expulsion of diplomat is atypical and that would not have been presented in any country of americas America, as was reportedly planned and why the President would have been as precise when he referred to Goldberg, reminding his diplomatic career and his involvement on the separation of Kosovo. "Between the years 1994-1996 was head of the office of the State Department to Bosnia during the separatist war in the Balkans. Then between the years 2004-2006 returned as head of mission in Pristina Kosovo to reinforce the separation or independence of that region, leaving thousands dead, "said the President.

Shortly thereafter, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez claimed that the "aggressor rule and genocidal" U.S. Arrecad its conspiracy against Bolivia with "the same mould" against his government in 2002, when he was ousted for two days.

When Morales declared persona non grata to Goldberg, Choquehuanca held a meeting with ambassadors to discuss the expulsion of the DEA (U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency) of the Chapare area, on Tuesday, September 9, according to a communique of the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia.

The letter mentions that the Chancellor told Goldberg to the President's ruling, which would have expressed "his surprise about this inexplicable determination"-and why-read "we are waiting for an official communication of this decision," according regular channels.

The same diplomatic sources said that according to international standards, the declaration means that Goldberg must leave the country within 48 or 72 hours. Furthermore, in these cases the decisions are reciprocal, so the U.S. ambassador in Bolivia, Gustavo Guzman, who would return to the country.

The Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana, justified the measure and ruled that the expulsion is going to break diplomatic relations with the United States, but asserted that "Goldberg showed interference" in internal affairs.

Viewpoints

"Looking divert attention"
Oscar Ortiz.
Senate President.

"Whenever there were allegations of conspiracy, but without evidence. When it no longer needs proof is that since the Government is financed groups clash against the Bolivians. It will have a negative influence, I do not want to put the emphasis on those statements because I believe that what they are really looking for is to divert attention from the serious problems the country. "

"The measure was not prudent"
Fernando Messmer.
We deputy.

"The President has made a decision that is a very serious consequences which could have, is a hostile act towards a country with which we have friendly relations, I am afraid that is generating curtains of smoke. Any other country would measure, assess and process with greater accountability; countries take serious decisions in a very prudent. "

"Do not break relations"
Roja félix
Senator MAS.

"The U.S. embassy attacked on a permanent basis to Bolivians and has implemented the division has done in Eastern Europe. The President has expressed the clamor of the Bolivian people to the continued aggression and grievance; is a way to recover our dignity and sovereignty. Bolivia has not broken diplomatic relations were broken with those chains that were oppressing us. "

"Affect microentrepreneurs"
Michiaki Nagatani.
Member of the MNR.

"There is still time to reconsider the decision because it may affect the country. What is most worrying is that I do not know if it has been hastened by the facts of Santa Cruz; persona non grata means very serious, without thinking that the bottom in the economic theme; what decision will be taken with the ATPDEA. He had to think twice because they affect mainly to microentrepreneurs. "

Bush has authorized attacks in Pakistan without permission from Islamabad

Bush has authorized attacks in Pakistan without permission from Islamabad
President George W. Bush has given permission to the armed forces and secret services from the U.S. to carry out attacks in Pakistan without asking permission from the Pakistani government, reported the New York Times today.

The U.S. president gave orders to that effect last July, according to the "high-level U.S. officials" to which cites the rotating New Yorker.

These officials assert that the U.S. shall inform the government of Pakistan when performing attacks and raids on Pakistani territory, as it did last week in a village near the border with Afghanistan which killed two dozen people, "but will not ask permission."

The newspaper said that "it is not clear exactly what legal figure has invoked the U.S. to carry out raids, albeit limited, in soil of a friendly country".

The CIA takes time from Afghanistan by launching air strikes against targets inside Pakistan by aircraft without pilot who fired air-to-ground missiles, but "new orders for the units' special operations' armed forces reduce restrictions on the conduct of raids on the territory of an important ally without your permission. "

The head of the Pakistan Army, General Ashfaq Kayani, said yesterday that "defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity at any cost" and that "not allow any external force to carry out operations within Pakistan."

The attack last week was carried out by "more than two dozens" of members of the "Seals", the special forces of the Navy, "which spent several hours on the ground and killed about two dozen suspected al-Qaeda fighters ", Before being removed from the area in helicopters, according to sources from the New York Times.

The Pakistani government has warned that attacks such as last week, made by U.S. forces on a unilateral basis, "do not help in the war on terrorism because only encolerizan public opinion," he said last Friday the ambassador of Pakistan in Washington, Husain Haqqani.

Russia threat to U.S. bases in Europe

Russia threat to U.S. bases in Europe
Growing tension in Georgia after police death at the hands of Russian soldiers

Russia threatened yesterday by pointing missiles at bases hosting U.S. defence system in Poland and Czech Republic, while tensions rose in Georgia.

"... I can not exclude that part of our intercontinental missiles have targeted the facilities of the missile shield in Poland and Czech Republic and potential sites similar," he said in Moscow on general Nikolai Solovtsov, chief of the Russian strategic forces, AFP reported .

Despite the warnings, the Government of the Czech Republic announced shortly after the approval of the military agreement Sofia called on the deployment of U.S. forces in the future based antimissile.

The Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolánek, avoided falling into the Russian provocation.

"I do not intend to contribute to a deterioration (of relations) or a rhetoric of the Cold War. The radar is purely defensive, designed to curb long-range missiles of States' canallas'", a term with which Washington refers to countries deemed a threat to global security, Topolanek said.

As for Poland, the White House signed an agreement in mid-August that provides for the deployment by 2012 of ten interceptors capable of destroying in mid-flight long-range ballistic missiles.

On the eve of a visit to Warsaw, the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov accused the United States to break the military balance with Russia. "Certainly it has not understood that Poland has become part of a very dangerous game. The balance between the military potential of Washington and Moscow has been broken because of U.S." he said.

Lavrov's visit, which will meet today with his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski, and the prime minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, is the first of a senior Russian in a country of the European Union (EU) since the beginning August crisis erupted with Georgia.

Meanwhile, in Georgia tension was exacerbated after the death of a policeman hit by gunfire from Georgian Russian soldiers at a checkpoint near the separatist province of South Ossetia, informed the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, Shota Utiashvili.

EU Mission in Georgia The Russian ambassador to the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), Dmitri Rogozin, said that the civilian observer mission in Georgia in the EU will not enter into the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but security zones around their respective districts.

The agreement reached by three EU leaders in Moscow only refers to those areas and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, "it fully understands," said Rogozin, Efe said.

"If there is no mention in the text" to the presence of observers at these sites, then "there is no there," added the ambassador, who stressed that the agreement only mentions the so-called "security zones" in Georgian soil around the two secessionist regions.

A lawyer implies the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez

A lawyer implies the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez
The Venezuelan lawyer Moses Maiónica involved today to President Hugo Chávez in the case of the briefcase, inside which were confiscated 800,000 dollars, according to the U.S. Federal Prosecutor, iban for the election campaign of the current ruler argentina, Cristina Fernandez.

Maiónica, one of the five accused of conspiring and acting as an agent of the Government of Venezuela in the U.S., said that Chavez would have instructed the DISIP, Intelligence Service of that nation, he took the case when the scandal broke out and after officials of the state Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) failed to control it.

"Rangel Sila (director of the DISIP) told me that the president was upset by the situation and requested to resolving the issue, from an operational point of view," Maiónica testified in a court in Miami.

The lawyer, who pleaded guilty in January after an agreement with federal prosecutors, testified today in the afternoon session in the trial of businessman Franklin Duran, the only one of the defendants in the case that says is innocent.

When the federal prosecutor Thomas Mulvihill asked who was referring when he said chairman Maiónica pointed out: "Hugo Chávez."

According to the defendant, the case was initially in the hands of the president of PDVSA, Rafael Ramirez, but what relevaron of "control the situation."

However, still tied where Henry Rangel Silva as required, he added Maiónica.

The briefcase was confiscated by the Venezuelan Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, at an airport in Buenos Aires (Argentina), in August 2007.

Antonini came with money in a plane rented by a state company argentina return to their officials from Caracas along with the Venezuelan PDVSA executives.

The prosecutor Mulvihill said today that there is evidence that the briefcase was destined to the election campaign of the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez, and that the money came from the Government of Venezuela.

"The Government of Venezuela was trying to influence the electoral campaign of Argentina," said Mulvihill in the initial presentation of the arguments in the trial that followed in Miami against Franklin Duran for their alleged actions as an undercover agent of the Venezuelan government.

The prosecutor said in statements obtained by the FBI Duran and other defendants in this case clearly told that the briefcase with the money were funds for the campaign Fernandez.

U.S. wants to help resolve the conflict in Western Sahara

U.S. wants to help resolve the conflict in Western Sahara

The secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, said on Sunday his country's willingness to cooperate in resolving the conflict in Western Sahara, former Spanish colony disputed between Morocco and the Polisario Front independence backed by Algiers.

"It is time to end this conflict," Rice said in Rabat during a joint press conference with his Moroccan counterpart, Taieb Fas-Fihri. "There will be new negotiations, we will support. There are good ideas on the table and there are way forward," he said.

On the eve of the visit by Rice, spokesman for the Moroccan government, Khalid Naciri, had expressed the wish that Washington "will help bring this matter to the impasse."

"We do not have to start from scratch," said the head of U.S. diplomacy, "is what we seek a solution acceptable to all."

The conflict of Western Sahara, situated south of Morocco, affect relations between Rabat and Algiers as well as the integration process of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), whose activities are paralysed for several years.

The Moroccan Foreign Minister affirmed that his government "hopes that relations between Morocco and Algeria, brotherly countries, normalization" and that "the Maghreb Union is reality." Rice also thanked "his decision to bring together the heads of diplomacy of countries in the region, apart from the next UN general assembly."

Rice, meanwhile, stressed wanting to "find the means to help countries in the region to take a more united front to the challenges facing them."

Morocco and the Polisario Front held four rounds of negotiations in Manhasset, near New York, without achieving any progress and should be reconvened at a date not specified.

Morocco proposes granting broad autonomy to the territory under its sovereignty while the Polisario Front calls for organizing a referendum on self-determination on their independence.

During his visit to Rabat, as did the previous day in Algiers, Rice also talked about the fight against terrorism with his interlocutors. On Saturday met with the prime minister, Abbas El Fasi, the Interior Minister, Chakib Benmusa, and the head of military intelligence, Yasin Mansuri. "It is important that Rabat and Algiers exchange information on the challenges facing both countries," he said.

The fight against terrorism is a priority for the Moroccan government, which regularly announces the dismantling of terrorist cells that were preparing attacks. In late August, police claimed to have arrested 15 alleged terrorists, members of a network of links with Al Qaeda, called Fath Al Andalus (Conquest of Andalusia).

In Algiers, Rice spoke on Saturday with the Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on his "great interest in the fight against terrorism and cooperation" in that field, said to journalists. Algeria is white many years of deadly attacks Salafita Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), now the branch of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb Islam.

Rice, who also visited Libya on Friday, left Rabat on Sunday to return to Washington.

U.S. investigates a bombing with 90 Afghan civilians killed

U.S. investigates a bombing with 90 Afghan civilians killed
KABUL: U.S. forces opened a new investigation into one of its airstrikes in Afghanistan which, according to Kabul and the UN, killed 90 civilians, in what could be the most tragic mistake of the coalition in seven years, military sources announced United States on Monday in Kabul.

The emergence of new evidence-including a video showing the bodies of 30 civilians, including several children, forced to reconsider the case so far when the coalition led by the United States had rejected the accusations.

On Tuesday the coalition released the results of an internal investigation that died in the attack "from five to seven" civilians and 30 to 35 Taliban.

However, this Monday the U.S. Central Command acceded to the request of General David McKiernan to re-investigate the case "in view of new evidence relating to civilian victims of the rebellion of anti operation on August 22 in the district of Shindand , In Herat province. " McKiernan heads the ISAF to assist the Security (ISAF) led by NATO, working in conjunction with the coalition led by the United States, but it is the oldest U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

The Central Command, based in Florida, announced in a statement issued in Kabul "the appointment of a high-ranking officer to review" the case, take into account "the new information provided after the conclusion of the initial investigation."

The "new information" refers in particular to a video filmed with a mobile phone by a resident of the village attacked, said the spokesman for ISAF, General Richard Blanchette. The images, which AFP saw, show at least 30 bodies wrapped in shrouds or covered by blankets in a mosque. In the video some of the blankets were lifted to show several children, some very young age, and one with the back of the skull shattered.

According to the results of an investigation ordered by the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, the attack killed 50 children under 15 years, 19 women and several men. A UN investigation reached a similar conclusion but U.S. officials expressed doubts citing lack of evidence. "The UN maintains its conclusions," the spokesman said on Monday its representation in Kabul, Adrian Edwards.

Following the incident, Karzai said his willingness to renegotiate the rules of the presence of international troops in Afghanistan.

The figure for civilian deaths caused by the bombing of the international troops in Afghanistan nearly tripled between 2006 and 2007 warned on Monday the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Kabul. "The mistakes of U.S. and NATO have fallen drastically public support for the Afghan government and the presence of international forces," said HRW director for Asia, Brad Adams. HRW criticised the "most victims by air strikes may occur in these poor planning."

The organization describes investigations initiated by the U.S. military to clarify the origin of some of these attacks "unilateral, slow and lacking in transparency," which has undermined relations with local populations and with the Afghan government.

The US-India nuclear agreement opens the door to an energy market

The US-India nuclear agreement opens the door to an energy market
New Delhi - The green light from the international community to the cooperation agreement between the U.S. and India in the field of civilian nuclear energy will allow a market for tens of billions of dollars to manufacturers of nuclear reactors Americans, but also to Russians and French.

On Saturday, the Group of 45 nuclear supplier countries (NSG), which controls the export of its technology in the world, validated in Vienna a 2005 pact that allows U.S.-if they so Congress finally ratified, sell to India civilian atomic plants.

Thus, the NSG lifted de facto international embargo that governed 34 years ago on nuclear trade with New Delhi, which is not part of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but it is a military declared nuclear power since its first nuclear test In 1974. The NSG prohibits trade with states that have not signed the NPT.

This is "the end of decades of isolation" for India, the prime minister expressed satisfaction Manmoham Singh. "The opening for a full civilian nuclear cooperation between India and the international community, will be favourable both for India and for the world," Singh appreciated. This will ensure the Asian giant "the pursuit of durable economic growth in terms of respect for the environment," concluded the agent of one of the new major pollutants on the planet.

India has huge energy needs due to its economic growth (8%) and its dependence on oil products, of which imports 70% of consumption.

The new heavyweight of Asia dreams of acquiring by 2020 from 40,000 megawatts of installed capacity for nuclear reactors. According to the confederation of industry india, to achieve this goal would require a twenty-reactors in addition to the 22 that are already in service, which means 30,000 million in contracts over the next 15 years. The investment would increase to 100,000 million dollars by the year 2030, and global enterprises in the sector are in line.

In August, the atomic agency india (NPCIL) for preselection-reactor-filled eventually, the U.S. Westinghouse Electric Company, the Japanese-American General Electric-Hitachi, the French Areva and the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom.

The government ceased to understand then that they would prefer the French and Russian technology. Moscow already equipped a nuclear plant in southern India and since the state visit of Nicolas Sarkozy in January, there is a Franco-Indian agreement on civilian nuclear energy. However, the group Areva told AFP in Paris that the discussions were only at "political" and not "industrial", especially since this issue is explosive in India. The coalition government led by the Congress Party, was about to fall in July before the parliament.

The communist parties and left the once-government-led allies to a vote of confidence lambast nuclear agreement "gives to India to U.S. arms" and settles the "national sovereignty", in relation to the right of New Delhi to perform other atomic tests.

Three years ago that the Indo-American text is the cornerstone of diplomatic rapprochement between the two States, after years of mistrust in the Cold War. "India fell into the trap of non-proliferation stretched by the United States," complained Yashwant Sinha, leader of the opposition Hindu nationalist party (Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP), which seeks to regain power after the legislative elections scheduled in 2009.

11 killed in Pakistan in missile attack attributed to U.S.

11 killed in Pakistan in missile attack attributed to U.S.
At least 11 people died on Monday in a missile attack allegedly launched by U.S. aircraft without pilot in a town in the tribal areas of Pakistan near the Afghan border, according to the latest balance sheet communicated to AFP by a source of security

"The stock is now 11 people," said an official of the local security, noting that a foreigner died in hospital, in apparent reference to an Islamist insurgency that might have entered Pakistan from another country.

The previous balance was three insurgents dead and another 15 people wounded, including women and children.

The U.S. forces in neighbouring Afghanistan are the only ones in the region that have aircraft without pilot. Washington is convinced that Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban have reconstituted its forces in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan.