Showing posts with label Reporting from Washington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reporting from Washington. Show all posts
Obama, Erdogan Discuss Iran Deal
Thursday, May 20, 2010
United States responded with little fanfare to communication with officials in Washington and some of the other major powers involved in the deadlock, said the agreement signed with the external communication of Turkey and Brazil have failed to ease their concerns that Iran is eventually intended to develop a nuclear weapons capability.
During Wednesday's call, "said Obama raised those concerns again," Erdogan that the international community is divided "the continuing and fundamental concerns about Iran's overall nuclear program and Iran's lack of living up to its international obligations."
Tuesday the United States introduced a UN resolution aimed at Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, won long-awaited and important support from China and Russia for new sanctions against his powerful Revolutionary Guard, and new measures to try to limit Iran's military, economic, and shipping.
Iran rejected the resolution as "illegal" on Wednesday, calling it a reactionary response to the Turkish-Brazilian deal.
"The resolution being debated in the Security Council has no legitimacy whatsoever," the official news agency IRNA quoted the top Iranian presidential advisor Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi as saying after a cabinet meeting.
U.S. Ambassador to UN Susan Rice emphasized that the draft resolution and uranium swap agreement has nothing to do with each other and told reporters that Iran's decision to continue enriching uranium to 20 percent strengthens its violations of sanctions and "eliminates any confidence-building potential.
The senior UN diplomat has raised some questions about Iran-Turkey-Brazil agreement, noting that in the first paragraph, says that Iran has the right to enrich nuclear material that is not expressly permitted under the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and is prohibited under previous UNSC resolutions .
Obama Honor Mexico At State Dinner
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Reporting from Washington
President Obama's second official state visit noon blended elegance with an extra helping of security that he and First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife, Margarita Zavala, on Wednesday evening.
Among the 200 dinner guests were Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, actresses Whoopi Goldberg and Eva Longoria Parker, comedian George Lopez, and Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim.
Longoria Parker hit a political note to make her entrance, calls the new Arizona immigration law punitive.
Longoria Parker hit a political note to make her entrance, said the dinner was timed to "temperature" over immigration. She took a shot at new Arizona immigration legislation, calling it punitive, "said immigration should be a federal matter.
Villaraigosa also weighed in on immigration, said he expected a fair, comprehensive reform under Obama.
Lopez told reporters: "I sit with a president. They would not tell me what country."
Beyonce head linen the after dinner singing in English and Spanish.
The four-course dinner was held in the East Room, the largest square in the Executive Mansion, which was vibrantly decorated with gold rim china, turquoise silk tablecloths and lush fuchsia-colored floral bouquets.
It was the second state of noon of the 16-month-old Obama presidency. The first was characterized by three intruders, and thus the heavy security on Wednesday.
Illinois state Sen. Iris Martinez said she went through three or four checkpoints before the dinner. "A lot of security: three short questions," said another guest, Maria Elena Salinas, a Miami-based anchor for Univision.
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