Posted by Frederick Jones on Sep 27, 2007 - 01:31 PM
"What should determine who should be allowed to possess nuclear technology and who should not?"
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Posted by Noel Clay on Sep 26, 2007 - 06:23 PM
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Morning started today for me like many other mornings in middle “Mesopotamia”; I rise and shine at 7 a.m., even though work in the Public Affairs Section of Embassy Baghdad doesn’t officially start until 9 a.m., and in spite of living just a couple hundred yards from my office. Had yet another restless night of sleep due to the drone of helicopters flying overhead all night.
After making myself presentable, I begin my walk to work from my half of a yellow trailer…
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Posted by Heath Kern Gibson on Sep 26, 2007 - 04:45 PM
QUESTION: President Ahmadi-Nejad, the President of Iran, is being given what I understand to be the highest level of security one can receive, which obviously makes some sense. Are you -- do you have any part in his security?
MR. CADOGAN: Well, his foreign minister is accompanying him on this particular trip, so it's at joint operation detail with the Secret Service and the New York City Police Department.
QUESTION: Is he being given more than any other previous foreign minister has been given during UNGA or does it still fall into the --
MR. CADOGAN: He's given what's according to his perceived threat in the United States, so that level of protection balances…
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Posted by Masharika Prejean on Sep 26, 2007 - 04:44 PM
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So, here I am in the city that never sleeps – wait, isn’t that Las Vegas? Here I am in the city that never stops negotiating. From Wall Street to the General Assembly, there’s…
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Posted by Karen Hughes on Sep 26, 2007 - 03:37 PM
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As is the case at a lot of world events these days, it seems there are more journalists here at the United Nations than there are dignitaries -- and the halls and hotels are crowded with Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Prime Ministers and Presidents. A lot of them were in one room at the same time when President Bush hosted a reception last night. I had the rare opportunity to talk with people from Jamaica to Afghanistan to Africa to Panama all in one evening. When I travel or speak in America these days, people often tell me they don’t see me on television much anymore -- that’s because a big part of my job now is traveling abroad and communicating with international audiences through foreign media.
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