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POLAND News:
20080714
 John
McCain -  Czech
Republic -  Slovakia
-  EU
-  History
- Poland
-  Military
-  US
-  2008
Election -  Politics
"McCain
Again Refers To Czechoslovakia, A Non-Existent Country."
... "At his press avail today, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate]
John McCain referenced current relations between Russia and, um, a non-existent
country [Czechoslovakia]." ... "Around three months ago, McCain told Don
Imus that he would "work closely with Czechoslovakia and Poland and other
countries" to install the European Missile Defense System in Poland, according
to the Democratic National Committee. (The slip-up was referenced elsewhere,
too.)" ... "And during a GOP debate in October 2007, McCain said:
"The first thing I would do is make sure that we have a missile defense
system in place in Czechoslovakia and Poland, and I don't care what his
objections are to it."" ... "We're nitpicking a bit here. But McCain is
running on his supposed foreign policy superiority. And the GOP and McCain
would hit Obama as a foreign policy greenhorn based on less than this."
-By Greg Sargent -TPMElectionCentral
.TalkingPointsMemo
From
The World Factbook: "The Slovaks and the Czechs agreed to separate
peacefully on 1 January 1993. Slovakia joined both NATO and the EU in the
spring of 2004."
20071012
-
 Russia
- US
- Czech
Republic - Poland
- Military
-  Technology
-  Nuclear
- "Russia
urges US missile 'freeze': Russia has called on the
US to "freeze" plans to employ missile defence facilities in eastern Europe."
... "After high-level talks in Moscow [Russia's capital], Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov said Russia saw the shield as a "potential threat" and wanted
to "neutralise" it." ... "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied
any threat to Russia, saying she wanted both countries to work together."
... "Earlier, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled he would
not support American plans." ... "He urged Washington "not to force" a
planned deployment - of a radar in the Czech Republic and interceptors
in Poland - on Russia." ... "Mr Putin also threatened to abandon a key
nuclear missile treaty which he said was outdated."" ... "President Putin
said at the start of the talks that it would be difficult to remain part
of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty unless it was expanded
to include more countries than just the US and Russia." ... "The treaty,
which limits US and Russian short and medium range missiles, was signed
20 years ago and led to the elimination of almost 3,000 Russian and American
missiles." -BBC/News
20070704
-
Russia
- US
- Poland
-
 Lithuania
- Czech
Republic - History
-  Maine
- Politics- Nuclear
- "Russians
threaten to counter US shield." ... "Russia could
site cruise missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave between Poland
and Lithuania, if the US goes ahead with plans for a missile defence shield
in central Europe, Russia’s first deputy prime minister warned on Wednesday."
... "The televised comments by Sergei Ivanov – a possible successor to
President Vladimir Putin – came two days after Mr Putin proposed using
a new radar station being built in southern Russia in place of a planned
US radar in the Czech Republic. The proposal was made during informal talks
with US [Republican] president George W. Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine."
... "Mr Putin warned last month that Moscow would once again target Europe
with nuclear missiles if the US shield went ahead." ... "Formerly the German-speaking
region of East Prussia, Kaliningrad became part of the Soviet Union after
1945. In the cold war it was a military base and closed to outsiders. After
the break-up of the USSR in 1991, Kaliningrad became an enclave cut off
from Russia." -By Neil Buckley in Moscow and Demetri
Sevastopulo -FT.com
20070608
-
Secret
- US
- Poland
-
 Romania
-  Germany
-  Italy
-  Egypt
- Military
-  Intelligence
-  Terrorism
- Torture
- Prisons
- Human
Rights -  Law
- Politics
- "CIA
jails in Europe 'confirmed'." ... "A Council of Europe
investigator says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret jails in
Poland and Romania to interrogate "war on terror" suspects." ... "Dick
Marty, a Swiss senator, has been investigating CIA operations on behalf
of the European human rights body." ... "In his new report, released on
Friday, Mr Marty says secret CIA prisons "did exist in Europe from 2003
to 2005, in particular in Poland and Romania"." ... "The governments of
both countries have strongly denied any involvement. A spokesman for the
CIA told the BBC that "the CIA's counter-terror operations have been lawful,
effective, closely reviewed, and of benefit to many people -including Europeans
- by disrupting plots and saving lives"." ... "Mr Marty says he drew on
multiple sources and used his own intelligence methods to investigate the
CIA's "extraordinary renditions", the process under which terror suspects
were transported around the world for interrogation." ... ""Some European
governments have obstructed the search for the truth and are continuing
to do so by invoking the concept of 'state secrets'.... This criticism
applies to Germany and Italy, in particular," he said." ... "His report
came as the first criminal trial over the CIA "extraordinary renditions"
opened in Italy. Twenty-five CIA agents and a US Air Force colonel are
on trial in their absence, accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect
and sending him to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured."
-BBC/News
-
Secret
- US
- Poland
- Romania
- Military
- Terrorism
- Torture
- Prisons
- Law
-
 Airspace
- Politics
- "Report
claims US ran secret prisons in Europe." ... "The
CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 where terrorism
suspects could be interrogated free of US legal restraints, a Council of
Europe investigation concluded today." ... "It revealed that Abu Zubaydah,
believed to be a senior al-Qaida member, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a
suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, were held and interrogated
in Poland." ... "None of the prisoners had access to the Red Cross and
many were subjected to what [Republican President] George Bush has called
the CIA's "enhanced" interrogation, which critics have condemned as torture."
... "The report said that within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, Nato signed
an agreement with the US that allowed civilian jets used by the CIA during
its so-called extraordinary rendition programme to move across member states'
airspace." ... "Dick Marty, a Swiss senator who ran the investigation,
said in his report that the "the highest state authorities were aware of
the CIA's illegal activities on their territories"." ... "Politicians from
Poland and Romania, as well as a spokesman for the CIA, have rejected the
findings of the investigation." -By Fred Attewill
-Guardian.co.uk
-
United
States - Russia
-
 Azerbaijan
- Poland
- "Rice:
US pursues own missile plan." ... "The United States
will pursue its own plans to put a missile defense in Eastern Europe despite
Russian suggestions to locate it outside the region, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice told The Associated Press Friday." ... "Rice said Russian
President Vladimir Putin's surprise offer to share a Soviet-era radar tracking
station in Azerbaijan for the project had caught the Bush administration
off guard, but that it was worth looking into even while missile defense
negotiations with Poland and the Czech Republic continue." -By
Matthew Lee -AP
via -Chron
-
Russia
- Azerbaijan
- US
- Poland
-
 Iran
- Nuclear
- Military
- "Putin
surprises US with missile suggestion." ... "Vladimir
Putin sprang a diplomatic surprise yesterday in his dispute with America
over the siting of a US missile defence system in Europe, suggesting instead
that it could be placed in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan." ...
"The Russian leader, who raised the prospect of a new cold war with the
west in his hawkish speech on the eve of the summit, claimed he had already
secured the agreement of the Azerbaijani government to the proposal." ...
"The US proposal for a missile defence system, including interceptor and
radar, sited in the former Warsaw pact countries of Poland and the Czech
Republic, has prompted fury in Moscow [Russia's capital]. Mr Putin has
threatened to train his nuclear arsenal on Europe as a reprisal, as well
as withdraw from arms control treaties." ... "But yesterday Mr Putin said
he would drop his objections to Mr Bush's plan if the interceptors and
radar were in the former Soviet republic. He argued that a system based
in Azerbaijan would be more effective in combating missiles aimed at Europe
and the US by so-called rogue states such as Iran." - By
Patrick Wintour -Guardian.co.uk
20060607
-
US
- EU
- Intelligence
- Terrorism
-
 Law
Enforcement - Prisons
- Transport
- Human
Rights - Politics
-  Britain
- Germany
- Italy
-  Sweden
-  Turkey
-  Spain
- Romania
- Poland
- "Probe
of CIA Prisons Implicates EU Nations." ... "Fourteen
European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of
human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention
facilities, a European investigator said Wednesday." ... "Swiss senator
Dick Marty's report to Europe's top human rights body was thin on evidence
but raises the possibility of a cover-up involving both friends and critics
of Washington's war on terror. It says European governments "did not seem
particularly eager to establish" the facts." ... "He listed 14 European
countries - Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Bosnia, Macedonia, Turkey,
Spain, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Poland - as being
complicit in "unlawful interstate transfers" of people." -By
Jan Sliva -AP
via -Forbes
20051104
-
EU
- US
- Poland
- Romania
- Military
- Terrorism
- Secrets
- "EU
Accepts Polish, Romanian Denials of Secret Jails (Update1)."
... "The European Union's executive agency said it is satisfied with Poland's
and Romania's denials that the U.S. is running secret terrorist jails on
their soil, saying there's no proof of human rights violations." ... "The
Polish and Romanian governments rebutted reports in the Washington Post
and Financial Times, citing U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, that the Central
Intelligence Agency has operated covert interrogation centers in those
countries." -By John Rega
-Bloomberg
20051024
-
US
- Poland
- Russia
- Germany
- "New
Polish Leader to Maintain U.S. Ties: New Polish President
Will Talk Tougher to Neighbors, Maintain Friendship With U.S.." ... "The
election of conservative Lech Kaczynski as Poland's president seals a shift
to the right with the rise of tough-talking leaders who pledge to protect
the country's interests." ... "But while the tone may sharpen toward old
foes such as Russia and Germany, the new Polish leadership will keep its
long-standing commitment to the European Union and NATO membership and
to its close friendship with the United States." ... "Indeed, Kaczynski,
who won a run-off election Sunday, stressed during his campaign that as
president he wants to make his first foreign visit to Washington, underscoring
the priority he places on the trans-Atlantic friendship." (1, 2)
-By Monika Scislowska with contributions by Ryan Lucas
-AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
20050428
-
-
-
-
-
- Secrets
- "Priest
at Vatican Is Called a Spy: Polish Cleric Said to
Aid Communists as Pope Urged Resistance." ... "A Polish priest at the Vatican
was accused Wednesday of collaborating with his country's communist secret
police during the 1980s, a time when Pope John Paul II was inspiring his
countrymen to resist the Soviet-backed government." ... "The Rev. Konrad
Stanislaw Hejmo, a Dominican, acknowledged late Wednesday that he had shared
reports he wrote for Polish church officials with an acquaintance, a Pole
who lived in Germany, but said he did not suspect the man might have been
a spy." ... "The accusations originated with Leon Kieres, head of the National
Remembrance Institute, which guards communist-era police files. At a news
conference Wednesday, he said Hejmo "was a secret collaborator of the Polish
secret services under the names Hejnal and Dominik."" -By
Monika Scislowska -WashingtonPost
20040420
-
-
-
-
- 
-
- "Powell
urges coalition leaders to keep troops in Iraq."
... "Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday the U.S.-led coalition
in Iraq remains strong despite decisions by Spain and Honduras to pull
out their troops. Later, the Dominican Republic announced that it also
would withdraw its troops." ... "Powell told reporters that leaders of
13 coalition countries with whom he spoke by telephone Monday and Tuesday
"all expressed steadfast support" for their respective troop commitments."
... "Among the leaders Powell spoke with was Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart
Sathirathai." ... "In addition to Surakiart, Powell spoke with leaders
of El Salvador, Dominica, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Bulgaria,
Holland, Romania, the Philippines and Ukraine." -By
George Gedda -AP
via -SFGate.com
20040320
-
-
-
- 
-
-
-
- "Bush
Asks Allies for Unity on Iraq: No Nation Exempt From
Terrorism, President Says on War Anniversary." ... "President Bush yesterday
marked the anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with an appeal
for international unity after a year of division by warning that there
can be "no separate peace" with the West's enemies." ... "Bush spoke to
an audience of 83 diplomats, including those from such countries as France
and Germany, which opposed the war. But his remarks seemed directed toward
such countries as Spain and Poland, allies in Iraq that are now expressing
misgivings, and, in Spain's case, rethinking their cooperation with the
United States." -By Dana Milbank -WashingtonPost
20040113
-
-
- "U.S.
Hails Mongolia's Troops in Iraq." ... "In Iraq, a
contingent of 173 Mongolian soldiers began serving under a Polish-led multinational
force last fall. They are operating around Hillah, in the southern part
of the country." ... "They amount to a drop in the bucket compared with
the thousands of U.S. and British troops occupying Iraq. But their presence
shows the former Soviet satellite state's efforts to refashion a portion
of its military into one available for peacekeeping missions worldwide."
-By John J. Lumpkin -AP
via -Miami/Herald
20030608
-
- "Poles
Return to Europe With EU Vote: Poles Vote 'Yes'
to Join EU, Fulfilling Aspirations to Return to Europe." ... "With 38 million
people, Poland would be the largest country to join the 15-nation bloc,
leading the largest wave of EU expansion and holding voting power equal
to Spain and behind only Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy." ...
"Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta and Lithuania have already approved
EU membership with referendums. The Czech Republic votes next week, followed
by Latvia and Estonia in September. Cyprus is leaving the decision to parliament."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
20030416
-
-
- "Iraqi
elite pledge free nation: Meeting of 70 leaders
told U.S. will cede power in 3 to 6 months." ... "Gathering under U.S.
auspices near the biblical birthplace of Abraham, a select group of Iraqi
leaders took the first steps Tuesday toward rebuilding their government
with a vow to embrace democracy." ... "The meeting, held under drum-tight
security in the presence of American, British and Polish diplomats, marked
the beginning of an ambitious plan to remake a nation crushed by decades
of repressive rule and years of strict economic sanctions." ... "More than
70 exile leaders, tribal sheikhs, ethnic Kurds and Shiite clerics emerged
from the six-hour meeting with 13 goals for the new government, the first
being "Iraq must be democratic."" -By Chuck Squatriglia
-SFGate.com
20030318
-
-
-
-
- "State
Department Noon Briefing Transcript [List of the 30 Nations Supporting
US Disarmament of Iraq]." ... "BRIEFER: Richard
Boucher, Spokesman." ... "MR. BOUCHER: There are 30 countries who have
agreed to be part of the coalition for the immediate disarmament of Iraq.
I'd have to say these are countries that we have gone to and said, "Do
you want to be listed?" and they have said, "Yes."" ... "They are: Afghanistan,
Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark,
El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy,
Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua,
the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and Uzbekistan." ... "In addition to these countries, there are actually
another 15 or so that we know of, probably more than 15, that are cooperating
with us in -- and the coalition, or perhaps offering defensive assets in
the event that Saddam resorts to the use of weapons of mass destruction."
-Washington
File -State.gov
20030313
-
-
-
-
- "Ex-Soviet
bloc states line up with U.S. against 'old' Europe:
Central, Eastern European governments back anti-Hussein efforts." ... "Brushing
aside French tirades that they should "shut up," the nations of Eastern
Europe are flexing newfound diplomatic muscle, and nowhere is this more
evident than in their strong support for President Bush in the confrontation
with Iraq." ... "While continental heavyweights such as France and Germany,
along with Russia, remain staunchly opposed to a U.S.-led attack, neophytes
such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland and Slovakia -- all of whom recently emerged from the Soviet yoke
-- are standing by Washington. In the Security Council, it was Bulgaria
that joined the United States, Britain and Spain in pushing resolutions
setting a deadline for Iraq to surrender its weapons." -By
Steven C. Johnson -SFGate.com
20030131
-
-
-
- "9 European
nations line up with U.S. in pledge on Iraq." ...
"Assuming a somewhat frayed mantle as global diplomat, Prime Minister Tony
Blair flew to the United States on Thursday night to meet President George
W. Bush, bearing an unusual pledge of support for Washington against Baghdad
from nine European leaders but leaving behind a continent ever more divided
over the need for war in Iraq." ... "Significantly, the letter's expressions
of ringing support for the United States fell short of explicit backing
for Washington's threat of a go-it-alone war with what it terms a "coalition
of the willing" if other nations continue to oppose it." ... "The signatories
included both established European Union members -Britain, Spain, Portugal,
Italy and Denmark - along with four countries set to join the Union next
year - Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland." -By
Alan Cowell -NYTimes
via -IHT.com
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