Libya, citing cost and liability concerns, has informed the United States of plans to back out of a contract to destroy its mustard gas stocks as promised under a landmark 2003 agreement, United States officials said. The State Department played down the development and insisted Tripoli remains committed to getting rid of its chemical weapons agents.
No image available
/ 21 September 2006
After railing against United States global dominance at the United Nations this week, hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared with some of his most prominent American critics to debate issues including his views on the Holocaust and Iran’s nuclear programme.
No image available
/ 9 September 2006
Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami on Friday condemned the September 11 attacks against the United States as an atrocity and said suicide bombers did Islam an injustice and would not go to heaven. Three days before the fifth anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3 000 people, the Shi’ite cleric urged Muslims to work against ”Islamaphobia”.
Major powers will begin discussing an Iran sanctions resolution at a meeting in Europe next week if Tehran continues to defy a United Nations Security Council demand to halt uranium enrichment, the United States State Department said on Wednesday. But Iranian President Mohammad Ahmadinejad remained unmoved, telling state media: ”Sanctions cannot discourage people from making progress.”