时事经纬
23-05-09
巴基斯坦：目前行动的目标是消灭塔利班领导人
巴基斯坦安全部队已进入西北边境省斯瓦特河谷地区重镇明戈拉并开始清除该地区
的武装分子。巴基斯坦军方发言人阿巴斯说，安全部队占领了该镇部分地区并控制
了一个制高点，他们在同武装分子激烈交火并在行动中缴获了大量的弹药，目前军
事行动还在推进。巴基斯坦内政部长马利克的话说，目前行动的目标是消灭塔利班
武装的领导人。
巴基斯坦村民自组民兵对抗塔利班
巴基斯坦西北地区的村民开始起来反抗塔利班，他们自组民兵团驱赶塔利班分子，
自发地阻止激进分子在该地区扩大势力。斯瓦特山谷上部地区军事行动指挥官加尼
少将说，在格拉姆山谷和下迪尔地区的村民，自己组成民兵团，对抗激进分子。星
期四武装村民和塔利班士兵发生冲突，有些人被打死或打伤。
印度加速更新战斗机基地增强对华的军事威慑力
印度空军上将法里
梅杰说，和巴基斯坦相比，中国的威胁肯定更大，而且对付中国需要完全不同的一套规则。"我们对中国的军事能力所知甚少，比如对中国的战斗力和军队专业程度的了解。"
梅杰说，印度空军正提升5个战斗机基地的战斗力，其中两个基地将部署俄制苏-30MKI战机。印度媒体评论说，印度空军司令的一席话肯定将给印度新政府有关中国的议程增添紧迫感，因为印方急需了解中国加快军队现代化进程对印度安全造成的影响。
日本拟向太平洋岛国提供新援助与中国抗衡
日本暨太平洋岛国论坛首脑会议23日北海道落幕，日本首相麻生太郎宣布将考虑向
各岛国提供新的援助。“日本将通过振兴可持续发展的农业和渔业，为强化各岛国
经济基础。由于中国正在加强对该地区的经济援助并扩大影响力，麻生在记者会上
强调称“将继续在享誉全球的环保技术等领域提供具有日本特色的合作”，显露出
与中国相抗衡的意图。
太平洋岛国峰会闭幕 宣布组建“太平洋共同体”
名为《北海道岛国宣言》的首脑宣言内容包括：日本将在今后三年内帮助各岛国培
养当地所需的医生和废弃物处理专家等3500名专业人才，在三年内向各岛国提供总
额约500亿日元的援助等。宣言说，日本消费的金枪鱼和鲣鱼约八成来自该地区，因此日本将在保护水产资源和振兴渔业方面提供合作。500亿日元ODA中68亿将作为全球变暖对策，用于完善太阳能发电和海水淡化设备等。
伊朗总统称西对伊核立场已经退一步
艾哈迈迪内贾德称，伊朗现在有七千个用于浓缩铀的离心器，而西方国家已经退一
步，不要求德黑兰停止浓缩铀活动了。“有一天他们告诉我，你有十天时间去停止
浓缩铀活动，然后我们会向安理会提出这个问题。之后他们又说，好吧，你们到今
年年底停止浓缩铀活动吧。我们说，在总统选举之前我们都不会谈论这件事，
然而他们坚持在选前进行谈判。他们呼吁了很多次，他们要求对话。我告诉他们，我们希望延期到选后。最后奥巴马接受了，并且说让我们选后再谈。”
以政府称将拆除26个非法定居点
以色列看来对美国施加的停止定居点兴建活动的压力作出了回应。新政府说，它计
划拆除在约旦河西岸边远地区的26个非法定居点。目前在约旦河西岸有大约100个非法的定居点。根据国际社会支持的“路线图”和平计划，这些非法的定居点都应被
拆除。
美国防部长曾亲自建议日本改购F-35战机
盖茨表示美军计划把下一代战斗机机型集中于F-35上。他在指出F-22可能于近期停
止生产后，称“F-35是很好的飞机”，暗示要求日方采用该机型‘并表示无法解除
美国国会制定的F-22禁运措施。
美防长盖茨向日推销F-35战机 暂不售F-22战机
中国就卢武铉逝世进行自我反思
中国媒体24日就卢武铉逝世对本国的教训和影响进行了深入分析。分析认为，卢武
铉的逝世当中夹杂著官商勾结造成的长期腐败、历届总统接连受辱的韩国政治悲剧
等复杂问题。中国也是一样，在过去30多年来通过改革开放，实现了高度经济增长，但同样也积累了诸多腐败、对前领导层的评价等政治难题。
中国：南水北调全面提速
首例外资撤离上海楼市 退房近200套 金额达9亿
首例外资撤离上海楼市，退房近200套，金额达9亿。被退的楼盘是上海徐家汇地区
的尚海湾豪庭。据称这并非是投资者"退房"给开发商，而是借"撤销"成功转卖，以
逃避高额税收，但尚海湾豪庭的代理机构否认了这一种猜测。分析师薛建雄说，尚
海湾的神秘买家原本也打算投资出租，以获取高额回报，但实际情况却让机构投资
者很不满意，最终导致了"退房"事件发生。
Israel to speed up Russia's UAV order
Israel plans to expedite production of unmanned aerial
vehicles for Russia after Moscow announced last week it had
decided to halt the sale of advanced MiG-31 fighter jets to
Syria.
Russia's interest in Israeli drones surfaced in late 2008
following the war in Georgia, during which Tbilisi operated
Israeli-made drones. At the time, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos
Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security
Bureau, visited Moscow and received assurances that Russia
would not sell the S300 defense missile system to Iran, and
would consider halting the sale of MiG-31s to Syria. Russia
was supposed to sell eight MiG-31s to Syria, according to a
report in the Kommersant newspaper. The $500m. deal was
signed in early 2007, but work on the project was halted in
April.
Israel, India discuss $1.1b AWACS deal
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and India are in the
advanced stages of talks regarding New Delhi's interest in
purchasing three new Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control
Systems (AWACS) from Israel, in what could turn into the
largest defense contract in the country's history. On Sunday
Israel will deliver the first of three AWACS ordered by
India in 2004 for $1.1 billion. The plane is scheduled to
take off from Ben-Gurion Airport in the afternoon. The
remaining two planes are scheduled to reach India in 2010.
Netanyahu warns Hizbullah may control Lebanon
Binyamin Netanyahu expressed concern during his talks in
Washington last week that Hizbullah could gain considerable
strength in the upcoming Lebanese elections and possibly put
together a Shi'ite bloc that would control the country.
Netanyahu described Hizbullah control of Lebanon as a
"dangerous" and "worrisome" possibility that needs to
considered very seriously. This is a scenario that Netanyahu
has been warning about in private meetings in recent weeks.
Lebanon is scheduled to hold its elections on June 7.US Vice
President Joe Biden went to Lebanon on Friday to reinforce
US support for the government ahead of the elections.
Iran: No nuke talks before election
Speaking at a press conference in Teheran, Ahmhadinejad said
"We said that we won't hold any talks [on the matter] before
the elections… they're insisting on starting before the
elections."
He went on to claim that US President Barack Obama had
"called a number of times, and also agreed to wait with the
talks until after the elections." Ahmadinejad criticized as
"disgraceful" a 2003 deal his predecessor reached with
Europe to freeze the country's nuclear program, saying his
own decision to stand up to the West restored Iran's
dignity.
Maliki: US-backed law unleashes terrorists
Iraq's prime minister says a US-backed prisoner release law
that aims for sectarian reconciliation has helped insurgents
and corruption suspects get back on the streets.
"Regrettably, the amnesty law has been changed from the
conditions written by the government, and has led to the
pardoning of many (accused of) corruption," Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki said during a Saturday gathering of Sunni and
Shia tribal leaders in Baghdad.
"This will be amended and reviewed, on the basis that there
is no protection for any corrupt (person) or terrorist in
any legislation, or by any political power that is part of
the government," he vowed.
"Because of the addition of one word to the law, whether
because of a mistake or deliberately, major terrorists have
been released, because the law says that a terrorist that is
not responsible for direct killings should be pardoned,"
Maliki said.
Iraq's parliament passed the amnesty law for Sunnis in
February last year after pressure from Washington for
legislation, which would give the country's Sunni Arab
minority, a greater role in the government.
Russian FM praises ties with Hamas
Ex-US officials lash Obama over 'failing' Iran policy
In an article published by The New York Times on Sunday,
former National Security Council officials, Flynt Leverett
and wife Hillary Mann, explained why US President Barack
Obama's current course of action with Iran is likely to fall
by the wayside.
“The administration's approach to Iran degenerates into an
only slightly prettified version of George W. Bush's
approach - that is, an effort to contain a perceived Iranian
threat without actually trying to resolve underlying
political conflicts,” they wrote.
Mann and Leverett asserted that the Obama administration has
failed to learn his lesson, and has so far made the very
same mistakes of his predecessor by pursuing the exact
double-edged policies on Iran.
“The Obama administration has done nothing to cancel or
repudiate an ostensibly covert but well-publicized program,
begun in President George W. Bush's second term, to spend
hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize the Islamic
Republic,” they said.
They criticized Obama's refusal to pursue an
American-Iranian “grand bargain” that provides a
comprehensive framework to resolve major bilateral
differences and fundamentally realigning relations.
The two former dignitaries also criticized several policy
and personnel decisions by Obama that they believe go
against his oft-stated promises to rewrite policy on Iran.
According to Mann and Leverett, Obama's decision to give top
foreign policy posts to the likes of Hillary Clinton, who
vowed to “totally obliterate Iran” during her presidential
candidacy and Dennis Ross, who openly advocates “engagement
with pressure” strategy toward the country has cast doubts
on the sincerity of the promises he made regarding Tehran.
They spoke out against Obama's approval to create a
high-level Israeli-US working group to identify more
coercive options if Iran does not meet American conditions
for halting its nuclear activities, saying that it would
reduce chances of rapprochement with Tehran.
Mann and Leverett said Obama should resign himself to the
fact that Iran would never abandon its nuclear activities.
“… Accept that Iran will continue enriching uranium, and
that the only realistic potential resolution to the nuclear
issue would leave Iran in effect like Japan - a nation with
an increasingly sophisticated nuclear fuel-cycle program
that is carefully safeguarded to manage proliferation
risks.”
The two former higher-ups said that Tehran had previously
proved its good will to Washington by making significant
contributions to the US-led war against the Taliban
insurgents in Afghanistan.
Washington invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to allegedly capture
9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Iran's generous help in
restoring quiet and calm in the war-snarled country has been
internationally recognized.
US President George W. Bush, however, responded to the
Iranian efforts by labeling the country as an "axis of evil"
in a 2002 State of the Union address.
Iran hosts regional summit on war against drugs, extremism
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hosted a summit with
his Pakistani and Afghan counterparts on Sunday aimed at
finding ways to combat extremism and drug smuggling in the
region.
‘Today the three nations are suffering from drug and human
trafficking which has put pressure on the three countries,’
Ahmadinejad told the gathering. He said the region also
faced other problems such as ‘intervention and extremism’
which have been ‘imposed on us from far away.’
‘They have been imposed by people who have no close
historical or cultural proximity to us... and the foreign
troops in the region who came here under the pretext of
bringing security have also not succeeded,’ Ahmadinejad said
referring to US-led forces in Afghanistan.
The Afghan foreign ministry said on Saturday that the summit
aimed to create a ‘mechanism’ for regular high-level
consultation between the three neighbours. It would
underline a shared commitment to ‘eradicating extremism,
terrorism and drugs which run counter to Islamic beliefs and
morals, and the culture and traditions of the three Islamic
countries’, a ministry statement said.
Afghanistan is the source of 90 per cent of the world's
opium, most of which is converted into heroin inside the
country and smuggled out through Pakistan and Iran, where
drug use is growing. The Afghan military announced on
Saturday that it had used air strikes to destroy 92 tonnes
of drugs, heroin-processing chemicals and bomb-making
materials in the southern province of Helmand.
The Tehran summit comes as the administration of US
President Barack Obama has been working towards engaging
Tehran in efforts to rebuild Afghanistan. Iran also attended
a US-backed international conference on Afghanistan in The
Hague on March 31.
Engaging Iran is part of Obama's strategy to secure the help
of all Afghanistan's neighbours in reconstructing the Muslim
country which has been battling a resurgent Taliban
insurgency boosted by rising militancy across the border in
Pakistan.
Hamas-Fatah split “detrimental” to Palestinian national
ethos
London, May 24, IRNA — The Palestinian ambassador to Britain
said Sunday the split between Fatah and Hamas has been
“detrimental to the national ethos of the Palestinians.” He
called on Arab and Islamic states to present a “united
front” against Israel and support Palestinians.
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