Posted on 03/04/2008 5:56:43 AM PST by processing please hold
VIENNA, Austria - Russia and China on Tuesday scuttled a Western attempt to introduce a resolution on Iran's nuclear defiance at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, diplomats said.
The decision appeared to be the result of lingering unhappiness by the two world powers about not being informed earlier of plans for such a resolution.
It came a day after the U.N. Security Council imposed another round of sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran defiantly vowed to continue its nuclear program, which it insists is aimed only at generating power.
Moscow on Monday had threatened not to back the new U.N. sanctions against Iran unless the West gave up its IAEA resolution plans.
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And the price of gas goes up.
Nice gig they got here.
And up and up and up.
Nice gig they got here.
I'll bet the un was pleased as punch they blocked it.
When are the USA and Allie countries going to suspend buying ANY products from China outside of joint owned firms? And tel the Russians that they are on their own as far as surviving. At the fall of communism, it was the rest of the world, NOT including China that kept that entire country out of chaosism. Now they do everything in their power to go against everyone else in the world as they did before the cold war. enough is enough
“And the beat goes on.”
a la the 12 years Germany, France and Russia blocked action on Iraq.
this is all so predictable. who would’ve thought a year ago that this is where we would be right now?
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