We will see in the coming days decisions along these lines The litany of setbacks, growing US casualties and the recent killing of 18 Italian servicemen has brought intense domestic and international pressure on the Bush administration to give the occupying force more legitimacy.Eager to counter this domestic unease, the American military sought to advertise their latest crack-down. We will see in the coming days decisions along these lines."The Bush administration spelt out over the weekend its new plans for the faster transfer of power from Americans to the Iraqis, with a transitional government now scheduled to take over from the end of June. Before, US officials had said that Iraqi leaders should write a constitution first, then hold elections.As the EU's foreign policy representative, Mr Solana has been playing a significant, behind-the-scenes role. Until now, the US had resisted putting the allied forces under international auspices, although there is growing support in Washington for a Nato role.Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, arrives in Brussels tonight for talks with EU ministers, which he will combine with a meeting with the retiring Nato secretary general, Lord Robertson of Port Ellen. "How fast can it be done? I would say the faster the better."He added: "The forces will have to be there under aa different chapeau. The more the international community is incorporated under the international organisations [the better] That is the lesson I think everyone is learning Our American friends are learning that. Decisions along these lines will be made in the "coming days", Mr Solana told The Independent. The United States accepts that to avoid humiliating failure in Iraq it needs to bring its forces quickly under international control and speed the handover of power, Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, has said. These are good, honest, decent, hard-working, experienced people who give me good, unvarnished advice and when I make a decision say: 'Yes sir, Mr President, we'll go execute it'."He also spoke of his and wife Laura's excitement at their impending stay in Buckingham Palace."It's a huge honour to be invited by Her Majesty to stay in Buckingham Palace," he said. "It's hard to imagine me even considering staying in Buckingham Palace. I mean, it's just one of those things - Buckingham Palace has got a tremendous mystique to it."¿ British students will get the opportunity to study at leading American business schools as part of a new scholarship to be unveiled tomorrow by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown.Potential young entrepreneurs will be able to spend up to half an academic year at business schools such as Harvard and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.. I've put together one of the finest administrations any president has ever assembled. He said: "The good news is: one, they'll be treated fairly; and two, I'm working closely with Tony [Blair] to come up with a solution that he's comfortable with - and I emphasise a solution that he's comfortable with."These prisoners were illegal combatants picked up off of a battlefield.
A civil court rather than a military one is the preferred option of the UK.But President Bush refused to back down. He has said in the past that the detainees should be treated in accordance with international law either in the US or in a British court.Many in the British Government would prefer to see the men repatriated so that UK courts could deal with them. And civil liberties campaigners have complained about the treatment of the prisoners, whom the Americans refuse to recognise as prisoners of war.The issue has been an embarrassing one for Mr Blair, with families of the detainees speaking out about their treatment.Downing Street has been hopeful the Prime Minister can achieve a breakthrough on the issue. President George Bush has strongly hinted that British prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are likely to be tried by a military tribunal in the US and not sent back to Britain. "We unvaryingly hold the position toward resolving the nuclear issue between North Korea and the United States peacefully through dialogue," the North Korean spokesman said.Representatives from America, the two Koreas, China, Japan and Russia held their first six-nation talks in Beijing in August. But the meeting ended without an agreement of when to meet again.. |
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