Archive | May, 2011

Ya Rafah, Ya Flotilla Palestina, Menyapa Sisi Politik Keamanan Israel

  Kekecewaan Mahmoud Abbas Dan Hamas Menjelang Obsesi Deklarasi Palestina Merdeka Pasca Pertemuan Obama – Netanyahu, Dunia Jangan Frustasi Mendamaikan Israel – Palestina Jakarta, 31 Mei 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM) — Persis seminggu yang lalu, atau tepatnya 24 Mei 2011, Perdana Menteri Israel Benjamin Netanyahu menjadi bintang di hadapan seluruh anggota Kongres Amerika saat ia diberi podium kehormatan untuk […]

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Mahmoud Abbas in Egypt for talks with military leader

  CAIRO, May 30, 2011  (KATAKAMI.COM / AFP) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in Egypt on Monday for talks with the country’s de facto head of state on efforts to seek UN recognition for a Palestinian state, a military source said, AFP reported. Abbas briefed Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi — who heads the military […]

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Russia must not permit foreign firms’ dumping says Putin

  RUSSIA, May 30, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / RIA NOVOSTI) — The Russian government must prevent foreign companies’ attempts to carry out dumping on the local industrial market, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “We must not permit someone, a foreign producer to carry out dumping on our domestic market. Healthy competition is not […]

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Obama to name Army head new Joint Chiefs chairman

  Washington, May 30, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / CNN) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Gen. Martin Dempsey, the relatively new Army chief of staff, to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to a source familiar with the plans, CNN reported on Monday. The term of the current chairman, […]

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Prime Minister Netanyahu warns Egypt losing control of growing terror groups in Sinai

  Israel, May 30, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / HAARETZ) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that Egypt’s new military government was having a “hard time” controlling the rise of international terror organizations in the Sinai Peninsula, HAARETZ reported. “Egypt is having a hard time realizing its sovereignty in Sinai,” Netanyahu said during a meeting […]

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Israeli PM Netanyahu : Sinai Becoming Dangerous

  Israel, May 30, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / IsraelNationalNews.Com) — Speaking at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel needed to step carefully these days, given the unrest in the Arab world. “We don’t know what will become of these countries,” he said. “We […]

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Germany’s Merkel visiting India, Singapore

  BERLIN, May 20, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / BOSTON.COM)  —  Economic, defense and environmental issues will top the agenda when Chancellor Angela Merkel and government ministers travel to India this week. German officials said Monday that a deal to supply India with 126 fighter jets is sure to come up in Merkel’s talks with Prime Minister […]

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Germany wants nuclear exit by 2022 at latest

BERLIN, May 30, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / Reuters)  —- Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition declared on Monday it would shut all nuclear reactors by 2022, in a policy u-turn drawn up in a rush after the Fukushima disaster in Japan., REUTERS reported. The coalition, sensitive to accusations it may increase dependence on highly polluting brown coal, […]

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Aung San Suu Kyi plans tour of rural Myanmar in June

HONG KONG, May 20, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / AP) —  Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to tour the countryside next month in her first trip into the provinces since a 2003 political tour ended in her house arrest, AP reported. Suu Kyi said she hoped to travel outside of Yangon in June but […]

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UN Secretary-General urges Gaza aid through legitimate crossings

    (UN) —- In a statement released by his office on Friday (May 27, 2011), the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said : The Secretary-General has sent a letter to Governments of countries around the Mediterranean Sea.  In these letters, the Secretary-General indicated that he was following with concern media reports of potential […]

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Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal calls for lower oil prices

  May 30, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / CNN) – Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said Sunday that he wants oil prices to drop so that the United States and Europe don’t accelerate efforts to wean themselves off his country’s supply, CNN reported. In an interview broadcast Sunday on “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS,” the grandson of the founding […]

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McFaul’s appointment may boost trust between U.S., Russia – expert

  RUSSIA, May 30, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / RIA NOVOSTI) —– An appointment of U.S. President Barack Obama’s top adviser, Michael McFaul a new U.S. ambassador to Russia may help to get rid of mistrust between the United States and Russia, the head of the Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis, Alexander Konovalov told RIA Novosti. […]

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Obama’s advisor may be appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia

May 30, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / RIA NOVOSTI / NEW YORK TIMES) — U.S. President Barack Obama is planning to appoint Michael McFaul, a top national security aide at the White House, an ambassador to Russia, New York Times said on Sunday. McFaul, 47, is known as an “architect” of Russian-U.S. reset policy. Being a Rhodes […]

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Khamenei backs Ahmadinejad, calls for end to crisis

May 29, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / FRANCE 24 / AFP ) —-  Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday backed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government and called for an end to a crisis within the ruling conservative camp, state television said. “While there is weakness and problems … the composition of the executive branch is good […]

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Netanyahu : Unification of Jerusalem is a foundation of nation of Israel

  ISRAEL, May 29, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / HAARETZ) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his government’s support for a united Jerusalem on Sunday, calling the unification of Jerusalem one of the “foundations of the nation of Israel”, HAARETZ reported on Sunday. Speaking at a special government meeting held at the David Citadel in Jerusalem, […]

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Arab League to seek U.N. seat for Palestinian state

DOHA, May 29, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / Reuters) – The Arab League decided on Saturday to seek full U.N. membership for a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital, ignoring opposition from the United States and Israel, REUTERS reported. The Arab League’s peace process committee, meeting in […]

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