Transcript of the Director General´s Interview on Iran and DPRK
Financial Times with Daniel Dombey
19 February 2007
Original interview transcript can be found at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d229a13c-c056-11db-995a-000b5df10621.htmlOn Monday, 19 February 2007, the Financial Times talked to Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency ahead of a crucial week in the dispute over Iran´s nuclear programme.
A UN [...]

Livingstone secures cheap oil from Chávez
Financial Times - February 20 2007
By Tom Burgis, Additional reporting by Andrew Webb-Vidal in Caracas
Original article available at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4d8e3834-c0d8-11db-bf18-000b5df10621.html
President Hugo Chávez’s “21st century socialism” reached the UK yesterday when Venezuela signed an agreement to subsidise the fuel bill for London’s buses by up to $32m (£16m) a year to fund [...]

Canada can’t win this way; Think-tank: NATO policy called ‘misguided’
Vancouver Sun, Thursday 15 Feb 2007
by Richard Foot
Linked from: Canadian Dimension - http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/02/19/914/
Canada and its allies in Afghanistan are waging a losing war against the Taliban that’s killed thousands of innocent civilians, harmed the reputation of coalition forces and fuelled support for the insurgency, says [...]

Keep the peace process on track
For the third time in less than a year, terrorists have attempted to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan. Handing them a victory is the last thing we should do.
The Hindu - Opinion - http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/20/stories/2007022005101000.htm
by Siddharth Varadarajan
IN TERMS of the choice of both target and timing, it is [...]

Today marks the Lunar New Year, and all around the world, Asians are flocking to their families to feast, or are taking advantage of the break. My parents are in Cambodia and I just stuffed myself silly in Chinatown.
So what does this year of the Golden Pig hold for us? Lets see what the South [...]

1948 is a new blog about international law by Richard Norman, Nicholas Li and Otto Spijkers out of the University of Leiden. At CIMUN, we try to keep abreast on law and international relations. They have recently posted about the German Marshall Fund, the World Bank’s new anti-corruption measures and the changing nature of war.
In [...]

On Wednesday 28 Feb 2007, the Islamic World Studies program at DePaul University and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs is hosting a program titled - Islam: Image and Reality. The proram will feature Richard Perle, Abdul Bari Atwan, Sherman Jackson, Mahmood Mamdani, and moderator Stephen Sheppard as panelists.
Best of all, to attend is [...]

 
Mexican govt deepens Latin America split at Davos
This isn’t the first time that a Mexican president has rankled the sensibilities of fellow hemispheric leaders while traveling abroad.
Spero News, http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=7820
Monday, February 12, 2007
By Laura Carlsen
Laura Carlsen is Director of the IRC Americas Program (www.americaspolicy.org) in Mexico City, where she has been a writer and political [...]

Hope you all had a romantical V-Day!
- From the crew at the Chicago International Model United Nations (CIMUN)