Morning Update: McCain-Dalai Lama Meeting
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) meets Friday with the Dalai Lama (Denver Post) in Aspen, Colorado.
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) meets Friday with the Dalai Lama (Denver Post) in Aspen, Colorado.
In a major speech Thursday at Berlin’s Victory Column, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) recounted the historic relationship between the United States and Europe and said the “burdens of global citizenship” will continue to bind the two powers together. A “true partnership” between Europe and the United States will require “sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace,” Obama said. Read more »
Discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson on Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said the parties involved will have to decide whether to include Hamas in negotiations.
Obama discussed a wide range of foreign policy issues with reporters in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday. The transcript of his remarks is available here (WashPost).TIME outlines the itinerary for the rest of Obama’s trip abroad.
“As we draw down in Iraq, we can beef up our presence on other battlefields (such as
Afghanistan) without fear of leaving a failed state behind. I’ve said that I expect to welcome home most of our troops from Iraq by the end of my first term in office, in 2013. But I’ve also said that any draw-downs must be based on a realistic assessment of conditions on the ground – not on an artificial timetable crafted for domestic political reasons.”
U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki yesterday and says he found a “strong, emerging consensus” (CNN) that U.S. combat forces in Iraq should be largely redeployed elsewhere within two years. The BBC has a diary of Obama’s trip, which today heads to Amman, Jordan.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), the presumptive Democratic nominee in the U.S. presidential elections, arrived in Baghdad today after meeting with officials in Afghanistan this weekend. The Washington Post says Obama’s trip to Iraq is a “fact-finding mission” to discuss troop levels and grand strategy, and that the candidate will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Gen. David Petraeus. In an interview with Der Spiegel published Saturday, Maliki seemed to express support for Obama’s plan for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq under a sixteen-month timetable. But an Iraqi government spokesman said Der Spiegel had “misunderstood and mistranslated” (ChiTrib) Maliki’s comments.
The New York Times profiles Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy team.
“I urge the Congress to act immediately and to allow and encourage offshore drilling for o
il and gas. If we are able to identify large supplies of oil and gas off our coasts, that will have an impact on oil prices, futures prices.”
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) released his plan to “confront 21st-century threats” on Wednesday. The plan includes measures to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism and strengthen U.S. bio-security and cyber security.
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