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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. januar 2013 / Time Line January 14, 2013
Version 3.513. Januar 2013, 15. Januar 2013
01/14/2013
Brunei Darussalam has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty (CTBT), becoming the 158th country to do so. Tibor
Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for
the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO),
welcomed the move: “This is not only a step towards a safer
and more peaceful future in Asia. Brunei Darussalam has made an
important contribution to ridding the planet of nuclear tests and
nuclear weapons”, writes the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty Organization Information Centre.
01/14/2013
Alert: OMB tells agencies to prepare for massive spending cuts
to programs
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) tells agencies to prepare
for massive spending cuts, that include disastrous funding cuts to
HUD's housing programs for the elderly, disabled and the poor. See
links further below to story about massive spending cuts happening
to HUD's housing programs that are scheduled to occur on March 1, 2013.
Memorandum For The Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies -
http://tinyurl.com/agpjhbh
01/14/2013
Møde i Udenrigspolitisk nævn om Mali.
01/14/2013
Panetta: U.S. Support to French in Mali Aimed at
al-Qaida
By Karen Parrish, American Forces Press Service
LISBON, Portugal, Jan. 14, 2013 - U.S. and French defense leaders
are hammering out details of intelligence, logistics and airlift
assistance the United States will provide to French forces in Mali,
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said today.
French forces began airstrikes in Mali, a former French colony,
four days ago. It has been widely reported France began its air
campaign to halt the movement south of al-Qaida affiliated
extremists, who have held Mali's northern area since April.
Officials from the Stuttgart, Germany-based U.S. Africa Command
also are discussing military support with France, the secretary
said. A senior official traveling with the secretary told reporters
that specific U.S. support to French forces in Mali has not yet
been defined, but that Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, Africom commander,
spoke by phone earlier today from the African continent with the
secretary, who was flying to Portugal at the time.
President Barack Obama yesterday notified Congress, as required by
the War Powers Act, that United States troops "provided limited
technical support to the French forces" engaged in the attempted
rescue of a French hostage in Somalia. French forces reported Denis
Allex, who had been a hostage of al-Qaida-affiliated al Shabaab
since 2009, was killed in the raid.
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