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Obama to host tripartite meeting with Israeli PM and Palestinian President

September 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Jerusalem, Sep 20 (ANI): In an effort to renew the peace process in the Middle East, President Barack Obama will host a tripartite meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the meeting would take place after Obama meets separately with each of the two leaders.

“These meetings will continue the efforts of President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Special Envoy George Mitchell to lay the groundwork for the relaunch of negotiations, and to create a positive context for those negotiations so that they can succeed,” the Jerusalem Post quoted a White House statement, as saying.

The meetings will take place in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly conference.

The White House announcement of the meeting comes as something of a surprise, since both Israel and the PA until Saturday continued to blame each other for the current stall in peace talks

And recently, Mitchell had failed to make progress in talks with the two leaders.

On Saturday, Mitchell said: “It is another sign of the president’s deep commitment to comprehensive peace that he wants to personally engage at this juncture.” (ANI)

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Antony ‘anxious’ to get timely delivery of defence procurements

May 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): Defence Minister A K Antony on Thursday said that he was ‘anxious’ to get timely delivery of defence procurements as it controls rise in costs, and wants suppliers to fulfil their commitment in time.

“I conveyed my anxieties to both of them, Israeli and Russian ambassadors, here that they will deliver the remaining two AWACS in time. The anxiety is not country centric,” Antony said after inducting the first of the three airborne early warning and control systems (AWACS) in the Indian Air Force.

The IAF has raised a new squadron of AWACS, which will be called ‘Squadron 50′. Two more AWACS will be inducted in the squadron by the end of the next year.

The Israeli-built system is mounted on a Russian-built IL-76 transport aircraft as a part of the tripartite agreement between India, Israel and Russia signed in 2004.

“The AWACS project was signed in 2004. Five years is too long a time. I hope the Governments of Russia and Israel and the hard work of our people will help us in getting the other two AWACS on time,” Antony said.

“In last five years there has been a remarkable change in the procurement process. We have to further speed up the process as emerging security scenario demands equipping of the armed forces with far more modern techniques,” Antony said.

Antony pointed that the delay in delivery results in technology becoming old in the wake of speedy technological advancement and escalation of costs.

“Cost escalation is a problem including with Russia and other countries. The real answer is to get the delivery on time. We are in constant touch with countries who supply to India…. We are trying to impress upon countries at the highest level to get products delivered on time, which requires constant monitoring,” he added.

Russians is now demanding 2.9 billion dollars for the Admiral Gorshkov which was initially priced at 1.5 billion dollars.

Sources say that Moscow is also planning to hike the price of INS Chakra, the Russian-built nuclear-powered attack Akula class submarine.

“In the last meeting with the Russian Defence Minister we decided to speed up all defence procurements. Defence Secretary Vijay Singh will be reaching Moscow on Sunday to speed up the remaining projects,’ Antony said. (ANI)

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In quest for supremacy, IAF inducts AWACS

May 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): The Indian Air Force’s eye in the sky, AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) platform fitted on IL-76 aircraft, was formally inducted by Defence Minister A K Antony today.

The IAF has raised a new squadron of AWACS, which will be called ‘Squadron 50′. Two more AWACS will be inducted in the squadron by the end of the next year.

The planes will especially be used to reinforce maritime security in the wake of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. India is one of the few countries to have inducted the AWACS in their air forces.

Antony described the induction of AWACS as a milestone, and added that it would help to improve the country’s security apparatus.

IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Fali H Major said: “AWACS will enable the Air Force to project itself as a formidable force. Integration of this sophisticated platform with our Air Defence Network will add a new dimension to the IAF’s capability to guard the Indian skies.”

“AWACS will be a dynamic asset in the air, which can be mobilised in a quick time to counter an emerging threat and tilt the balance in India’s favour. It will provide defence in depth and enable the friendly forces to neutralise the adversary before it can pose a serious danger,” he added.

The first of three Indian Air Force AWACS arrived in Jamnagar, Gujarat on May 25. It took off from Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday, first for Ovda in the southern Israeli coastal town of Eilat. At night, it flew from Eilat to Jamnagar, reaching India on Monday.

The Israeli-built system is mounted on a Russian-built IL-76 transport aircraft as a part of the tripartite agreement between India, Israel and Russia.

The AWACS are slated to operate from the Agra airbase under the Central Air Command. India’s most potent force multiplier, AWACS, is capable of tracking down incoming missiles. The all weather system is capable of engaging 60 targets simultaneously and has a range of 400 km.

It has a radar that can help detect cruise missiles or aircrafts at ranges much beyond the capabilities of present systems. It can also collate information about troop movements and missile launches on ground and even intercept highly secured communication networks of the enemy.

The IAF AWACS would help pilots find hitherto unconceivable space and room for tactical manoeuvres in the air under controlled directions that would give them an edge over their adversaries at all times.

AWACS, a potent force-multiplier, would significantly enhance the effectiveness of both offensive and defensive operations. The swift mobility that it provides would help neutralise any threat, as it could be moved anywhere at a very short notice. By Praful Kumar Singh (ANI)

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Defence Minister to dedicate AWACS in service of nation today

May 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): Defence Minister A K Antony will dedicate the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) to the nation on Thursday.

The first of the three Indian Air Force (IAF) AWACS platform landed on Indian soil escorted by the venerable Mig-29 and Jaguar fighters at the IAF’s Jamnagar airbase, on Monday.

The AWACS is a tripartite venture amongst India, Russia and Israel.

The IAF laid down the operational requirements in detail based on which the Israeli ‘Phalcon’ radar was mounted on the Russian IL-76 aircraft equipped with the more powerful PS-90A engines making it more advanced than many such systems.

This is the first of a total of three AWACS that the IAF is slated to receive.

The remaining two are expected to be inducted into the IAF by 2010 and all the AWACS would be based at Agra.

India is one of the few countries to have inducted the AWACS in their Air Forces.

The AWACS is a true ‘force-multiplier’ that gives a quantum jump to the operational capabilities of the Indian Air Force.

Known as the Air Force’s ‘Eye in the Sky’, it is capable of detecting intruders over sea and land at large distances.

It has many other capabilities including Electronic and Signal Intelligence gathering.

Once operationalised alongwith the Operational Data Link (ODL), Integrated Air Command and Control System (IACCS) and the Air Force Net (AFNET), the IAF would be able to take a definitive step towards Net Centric Operations. (ANI)

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Indian Air Force’s eye in the sky arrives escorted by fighter jets

May 25, 2009 By admin 1 Comment

New Delhi, May 25 (ANI): The Indian Air Force’s eye in the sky, Phalcon AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) platform, arrived in India from Israel today.

The first of three Indian Air Force AWACS arrived in Jamnagar, Gujarat. It took off from Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday, first for Ovda in the southern Israeli coastal town of Eilat. At night, it flew from from Eilat to Jamnagar, reaching India on Monday.

The Israeli-built system is mounted on a Russian-built IL-76 transport aircraft as a part of the tripartite agreement between India, Israel and Russia.

Three Mig-29 and three Jaguar aircrafts took off from an advance fighter airbase of South Western Air Command (SWAC) and escorted the giant IL-76 configured in its new avatar.

The fighter formations caught up with the AWACS mid-air and escorted it as it entered the Indian FIR (Flight Information Region), and touched down at the Jamnagar Air Force Base, close to midday, today.

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, SWAC, Air Marshal KD Singh along with senior IAF officials and air warriors welcomed the crew of the AWACS aircraft that included the Commanding Officer of the first AWACS squadron, Group Captain B Saju.

“It was a great feeling to be escorted by our fighters and it feels really good to be back,” said Group Captain B Saju upon arrival.

The Israeli Phalcon AWACS will be inducted in air force squadron on May 28, which will help the IAF to monitor military build-up and aircraft movement nearly hundreds of kilometres inside Pakistan without violating their airspace.

The AWACS are slated to operate from the Agra airbase under the Central Air Command and frenetic preparations ahead of its first arrival to join the extended fleet of the IL-76 family are complete, said an Indian Air Force statement.

India’s most potent force multiplier, Phalcon AWACS, is also capable of tracking down incoming missiles. The all weather system capable of engaging 60 targets simultaneously and has a range of 400 km. (ANI)

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Pakistan asks US for drones to counter terror threat effectively

May 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 6 (ANI): Ahead of his much awaited meeting with US President Barack Obama, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the United States to provide Predator drone aircrafts to Islamabad to enable it to counter the expanding terror threat in the country more effectively.

“I need drones to be part of my arsenal. I need that facility. I need that equipment. I need that to be my police arrangement,” Zardari said.

In an interview to a US television channel, Zardari said the Islamabad has already informed the Obama Administration about its needs to support the fight against the extremists.

“I will request this from the United States to give it a thought that if we own them, then we take out our targets rather than somebody else coming and doing it for us,” The News quoted Zardari, as saying.

He said it was more important to have the resources in terms of sophisticated arms and ammunitions rather than having security personnel on its soil confronting the militants.

“I’m open to the fact that we need more equipment, we need more intelligence equipment, we need intelligence support, but not personnel. I don’t think personnel are necessary, they’ll be counterproductive,” Zardari added.

When enquired about the fears which is being raised about the country’s nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of the Taliban and other extremist groups, Zardari said: “They are in safe hands.We have a 700,000 army, how can they take over?”

Zardari is in Washington to take part in a tripartite summit with his US and Afghanistan counterparts. He would also hold separate bilateral talks with the US President Barack Obama. (ANI)

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Obama’s options in strife torn Pakistan are limited

May 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 4 (ANI): President Barack Obama has only limited options for dealing with the crisis in Pakistan, as the anti-American feeling in the country is high, and US combat presence is prohibited, according to a leading US daily.

The United States is fighting Pakistan-based extremists by proxy in order to save the PPP-led Government.

President Obama and his National Security Council were told by US intelligence that neither a Taliban takeover nor a military coup was imminent and that the Pakistani nuclear arsenal was safe, The Washington Post reports.

Security in Pakistan was deteriorating rapidly, particularly in the mountains along the Afghan border that harbour al-Qaeda and the Taliban, intelligence chiefs reported, and there were signs that those groups were working with indigenous extremists in Pakistan’s populous Punjabi heartland.

The tools most readily at hand are money, weapons, and a mentoring relationship with Pakistan’s government and military that alternates between earnest advice and anxious criticism, the paper says.

The relationship between Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and the US has restrained, after reports surfaced that the Obama Administration was wooing former premier Nawaz Sharif, Zardari’s main rival.

“What are the Americans trying to do, micromanage our politics?” a senior Pakistani official said testily. “This is not South Vietnam.”

As Zardari arrives this week for his first official visit with Obama — part of a tripartite summit with Afghan President Hamid Karzai — the Obama Administration has asked Congress to quickly approve hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency military aid for Pakistan.

That money, and billions more over the next several years, is to come with new authority for the Defence Department to decide what to spend it on.

Obama has also backed a five-year 7.5 billion dollars economic assistance package and is resisting congressional efforts to impose strict conditions on any aid to Pakistan. (ANI)

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Expectations of Indo-Pak talks without Mumbai attack resolution ‘unrealistic’: Riedel

April 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, Apr.19 (ANI): Until the issues regarding the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack are resolved between India and Pakistan, it is almost unrealistic to expect New Delhi to restart peace talks with Islamabad, an expert has said.

Former CIA Middle-East expert and a key advisor to President Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel says the Mumbai attack is the core of the issue between India and Pakistan currently.

“The first step in any process of trying to change the dynamics between Pakistan and India is to resolve the outstanding issues from the Mumbai attack,” Riedel told Outlook India.

Riedel said Pakistan must ensure India that it is sincere in the 26/11 investigations.

“India has made a compelling case that the Mumbai attack was launched from Pakistan, that it had a significant support base in Pakistan,” Riedel said , adding ” Pakistan has said it’s willing to cooperate with the investigation and that’s what it should continue to do.”

When enquired that whether he considered the Mumbai attack as an attack on the US-Israel-India cooperation against terror, because the attackers particularly targeted Jews, Christians and Hindus, Riedel said India’s relationship both with the US and Israel was not new.

“I don’t see this as a tripartite relationship, but as a series of bilateral relationships,” he said.

Riedel said the new US policy for Pakistan did not have any mention of sending troops on Pakistani soil to thwart the terror threat originating from there, because the there was not any UN mandate for such step.

“There’s no mandate from the UN for deployment of forces in Pakistan nor any request from the Pakistani government for troops in Pakistan,” The Daily Times quoted Riedel, as saying.

Commenting on Pakistan’s fears of increasing Indian influence in Afghanistan, he said: “India was a ‘major player’ in the rebuilding of the war-torn country and its aid projects were one of the largest of any country in the world.”

Riedel also expressed his concerns over the Pakistan Parliament’s approval to implement Islamic law in Swat Valley saying it was “not a productive way to move forward”. (ANI)

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Tories see bigger role for small banks

April 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Failed banks that have been bailed out by the state might need to be broken up to prevent a repeat of the credit crisis, shadow Chancellor George Osborne said on Wednesday. Skip related content
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The state has a 70 percent stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and also owns a majority in the Lloyds Banking Group after bailing them out. Northern Rock has also been nationalised after it ran into problems.

“When the time comes to sell off those shareholdings, we need to think very carefully before simply selling them to the highest bidder without thinking through the consequences for the wider economy,” Osborne said in a speech in London.

“We should look at whether Britain in fact needs smaller banks,” he added.

The comments are significant because the Conservatives lead Labour in opinion polls and are on course to return to power for the first time since 1997. A general election must be held by the middle of next year.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said the banks will eventually be returned to private ownership and that the government hopes to make a profit for the taxpayer on the deal.

Osborne reiterated Conservative plans to restore the Bank of England to a central role in regulating the financial industry, reforming the tripartite structure set up by Labour in which the Bank, the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority all play a role.

He also said a new government and the Bank should review changes to the inflation target so that it reflected housing costs.

Pressed on his plans for the banking industry, Osborne stressed that any sale of state-owned shares was some way in the future.

However, he said there was a risk that recreating banks that were “too big to fail” would sow the seeds of a repeat of the current financial crisis.

“It would be a bitter irony if we came out of this crisis with a banking system that was even more concentrated and even riskier than the one we had before,” he said.

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Former Bosnian Croat leader abducted for ransom

April 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Zagreb – A shadowy former Bosnian Croat leader was kidnapped at his home in Zagreb Wednesday and is being held for ransom, media in the region said Thursday.

Croatian Interior Minister Tomislav Karamarko confirmed that the one-time member of the Bosnian presidency, Ante Jelavic, was kidnapped, the online edition of the Jutarnji List daily said.

According to media reports quoting family members, the kidnappers called from Bosnia, demanding 1 million euros (1.32 million dollars) to release Jelavic. Police only said they were investigating.

Jelavic served as the Croat representative in the Bosnian tripartite presidency in 1999-2001.

A hardliner who had pressed for greater Croat autonomy in the volatile, war-scarred country, he was removed from the post by the then international community’s representative, Wolfgang Petritsch.

Jelavic was sentenced to 10 years in prison for embezzlement in 2005, but escaped Bosnia and found shelter in neighbouring Croatia, averting extradition owing to his dual citizenship.

Though his appeal succeeded and a new trial was ordered, he remained in seclusion in Croatia.(dpa)

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Pranab to inaugurate Indian Labour Conference on Feb 20

February 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Feb 18 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the 42nd session of Indian Labour Conference on Friday.

The session is being organised by the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

The two-day Conference to be held under the chairmanship of the Minister of Labour and Employment Oscar Fernandes, will deliberate upon several topical and critical issues which include issues connected with contractualisation of labour, issues related to migrant workers, role of social partners in appropriate skill development for employability and also the effects of global financial crisis – viz. large scale downsizing, layoffs, and wage cut and job losses.

The “National Policy on Safety, Health and Environment at Workplace” formulated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment will also be released on the occasion.

The policy, amongst other things, brings out national objectives into focus towards improvement in safety, health and environment at workplace by such methods as continuous reduction in injuries, disease and associated costs and continuous enhancement of awareness.

The conference will be attended by senior representatives of workers and employers organisations, the state labour ministers and the officers from various central ministries and departments.

Some Central Ministers have also been invited to attend the Conference. Some fruitful results are likely to emerge from the brain-storming sessions on issues before the conference.

This process will definitely strengthen the institutions of social dialogue already, in place and will result in better understanding of each others perspective and convergence of varied ideas and approaches amongst social partners.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment has the unique mechanism of tripartite consultation amongst social partners – workers, employers and government, at various levels – sectoral as well as national – on issues relating to labour.

The Indian Labour Conference – the apex tripartite consultative body at national level has been aptly described as the “Labour Parliament of India”, a confluence of creative forces and energies and the testing ground of tripartite consensus in decision making.

The first such tripartite consultation at national level was held in 1942 as Tripartite National Labour Conference – subsequently renamed as Indian Labour Conference since 1944.

So far, 41 Sessions of Indian Labour Conference have been held to discuss prominent labour related issues. (ANI)

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Kayani demands halt to ‘counterproductive’ US drone attacks in its territory

January 3, 2009 By Rajiv Gupta Leave a Comment

Rawalpindi, Jan.3 (ANI): Taking strong note of the recent air strikes by US led international forces in Pakistan, Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani has asked the forces to cease the missile strikes.

During the Tripartite Commission meeting, consisting of military representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan and international forces in Afghanistan, Kayani demanded that the strikes inside Pakistani territory should be immediately stopped, the Daily Times reported.

Kayani termed the strikes in the tribal areas of the country as ‘counterproductive in the war against terrorism and extremism’.

He said that many innocent people were being killed in the strikes, giving rise to extremism in the area.

The international forces stationed near the Pakistan-Afghan border recently launched a strike inside Pakistan’s territory, which it (international forces) claimed was aimed to root out the Taliban and other militants operating in the area.

In the meeting, Kayani also stressed on the need for increased intelligence sharing among forces operating in the region. (ANI)

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