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03 September 2015

FOREIGN POLICY'S Editors' Picks: Europe’s migration crisis in photos; and the President of Kazakhstan on his country's nuclear fuel bank 3SEP14


Editors' Picks, presented by Switzerland Global Enterprise: Europe’s migration crisis in photos; and the President of Kazakhstan on his country's nuclear fuel bank


 
  Welcome to Editors' Picks, FP's round-up of the day's best articles.

Today, we look at images from the migration crisis that has swept Europe, a condemnation of the Leopoldo López trial in Venezuela, and a dispatch on Georgia's fight against corruption.
 
 
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BY LAND OR BY SEA: Looking to escape war and poverty in Syria, the Balkans, and North Africa, thousands of migrants sought refuge in the European Union this summer — or died trying. Photos from the crisis: Read more
 
 
 
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KAZAKHSTAN CALLING: “My country is host to an important new initiative that could change how the world talks about nuclear enrichment forever,” writes Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Read more
 
 
 
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KAFKA IN CARACAS: The trial of opposition leader Leopoldo López is a cruel travesty of justice — even by the low standards of the Venezuelan regime, Jeffrey Tayler writes: Read more
 
 
 
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CURBING CAMPUS CORRUPTION: First, the Republic of Georgia fired its Education Ministry. Then came the hard part, Christofer Berglund and Johan Engvall report: Read more
 
 
 
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ASSASSINATING CHIANG KAI-SHEK: The reputation of China's Nationalist leader is falling in Taiwan and being rehabilitated on the Mainland. What's going on, Richard Bernstein asks: Read more
 
 
 

 
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11 November 2013

Iran and US trade blame over failed deal 11NOV13

IRAN has nobody to blame but itself for the breakdown of these negotiations. If they have nothing to hide they should grant total, unrestricted access of all their nuclear sites to IAEA inspectors who will report if the Iranian nuclear program is in fact for peaceful energy production and medical treatments and research or if the program includes equipment that can be used to make nuclear weapons. If the inspectors find no evidence of a weapons program sanctions should be lifted and Iran welcomed back into the international community. If they find the possibility of weapons and Iran refuses to end and dismantle that part of their nuclear program then the Iranian government can continue to wallow in the economic cesspool it has created until the people themselves have had enough and remove the dictatorial cabal of mullahs and murderous nationalist extremist from power and form a government that wants to coexist with the rest of the world. It really is as simple as that. From Al Jazeera....

The US has accused Iran of backing away from a wider deal regarding its nuclear programme [AP]
Iran and the United States have blamed each other for the failure to reach an agreement on a deal to limit Iran's uranium enrichment in exchange for an easing of Western sanctions in talks in Geneva.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday criticised US Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks that blamed Iran for lack of the deal and said that the American's “conflicting statements” damaged confidence in the process.
“Conflicting statements harm the credibility of the one who keeps changing positions and damages confidence. The goal of dialogue is to reduce the lack of trust. Conflicting talk doesn't give credit to the person saying it,” Zarif said on an Iranian TV talk show.
He said that “considerable progress'' was made during three days of talks in Geneva, but claimed that most of the hours were spent with the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany trying "to resolve differences among themselves".
The Iranian Foreign Minister said he was still hopeful a deal would be reached, but insisted any agreement must include the lifting of all Western sanctions against Iran.
Kerry said earlier on Monday that Iranian envoys had backed away from a wider deal this weekend seeking to ease Western concerns that Tehran could one day develop atomic weapons.
“There was unity but Iran couldn't take it,'' Kerry said during a stop in Abu Dhabi. He added: "The French signed off on it, we signed off on it.''
Pact with IAEA
Western leaders have tried to display a unified front after reports that France had broken ranks in the recent talks in Geneva and demanded more concessions from Iran on enrichment levels that could be used in weapons production.
Geneva talks saw Iran and six global powers meeting in the Swiss city to broker a deal that could see Tehran freeze its nuclear efforts in exchange for some relief from the sanctions that have battered its economy.
Kerry said he hoped an agreement on Iran's disputed nuclear programme would be signed within months.
"This is not a race to complete just any agreement," Kerry told a news conference during a visit to the United Arab
Emirates. However, he added: "Through diplomacy we have an absolute responsibility to pursue an agreement."
With negotiators set to resume next week, Iranian officials promoted a separate pact reached with the UN nuclear chief Yukiya Amano as a "roadmap'' for greater cooperation and transparency, which could move the talks ahead.
"It's an important step forward, but by no means the end of the process,'' Amano of International Atomic Energy Agency told The Associated Press in Tehran. "There is still much work to be done.''
Iran has denied it seeks nuclear arms and insists its only seeks reactors for energy and medical applications. Iranian officials portrayed the expanded UN access as further sign it seeks to work with the West.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/11/iran-us-trade-blame-over-failed-deal-201311120313241445.html