WASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NCSJ today praised the announcement that Secretary of State Colin Powell will attend the conference on anti-Semitism, being sponsored April 28-29 in Berlin by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Secretary Powell and the State Department have been instrumental in envisioning and securing the OSCE mechanism for international cooperation against anti-Semitism," said NCSJ Chairman Robert J. Meth. "Through his participation in the OSCE Ministerial Council last December, he personally ensured strong support from the 55 member states for both the Berlin conference and the critical post- Berlin implementation of hate-crimes monitoring, legislation, training, and educational programs." Dr. Meth will be leading NCSJ's delegati...
BERLIN - A global conference in Germany to discuss Afghanistan's future beyond 2014 comes as the country faces political instability, an enduring Taliban-led insurgency and possible financial collapse following the planned drawdown of international troops and foreign aid. About 100 countries and international organizations will be represented at the gathering, with some 60 foreign ministers in attendance, among them U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
WASHINGTON, April 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- United States Helsinki Commission Chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) and Ranking Commissioner Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) have urged Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to join them in Berlin at an historic international conference aimed at combating anti-Semitism. The move comes just three weeks after Powell announced that Smith and Cardin had been appointed to serve as members of the official United States delegation to the Berlin Conference.
BERLIN - Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago. Obama said he was speaking as a citizen, not as a president, but the evening was awash in politics as the first-term U.S. senator sought to burnish his international credentials for the fall campaign at home. His remarks before a crowd estimated at more than 200,000 inevitably invited comparison to historic speeches in the same city by Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
In citing the European nations who profited from the Atlantic slave trade, Gates could have stated that most of the consolidated nations of Europe benefited from the slave trade, and not to mention Germany and Belgium, particularly after the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, and the arbitrary carving up of Africa is a grievous oversight.
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