I am a kinda girls that doesnt wanna waste her time and tries to make the impossible possible. I am interested in things that people a lil older than me are but I dont care pretty much about it - I mean everybody's free to make their own choice. This is why the protection of the environment, the politics of Nigeria and the ridiculous life conditions of countries like the USA & Russia are closer to my mind then the latest soap opera storyline or the modern clothes that control the other peoples' mind.
This was just a preface. I opened this web site by adding the article about initiative just because I was still learning how to work with Blog. I had never used Blog before so I had to start somehow. Never mind Let me tell all the people who read it they ain't gonna read somethin humdrum. Promise y'all wont be bored at the end of ur journey to my Blog.
I've just finished 8th grade and hope to have an unforgetable summer. Got some plans that are kinda unusual for ladies my age. For example I am going to the Camp GLOW this year (let me say this is a camp organised by the Peace Corps and this time will take place in The beautiful city of Veliko Tarnovo); I'm also gonna help teaching kids in English & will give private lessons to a girl from Canada and an English couple (the lessons are all in English). I really wanna spend some more time with my friends cuz I havent seen most of them for ages!!! And that ain’t nice at all... I believe I will go to the seaside but not for more than five days ~ Wanna be a volunteer here, in Belitsa & help the people. Yes, I wanna stay here where I am needed :).
Now I have to bounce. Work in my fathers shop so I have to go now if I don’t wanna be late…
вторник, 3 юли 2007 г.
сряда, 27 юни 2007 г.
Showing Initiative
KEEPING ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE REALLY BAD GYUS
Ever since the September 11th attacks, anti-terrorism officials and their governments have fretted that al-Qaeda’s next spectacular could be the detonation of a nuclear device, or even a less powerful dirty bomb (using conventional explosives to disperse radioactive material). If that were to happen, asks Sam Nunn, an American ex-senator, what would governments wish they had done to prevent it? Efforts to avert such threats, and to help mitigate the consequences should prevention fail, brought officials from around 40 countries this week to Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, for a meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Two days of talks produced a ten-year action plan.
The aim is to build a framework in which countries can co-operate better on nuclear prevention, detection, protection and response. Workshops and exercises will share best practice in better accounting for and securing civilian nuclear materials and facilities (experience acquired in the ex-Soviet Union, using mostly funds chivvied out of America’s Congress jointly by Mr. Nunn and Senator Richard Lugar). Joint research should improve detection capabilities, and help track the source of any materials used in an attack. Better information sharing should help disrupt terrorist planning; governments will also be urged to beef up their laws so as to deny sanctuary to terrorist groups and to put a clamp on their finances. There will be work on coping with the aftermath of an attack.
Launched in July last year by George Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the idea started small: the G8 group of rich countries, plus Australia, China, Kazakhstan, Morocco and Turkey first met in October in Rabat and agreed a statement if principles. At a second conclave, in February in Ankara, they set up a brisk work program and asked others to join. Now they are 50 in all. A recent catch was Pakistan, whose reputation needs sprucing up after the black-market antics of Abdul Quadeer Khan, a nuclear scientist.
Like the American-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), which aims to disrupt the illicit shipment of weapons of mass destruction or materials to make them by countries like North Korea, or Iran, the initiative to combat nuclear terrorism is to be an ‘activity not an organization’. But with Russia and America sharing the lead this time, China was an early recruit (it refused to join PSI). All the better for attracting others.
Despite their other differences, America and Russia are both genuinely keen to co-operate in combating nuclear terrorism – and not just because both have been targets of terrorism. They also hope to profit commercially from the global resurgence of interest in civilian nuclear power. Before spreading nuclear materials to more countries, best to ensure they won’t fall into the wrong hands. The terrorists, of course, have different plans
Ever since the September 11th attacks, anti-terrorism officials and their governments have fretted that al-Qaeda’s next spectacular could be the detonation of a nuclear device, or even a less powerful dirty bomb (using conventional explosives to disperse radioactive material). If that were to happen, asks Sam Nunn, an American ex-senator, what would governments wish they had done to prevent it? Efforts to avert such threats, and to help mitigate the consequences should prevention fail, brought officials from around 40 countries this week to Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, for a meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Two days of talks produced a ten-year action plan.
The aim is to build a framework in which countries can co-operate better on nuclear prevention, detection, protection and response. Workshops and exercises will share best practice in better accounting for and securing civilian nuclear materials and facilities (experience acquired in the ex-Soviet Union, using mostly funds chivvied out of America’s Congress jointly by Mr. Nunn and Senator Richard Lugar). Joint research should improve detection capabilities, and help track the source of any materials used in an attack. Better information sharing should help disrupt terrorist planning; governments will also be urged to beef up their laws so as to deny sanctuary to terrorist groups and to put a clamp on their finances. There will be work on coping with the aftermath of an attack.
Launched in July last year by George Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the idea started small: the G8 group of rich countries, plus Australia, China, Kazakhstan, Morocco and Turkey first met in October in Rabat and agreed a statement if principles. At a second conclave, in February in Ankara, they set up a brisk work program and asked others to join. Now they are 50 in all. A recent catch was Pakistan, whose reputation needs sprucing up after the black-market antics of Abdul Quadeer Khan, a nuclear scientist.
Like the American-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), which aims to disrupt the illicit shipment of weapons of mass destruction or materials to make them by countries like North Korea, or Iran, the initiative to combat nuclear terrorism is to be an ‘activity not an organization’. But with Russia and America sharing the lead this time, China was an early recruit (it refused to join PSI). All the better for attracting others.
Despite their other differences, America and Russia are both genuinely keen to co-operate in combating nuclear terrorism – and not just because both have been targets of terrorism. They also hope to profit commercially from the global resurgence of interest in civilian nuclear power. Before spreading nuclear materials to more countries, best to ensure they won’t fall into the wrong hands. The terrorists, of course, have different plans
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