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turk
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 Posted - 04 Apr 2009 : 01:20:52
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NATO is choosing its next secretary of the organization and Rasmussen (primeminister of Denmark) is the leading candidate. Other strong ones are; one from Canada; another from Poland (both foreign ministers).
USA, Germany want Rasmussen. Obama's support of him does not really make sense, as Rasmussen did not handle cartoon crisis well, he did not shown the statesmanship and Obama is trying to make the relationship muslim world better.
Ankara is the only capital within NATO does not want him and publicly object him.
Rasmussen has skills, biligual in french and english (official languages of NATO) and USA backing for his unquestioned support for Bush Foreign policy. He also supported a TV channel linked to a terrorist group in Denmark in the name of freedom of speech(PKK a kurdish terrorist organization banned by USA, EU and NATO) despite the objection of Ankara.
I am hoping he will not be elected as NATO wants to be more assertive in Afghanistan and improve relationship with muslim world. He makes NATO to look more like crusader organization.
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diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
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Edited by - turk on 04 Apr 2009 11:54:11 |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 04 Apr 2009 : 12:27:08
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Turk, I agree with you on this. I believe he has an anti Islamic agenda and that will not be good for the NATO's relationship with the muslim world.
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Janko
Gambia
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Posted - 04 Apr 2009 : 13:11:21
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turk!
you are on the point. He does not fit in the Obama vision of/for world peace and stability, as I understand it, I maybe very wrong.
But not sure about the PKK. thing |
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turk
USA
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Posted - 04 Apr 2009 : 13:21:27
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NATO is military organization. Members states are committed to help each other on defense/security. PKK is a terrorist organization banned by EU, NATO. If a primeminister of denmark is letting terrorists who are wanted by the Ankara work as paid TV personel on Roj TV that is against NATO's objective. Why should Denmark work against its ally? I think he will be be chosen but it is a wrong move.
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diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 04 Apr 2009 : 16:18:33
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Turk,
There is a deal that the vice General Secretary of NATO will be a Turk. In addition Turkey gets the presidency for a disarmament committee in NATO.
The followeing is culled from: Al Jazeera English
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Danish PM to be new head of Nato
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, has been chosen to be the next secretary-general of Nato.
Turkey had objected to Rasmussen replacing Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the current leader whose term runs out at the end of July, criticising his handling of a row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, published in Denmark in 2005.
Rasmussen said he was "honoured" by the appointment and that it was a historic day for him and for Denmark.
"I'll do my utmost to live up to the confidence shown to me by my colleagues," he told a press conference in the French city of Strasbourg, hosting the Nato summit marking the military alliance's 60th anniversary.
Rob Reynolds, Al Jazeera's senior Washington correspondent, said Nato members must have reached an agreement with Turkey, which had the power of veto to block the move, to enable Rasmussen to take the post.
He said: "The fact the deal [to choose Rasmussen] would be perceived as somehow anti-Islam certainly cannot be a good thing.
"They have to sell this deal to the rest of the world, particularly the Muslim world."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, said he had approved the choice of Rasmussen for the post after Barack Obama, the US president, answered his objections.
Rasmussen, whose appointement had to be backed by all 28 Nato members, will succeed Dutch diplomat Scheffer on August 1.
Turkish objections
Erdogan had said a day earlier that he had a "negative view" of Rasmussen's candidacy and urged Nato to look for someone else.
"This has nothing to do with Rasmussen personally. We just don't want Nato to get harmed," he said.
Erdogan told Al Jazeera's Frost Over The World programme, broadcast on Friday, that his country had been urged by Islamic countries to veto Rasmussen's leadership bid.
"We are receiving telephone calls from the Islamic world, telling us: 'By God, this person should not become the secretary general of Nato and we have to take into consideration all these reactions'," he said.
Rasmussen infuriated some Muslims by speaking out in favour of freedom of speech during the row over the publication of cartoons featuring caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in the Jyllands Posten newspaper in 2006.
Turkey had also accused Rasmussen of failing to act on Turkish requests to ban a Denmark-based TV station, ROJ TV, linked to Kurdish fighters who have been fighting for an ethnic homeland in Turkey since 1984.
He has also angered Turkey by opposing its membership in the European Union.
Both Rasmussen and Obama are due to visit Turkey on Monday. |
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