China, Russia Rule Out Military Actions On Iran

[Purveyor]

Source: Xinhua

BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- China and Russia on Friday called on all parties to refrain from military and extreme actions against Iran.

"China and Russia propose the Iranian nuclear issue be resolved through dialogue and equal consultation," said a joint statement signed by Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday.

The seven-page statement, which came out of the two leaders' two-hour talks in the Great Hall of the People, outlined their common ground on major international issues.

"All parties should consider global and regional security, make diplomatic efforts, refrain from military and extreme means, cautiously resort to sanctions and take into account the interests of the country involved," the statement said.

It said the same rules also apply to other urgent international issues concerning Iraq, reconstruction in Afghanistan, the Middle East, Kosovo and Darfur.




Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/23/content_8239163.htm

[SpiralHawk]

1. "So?" - VP Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney

[ckramer]

2. As Elaine put it - War, what's it good for?

I'm glad we have some check and balance in the world stage.

[mcollier]

3. Now that's straight talk

Leave the Iranian Oil alone....

[Indenturedebtor]

4. Now you see - that's a leadership role

That we should have taken. Now we'll look like petulant children being dragged to the negotiating table.

Point #492,371 for Bushco!

[TheFarseer]

5. no kidding?

Iran isn't doing a damn thing to either of them. I'm surprised they're not chomping at the bit to throw trillions of dollars and thousands of lives down a rat hole. What's wrong with them? :sarcasm:

[On the Road]

6. If America Continues to Saber-Rattle, and Iran Feels Its Existence Threatened,

what is to prevent Iran from inviting Russian troops into the country for protection? And what would discourage Russia from expanding its sphere of influence?

[ohio2007]

7. Iran: Sanctions continue to batter the economy

The list of sanction countries goes on and on in this old article

Rome, 11 April (AKI) - (by Ahmad Rafat) - Although Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to downplay the impact of UN imposed economic sanctions, the economy of the Islamic Republic has been badly affected by this international isolation.

On Thursday the director of the French oil company Total said that the firm had decided to give up on investments in Iran. "The existing tensions are preventing every investment and cooperation with Iran," said a manager of the oil company in an interview with the French newspaper Liberation. He said that they are instead in the middle of "talks to operate in the south of Iraq."The former Iranian nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has said that he finds "shocking" the statements by government representatives who continue to minimise the effects of the UN economic sanctions.

Larijani was one of the big winners in last month's parliamentary elections, presenting an alternative list to that of Ahmadinejad's supporters."These sanctions are a burden on the economy," said Larijani.

"Rising inflation, an unemployment rate that is not fallingl and the high cost of living are all direct consequences of the sanctions.," he said.
The sanctions have had a lesser effect than that hoped for by those who wanted to impose them on our country, howeover," he said.

It's not just the West either, but even a close ally of the Iranian government, China, that has begun to apply the UN resolutions.

A Chinese company which won a contract for the construction of a highway in Iran, has just decided to pull out of the deal without giving any explanation.

In past weeks, representatives of the Iranian government, denounced the end of a contact between some important Chinese banks and Iranian industries and financial institutions.

Since the beginning of the year, the four main banks in China - a country that is heavily reliant on Iranian oil - have decided to freeze their ties withIranian companies, causing agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to go up in smoke.

The automobile sector was the first one to feel the impact of this measure.

"The boycott by the Chinese banks has in fact sunk an agreement that we have reached with the Chinese automobile industry," said Manouchehr Manteqi, the managing director of Iran Khodro, the main automobile industry in Iran, in February.
On 27 February, another agreement between Tehran and Beijing to exploit the Iranian gas fields in the Persian Gulf was also cancelled.

That deal, worth 16 billion dollars, would have been signed by the Iranian Pars Oil and Gas company and its Chinese counterpart, Chinapec, but the Chinese delegation was not present at the appointment to ink the deal.

Even banks in Malaysia and Singapore have decided not to endorse any commercial operations with Iran.

In Europe, among the first credit institutes to boycott the Islamic Republic, were the Union of Swiss Banks (UBS) and Credit Suisse, as well as the German banks Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank.

In Italy, the Bank of Italy has assumed control of the Rome branch of Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah.

Following these measures, in 2007, exports from Italy and Germany, Iran's two main economic partners in the European Union, fell by more than 16 percent.

Italy's export credit agency Sace, which insures the activities of Italian enterprises in foreign markets, has stopped issuing policies to companies seeking to operate in Iran.

Sace which has a scale of one to seven to measure risk, has placed Iran in the sixth position.

In France, BNP Paribas and l'Union de Credit Agricole, have also begun the close their doors to clients who want to invest in Iran.


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http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Business/?id=1.0.2062652585

Six weeks after that article was written it appears the only one using force are the Iranians on their own people.

[Robbien]

8. make diplomatic efforts, refrain from military and extreme means

Who said that?

The US of A, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave

or

China and Russia.



Funny the US of A is the one who said diplomacy first instead of military first is what we sneeringly call Appeasement.

[Newly Ugly]

9. Good

Diplomacy first.