#SERBIE – DANS LE SILLAGE DE LA VISITE DE BIDEN : SERBIE A LA CROISÉE DES CHEMINS GÉOPOLITIQUES
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01/09/2016 Serbie Stephen Karganovic Vice-président américain Joseph Biden a récemment terminé une « visite de trois jours à la Serbie » du 16 au 18 août. L’expression entre parenthèses est le spin que la marionnette du gouvernement de Serbie à Belgrade mis … Lire la suite →
Iran deal fight splits American Jews - Jewish World News - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
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“I am not concerned about acrimony in the Jewish community,” said Nancy Kaufman, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, which has 90,000 members in 70 chapters around the country. She spoke with Haaretz immediately after getting off an hour-long call with Vice President Joseph Biden, who held a phone meeting with leaders of Jewish organizations to respond to skepticism about the deal.
“When it manifests as disrespect, that’s when I’m concerned. You can say anything as long as it’s not telling someone that they are anti-Israel or a self-hating Jew. That kind of rhetoric has increased dramatically, to the detriment of our community,” Kaufman explained.
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“I don’t know if the person in the street is all that focused on the question,” said Cohen, a sociologist and scholar of Jewish social policy at the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. “My suspicion is that elites always overestimate interest in these inside-the-beltway questions.”
Obama joins Biden in White House meeting with Yatsenyuk, other Ukrainian officials
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Shape up, Arseniy, Ukraine is running out of chances. That was the essence of U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden’s speech to close the U.S.-Ukraine Business Forum on July 13 in Washington, D.C.
Biden mixed high praise with pointed warnings for Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to start actively curbing and punishing corruption in the nation.
Yatsenyuk sat in the audience of 150 people and took it all in.
Biden invited him to a private meeting in his office afterwards, joined by U.S. President Barack Obama. Participants said that Obama reinforced Biden’s message that the United States will continue to strongly support Ukraine, but Ukraine’s leaders need to make progress on corruption and rule of law. The meeting lasted more than an hour and, besides Yatsenyuk, was joined by Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt and other U.S. and Ukrainian officials.
In his speech, the American vice president called corruption an “affront to the dignity of the people of Ukraine,” and said: “Ukrainians know in their bones, it’s not enough to talk about changes, we have to deliver change, you have to deliver change.
“Ukraine has a strategy and new laws to fight corruption,” Biden said. “Now you have to put people in jail.”
Remontage de bretelles du mauvais élève. Et, pourtant, ce n’est pas faute de lui avoir rappelé :
Biden, who visited Ukraine three times last year and made 36 calls in the last months with Poroshenko, said corruption has been the “topic of almost all of our calls.”
Le nouveau gouvernement ukrainien, c’est pour tout bientôt…
Yatsenyuk emphasizes unity with Poroshenko as Biden visits again
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Hours before a potentially critical visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden to Kyiv, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk moved to dispel persistent rumors of political discord with President Petro Poroshenko.
Yatsenyuk told a news conference in Kyiv on Nov. 20 that a coalition agreement led by their respective factions in parliament – along with three other parties – will be signed soon. He said that he met with Poroshenko on Nov. 19 and said the “final draft is being written by key political factions.”
He predicted the deal among his People’s Front party, Poroshenko’s bloc, the Samopomich (Self-Help) party, the bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko and Oleh Lyashko’s Radical Party will be completed by the end of November, about a month after the Oct. 26 parliamentary election.
En attendant, Iatseniouk a un programme chargé :
Yatsenyuk mentioned two key meetings ahead – one on Nov. 20 with the head of state-run Naftogaz on possible purchase of Russian natural gas, for which prepayment is required. The other, of course, in coming days is with the International Monetary Fund, which has a visiting delegation. There is a consensus that the IMF’s $17 billion, two-year loan package is inadequate, and some economists think the low-interest loan package should be doubled.
Et, entre les deux, la visite de Joe Biden (sa troisième en 2014) et Victoria Nuland (sa dernière visite était il y a tout petit peu plus de six semaines).
Biden says US considering extending support to Ukraine in various areas
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has had a telephone conversation with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, during which they discussed the situation in Donbas and the progress of the international inquiry into the circumstances of the crash of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight.
Tiens, au hasard : augmenter l’indépendance énergétique de l’Ukraine en aidant le développement du gaz de schiste.
Company In Which US Vice President Joe Biden’s Son Is Director Prepares To Drill Shale Gas In East Ukraine | Global Research
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Finally, recall our story from May that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, just joined the board of the largest Ukraine gas producer Burisma Holdings.
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R. Hunter Biden will be in charge of the Holdings’ legal unit and will provide support for the Company among international organizations. On his new appointment, he commented: “Burisma’s track record of innovations and industry leadership in the field of natural gas means that it can be a strong driver of a strong economy in Ukraine. As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.”
Burisma Holdings is a privately owned oil and gas company with assets in Ukraine and operating in the energy market since 2002. To date, the company holds a portfolio with permits to develop fields in the Dnieper-Donets, the Carpathian and the Azov-Kuban basins.
