Belgium Block
H - Europe Overview
In November, the French Parliament passed the "everyday security" bill, which allows for expanded police searches and telephone and Internet monitoring, along with enhanced measures to disrupt terrorist finances. Finance Minister Fabius responded rapidly to US requests related to Executive Order 13224 to freeze Taliban and al-Qaida finances. As of December, France had frozen $4 million in Taliban assets. Fabius also established a new interagency unit, designated FINTER, to provide a focal point within the Ministry for efforts to block the financing of terrorism. On an international level, the French were among the principal advocates for creating the UN Security Council’s counterterrorism committee, and they cooperated with US officials in G-8 counterterrorism meetings. ... [Read More]
Statement by Secretary John W. Snow - US Department of State
Finally, ongoing work to combat terrorist financing was also a key item of discussion. We took note of the progress made by Financial Experts to implement their Action Plan to strengthen the process of multilateral asset freezing, improve information sharing, and explore the possibility of broadening the application of new financial tools to disrupt serious crime. In this context, I described for my colleagues the tools that we, in the United States, have available to identify, block and freeze the sources of terrorist financing. We believe that efforts to disrupt the financing of terror are succeeding and must continue. ... [Read More]
2004–2005 Fulbright Awards – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Judith I. Joffe-Block ... [Read More]
FOURTEEN POINTS SPEECH (1918)
For such arrangements and covenants we are willing to fight and to continueto fight until they are achieved; but only because we wish the right toprevail and desire a just and stable peace such as can be secured onlyby removing the chief provocations to war, which this program does notremove. We have no jealousy of German greatness, and there is nothing inthis program that impairs it. We grudge her no achievement or distinctionof learning or of pacific enterprise such as have made her record verybright and very enviable. We do not wish to injure her or to block in anyway her legitimate influence or power. We do not wish to fight her eitherwith arms or with hostile arrangements of trade if she is willing to associateherself with us and the other peace-loving nations of the world in covenantsof justice and law and fair dealing. We wish her only to accept a placeof equality among the peoples of the world, -- the new world in which wenow live, -- instead of a place of mastery. ... [Read More]
G8 Finance Ministers Agree to Cancel Debt for 18 Nations- U.S. Department Of State
Finally, ongoing work to combat terrorist financing was also a key item of discussion. We took note of the progress made by Financial Experts to implement their Action Plan to strengthen the process of multilateral asset freezing, improve information sharing, and explore the possibility of broadening the application of new financial tools to disrupt serious crime. In this context, I described for my colleagues the tools that we, in the United States, have available to identify, block and freeze the sources of terrorist financing. We believe that efforts to disrupt the financing of terror are succeeding and must continue. ... [Read More]
Angola (06/05)
TotalFinaElf brought the first Kwanza Basin deepwater blocks on-line with production from its Block 17 concession that began in February 2002 and now produces up to 242,000 bpd. Additional sub-fields will begin production in 2006 at the rate of 200,000 bpd. ExxonMobil brought the first of its Block 15 sub-fields on-line in 2003 at the rate of 70,000 bpd. Two additional discoveries of 3 billion barrels in reserves each are to begin production in 2004 and 2005 at a rate of 250,000 bdp each. Both ExxonMobil and TotalFinaElf made new discoveries in these blocks in 2003. Exploration is ongoing in recently awarded ultra-deep water concessions and in deep water and shallow concessions in the Namibe Basin. BP made the first significant ultra-deep water find in its Block 31 concession in 2002 and followed up with two more in 2003. Marathon also drilled a successful well in its Block 32 ultra-deep water concession. TotalFinaElf operates Angola's one refinery (in Luanda) as a joint venture with S ... [Read More]
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