At the summit, side meetings galore

Foreign Policy April 13, 2010 Sure, the Nuclear Security Summit is supposed to be about President Obama’s drive to secure all the world’s loose nuclear material. But hey, since all 47 nations have such high-level leaders in one place, why not set up a bunch of side meetings? more

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Obama Vows Fresh Proliferation Push as Summit Ends

The New York Times April 13, 2010 WASHINGTON — President Obama completed a first meeting of world leaders on combating nuclear terrorism with a list of specific commitments from dozens of nations to eliminate or lock down nuclear materials, in what he called a “bold and pragmatic” program to finish the task in the next […]

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Obama Puts His Own Mark on Foreign Policy Issues

The New York Times April 13, 2010 WASHINGTON — When he took office last year, President Obama told his foreign policy advisers that he had two baskets of issues to deal with. The first would be the legacy issues left from his predecessor, like Iraq, Afghanistan and America’s image in the world. The second would […]

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Elections shake up Hungary’s political landscape

Euractiv.com April 12, 2010 Twenty years after the transition to post-communist rule, Hungarian voters yesterday (11 April) radically changed the country’s political landscape, sending the ruling socialists into opposition and laying the ground for the centre-right to win an absolute majority in parliament in the second round of national elections. EurActiv Hungary reports. more

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