From the monthly archives: July 2009
The Asia Times reports on a midsummer tale of two Chinese spies and export controls.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei talks about a new start for non-proliferation.
Clif Burns at the Export Law Blog penned an item on Syria sanctions relief. While it may be [...]
The Syrian Envoy to the United States, Imad Moustapha, wasted no time announcing the proposed easing of U.S. sanctions on state sponsor of terrorism, the Syrian Arab Republic. What did the U.S. get in exchange? Likely not enough to warrant the easing of trade restrictions and other cooperation. Details are [...]
A message that the folks at the National Security Council should consider closely before making any further mistakes in the ongoing Honduras matter:
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Generally speaking export control laws are targeted, in part, to make it harder for bad people to gain access to advanced technology and weapons. They should not be used as foreign or humanitarian policy cudgels. It is a distraction and devolution. A recent report by the U.K. House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee [...]
The UK Daily Mail reports that SIS’s website is rife with typographical errors. In some of the examples provided, an export controls officer says: ‘As I do not have the technical background this job has been challenging, but the section has aproachable experts.’ The paper says the typos raise serious questions about their [...]
The State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls is seeking assistance from the export community regarding the content of submissions for the export of USML Category VIII Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). See the 21 July 09 web notice.
Steven Aftergood from the Project on Government Secrecy posted an [...]
A little over six months in the Obama Administration and his advisers have positioned the President as the quintessential “Ugly American” in Latin America. Recent moves to punish Honduran democracy will hurt U.S. economic and strategic interests in Honduras and Central America. It will also serve to further fuel a rabid anti-American populism whose sole [...]
The Department of State announced yesterday that India had agreed to end-use monitoring of U.S. defense articles and technology sold to India. The establishment of an end-use monitoring program is required by the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) in order to improve accountability with respect to defense articles and defense services sold, leased, or exported [...]
According to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Republicans, “Venezuela’s cooperation on counternarcotics has deteriorated according to a report released today by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
“The report, requested by U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar in February 2008, is an effort by Lugar to ensure that funding for United States Government policies designed to interdict narcotics [...]
The Obama Administration is considering a United Nations Security Council Resolution against the constitutional government of Honduras. Foggy Bottom is allegedly also threatening to cut U.S. foreign aid to Honduras if they continue to refuse to cooperate with efforts to re-install the impeached president. If all this pans out, the Obama Administration would be [...]
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