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2007-04-06

Iran ready to defend itself from possible U.S. attack - speaker [09:35:00]

Iran is prepared to defend itself should the United States attack it, the speaker of Iran's parliament said Thursday. The last few days have seen reports in Russian and foreign media that the U.S. has scheduled an operation, codenamed Bite, against Iran for 4:00 a.m. local time April 6. The operation, should it materialize, would deliver air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over a 12-hour period. "The Iranian people are ready and determined to protect their land and to repel any enemy attack," Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel said at a press conference during his visit to Pakistan. However, he said it was highly unlikely the U.S. would attack his country, as "the U.S. has no real reason to do so." The speaker added that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had assured him that Pakistan would never get involved in any actions aimed at Iran. The U.S. has not excluded a military option in the standoff with Iran over its refusal to abandon its uranium enrichment program. The UN Security Council passed a new resolution on Iran two weeks ago toughening economic sanctions against the country and accepting the possibility of a military solution to the crisis. The U.S. Administration sees Iran as a "rogue state" and is determined to stop the Islamic Republic, diplomatically or otherwise, from obtaining nuclear weapons. Washington now plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Central Europe allegedly to protect itself from potential missile strikes from Iran or North Korea.

Russia to jumpstart 'quartet' work on Israeli-Arab talks [09:35:00]

Russia intends to jumpstart the stalled work of the Middle East 'Quartet' negotiators on the initiation of talks between Israel and the new government in the Palestinian Authority, a Russian deputy foreign minister said Thursday. "We intend to hold active talks in the coming weeks with our partners in the [Middle East] region and in the Quartet in an attempt to create conditions for the start of a new Israeli-Arab dialogue," Alexander Saltanov said. The Quartet includes Russia, the UN, the European Union and the United States. A new coalition government was formed March 17 to help stop the violence in Palestine and support President Abbas's efforts aimed at achieving a resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Palestinian authorities said earlier they were determined to implement the Mecca agreements to stabilize the situation in the PNA and restore dialogue with Israel. Palestine was on the brink of civil war as the country found itself torn between the Fatah movement, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, and the Islamist group Hamas, which won parliamentary elections in January 2006 and is regarded by the U.S. and Israel as a terrorist organization. At a February 8 meeting in Mecca, Hamas and Fatah reached an agreement on the structure of a new power-sharing Cabinet. The agreement ended weeks of fighting between the opposing groups, in which over 90 people died on both sides.

Wrap-2: Ukraine PM urges dialogue, president toughens line [09:35:00]

Ukraine's prime minister said Thursday the political crisis gripping the country can still be resolved through dialogue and compromise. Viktor Yanukovych's statement came following the president's refusal earlier Thursday to backtrack on his decree to dissolve parliament and call early elections, and threats of criminal prosecution for officials defying his order to allocate funds for new elections. Yanukovych and his ruling coalition in parliament have defied the decree, saying they intended to wait for the Constitutional Court to rule on its legitimacy, thereby fueling political tensions in the ex-Soviet state, with coalition and opposition protesters facing off in the capital Thursday. "I am positive that talks, dialogue and the search for a compromise have not been exhausted yet," Yanukovych said. "The issue of early parliamentary elections should be removed from the agenda, at least until a Constitutional Court decision." In a further bid to prevent new elections, Yanukovych said he had urged Viktor Yushchenko to rescind his decree, and the Supreme Rada, in turn, to cancel all its subsequent decisions so that talks on a compromise could begin afresh. The premier earlier promised to revise the law on the Cabinet, which substantially reduced presidential powers, and to meet power-sharing commitments with Yushchenko if he backtracked on the order. Citing numerous violations of the Constitution by the coalition, Yushchenko said earlier that cancelling the decree was out of question, and urged the premier and all political factions to focus on new elections. While admitting that elections were unlikely to dramatically alter the political setup, Yushchenko said they would "demonstrate the primacy of the rule of law" in the ex-Soviet nation and demanded that the government ensure their financing. Yanukovych said his Party of Regions, the largest in parliament, would run for the Supreme Rada if the court upheld the presidential order. "We are not afraid of elections and believe in our victory," he said. He dismissed fears of the possible use of force to resolve the crisis, echoing Yushchenko's appeals to the security bodies at an emergency National Security and Defense Council session Thursday to stay out of the political brawl. But, Vitaliy Haiduk, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, obliged the country's Cabinet to provide financing of the disputed elections before April 7. Yanukovych said it was "impossible to do within the framework of the law," adding that the country's 2007 budget had no provisions providing for the financing of early elections. Several thousand coalition supporters rallied near the Central Election Commission building Thursday, demanding the order on early elections be ignored. Several hundred have also stationed themselves permanently in a tent camp on Independence Square in anticipation of a court decision. About 150 members of the pro-democracy youth organization Pora, which backed the pro-Western Yushchenko in the 2004 "orange revolution" protests against Yanukovych's fraud-tainted victory in the presidential race, came "to help police prevent demonstrators from entering the building and other provocations." But unlike the president and his supporters in the Cabinet, who said the current conflict was a domestic affair, Yanukovych refused to rule out requests for help from Russia, its historic ally, and Poland, a bow to the country's role in Ukraine's European integration aspirations. "As soon as we have made a decision, we will approach the presidents of the neighboring states, Russia and Poland, and possibly others," he said. Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, said Thursday Warsaw would provide help. "If Ukrainian authorities express their willingness [to ask for help], we will undoubtedly agree to discuss the issue," he said. Moscow also said earlier it was ready to help if Kiev requested it. The latest twist in the political crisis - simmering since Yanukovych's return as premier last August and an uneasy power-sharing deal with the pro-presidential forces - was triggered after 11 lawmakers defected to the ruling coalition March 23. The defectors brought the coalition closer to a 300-seat majority that would have allowed it to amend the Constitution and made it immune to presidential vetoes.

British Museum says Oxus treasures unlikely to go to Tajikistan [09:34:00]

The British Museum said Thursday that Persian metalwork treasures thought to have been found on the banks of the Oxus River were unlikely to be handed over to Tajikistan, as their provenance from the post-Soviet Central Asian country was not entirely certain. The museum's Oxus, or Amu Darya, collection consists of about 170 objects, dating mainly from the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., from the time of the Achaemenid Empire, when Persian control stretched from Egypt and the Aegean to Afghanistan and the Indus Valley. British Museum spokeswoman Hannah Bolton said the collection had been put together from pieces bought at Indian bazaars, but that the origins of those items were hard to trace. The treasures are believed to have been found in an area that is part of modern-day Tajikistan, in 1877. They were subsequently brought by merchants to the bazaars of India's Rawalpindi, where they caught the eye of Sir Alexander Cunningham, director general of the Archaeological Survey of India, and Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, a museum curator and a benefactor. Earlier on Thursday, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon said every effort should be made to arrange for the Oxus collection to be brought back to the country for temporary display, and to subsequently be repatriated. But Bolton said the British Museum had received no formal enquiry from Tajikistan on the possibility of a handover, and that it was therefore premature to discuss the matter. The Oxus treasures include objects such as coins, vessels, a gold scabbard, model chariots and figures, armlets, seals, rings and medallions, and are considered to be the most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork.

Nomos-Bank syndicates $185 mln loan for gold production [09:34:00]

Nomos-Bank, a leading Russian commercial investment bank, said Thursday it has syndicated a $185 million loan to finance gold production and export operations. The loan's lead organizers and bookrunners are RZB Group (Austria's Raiffeisen Group), Standard Bank Plc (U.K.) and Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (France). Founded in 1993, Nomos-Bank is on a Central Bank of Russia list of the country's top 30 banks by assets. The bank's assets stood at 87.91 billion rubles (about $3.29 billion) as of July 1, 2006. The bank intends by 2008 to expand its branch network, retail operations and relations with medium-sized corporate clients.

Private sector capital imports total $13 billion in 1Q07 [09:33:00]

Net capital import by the private sector in Russia was $13 billion in January-March, the Central Bank of Russia said Thursday. The bank said on its Web site that the same period in 2006 saw a $5.8 billion net export. The first quarter of 2007 registered a $8.9 billion net export in the banking sector and a net import of $21.9 billion by other sectors. The Central Bank forecast net capital inflow worth $30 billion in 2007, compared to a record high $41.7 billion last year.

Court upholds Rostelecom's $128 mln claim against tax service [09:33:00]

Rostelecom (RTS: RTKM), Russia's largest long-distance telecom services provider, said Thursday the Moscow Arbitration Court has partially granted its claim against the federal tax authorities, which had levied a hefty back tax against the company last year. Federal tax authorities ordered the company to pay 3.474 billion rubles ($128.5 million) in tax arrears dating back to 2003 Rostelecom said the court has reduced the tax debt to 1.27 million rubles (about $50,000), thereby granting 99.98% of its claim. It said previously that "the company is a law-abiding taxpayer, and believes it can prove that the tax claims are unsubstantiated."

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