The Syria conflict or violence .

                     The   U.S.   and   the   Russia   have   a  limited  confrontation  in    Syria    .  I   did  not   understand   why   U.S   opposed  Annan's  inclusion  of   Iran  if   there  is   a   meeting  on  June  30   in   Geneva   .  It   has   a   relation   with  the   regional  issue   of   Middle -East .  The   violence   in   Syria  is  not   like   a   civil  war  but   sliding   into  a   Proxy  war  as   a  certain  states  support   the  regime   or   the   opposition  .  

Syrian officials have rejected the characterization of the conflict as a civil war, saying government forces are fighting armed terrorists.

Anti-Assad activists have reported the extensive use of Russian-made helicopter gunships in the siege of Al Heffa and attacks in the nearby port of Latakia, a relatively new tactic in Mr. Assad’s campaign to crush the uprising and a possible reflection of rebel success in damaging his army’s fleet of Russian tanks.

Russia has insisted that it takes no side in the conflict.

Diplomacy aimed at halting the Syrian conflict has faltered despite the rising levels of violence. Mr. Annan, the special envoy whose peace plan placing the monitors in Syria is widely considered near failure, has sought to convene a meeting of influential countries to press all sides in the conflict to honor a cease-fire.

Reuters, quoting unidentified diplomats, reported on Thursday that such a meeting might be held on June 30 in Geneva. The United States has said publicly that it opposes Mr. Annan’s inclusion of Iran if there is a meeting.

In Paris, the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, told the France Inter radio station on Friday that “Russians are not today attached to the person of Bashar al-Assad. They clearly see he is a tyrant and a murderer. But they are sensitive about who might take his place, if Assad is ousted. The discussion is about that.”

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To legalize the same-sex marriage in U.K.

   The   same-sex   marriage  has   become  a   Civilization issue   in   some   western  countries   .   In   other   word  ,   it   is   like   a   war   in   Christianity   Countries  .     I   think    ,   this    issue   should   not   be   decided   in   any   society  according  to   the   law  .  Don't  tell  or   say    and  ask   this   question   for  which  will   be  the   best   of   all.      God  bless   with   you   !   

The proposal to legalize same-sex marriage threatens not only to provoke a clash with Christian and Muslim leaders, but also to divide Mr. Cameron’s Conservative Party, adding to political woes that have been building over policy reversals and accusations by his critics that the Conservatives are too close to the rich and powerful.

It could also deepen strains within the coalition, since Mr. Cameron has said Conservative lawmakers may vote on the proposal according to their consciences, while the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, wants all of his party’s legislators in Parliament to approve the proposal.

In its statement on Tuesday, the Church of England said, “Marriage benefits society in many ways, not only by promoting mutuality and fidelity, but also by acknowledging an underlying biological complementarity which includes, for many, the possibility of procreation.

“The law should not seek to define away the underlying, objective distinctiveness of men and women,” the statement continued. “The church has supported the removal of previous legal and material inequities between heterosexual and same-sex partnerships. To change the nature of marriage for everyone will deliver no obvious additional legal gains to those already now conferred by civil partnerships.”

The bishop of Sheffield, the Rev. Steven Croft, said the government plans represented a “really, really fundamental change to an institution which has been at the core of our society for hundreds of years and which for the church is not a matter of social convention but of Christian doctrine and teaching.”

Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales said in a statement, “In the interest of upholding the uniqueness of marriage as a civil institution for the common good of society, we strongly urge the government not to proceed with legislative proposals which will ‘enable all couples, regardless of their gender, to have a civil marriage ceremony.’ “

The positions taken by the churches drew a scathing response from gay rights activists, like Ben Summerskill, the head of an advocacy group called Stonewall, who accused the Church of England of orchestrating a “master class in melodramatic scaremongering.”

He accused church leaders of promoting a belief that “this is somehow the biggest upheaval since the sacking of the monasteries” in the Middle Ages.

With church attendance falling in Britain, only one in four marriages is conducted in a church.

The question of same-sex marriage is only one of the many gender- and sexuality-related issues confronting the Church of England, which has admitted female priests but is still embroiled in a bitter dispute over their ordination as bishops.

15, months old Syria Conflict .

           Russia   should   do  balance  the   power   struggling  in  Syria  to   prevent  incidence  of   another  Lipya  .   Mr.  Putin  rejected  suggestion  that  international  sanction  or  some  form  of   military   intervention  -even  outside   the   U.N.   to   resolve  15  months   old  conflict  .   It  was   necessary   for  the  U.N  's   searching  the   solution  of   Syria   conflict  .  
Simply naming a Kurdish leader may not be enough for the SNC to rally the support of many minorities. Among Kurds in Syria, even those who welcomed the move acknowledged its limitations, given the splits among the opposition and divisions within the Syrian Kurdish community.
"This affirms Kurdish identity but not much will change," said Ahmed Mousa, an activist from the northern Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishli. "Kurds won't step in front of the cannon unless they get guarantees endorsed by the international community."
Abdul-Hakim Bachar, a leading member of the Kurdish National Council, an umbrella group of nearly a dozen Syrian Kurd opposition parties that was formed in October, said there "must be a pact that safeguards the rights of all components of the Syrian nation and offers them guarantees that change is in their interest."
"Barring this, most of the components—Alawites, Druze, Ismailis, Christians and some Kurds—will remain on the sidelines of the revolution," he says. Together those groups make up between 35% and 40% of Syria's population of about 22.5 million, according to estimates by various United Nations agencies.
The Kurds are an especially large and important minority. They have long been treated as second-class, and the regime has denied many citizenship.
In the wake of the uprising, President Assad offered Kurds citizenship and other benefits. While few have become ardent backers of the regime, the group has remained divided, and Kurds haven't joined the rebellion in the large numbers opponents of the regime had hoped for.
The SNC's election of Mr. Sieda as its new leader was an apparent appeal to minorities. The 56-year-old academic was the only contender for the post, which he will hold for three months before another election is held.
Burhan Ghalioun, a secular Sunni academic based in Paris, resigned three weeks ago over criticism that the council wasn't working transparently and that it had grown out of touch with the protest movement inside Syria. For months, protesters have criticized the group's leaders—most of whom have lived in exile for many years—for neglecting basic requests from inside Syria for funds, aid, and arms as they jockeyed for political positions. Western nations trying to shape the council into a transitional body have stressed the need to make it more inclusive to a broader range of Syrians.
The SNC was born of a power-sharing agreement between Syria's most powerful exiled opposition faction, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, and secular groups, grass-roots activists, and independent opposition leaders from religious or ethnic minorities, like Mr. Sieda.
Some activists were quick to point out that Mr. Sieda shares many of the weaknesses that eventually discredited Mr. Ghalioun's leadership, which was seen as a superficial front to a council dominated by heavyweight political players including the Brotherhood.
Mr. Sieda—who is Sunni Muslim as well as ethnic Kurdish—has been based in Sweden for much of the two decades he has lived outside Syria. He is not an influential leader within the Kurdish community, observers say, but is seen as the only candidate the divided SNC could agree on. A push behind a Christian candidate failed largely due to objections from Islamists on the council.

Be Patient !

Panetta said he wants to get an assessment of the situation from the top U.S. commander, Marine Gen. John Allen, and see how confident he is about NATO’s ability to confront the threats both from the Taliban and the Haqqani network.
“I think it’s important to make sure we are aware of the kind of attacks they’re going to engage in … as we go through the rest of the summer,” Panetta told reporters traveling with him during a stop in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday.
Speaking to troops gathered Thursday at the airport in Kabul, Panetta kept up the drumbeat on Pakistan that began during his visit to India. Panetta told the troops that “we have every responsibility to defend ourselves and we are going to make very clear that we are prepared to take them on and we’ve got to put pressure on Pakistan to take them on as well.”
Panetta spoke in Kabul just a day after three suicide attackers blew themselves up in a marketplace in southern Afghanistan, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others. In the east, meanwhile, Afghan officials and residents said a pre-dawn NATO airstrike targeting militants killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children. A NATO forces spokesman said the coalition had no reports of civilians being killed in a raid, but was investigating the allegations of civilian casualties.
Allen has to withdraw 23,000 American troops by the end of September, leaving about 68,000 U.S. military personnel in the country. Officials have said the bulk of the 23,000 probably will not come out until shortly before the deadline.
As those troops leave, Allen has said that Afghan forces will be used to fill in the gaps in the eastern and southwestern parts of the country. They will be buttressed by U.S. advisory teams that will work with the Afghan units.
Once the 23,000 U.S. troops depart, Allen is expected to review how the fighting season is going and then will begin to put together an analysis for President Barack Obama on how troop withdrawals will proceed next year.
The defense secretary also joked with troops at the Kabul airport about the U.S. strike that killed an al Qaeda leader Monday, saying, “the worst job you can get these days is to be a deputy leader in al Qaeda, or for that matter a leader”

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Panetta visits Vietnam .

Panetta announces new strategy with Asia

"Deliberate emphasis on military and security agendas, and strengthening military deployment and alliances are not in step with the times," he said.

Obama announced the shift to a Pacific focus during a tour of Asian countries in November.

The announcement came against a backdrop of reduced defense spending as the United States was dealing with economic issues at home, preparing to pull out of Iraq and contemplating the end of warfare in Afghanistan.

Panetta visits former U.S. base in Vietnam

"As we end today's wars, I have directed my national security team to make our presence and missions in the Asia Pacific a top priority," Obama said in a November 17 speech in Australia. "As a result, reductions in U.S. defense spending will not -- I repeat, will not -- come at the expense of the Asia Pacific."

At the time, Obama announced plans for the United States to station up to 2,500 Marines in Australia in the coming years.

Panetta is on an eight-day trip through the region explaining the U.S. policy, and seeking to increase military ties with regional allies. He said the shift is not a threat to China and its growing military power.

"I reject that view entirely," Panetta said. "Indeed, increased U.S. involvement in this region will benefit China."

He also rejected arguments that helping U.S. allies in the region militarily is an invitation to greater tensions.

"I don't think we should take the attitude that just because we improve their capabilities that we are asking for more trouble," he said.

Panetta said the United States will work to improve communication with China with an aim to "build trust" between the two nations, and he emphasized diplomatic approaches to promoting open commerce and freedom of the seas.

A key issue in the region is the conflict between China and various regional nations -- such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan -- over the South China Sea.

The area, nicknamed "the second Persian Gulf" because of its potential for massive oil and gas reserves, is also a key passageway for the world's oil and is home to enormously valuable fisheries.

A crisis in the area has the potential for major economic damage to the United States as well. As one of the busiest sea lanes in the world, disputes in the South China Sea could have a major impact on shipping by forcing costly rerouting.

According to estimates by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, $5.3 trillion worth of trade goods pass through the South China Sea each year; U.S. trade goods account for $1.2 trillion

U.S. defence secretary brgins India visit .

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has arrived in India to hold talks on the new US strategic focus on Asia.

Mr Panetta will hold talks with PM Manmohan Singh on the opening day of his two-day visit to India.
Last November, President Barack Obama announced that the Asia-Pacific region was a "top priority" for US security policy.
His comments were seen as a challenge to China, which is striving to be the main regional power.
Mr Panetta is expected to hold talks to boost military ties between India and US.
He is also expected to discuss the Nato-led war effort in Afghanistan and China's growing economic and military powers in the region.
Mr Panetta will meet Defence Minister AK Antony and National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon during his visit.
The AFP news agency quoted anonymous American officials as saying that India and US shared similar interests and concerns over China as well as threats posed by extremists.
"Strategically, we see India as a partner with a lot of common interests," a senior defence official said.
Mr Panetta is on a nine-day tour of Asia which has included visits to Vietnam and Singapore.
Correspondents say the tour is an attempt to shore-up American power in the Asia-Pacific region in the face of growing Chinese influence.

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The U.S.'s Pressure in Asia . ...

                          The  U.S.   should  put   pressure   on   China  ,  using   three   corcing  force  :       1.  The   Trade   Barrier  ,    2.  The  Human   Rights  Complaint  .   3.  The  Military   Strategic  Shift   to   Asia  .  China  should   be   careful  to  face  the   U.S.'s   pressure  .   
Trade barriers are government-induced restrictions on international trade.^[1] The barriers can take many forms, including the following:

• Tariffs
• Non-tariff barriers to trade
  • Import licenses
  • Export licenses
  • Import quotas
  • Subsidies
  • Voluntary Export Restraints
  • Local content requirements
  • Embargo
  • Currency devaluation^[2]
  • Trade restriction

Most trade barriers work on the same principle: the imposition of some sort of cost on trade that raises the price of the traded products. If two or more nations repeatedly use trade barriers against each other, then a trade war results.
Economists generally agree that trade barriers are detrimental and decrease overall economic efficiency, this can be explained by the theory of comparative advantage. In theory, free trade involves the removal of all such barriers, except perhaps those considered necessary for health or national security. In practice, however, even those countries promoting free trade heavily subsidize certain industries, such as agriculture and steel.
Trade barriers are often criticized for the effect they have on the developing world. Because rich-country players call most of the shots and set trade policies, goods such as crops that developing countries are best at producing still face high barriers. Trade barriers such as taxes on food imports or subsidies for farmers in developed economies lead to overproduction and dumping on world markets, thus lowering prices and hurting poor-country farmers. Tariffs also tend to be anti-poor, with low rates for raw commodities and high rates for labor-intensive processed goods. The Commitment to Development Index measures the effect that rich country trade policies actually have on the developing world.
Another negative aspect of trade barriers is that it would cause a limited choice of products and would therefore force customers to pay higher prices and accept inferior quality.^[3]

Fearing Harm to Myanmar Ties .

It   is  first   issue  for   Daw  SUU  !  
an adviser to Myanmar’s president criticized her for lacking “transparency” in carrying out her trip and for her comments warning international investors against “reckless optimism” about Myanmar.

“Personally, I really admire her, but I have a doubt,” the adviser, U Nay Zin Latt, said in an e-mail. Public criticism of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, even in its mildest forms, is rare, partly because she is such a popular figure in the country.

Mr. Nay Zin Latt’s comments were the first by one of President Thein Sein’s advisers — who serve as spokesmen — since the president canceled a trip to Thailand on Friday. The Thai news media are portraying the cancellation as a reaction to Bangkok’s handling of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit.

The fact that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed back into the country on Sunday was a milestone on Myanmar’s road to national reconciliation. During the periods when she was not under house arrest in the past two decades, she chose not to travel abroad for fear of being denied re-entry by Myanmar’s military rulers.

Yet the discontent over her six-day visit to neighboring Thailand underlines the fragility of her country’s transition.

The complicated and delicate relationship between the president and Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a newly elected lawmaker, is in some ways the bedrock of the current reform process in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Their meeting in August accelerated the changes sweeping the country and helped persuade Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi to rejoin the political system.

“Most of the improvements in Burma these days are because of the relationship between Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi,” said Win Min, a senior researcher at the Vahu Development Institute, an organization set up by Harvard-trained Burmese exiles that studies issues related to Myanmar. “I’m a little bit worried about their personal relations,” Mr. Win Min said. “If this relationship is strained, it could hurt national reconciliation.”

The abrupt cancellation on Friday of Mr. Thein Sein’s visit to Thailand appears to have been a message to Bangkok — and other governments across the region — that Myanmar’s leader will not tolerate being overshadowed by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s star power

A few word to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi .

                    Hello !   Daw  Aung  Suu  Kyi  !  ,   I   have   some  Suggestions   for   you  :
                   1.  You   should  try   to   be   a  politician  but   not  to  be  a   university   lecturer  .
                   2.   Almost   of   all  your  speeches   were  only  lectures  but  not  political-means   to  change  the   Burma  (Myanmar )   as   a  democratic   Country  . 
                  3.   HOW   about   your  National  Reconcilation  Road  Map  ,  after  you   became  a  legal  parliamentarian .  Please!   reconfirm  your   political  life  . 
                 4. Democratic  System   should  have    transparent  over  view  or  planning  . 
                 5.  Please!   don't  speak  with  much   lateral  mianning  or  only   popular  words  to   the  public  .  
                 

Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison .

                           It   is   neither  the   end   of   an   autocrae  nor   the   struggling  of   between  the   two  Presidential   Candidates  but   a   step of  changing  process  lightinning  .  Don't   forget  the   relation  of   the   U.S.A.  ,   the   strongest  power   in   every  region  !   Only   the   unity   of   people  power  should   find  out  the   solution  .  
                            
Activists said the verdicts mean that no one has been held directly accountable for killing the nearly 1,000 people who died during the revolt. Mubarak and former interior minister Habib al-Adli were convicted for failing to stop the killings, not for ordering them. “Both will appeal,” said Yusry Abdel Razak, one of Mubarak’s attorneys.
The long-awaited verdicts jolted Egypt’s presidential race, as Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate who will compete in a runoff this month, sought to take advantage of the new groundswell of revolutionary rage to attack his opponent, Mubarak-era prime minister Ahmed Shafiq.
As the sun set in Cairo, thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square and into the streets of the Mediterranean port of Alexandria and other cities. The volume and vigor of the turnout were startling in a year in which revolutionaries have often appeared deflated and rudderless.
“All of this is a charade, and we don’t accept it,” said Amal Ramsis, 40, as she protested in the square.
Dissatisfaction with the ruling could push revolutionaries who had planned to boycott the runoff election for president into grudging support of Morsi, an uncharismatic conservative Islamist, experts said.
“The Brotherhood might be able to capitalize on this to push the line for revolutionary unity against the regime,” said Michael Wahid Hanna, an Egypt analyst at the Century Foundation. “The anger could push those planning to sit it out to cast a vote for the Brotherhood against the old regime.”
After the verdict was handed down, Mubarak was whisked away on a helicopter to the Tora Prison hospital in suburban Cairo. The former strongman reportedly suffered a heart attack after learning that he would not be returned to the military hospital where he has been held in recent months, according to a medical official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. As the aircraft touched down, Mubarak reportedly wept and refused for several minutes to debark. State media reported he was in stable condition Saturday night in the prison.
The decision marked the first time that Mubarak has entered a prison since his detention in April 2011. During that time, he has been housed at a military hospital.
The three-judge panel that presided over the landmark case cited a statute of limitations in acquitting the former president, his two sons and a business tycoon of corruption charges. Both Alaa Mubarak and Gamal Mubarak will remain in custody on separate charges of stock market fraud.

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