Saturday, April 6, 2013

Almaty Talks End


Long and Intensive Discussions – But No Deal
 Almaty talks ended today after what was described as “long and intensive discussions,” but the positions of Iran and P5+1 still remained too far apart to strike a deal. The date and location of next round of talks is being worked out.


EU foreign policy chief summed up the seriousness of the talks by telling reporters that the two sides had never engaged in back and forth discussions as intensely as was the case today in Almaty.   

Photo credit: Delegates form U.S., Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany meeting with Iranian negotiators in Almaty, April 5, 2013. (Ilyas Omarov/Pool/Reuters)

30 comments:

Mark Pyruz said...

Anonymous 12:08 PM,

Your comment was deleted for being racist and advocating violence.

reader said...

By refusing to compromise, both sides have shown a callous indifference to the unjust suffering of ordinary Iranians. On a personal level, I know very well how devastating the unjust sanctions have been on sick and poor Iranians. The other day I learned the sad story of a cancer suffering cousin who can no longer afford the impossibly expensive imported chemotherapy drugs for his curable cancer. Where is the compassion?

mat said...

The 'TALKs' will never ever end as long as the U.S.'s life-term master, world's most evil, condemned and cursed nation of the Zionist Regime of Israel, is still exist and put its life-term slave, the U.S., indirectly, under its full words in the term of control, command and order. What the saddest part of the so-called world's leading bully, the U.S.'s leaders the slave!

Believe it. The truth will absolutely prevail. It's only time, the most mattered. And we shall all see.

Anonymous said...

I don't understand...what happened to all the optimism from the last round? They were saying both sides had never been closer to making a deal and now they are miles apart again? This is turning into a joke!

Anonymous said...

Whatever dude. Don't you ever get tired of your own b.s.?

Anonymous said...

how often do deletions on such grounds happen here? Is it more than a rarely occurring problem?

Anonymous said...

what optimism?

who said that any deal was close?
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from AP----

"Expectations that the negotiations were making progress rose as an afternoon session was extended into the evening. But comments by Catherine Ashton, the European Union's head of foreign policy made clear that the two sides failed to make enough headway to qualify the meeting as a success.

"What matters in the end is substance, and ... we are still a considerable distance apart," Ashton told reporters at the end of the two-day talks."



Anonymous said...

How come Mat's comment is not characterized as a "racist and advocating violence"?.

Is this example of those double standards, or that. Mark needs to gain a "new credibility", after redesigning this web page and making previous years' comments inaccessible.

Anonymous said...

Most of my comments were delayed for couple or more days, in order not to be seen and read by other commentators.
Significant part of my comments have been deleted as well under a pretextual causes.

Please notice that recent months' changes of this web side have been preventing viewers to see comments created in the past by the wys it was possible before.

A-F

Nader Uskowi said...

A-F,

You keep complaining that publication of your comments is being delayed or partly deleted. We cannot, nor do we intend to delete comments partially. This is an old accusation you keep making, showing your total ignorance of Blogger works. On the delay, the authors of this blog moderate them as soon as possible. Please note we all have day jobs and are not monitoring the blog on fulltime basis. Your comments are delayed as much as all other comments. Unless you are using a computer place that the Blogger sends its entries to spam bin and we have to check the it to republish your comments.

Bottom line, there is no reason for the authors of this blog to block your comments. I appreciate your sense of self-importance, but we are not targeting you. Your comments are always published, and publishing late as you claim is not a game changer here. Rest assured and keep sending your comments. And change your Internet café or place of business you post the comments.

Nader Uskowi said...

BTW, viewers can always see older comments on old posts. Don't know what you are saying. Which of the comments on which posts you could not access?

Anonymous said...

No kidding Sherlock! What did you expect Nader? Let the adults convince you that this "Iran nuclear issue" has NOTHING TO DO WITH NUCLEAR PROGRAM but with Zionist evil and its unrelenting hostility to Iran. The US is a mere puppet to the Zionist goals and is being dragged down into the gutter of history thanks to Zionism and its perverse ideology of hate,warmongering, global plunder, land theft, Islamophobia, Iranophobia, organ harvesting and sheer media lies. Here is an Arab perspective on these farcical "talks".

Painfully Following Iran in the U.S. Media

I have no doubt that any impartial assessment of the professional conduct of most American media in covering the Iran situation would find it deeply flawed and highly opinionated, to the point where I say that mainstream media coverage of Iran in the United States is professionally criminal, writes Rami G. Khouri.

It will be fascinating now to see how the media reports on possible signs of progress in the negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 countries (U.K., China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany) that resume in Kazakhstan. I hope our American journalism colleagues will summon the moral and professional strengths within them to cover both sides of these talks in their full and accurate political and technical contexts, rather than continue to act like robotic cheerleaders for the American and Israeli governments.

Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. You can follow him @ramikhouri.

Anonymous said...

Why don`t you ask the countries sanctioning iran?,iran is simply standing up for its rights

Anonymous said...

That idiot Jalili makes the impression that he is coming totally unprepared and even confused to these negotiations; what the hell is wrong with these people ...

Anonymous said...

Uskowi at 9:07PM, I do not seek a sense of self-importance and I am going to quit in coming months.
I was only going to help others ;(Anon 4:00PM) with my information, who experience the same problems and are not sure about your influences to cause those problems.

Also, in conjunction to your 9:07PM response, I have to state that your response tries to evade my issues by diverting attention to other issues.
I have to state that whenever my comment wasn't approved and deleted by you, you did not post information that it was deleted and an reason was specified.
Like someone can see, Mark posted information that you (he) have "deleted" Anon's 12:08PM comment.
I inform that my previous comment has a meaning that up to a half of my comments were delayed or entirely deleted (not posted), without any information about delete's actions.

A-F

reader said...

Nader
A-F may have a valid point. I am sorry I couldn't be more specific on my previous post regarding problems with the new format. The comments section is never present in iPad and in 50% of cases in all of the major browsers. This may be to do with the way the posts are queried from the database, ie, the browser gives up rendering the posts due to delay. The new format works consistently well in Android.

B.M.A said...

YOU judge people by appearances ,indeed if you happened to be a JURY ,IT WOULD BE A DISASTER!!.

reader said...

A-F
The misunderstanding between you and Nader is probably to do with the way the new format is rendered by the web browsers and the confusion with the way the Spam catcher works. I experienced similar problem on the early days of the change over when a few of my comments disappeared into a black hole. I think it is not the fault of Nader or any of the other authors of this blog that your comments disappeared or were misplaced. However, with respect to Nader, I thought it was a bit harsh and slightly presumptuous of him to attribute this to the self-importanceness of the contributors. As a humble reader of this blog, I always look forward to seeing more of your contributions even though I often find myself in disagreement with your views. Happy posting!

Nader Uskowi said...

Thanks so much for the input. Will let you know after checking with Blogger on these issues with the comment section. Thanks again.

Nader Uskowi said...

A-F,

I do accept reader’s criticism and offer my apologies to you for the tone of my response. It’s becoming clear, with the help from reader, that we were talking past to each other. We have, and never had, any intentions to delay posting your comments. I do know that some of your comments go to spam bin, and we need to do a better job cleaning the bin more often. I also accept your criticism that if a comment is not published, we should post a comment warning why the action was taken, and how it could be remedied. Jabbar does a good job at that, and I will try to follow that example.

Likewise, notwithstanding our differences on some important issues facing Iran, your readership and active participation in this blog enhances it and I certainly hope that you keep your readership and active presence on the comment section beyond the next few months. Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Reader 12:06PM, Thanks for your input and I would like to inform you with an example of my suspicions.
On the same day during the same hour I had posted two comments. The first one contained no "A-F" signature and appeared under Uskowi's article after couple minutes, the other one that contained that signature was not seen (approved?) for the next couple days...

In the past, when I could not find my comment, after couple days from my attempt to post it, and complained about that in a next comment, that "missing comment" "suddenly" emerged under that article.
I tried to analyze that situation and come to the conclussion that someone wanted to ridicule me that I make complaints and my comments already were there.

Recently I don't see articles and comments by Mr. Fazeli, may be he has specific assignments on this web page..

A-F


A-F

Anonymous said...

Have you ever heard of criminal profiling?
Well,if you look at each member of the regime they fit
the criminal profile like a well worn glove.
Obviously you are a supporter of a regime that thrives
on disaster.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Jalili is the representative of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, who stated that any negotiations and talks have to follow a logic from the other side.
Jalili doesn't represent "elites" or conveying "mixed signals" as it was desired by "preachers" on this blog. The Iran position is a position of the Iran's population with a few exceptions.

Outcome of recent negotiations is the result of the West's deceptive tactics.
They tried to create a trap for Iran, where lifting of major sactions would have to wait, in practice, for the coming of Republicans to power in the next coming elections...?

In reality it is that the Zionists are those who pull all strings of the policies in that matter and the West including the US are their servants.

Imagine that Iran would accept present offer of the "West" and then the West would interpret that agreement the same way as it did the UN Resolution authorizing "no fly zone's" consequences for Libya and translate those consequences for the Islamic Republic in relation to its nuclear enrichment rights. It would simply amount to that, that it is to other countries to decide about Iran's rights.

US foreign policy suffers from a Zionist syndrome and hurts economically, mentally and physically not only other countries but first of all it undermines its chances for a long and prosperous existence.
Examples- Vietnam, helping bin Laden to fight Soviet Union, Syria, Afganistan and failure its North Korea policies to settle problems in sincere and timely way.

Notwithstanding lack of real progress in negotiations, Iran position achieved extra time for different enhancing developments, meanwhile the West(US) is sinking into a sea of deep problems...North Korea, Syria, Afganistan etc.

Russian representative to the talks, Deputy Foreign Minister S. Ryabkov said, Iran has introduced its approach which takes into account some "proposals and considerations"of the group of six and he underlined that Russia is against the West's unilateral sanctions on Iran, calling this stance "unjust and inconsistent with the norms of international laws"

A-F
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Anonymous said...

A-F--- you opinion that Zionists control everything about the West's positions and policies is what is known as wuckfitted. as well, it's bigoted, ugly and stupid.

Anonymous said...

What you`re talking about is called racial profiling or good old fashioned racism ie judging someone by their looks.Next time educate yourself before you post here that way you hopefully will avoid making a fool out of your self like you did this time

Anonymous said...

Well said A-F you`ve hit the nail on the head with that post

Anonymous said...

Hogwash.Criminal profiling is different than racial profiling.And "your self" is written as yourself. So you need to educate yourself first to avoid becoming a bigger fool before flapping your trap.

Anonymous said...

Anon 11:43PM
I see you don't have sufficient knowledge, experience and a culture too, but I've got an evidence...what I say.

A-F

Anonymous said...

Of course its different but you wrote

"if you look at each member of the regime they fit
the criminal profile like a well worn glove."
The operative word here being "look",that sounds more like bigotry and prejudice ie basing your opinion purely on how someone looks,but then I don`t think it would matter how they "looked" to a professional malcontent like yourself you would be dissatisfied no matter who was in power,sadly people with your "profile" always are

Anonymous said...

what you say ain't an evidence of anything except that you say things.