[www.keralites.net] Nawaz Sharif Likely To Visit Iran, Saudi Arabia To Ease Tensions

 

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Nawaz Sharif would be accompanied by Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and special assistant on foreign affairs Tariq Fatemi. (File photo)

ISLAMABAD:  Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to undertake an important visit to Iran and Saudi Arabia on Monday to reduce tensions between the two rival Muslim nations, his office said today.

The decision was taken after behind-the-scene contacts by Pakistan with both countries to lower the temperature in the region after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shia cleric earlier this month following which Iranian protesters attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate prompting Riyadh to sever relations.

 

 

Iran then snapped all commercial ties with Saudi Arabia and stopped pilgrims from travelling to Mecca.

An official of the Prime Minister's House said Mr Sharif will first travel to Iran and meet President Hassan Rouhani and later the same day he will visit Saudi Arabia for a meeting with King Salman bin Abdul Aziz.

"He will try to convince the two leaders that their tension was adding to the problems faced by the Muslim world," he said.

Mr Sharif would be accompanied by Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and special assistant on foreign affairs Tariq Fatemi. He is expected to return home on Tuesday.

Pakistan has close ties with Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia but last year resisted calls by the Saudis to join a war in Yemen against the Houthi rebels allegedly supported by Shia-dominated Iran.

Pakistan is also not willing to contribute troops for the 34-nation Saudi alliance to fight terrorism.

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[www.keralites.net] Lifting Sanctions On Iran: How It Will Work

 

Lifting Sanctions On Iran: How It Will Work

US Secretary of State John Kerry signs a series of documents, including the certification to the US government that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had certified Iran's compliance in their report. (Reuters Photo)

UNITED NATIONS:  The United Nations' nuclear watchdog confirmed on Saturday that Iran had curbed its nuclear programme as agreed with world powers, paving the way for most international sanctions against Tehran to be lifted.

Following are details of what this means:

Breakout

The July 14 nuclear deal aims, for the next decade, to extend the amount of time it would theoretically take Iran to produce enough fissile material for an atomic bomb - so-called breakout time - from several months to a minimum of one year.

Critics of the deal in the US Congress and Israel worry that, once the main restrictions on Iran's nuclear program expire in 10 to 15 years, Tehran will be in a position to quickly develop an atomic weapon, if it wishes. The Obama administration says the deal will ensure long-term scrutiny of Iran to deter it from developing a bomb.
Centrifuges

Under the deal, Iran agreed to reduce the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds. It will be permitted to operate up to 5,060 first-generation centrifuges for 10 years at its Natanz plant. It will cap its level of uranium enrichment at 3.67 percent, well below the 90 percent level needed for bomb-grade material.

Iran will keep 1,044 first-generation centrifuges at its underground Fordow enrichment plant, which will be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology center. Before the deal, Iran had 20,000 centrifuges installed at Natanz and Fordow.

The deal says Iran can continue to conduct enrichment research and development without accumulating enriched uranium, including work with certain types of advanced centrifuges.

Arak

Heavy water reactors, such as the one Iran had started building at Arak, can produce weapons-grade quantities of plutonium. Under the deal, Iran agreed to convert the Arak reactor so that such a "plutonium pathway" to a nuclear bomb is ruled out. The core of the Arak reactor has been removed and has been filled with concrete, Washington said on Thursday, so it will cease to be operational. The original core is expected to remain in Iran.

Uranium Stockpile

Iran had to reduce its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000 kg (22,000 lb) to 300 kg (660 lb) for 15 years. US officials have described it as a 98 percent reduction in Iran's stockpile of uranium, which would have no material enriched beyond 3.67 percent.

On December 28, the United States said a ship carrying more than 11,000 kg of low-enriched uranium materials had left Iran for Russia.
Possible Military Dimensions

Iran helped the IAEA to complete an investigation into what Western powers said was past nuclear weapons research, based on an IAEA report strongly suggesting that Tehran had a nuclear weapons program for years.

Last month, having received the extra information, which was not made public, the IAEA's board of governors ended the agency's inquiry into the so-called "possible military dimensions" of Iran's nuclear program.

Iran denies ever having considered developing atomic weapons.
UN Sanctions

All UN sanctions resolutions passed between 2006 and 2010 are terminated. However, a new resolution adopted on July 20 carries over some UN restrictions.

Iran will be "called upon" to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons for up to eight years, language that critics of the deal say does not make it obligatory. A UN  embargo barring Iran from selling weapons will remain in place for up to five years.

The new resolution allows for the supply of ballistic missile technology and heavy weapons such as tanks and attack helicopters to Iran with Security Council approval, but the United States has pledged to veto any such requests and to continue to act as if Iran's ballistic missile program were banned.

UN restrictions on the transfer to Iran of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes will remain in place for a decade.

A committee of the parties that negotiated the deal - known as the "Joint Commission" - will handle disputes over possible violations of the agreement. If the complaining state is not satisfied with how the commission addresses its concerns, it can then take its grievance to the UN Security Council.

EU Sanctions

With IAEA confirmation that Iran has met its obligations under the deal, the EU said it was immediately taking the formal steps to lift all its nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions, including those applying to the following: financial transfers; banking; insurance and reinsurance; the SWIFT system; trade financing; oil, gas, petroleum and petrochemical products and related technology; naval equipment and technology; design and construction of cargo vessels and oil tankers; access to EU airports; trade in gold, diamonds and precious metals; and other areas.

US Sanctions

Under the agreement, the United States is suspending nuclear-related sanctions against Iran.

In practice, this means lifting the restrictions that now prevent non-US  companies, entities and individuals from engaging in a wide array of transactions with Iran, on pain of sanctions against their activities in the United States. For the most part, restrictions on US actors will remain in place.

The most dramatic US sanctions to be eased will be those that had prevented non-US actors buying oil from Iran, except in very limited circumstances, or investing in its petroleum sector.

Among other things, non-US actors will now largely be able to carry out transactions involving the Iranian rial; provide US banknotes to the Iranian government; release Iranian oil-sale revenues held abroad; issue Iranian sovereign debt; provide insurance underwriting; trade precious metals; sell goods and services to Iran's auto sector; and undertake many financial and banking dealings.

Most US sanctions involving US actors remain in place. So, while non-US banks may trade with Iran without fear of punishment in the United States, US banks may not do so, directly or indirectly.

However, the US Treasury Department said foreign subsidiaries of American companies would now be allowed to do business with Iran.

The US government has also committed to allow companies, including US actors, to seek licenses to sell commercial aircraft and spare parts to Iran and to license imports of Iranian carpets, caviar, pistachios and other foodstuffs into the United States.

Snapback

The so-called snapback mechanism is designed to allay fears that Iran might fail to keep its promises once sanctions are lifted. Under snapback, punitive sanctions are automatically reintroduced if Iran fails to comply with the deal.

A July 20 Security Council resolution allows all UN sanctions to be re-imposed if Iran breaches the deal in the next 10 years. If the council receives a complaint of a breach, it will then need to a resolution within 30 days if it wishes to extend sanctions relief.

If the council fails to pass such a resolution, the sanctions will be automatically re-imposed. This procedure prevents any of the veto powers that negotiated the accord blocking a re-imposition of sanctions.

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[www.keralites.net] The Maharashtra forest department has the answer: rope in Baba Ramdev.

 

The Maharashtra forest department has the answer to sell pure, organic honey, insomnia-alleviating malkangani oil and other herbal products: rope in Baba Ramdev. :- 

When you want to sell bottles of pure, organic honey, insomnia-alleviating malkangani oil and other herbal products, what is the best way?

The Maharashtra forest department has the answer: rope in Baba Ramdev.

Finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar told dna that he would meet the yoga evangelist with officials on Tuesday in Mumbai to explore the possibilities of marketing the forest produce through Ramdev's Patanjali outlets. Mungantiwar also holds the forest portfolio.

Not that the forest department does not have its own chain of shops. It has the 'Jan Dhan, Van Dhan' outlets to market forest produce and handicrafts.

But tying up with established players like Patanjali would add value to the products and get marketing potential, say officials.

Though the plan is at an early stage now, the state seems to have done some homework.

For one, it doesn't mind its products being sold under the Patanjali brand. What matters is that they should sell, said officials.

The state also has some funding solutions ready. "We will show him our products and if the company is ready to market them, we will train our people. Finance can be sourced through MUDRA (Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency) Bank," said Mungantiwar.

"The funds generated will be passed on to the joint forest management committees (JFMC), which collect the produce," said Mungantiwar.

Non-timber forest produce (NTFP) is collected and processed by JFMC in non-scheduled areas, which generate revenue from their sale. Maharashtra has around 15,500 villages in and around forests. Since 1992, the state has initiated the JFMC programme "on a care-and-share basis."

The one obvious benefit of selling the products under a well-known brand is that it will boost the tribal and rural economy. The other is that it would strengthen forest conservation as it would reduce the dependence of those living on the peripheries of jungles on forests, said officials.

Some of the other products which the department is keen to market include mohua jam, squash and various medicinal powders and churnas.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-maharashtra-wants-to-sell-forest-produce-plans-to-rope-in-ramdev-2166637

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[www.keralites.net] Car exhibition in Detroit/USA 2016

 

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