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The U.S. president, Barack Obama said yesterday in two telephone calls to the president of Mexico and Prime Minister of Turkey to the leakage of State Department cables were “deplorable”, while Felipe Calderón and Recep Tayyip Erdogan assured him that the incident would not affect diplomatic relations with their countries, according to the White House. Mexico and Turkey are among countries that have been revealed secret information in the filtering of mails to the press by the organization Wikileaks.

Two weeks ago, Erdogan publicly showed his annoyance, since the cables portray him as an authoritarian leader with a direct rejection of Israel and to stop the spread of Islamist influence in his government. Ankara’s alliance with Washington is crucial, since it is the only Muslim-majority country member of NATO and cooperated with the necessary logistics to undertake the invasion of Iraq. “The U.S. is responsible for the slanders and exaggerations of its diplomats,” he told a conference.

In a cable of 2004, Ambassador Eric Edelman Ergodic portrayed in these terms: “Within the party, Erdogan lust for power reveals an extremely authoritarian style and a deep distrust of others. Just as a spiritual advisor Erdogan and his wife Emine says: “Tayyip believes in God but do not trust him.” Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama’s announcement to support the presence of India as a permanent member of UN Security reform accelerated sharply this archaic institution and open a deeper discussion on the new distribution of powers in a world in which emerging powers supported by its success in globalization, demanding much more political influence. By the way, the American initiative is a jug of cold water to the hopes of Spain that the renewal of the UN were being put to a model agreement that would give more presence in the main executive body.

This is, without doubt, the great prize that India expected a visit that, until now, seemed consumed in mere gestures and empty rhetoric. With 1,200 million, an economy that competes in the top of the world, a model of democracy and universal inspiration from the example of Mahatma Gandhi, India feels years with the right to sit among the nations that govern the world. Other American presidents had stayed before the gates of support that right. Obama did yesterday in a speech to Parliament, who received his words stood.

“The sustainable and equitable international order that the U.S. seeks to include a United Nations that are effective, credible and legitimate. So I can say that in the coming years, expect a reform of the Security Council to include India as a permanent member” Obama said. Read the rest of this entry »