- •С.А.Абдраманова reading newspapers
- •Vulnerable
- •It is about. Read the article and see if your ideas were correct.
- •Poll Shows Modest Changes in Levels of Anti-u.S. Mood
- •Trade Group to Start Talks to Admit Iran
- •Intifada
- •Invasion of
- •It is about. Read the article and see if your ideas were correct.
- •Israel Begins to Pull Troops in Gaza, Scaling Back Offensive
- •Informant
- •Intercepted communications
- •Interim government
- •It is about. Read the article and see if your ideas were correct.
- •Subway and Bus Blasts in London Kill at Least 37
- •It is about. Read the article and see if your ideas were correct.
- •Nations Ranked as Protectors of the Environment
- •Indelible ink
- •Intimidation
- •Irregularities
- •It is about. Read the article and see if your ideas were correct.
- •Bolivia Congress Names New President, Setting Stage for Elections
- •Illegal assembly
- •It is about. Read the article and see if your ideas were correct.
- •China Detains a Human Rights Advocate
- •Is about. Read the article and see if your ideas were correct.
- •U.S. Said to Weigh Sanctions on Syria Over Iraqi Network
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U.S. Said to Weigh Sanctions on Syria Over Iraqi Network
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Syrian officials have sought to rebut the American (3) ___________ by saying the United States has yet to provide them with sufficient accurate information to prompt action against the individual Iraqis who the Americans say are in the network. American and Syrian officials have held high-level meetings in recent months to address their differences, and Syria has said repeatedly that it is committed to working with the United States toward a peaceful, unified Iraq.
Syria has long been subject to limited economic sanctions by the United States because of its designation by the State Department as a (4) __________ of terrorism. Under pressure from Congress, the Bush administration imposed additional measures last spring that prohibit exports to Syria of most goods, excluding food and medicine, and prohibit commercial flights between the United States and Syria by Syrian-owned aircraft.
The main additional tool being weighed by the administration for possible further sanctions is authority wielded by the Treasury Department, which in May labeled the Commercial Bank of Syria a (5) ____________ institution of "primary money laundering concern." The designation was a response to what the department called the role played by the Syrian bank in (6) ___________ money illegally diverted by Mr. Hussein's government from the United Nations-administered oil-for-food program.
Further steps by the Treasury are possible, the most severe of which would be to (7) __________ any American bank, broker or mutual fund from dealing with the Syrian bank, the country's single government-owned financial institution that specializes in foreign exchange transactions.
One American counterterrorism official said the threat of further action had already served to focus Syrian attention on the problem. The official said Treasury officials had met several times in recent months with their Syrian (8) ___________ to discuss the issue.
Ex. 10. Work in pairs or in small groups. Discuss the following issues:
Diplomacy: principles and purposes.
Preventive Diplomacy: protests and denunciations, sanctions, monitoring and verification of agreements, peacekeeping, etc.
Foreign policy: goals and strategies.
Case studies.
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Unit 1. Word Order. ______________________________________3
Unit 2. International Organizations __________________________ 9
Unit 3. Hot Spots. _______________________________________15
Unit 4. Terrorism. _______________________________________ 21
Unit 5. Global Issues. ____________________________________ 26
Unit 6. Elections. ________________________________________31
Unit 7. Human Rights. ____________________________________37
Unit 8. Diplomacy _______________________________________43