UAE
FM Sheikh
Abdullah bin
Zayed
al-Nahyan,
British FM
William Hague,
and U.S.
Secretary of
State Hillary
Rodham Clinton
at the Friends
of Syria
Conference in
Tunisia, Feb.
24, 2012.
Statement
comes day
after U.S.
Secretary of
State Hillary
Clinton called
Russia and
China
'despicable'
for vetoing UN
Security
Council
resolution on
Syria.
U.S. State Department:
Russia and
Iran still
arming Bashar
al-Assad
Russia
and Iran are
continuing to
send arms to
the Syrian
regime that
can be used
against
protesters, a
top State
Department
official said
today.
"Iran
is resupplying
Syria and
through Syria
has supplied
weapons to
Hezbollah,"
said Tom
Countryman,
the assistant
secretary of
state for
international
security and
nonproliferation,
at a Wednesday
morning
breakfast
meeting of the
Defense
Writers Group
in Washington.
Foreign Policy Exclusive:
U.S. State
Department
quietly
warning region
on Syrian WMDs
The
State
Department has
begun
coordinating
with Syria's
neighbors to
prepare for
the handling
of President
Bashar
al-Assad's
extensive
weapons of
mass
destruction if
and when his
regime
collapses, The
Cable has
learned.
Islamists dominate Egypt's upper house after vote,
Muslim
Brotherhood
and Salafist
Al-Nur secured
150 of first
180 seats
Islamists
seized most
seats in the
two-stage vote
for Egypt's
upper house of
parliament,
the Shura
Council, the
electoral
commission
said on
Saturday. The
results cap
landmark
legislative
elections that
saw Islamists
propelled to
the centre
stage of
Egyptian
politics.
A
commission
official said
the Muslim
Brotherhood's
Freedom and
Justice Party
(FJP) secured
105 seats, the
Salafist
Al-Nur party
took 45, the
liberal Wafd
won 14, and
the Egyptian
Bloc eight.
Another eight
seats went to
smaller
factions.
The
vote, which
began on
January 29,
was for 180
seats in the
270-seat
chamber in
which the
remaining
third of seats
are allocated
by the head of
the ruling
Supreme
Council of the
Armed Forces
(SCAF), Field
Marshal
Hussein
Tantawi.