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19 januari 2014, 15:14
Rouhani trekt naar Davos, hij gaat op zoek naar nieuwe investeringen voor het door westerse sancties getroffen land. Ook Benjamin Netanyahu zal aanwezig zijn, Netanyahu en Rouhani zullen het elitair gezelschap op dezelfde dag toespreken, wat een toeval! Het blijft onduidelijk of ze elkaar zullen spreken, misschien gaan ze samen wel even op de latten staan, wie weet... :-P
AFP - Bloodied Syria, resurgent Iran set to dominate at Davos (news.yahoo.com/bloodied-syria-resurgent-iran-set-dominate-davos-024753272.html)
19 januari 2014 - Paris (AFP) - The bloody civil war in Syria and Iran's efforts to come in from the diplomatic cold will drive the agenda next week as world leaders, business chiefs and celebrities gather in the swanky Swiss ski resort of Davos. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tops the bill of more than 40 leaders and 2,000 of the world's most powerful economic players expected at the mountainside gathering in the annual shindig that starts Tuesday.
In what has become a tradition of its own at the World Economic Forum, burning issues other than the world economy will likely exercise the minds of the global elite during their five-day-long programme of seminars and debates.
This year, looming over proceedings will be the long-awaited Geneva II peace talks aimed at ending the three-year bloodbath in Syria which will take place at the same time in the Swiss town of Montreux.
The most eagerly awaited guest at Davos this year is Rouhani, there to drum up international investment for his sanction-hit economy on the back of a diplomatic entente with the West.
And in one of the unlikely juxtapositions only the Davos schedule can throw up, speaking the same day will be Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of sworn enemy Israel.
Although the two are not scheduled to meet, anything is possible in the cushy conference corridors where leaders move freely among top bosses, Hollywood stars and Nobel Prize winners.
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Later meer.
AFP - Bloodied Syria, resurgent Iran set to dominate at Davos (news.yahoo.com/bloodied-syria-resurgent-iran-set-dominate-davos-024753272.html)
19 januari 2014 - Paris (AFP) - The bloody civil war in Syria and Iran's efforts to come in from the diplomatic cold will drive the agenda next week as world leaders, business chiefs and celebrities gather in the swanky Swiss ski resort of Davos. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tops the bill of more than 40 leaders and 2,000 of the world's most powerful economic players expected at the mountainside gathering in the annual shindig that starts Tuesday.
In what has become a tradition of its own at the World Economic Forum, burning issues other than the world economy will likely exercise the minds of the global elite during their five-day-long programme of seminars and debates.
This year, looming over proceedings will be the long-awaited Geneva II peace talks aimed at ending the three-year bloodbath in Syria which will take place at the same time in the Swiss town of Montreux.
The most eagerly awaited guest at Davos this year is Rouhani, there to drum up international investment for his sanction-hit economy on the back of a diplomatic entente with the West.
And in one of the unlikely juxtapositions only the Davos schedule can throw up, speaking the same day will be Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of sworn enemy Israel.
Although the two are not scheduled to meet, anything is possible in the cushy conference corridors where leaders move freely among top bosses, Hollywood stars and Nobel Prize winners.
...
Later meer.