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[...] rather than reduce tensions, the Convention's provisions on the EEZ and continental shelf have rekindled long-standing territorial disputes and disputes over fisheries and hydrocarbon deposits, in areas like the South and East China Seas, that have the real potential to result in serious conflict. [...] we figure this all out, as long as we retain our leadership role at the IMO, maintain a strong, capable and well-trained Navy, and curtail our own excessive maritime claims in the name of environmental protection, U.S. ocean and national security interests will be preserved.

In this Carnegie Council event for specially invited guests, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering will discuss the need for diplomatic rather than military engagement with Iran. Ambassador Pickering is a retired U.S. ambassador. During a four decade-long career in Foreign Service, he served as ambassador to Russia, India, the United Nations, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan. Pickering holds the distinction of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, says the editing represented \"grappling\" between the State Department and the CIA, which wanted it known that it warned the [Obama] administration of terror threats in the region. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in the e-mails that her \"leadership\" didn't want to appear to have ignored the warnings. The CIA's first unclassified assessment of the Benghazi attack said \"we believe| the attacks in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo,\" which occurred on Sept. 11. That wording, which proved to be false, was kept in the final CIA memo on the attacks. But references to the attack being the work of al-Qaeda-linked terrorists, which U.S. counterterrorism officials say is what happened, were removed. \"They're deleting references to Ansar al Sharia,\" a Libyan al-Qaeda affiliate whose members the CIA said it knew were involved in the attack \"because that's what government bureaucrats do,\" [Reuel Marc Gerecht] said. \"They're trying to be precise, to be overly meticulous. Unless you know for sure you don't say it.\"

\"NATO is coming closer together, particularly after Sept. 11 and the war on terrorism. I believe that NATO interoperability would be served by a development that could open up to NATO partners--on the basis of a common understanding of controls on third states and a common effort to ensure uniform export controls are observed--that we could see a broader degree of defense trade among all NATO nations as we have now with Canada,\" Tom Pickering, the former undersecretary of state for political and military affairs who now is Boeing's (BA) vice president for international relations, told Defense Daily International last week during an interview. \"I think it would be useful to examine extending that (type of agreement with Canada) to some or all of our NATO partners and Australia and Japan...We have to be prepared and able to undertake a broader negotiations with a number of partners. Clearly this could be done by a series of overlapping bilateral negotiations, on the other hand, if you could deal with the set of six partners who have, or are moving toward a more open regime, and harmonize that without having to undo things that already have been done, I think that would be advantageous. Having spent my life in the State Department, I think that there is nothing that inhibits or makes more difficult working multilaterally, if you have an equal degree of trust and confidence among the partners.\" According to Pickering, who played a role in formulating DTSI, alliance nations have a unique opportunity to adopt a common export control regime. The day after the attacks, NATO for the first time in its history concluded that the attacks against the United States constituted an assault on the alliance as a whole, and pledged close cooperation in the upcoming campaign against global terrorism. A good starting point for a multilateral export control regime would be the so-called LOI (Letter of Intent) Six nations, Pickering said. In July 2000, Europe's leading defense industrial nations--Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Sweden--inked an LOI pledging to adopt a common export control regime to facilitate the smooth sharing of defense technologies and products, a critical need given the cooperative nature of European defense programs. Pickering indicated that while export control negotiations can be tricky, it is possible to strike an accord that balances the need to protect technologies with wider defense trade that is seen as critical to bolstering interoperability within the NATO alliance. One of the reasons DTSI garnered high-level [Clinton] administration interest was to boost cooperation to help bridge a growing capability gap between the United States and its NATO allies which spend considerably less on defense. Clinton officials feared that should the gap grow wider, the cohesion of the alliance would have been undermined over time.

Photo submitted / SCRATCH 'N' SNIFF - This bear was captured via one of the trail cameras installed in the Timber Ridge Conservation Area. The bears use these trees to scratch their backs and a single strand of barbed wire wrapped around the tree catches some of the hair for later identification.; Hairs are collected via bear rub trees, which are found throughout Timber Ridge as well. The trees are wrapped with a single strand of barbed wire, and since bears are habitual creatures, they return to the same areas. When they scratch their backs on the trees, the wire catches the hair which is then collected for sampling. \"She can tell you where a bear has been,\" [Kelly] said, adding it has assisted in tracking bears who are causing trouble. \"They know who some of those characters are now.\"

Some of the problems and opportunities for US foreign policy in the Middle East are examined. The US is committed to working Middle East countries to promote peace, security and arms control in the region.

As two of the world's most successful democracies, India and the United States are immensely important players in building stability and peace for the future. But what exactly is behind the sudden U.S. interest in developing a strategic relationship with India? What role could a U.S.-India partnership play in the wider Asian balance of power? Join [Thomas Pickering] to discuss the India-U.S. relationship in the framework of great power relations.