By JPOST.COM STAFF
05/05/2010 05:03

Obama: Syria poses extraordinary threat to US national security.

US President Barack Obama extended US sanctions on Syria by a year, a communique to Congress detailed on Tuesday.

In the message, Obama expressed concern that Syria continues to support terrorist regimes and tries to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Syria's actions and policies "pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States," he said.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC)

Tunisia, 16 April 2010 (ITUC OnLine): Nine Arab trade union organisations affiliated to the ITUC met in Hammamet, Tunisia, from 14 to 16 April, together with six guest union organisations from the region. Open and constructive discussions were held with ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder on the ITUC's strategy for the Arab region, within the framework of preparatory discussions ahead of the ITUC Congress in Vancouver (Canada) in June.

So far, Review Sessions have been held on the 6 chapters of the document known as the "Monterrey Consensus". We would venture to suggest that the resultant document brings nothing new, though with a few exceptions. Those exceptions are of some importance, but they are prompted more by new circumstances rather by any in-depth review of the Consensus as such.