Semi-Weekly Bulletin

The Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Semi-Weekly Bulletin covered critical national and regional security issues, broadly understood, in Australia and the surrounding region. Archives from 2005 until 2010.

APSNet, Semi-Weekly Bulletin

APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 25, 2007

  1. Help Asked over Kurd Impasse
  2. South Korea: Government Panel Recommends Gradual Reduction of Korean Troops in Iraq
  3. US Optimistic about Afghanistan
  4. Islamist Insurgents Doing Well
  5. Australia Places Financial Bans on Burma’s Generals
  6. Solomon Islands to Review RAMSI
  7. What the Sea Gives, the Sea Can Take Away
  8. Indonesia: Coast Guard Argument Continues
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 22, 2007

  1. Change of Role in Iraq Long Planned: PM
  2. Georgia, Slovakia Offer to Fill Afghan Gap
  3. Voters’ Guide to International Policy
  4. Intelligence Outsourced
  5. Lepers Change their Spots: The Pacific Islands Forum
  6. Towards Sustainable Security: Alternatives to the War on Terror
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 18, 2007

  1. Security Body Mooted for North-East Asia
  2. Defence Dept Denies Timor Beating Claim
  3. NZ’s Involvement in Global Peace Operations
  4. AFP Expansion: This is Not a Theme Park
  5. Afghanistan: Negotiations with Taliban?
  6. Inquiry into N-test Veterans’ Case
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 15, 2007

  1. Indonesia: Nuclear Reactor Plan on Shaky Ground
  2. Indonesia Winning War against Terrorism Five Years after Bali Bombing
  3. More than 100,000 Timorese Remain in Refugee Camps
  4. Labor to Review Military Priorities
  5. Premier Says Turkey is ready for Split with U.S. over Kurds
  6. Afghanistan-Pakistan: Zone of Insecurity
  7. New Zealand Activists Held in Anti-Terrorism Raids
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 11, 2007

  1. Accusations of Iranian Involvement in Afghanistan
  2. Australian Firm Involved in Fatal Shooting
  3. U.S.-Led Iraq Coalition Withering Fast
  4. Phase Two of the Fisheries Protection Survey and Charting Project
  5. Power Plays: Energy and Australia’s Security
  6. Sweeteners to Ease Uranium Objection
  7. Papuan Coalition Seeks Deal with Jakarta through Finnish Mediation
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 8, 2007

  1. We Trained Burmese Officers
  2. Malaysia: UN Peacekeeping Duty in Timor Leste
  3. Middle East Security after Iraq
  4. Army Shies Off Cluster’s Last Stand
  5. Japan May Reduce Role in U.S.-Led Afghanistan Mission
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 4, 2007

  1. More Diggers to Fight Taliban
  2. UK: Brown to Pave Way for Further Cutback of Troops in Iraq
  3. Fiji’s Military Worried by Increasing Risk of Arms Smuggling
  4. Solomons Threat to Peace Effort: Downer
  5. $927m for New Military Satellite
  6. US Alliance Will Change
  7. US Garners Support for Strike on Iran
  8. Climate Change Becomes Urgent Security Issue in Australia
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 1, 2007

  1. Afghanistan: Resurgent Taliban Challenge Diggers
  2. Iraq: Maliki Calls Land Proposal a ‘Catastrophe’
  3. Singapore: Web of Cash, Power and Cronies
  4. PNG Police on Alert over Reported PM Arrest Plans
  5. Oil: Timor’s Double-Edged Sword
  6. Commission of Inquiry into the April 2006 Civil Unrest in Honiara
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 27, 2007

  1. Climate Change a Huge Security Problem: Keelty
  2. RI Nuclear Plants a ‘Regional Issue’
  3. Don’t Mention the ‘N’ Word
  4. Cholera Outbreak in Iraq is Spreading
  5. Afghan Clashes Kill ‘160 Taleban’
  6. Survey Finds Wide Support for RAMSI
  7. Papuans to Be Sent back to PNG
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 24, 2007

  1. Pine Gap on US Missile Front Line
  2. Backing for Pacific Seasonal Workers
  3. Warning that SAS Stretched to Limit
  4. Canberra to Sign Security Pact with NATO
  5. Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Regional Air Superiority
  6. New Zealand: East Timor Commitment Reinforced
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