NSN Daily Update 4/1/09 Posted by The National Security Network

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What We’re Reading

The G-20 begins tonight.  President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown call for tough moves against the global financial crisis.  G-20 leaders received an OECD report that global trade is in freefall.  Almost 4,000 protestors gathered in London’s financial district, and various groups tried to storm the Bank of Scotland.

President Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.  They began negotiations on a new nuclear arms treaty and President Obama accepted an invitation to visit Moscow in July.

At his handover ceremony, Israel’s new far-right foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said that Israel is not bound by the 2007 Annapolis agreement to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.  Outgoing foreign minister Tzipi Livni interrupted him while other diplomats “shift[ed] uncomfortably.”  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not believe in peace.

Secretary of State Clinton said that the U.S. will reform its civilian foreign aid program. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is lobbying for more money for the State Department in the face of a proposal by Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad to cut $4 billion in international relations and foreign aid.

Reversing a Bush administration policy, the U.S. will now seek a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Commentary of the Day

French President Nicolas Sarkozy lays out priorities and requirements for the G-20.

Martin Wolf thinks that G-20 leaders will fail to properly address the economic crisis.  The Financial Times reminds the G-20 not to forget the poor and the hungry, set to increase in number this year.

CIA veteran Robert Baer looks at how the Obama administration can avoid a quagmire in Afghanistan.

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