BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 — Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the American government and military, very few are signing up to go, resettlement officials say.
Realising that Aids cannot be stopped without putting the health and rights of those who have been neglected at the centre of our efforts, the UN, international donors, advocates and others have stepped up commitments to address the health and rights of these "key populations".
At the time the document was signed, Russia was publicly denying any stepped-up military commitment to Syria.
In 1965, for example, he argued in an article in The New York Times Magazine for a stepped-up American military commitment in Vietnam, including one million soldiers and saturation bombing of North Vietnam, to stop the "Communist strategy of creeping aggression" before it swallowed up all of Asia.
McChrystal reportedly annoyed the White House this year when he spoke in London about a stepped-up, long-term military commitment, while Obama's Afghan strategy review was still underway.
At the start of his weeklong trip through member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Carter said that U.S. commitment to the stepped-up collective defense efforts reflects a new NATO strategy for dealing with a security environment that has changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War.
Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind). credited the stepped-up pace of activity to a new commitment by Russian President Vladimir V. Putin after a February summit with President Bush in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The stepped-up Russian attacks come despite Moscow's stated commitment to a political process to end the war in Syria, which has been responsible for the greatest humanitarian crisis of modern times and laid large parts of the country to waste.
The Vermont senator's campaign debuted the ad on the same day that several leading African American members of Congress supporting Hillary Clinton questioned the depth of his commitment to the civil rights movement, amid a stepped-up emphasis on courting black voter by both Democratic candidates.
The issue of Iraq's debt has become intertwined with a European demand that in return, the United States must support stepped-up relief for African nations and other poor countries as well as make a commitment that debt relief would not rule out an increase foreign aid.
Russia will have to demonstrate its commitment to de-escalating the Ukraine crisis within days or face stepped-up sanctions, Kerry warned.
