Chavez's visits to Russia, Belarus and khmmm Iran

In June, Chavez visited three countries - Russia, Belarus and Iran, tightening ties with arms and oil experts as well keeping a warm relationship with his socialistic oriented buddy - Belarus.

Chavez's tour began with a visit to Russia. Both countries agreed to invest into a joint project to explore the Orinoco oil belt. The Orinoco belt holds the world's largest reserves of heavy oil (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6252370.stm)

Following his visit to Russia, Chavez flew to Belarus. He called it a "model social state" - similar to what Venezuela is trying to create. Unlike Chavez's further visit of Russia and Iran where he made agreements with the countries to trade arms and start joint oil development projects, Belarus had nothing to offer. "Bat'ka" Lukashenko, as Belorussian falks call their president, is having hard times getting oil on his own from the only neighbour that still talks to him - Russia. Oil prices in Minsk, Belarus are close to what I've seen in Canada. Seems like Russia stopped making discounts for its "Western" ally. More on Chavez's visit to Belarus: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5209868.stm.

Chavez's visit to Iran has marked the launch of construction of a joint petrochemical plant in Iran and then Venezuela. Mr. Chavez has been supporting Iran's nuclear programme. Iran declares that its uranium enrichment programme is for peaceful energy production and not for development of weapons of mass destruction as US and EU insist (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6252370.stm)

Related link - Mercosur (BBC Profile) - Common Market of the South
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5195834.stm

Views of Great Britain and US on conflict in Iraq

Gordon Brown, the future prime minister of Great Britain insists on non-military resolution of Iran's conflict. He thinks that the key to solving the problem is the rebuilding of economics of the country. Poverty and lack of jobs is the main reason that pushes the coutry to become dangerous on world's scene.

On the other hand, USA does not deny the fact of military intervention. On May 23rd, 2007, 9 US mility ships have entered Persian Golf for "military training" purposes. Washington's main point here is that under the peaceful development of nuclear power plant, Iran is pushing the development of the nuclear program [source: http://top.rbc.ru/politics/27/05/2007/104117.shtml].

In the meanwhile, Iran is working on finishing its first nuclear station, which is being built by Russian experts at Bushehr. The plant's launch date is scheduled for March 2008 [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/05/1b73ff45-8007-47b5-83a2-7a1f2232d520.html].

On climate control...

It looks as the most current trend for the failures of presidential elections as well as previous presidents themselves, is to concentrate their attention on Climate improvements. I am talking about Gore and Clinton respectively.

When you are a president, you are faced with the reality of the country not been able to spend money to meet Kyoto protocol's standards. However, when you are not, it is a great tool for use as the critique.

Clinton Climate Initiative: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/cf-pgm-cci-home.htm