Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday May 11, 2005
The Guardian
The FBI and the US Secret Service were this morning investigating a report that a hand grenade had been thrown towards President Bush as he was making a speech in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
The Secret Service, which provides Mr Bush's bodyguards, was told by Georgian authorities of a report that a device, possibly a hand grenade, was thrown to within 100ft of the stage on which the president was speaking.
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President of the Republic refuses asked for of Adjudication of the 5 blocks of oil was coats.
They are Tomé and Príncipe and the Nigéria they had decided to reevaluate the proposals of adjudication of 5 blocks of oil of the zone of joint exploration, whose the process generated polémica in the last weeks. Responsible of the two countries they had been congregated in Abuja, to find consensus the return of petroliferous the participativos interests of some company in the 5 wells of oil. The second meeting of the Joint Ministerial advice Is Tomé and Príncipe-Nigéria, who elapsed in the capital Nigerian 24 and 25 of May, is consequência directa of the crisis that if installed in the country the return of dossier oil, and that only the intervention of President Nigeriano Olusengo Obasanjo, served to calm the internal confrontation because of the black gold. The national, composed delegation for the Ministers of the Prohibited Sousa Oscar, of the Foreign affairses and Small Ovídeo Cooperation, of the Plan and Adelino Finances David Castle, and other members of the sovereignty agencies had left the country in silence, the delegation are -tomense received orientações from the National Advice of Oil, having before received orientações from the National Advice of Oil. The mission aims at to give body to the agreement created in Is Tomé, with the visit of President Nigeriano. In a short official notice the Minister of the Foreign affairses, explained that the second meeting of Abuja aims at the revision of the proposals of adjudication of each block of oil, as well as the participativos interests of the competing companies. The official notice also added that They are Tomé and Príncipe adoptou a new business position with sight the quarrels with the part Nigerian. The President da Republic, that had announced its removal da leadership do to dossier oil, meanwhile came back no to preside over the National Advice of widened oil, do passed day 23. The Minister of the Foreign affairses and Cooperation, Small Ovídeo, that is spokesman of the National Advice of the Oil, did not explain the press if Fradique de Menezes had reconsidered its position or not. In the way of uncertainties and misunderstandings the return it to dossier oil is -tomenses, seems to lose concentration enough to deal with a so basic subject for the future of the country. The Nigéria assumes each time more as the guide, the pacifying of the turbulences provoked for the black gold in the country. In a press note, the Presidency is -tomense explained that President Obasanjo considered the problems raised for is -tomenses the return of dossier oil, as being of caracter nontechnical politician and. according to note, Obasanjo guaranteed that the requirements had been observed all technician for the adjudication of the 5 wells of oil. The note underlines on the other hand, that Olusengo Obasango badly revealed unpleasantness and to be, having relembrado that the treated one confers only to the two Presidents them to be able to approve or not to approve the adjudication recommended for the joint ministerial advice, fitting to the authorities of each state member in the treated one to fill its internal requirements. judicial and parliamentary.
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