There was much relief in Rabat when National Security Advisor John Bolton left President Donald Trump's administration; the veteran hawk had been a long-time advocate of Sahrawi self-determination (AC Vol 60 No 11 Köhler leaves the hot seat)...
Trump's 15 April phone-call to the general instigated by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi and his own former National Security Adviser John Bolton was widely suspected as ushering in a switch in US support from the internationally recognised GNA led by Serraj and based in Tripoli to Haftar especially as it came less than a fortnight after the general had spurned international plans for an all-Libya peace conference and launched his attack on Tripoli...
Polisario's hopes may lie with United States National Security Advisor John Bolton who lent his support to Köhler's efforts including the referendum that Polisario craves and even accused Rabat of delaying tactics...
The US government notably National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo oppose the Court and abjure any US cooperation with it...
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US National Security Adviser John Bolton's statements reiterating his longstanding support for a referendum in the disputed territory – which Morocco most certainly doesn't want – came as a nasty surprise...
Vol 60 No 1 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
National Security Adviser John Bolton did not mince his words: 'We will not provide loans or more American resources to a South Sudanese government led by the same morally bankrupt leaders who perpetuate the horrific violence and immense human suffering...
When US National Security Advisor John Bolton set out what he called 'The Trump Administration's New Africa Strategy' on 13 December at The Heritage Foundation the conservative think-tank in Washington DC it looked very much like the old strategy...
CorruptionInternal UN audits posted by Wikileaks after the US mission to the United Nations under its mercurial Ambassador John Bolton sent them to the US State Department revealed some serious early corruption...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- UNITED NATIONS
That loosened up the hierarchy a little and won support in the lower rungs of the bureaucracy as well as with some conservative critics of the UN such as the USA's ex-Ambassador to the UN John Bolton...
Many Democrats fresh from their defeat of the Republicans in last year's Congressional elections regard former Deputy Defence Secretary Wolfowitz as another neo-conservative Republican skittle to be knocked down after the troubles of vice-presidential aide Scooter Libby former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...