Reply #11: The Australians are mad at us too - Mar 17 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

http://www.ran.org/news/newsitem.php?id=1388&area=finance

Labor concern over illegal logging claim

Labor has expressed concern at a leaked report claiming the United
States may seek to stop multilateral efforts to combat illegal logging
of the world's rainforests.

Labor wants an assurance from Prime Minister John Howard his government
will not join the US in this strategy.

(snip)

Mr Albanese said a leaked memo written by the head of forest policy in
the US State Department, Stephanie Caswell, and obtained by the BBC,
revealed the US would refuse to sign the Blair initiative and actively
encourage Russia, Canada and Japan to also vote against it.

(snip)

"Like the US government's actions in relation to the Kyoto Protocol,
this appears to be an attempt to undermine international cooperation
around an important environmental issue," Mr Albanese said.

(snip)

(much more at link)