President George W. Bush sent the treaty to the U.S. Senate for ratification Sept. 21, but the sparse, nine-page document arrived minus key implementing arrangements that spell out how the treaty is to be applied. Those arrangements are still being worked out between the United States and Britain, according to the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tSo far, no Senate action on the treaty has been scheduled, and none is likely to be until the implementing agreements are complete, say a Senate aide and analysts who are tracking activity on the treaty. Bush’s goal to have a ratified treaty in hand by year’s end is quickly slipping away. And a similar treaty with Australia has not yet been submitted to the Senate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbThe sluggish pace of progress on the treaties contrasts with the flurry of activity last spring to enable Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to unveil the U.S.-U.K. pact June 21, just a week before Blair’s term in office ended.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNegotiations between the United States and Britain on the implementing arrangements slowed noticeably after Blair departed as prime minister, said Christopher Wall, an international trade lawyer based in Washington.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl s’agit donc bien d’une entreprise m\u00e9diatique lanc\u00e9e pour le d\u00e9part de Tony Blair, \u00e0 partir d’une confiscation de la chose par le Premier ministre. Blair voulait un coup d’\u00e9clat pour son d\u00e9part et savait que les deux pays travaillaient sur un projet de trait\u00e9. Il s’est annex\u00e9 le projet. La rencontre avec Bush a procur\u00e9 un maximum de publicit\u00e9. Puis, le rythme s’est compl\u00e8tement effondr\u00e9, la bureaucratie se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressant d’un projet qui lui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 confisqu\u00e9 par le pouvoir politique. De toutes les fa\u00e7ons, les n\u00e9gociations en cours, m\u00eame \u00e0 leur train de s\u00e9nateur (!), montrent la r\u00e9currence de l’embourbement bureaucratique de cette sorte d’arrangement. Cela fait maintenant six ans que les Britanniques et les USA tentent de mettre en place un accord g\u00e9n\u00e9ral facilitant les transferts de technologies (ITAR, programme JSF, trait\u00e9). Sans r\u00e9sultat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abThe administration has not made much effort to communicate with key players the Senate leaders and key members of the Foreign Relations Committee to explain the agreement and its importance to foreign policy, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAn aide to Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said committee staffers are receiving briefings but no hearings are scheduled.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNone are expected until the committee receives completed implementing arrangements.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe implementing arrangements are relevant to the committee’s review, the aide said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThere are other factors working against quick action on the treaties.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWith a dozen government funding bills, including defense spending and war-funding bills, still unpassed, and legislation ranging from children’s health care to energy policy to Internet taxes pending, little time remains this year for trade treaties.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThis issue does not have a whole lot of traction one way or the other, Wall said. To change that, U.S. and British defense companies and the British government would have to really get focused on generating support in the Senate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWall warned that if it doesn’t get done this year, it’s a whole new game next year. Presidential and congressional elections will be a major distraction to passing legislation, and Bush, if he’s not a lame duck already will certainly be a lame duck next year.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 24 octobre 2007 \u00e0 14H13<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il y a quelques mois fut c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9 le paraphe d’un trait\u00e9 essentiel entre les USA et le Royaume-Uni. L’annonce en fut faite fin juin, lors de l’ultime rencontre entre GW Bush et Blair. Suivirent diverses appr\u00e9ciations sur l’importance essentielle de ce trait\u00e9 qui doit permettre aux Britanniques d’avoir un acc\u00e8s plus direct, sinon direct, aux… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,4793,7166,4495,3157,2758,2804],"class_list":["post-69354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-itar","tag-tevhnologies","tag-traite","tag-transfert","tag-uk","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}