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That is going to, obviously, come up in the conference onsupplemental. What is your position on that? Speaker Pelosi.Well if that's what the President supports, then that's whatwe will support it. If it isn't...Senator Leiberman, you say he's putting iton the supplemental? Question:Yes.Speaker Pelosi To the supplemental. I haven't heard that there's anycontroversy associated with that.Question: Do you support the restriction on FOIA? Speaker Pelosi.Well, I will support the supplemental, let's see if it's inthe supplemental.I'd be pleased to answer any of these other questions, but can we stay withthe China trip for now because my colleagues may have to go Yes ma'am. Senate, right before the recess, passed an amendment thatwould override FOIA regulations with regard to the so-called torture pictures.Senator Lieberman said to me today that he had the support of the White Housein that regard.
And I think it's very, very, important that we support the UNPopulation Fund, and have voted that way, and have been part of it on theAppropriations Committee over and over again On that, on a.. Question: The U.S. Markey,did you want to say anything at this time? Chairman Markey.No.Question:Do you think that Congress should stop funding the United NationsPopulation Fund, given that it supports China's family- planning programs,including forced sterilization and abortion? Speaker Pelosi.No, I don't, I don't think we should stop funding the UNPopulation Fund. My knowledge of the fund is that it does not support abortionin China. "I know I am far too young, but I will wait until the right time."Like many Somalis, Hobyo's mayor says piracy has been fuelled by illegal fishing and dumping off the anarchic country's coast.Somalis say that because they have no navy or coast guard to protect their waters, trawlers from Europe and Asia fish there without permission and foreign ships carrying toxic waste dump their cargoes unchecked.Although he agrees something needs to be done, Mayor Saed Aden said piracy is not the solution. "We have tried to expel them but we do not have man power or weapons to face them."Meanwhile, local girls are finding it hard to resist the monied pirates."I don't want to marry a pirate but time is flying and pushing me to have a pirate boyfriend because he is rich," said Halima, who at 24 is considered a bit too old to be single.(Writing by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura; Editing by Giles Elgood). * Incidents come as Iran prepares for election * Commander says unrest in southeast prevented By Fredrik Dahl TEHRAN, June 1 (Reuters) - Iran has arrested a number of people it accuses of sowing sectarian discord in a southeastern city where the bombing of a Shi'ite mosque killed 25 people last week, a senior commander was quoted as saying on Monday.
News of the detentions in the city of Zahedan, where many of Iran's minority Sunni Muslims live, came two days after security personnel defused a homemade bomb found on a flight bound for Tehran from a southwestern city, according to Iranian media. Officials have blamed both Thursday's bombing and Saturday's plane incident on Iran's foes, with one saying they wanted to "create a security-threat environment" ahead of the mainly Shi'ite Muslim country's June 12 presidential election. Conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who often rails against Iran's Western enemies, faces a challenge in the vote from reformers seeking detente in its international relations. Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan, deputy commander of Iran's security forces, said "a number of individuals who intended to create insecurity" in Zahedan had been detained. Zahedan is the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, home to the Islamic Republic's mostly Sunni ethnic Baluchis.