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Sherritt International Corp T.S

Alternate Symbol(s):  SHERF

Sherritt International Corporation is a Canada-based company engaged in the mining and refining of nickel and cobalt metals essential for the adoption of electric vehicles. The Company is engaged in the production of high purity nickel and cobalt metals from lateritic ore. Its technologies group creates solutions for oil and mining companies around the world to improve environmental performance. It is also the independent energy producer in Cuba. The Company offers a range of products including Nickel, Cobalt, Fertilizers and Other Products. The Nickel products category includes standard grade, steel grade, and nickel powders. The Cobalt products category includes cobalt briquettes and cobalt powders. The Fertilizers product category includes anhydrous ammonia, granular ammonium sulfate, crystalline ammonium sulfate-super salt, and crystalline ammonium sulfate-standard grade. The Other products category includes sulfuric acid, zinc sulfide, and copper sulfide.


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Post by hardknockson Apr 16, 2009 7:55pm
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Obama says Cuba should make next move on relations

Obama says Cuba should make next move on relations

Apr 16, 7:19 PM EDT

By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
    
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants Havana to make the next move to improve U.S.-Cuba relations, saying Thursday that he needs to see signs of changes on the island before he makes any more overtures.

Obama already has lifted restrictions on visits and money sent to Cuba by Americans with families there - steps he called "extraordinarily significant" for those families, and a show of good faith by the U.S. government that it wants to recast the relationship.

But he reiterated that the U.S. won't unilaterally end its trade embargo against Cuba, even though the policy is widely seen as a failure that has complicated U.S. relations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Obama said a relationship frozen for 50 years "won't thaw overnight," and that Cuba can show it wants to move forward by lifting its own restrictions on Cubans' ability to travel and to voice their opinions.

Cuba's communist government had no immediate reaction, but President Raul Castro has said he is willing to negotiate with Obama on neutral ground as equals and without conditions.

Castro was in Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez and other close allies were planning to show a united front in their first encounter with Obama on Friday at the Summit of the Americas.

Chavez called the U.S. position a "show of disrespect."

"If that's the way it is, what more can we expect from the rest? Nothing," Chavez said. "I hope we're wrong, but they'll be the ones who will have to show us - not with tales and speeches."

Obama spoke at a news conference after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who called the U.S. embargo a failed strategy. Asked what the U.S. should do on Cuba to improve its image across Latin America, Calderon said "we do not believe that the embargo or the isolation of Cuba is a good measure for things to change."

But Obama says Cuba needs to reciprocate to his overtures with actions "grounded in respect for human rights."

A similar message was sent by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Haiti earlier Thursday.

"We stand ready to discuss with Cuba additional steps that could be taken," she said. "But we do expect Cuba to reciprocate."

"We would like to see Cuba open up its society, release political prisoners, open up to outside opinions and media, have the kind of society that we all know that would improve the opportunities for the Cuban people and for their nation," she said.

Leaders of 34 nations are making their way to Trinidad and Tobago for the summit, a gathering of democracies where communist Cuba is not invited. That rankles several of the leaders - not only close ally Chavez but also people like Haitian President Rene Preval, who has had warm relations with the Castro government and received medical treatment on the island.

He told reporters that he hopes Cuba will be able to attend the next summit, and that "Cuba is a friend of Haiti even though we have different political systems."

 

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