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* AlbaniaNews (Italy, Albania and Kosovo)
Nuove news del 19.11.2009
In treno da Roma a Brescia - Sulle ali del novecento
Posted: 19 Nov 2009 12:17 AM PST
Con il Dedalo Ensemble, le musiche di Alexander Peci e Thomas Simaku , il mio Terremoto a Tirana. Il treno, sabato 14, era il Frecciarossa, alta velocità, alto costo ( 90 euro in seconda classe solo andata) ma bassa qualità: sedili strettissimi, lo schienale assurdamente concavo, come se dovesse ospitare dei gobbi, quando ormai tutte le automobili sono convesse per accompagnare la schiena, persino la mia Tata indiana, il bracciolo fisso, così se il posto accanto è vuoto non puoi neppure allargarti un pò, la gamba del tavolino molto scomoda.
Maroni a Tirana: si alla liberalizzazione dei visti
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 03:00 PM PST
Nel prossimo Consiglio dei Ministri dell’Interno dell’UE, l’Italia sosterrà la liberalizzazione dei visti per i cittadini albanesi a iniziare dalla metà del 2010. Lo ha dichiarato il Ministro Maroni, in visita ufficiale ieri in Albania. La cooperazione bilaterale nell’ambito della sicurezza e il sostegno dell’Italia nel proceso di adesione dell’Albania all’UE, sono stati al centro dei colloqui istituzionali di Maroni con il suo omologo albanese Basha, il Ministro della Giustizia Nishani e il Primo Ministro Berisha.
> For further information: www.albanianews.it
* Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (Bosnia and Balkans)
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Balkan Insight Daily No. 407, November 19 2009
> For further information: www.birn.eu.com
* Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Romania (Romania/Italy)
Versione in lingua italiana:
Cari associati ed amici,
vi informiamo che il prossimo 26 novembre l’ufficio ICE di Bucarest organizzera’ un seminario di presentazione della fiera “MADE Expo Milano 2010” presso la sala Craiova di JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel (Calea 13 Septembrie Nr. 90, Sector 5).
L’evento si propone di presentare una delle piu’ importanti manifestazioni fieristiche d’Italia nel settore dell’edilizia, dell’architettura e del design. Nel 2010 la fiera si svolgera’ nel periodo 3-6 febbraio (a Milano) e vedra’ coinvolti oltre 1.700 espositori provenienti da circa 30 Paesi.
La partecipazione al Seminario e’ gratuita.
Alleghiamo l’invito ed il programma dell’evento oltre ai moduli di iscrizione che, in caso di interesse, vi preghiamo di compilare ed inviare per fax o e-mail agli indirizzi dell’ICE indicati nell’invito oppure ai recapiti della Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Romania (fax: 021-310.23.18, e-mail: segreteria@cameradicommercio.ro)
In attesa delle vostre conferme di partecipazione, porgiamo cordiali saluti.
Ufficio CCIpR
Versiunea in limba romana:
Dragi asociati si prieteni,
va informam ca in data de 26 noiembrie, Biroul din Bucuresti al Institutului Italian de Schimburi Comerciale, va organiza un seminar de prezentare a targului “MADE Expo Milano 2010” in sala Craiova a JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel (Calea 13 Septembrie Nr. 90, Sector 5).
Subliniind ca participarea la acest Seminar este gratuita, va transmitem atasat invitatia si programul evenimentului precum si formularele de inscriere pe care, in cazul in care sunteti interesati a participa, va rugam amabil sa le completati si transmite pe e-mail sau fax la datele de contact ale biroului ICE indicate in invitatie sau la cele ale Camerei de Comert Italiene pentru Romania (fax: 021-310.23.18, e-mail: segreteria@cameradicommercio.ro)
In asteptarea confirmarilor voastre de participare, va transmitem cordiale salutari.
Biroul CCIpR
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILE
> For further information: www.cameradicommercio.ro
* Camera di Commercio Italia Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan/Italy)
Ultime notizie disponibili sul sito istituzionale:
Missione in Uzbekistan novembre 2009
Forum dedicato alla speciale zona economico- industriale di Navoi
> For further information: www.ciuz.info
* Central Asian News Service (Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia)
Daily news report of 19 November
> For further information: www.ca-news.org
* Civil Georgia (Georgia)
Daily News Online of 18 November 2009
> For further information: www.civil.ge
* Le Courrier des Balkans (France and Balkans)
Le Bulletin du Courrier des Balkans N°670
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILE
> For further information : http://balkans.courriers.info
* Ebrd (England, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)
Procurement notices - Opportunities for suppliers, contractors and consultants worldwide:
Chernobyl NPP - Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant Completion, Ukraine
> For further information: www.ebrd.com
* Ec Delegation BiH (Bosnia/Belgium)
INTERIM COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - SASTANAK PRIVREMENOG ODBORA EVROPSKE KOMISIJE I BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
> For further information: www.europa.ba
* Eurasianet (Usa and Central Asia)
Weekly newsletter of 19 November 2009:
Central Asia
Central Asia Remains a Corruption Problem Area, While the Caucasus Registers Mixed Gains BY JOSHUA KUCERA
Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan all showed significant decreases in corruption over the past year, according to a recently published worldwide survey by a Berlin-based watchdog group. The survey also showed that Armenia ’s rating declined, and the rest of the Central Asian states remained near the bottom of the rankings.
Caucasus
Georgia: Unions Press for Labor Law Reform BY PAUL RIMPLE
Caucasus
Azerbaijan: Baku Sees Turkey as Tough Customer on Gas Exports BY SHAHIN ABBASOV
Near East
Turkey: Government Launches PR Offensive on Kurdish Question BY NICHOLAS BIRCH
Caucasus
Azerbaijan: Outrage and Disappointment Follow Bloggers’ Conviction BY JESSICA POWLEY HAYDEN
Central Asia
Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev Dodges President-for-Life Question Ahead of Astana’s OSCE Chairmanship BY JOANNA LILLIS
Caucasus
Yerevan Goes Modern: $35 Million Museum to Promote Contemporary Art in the Caucasus A EURASIANET PHOTO STORY BY MARIANNA GRIGORYAN AND ANAHIT HAYRAPETYAN
Central Asia
Kazakhstan: Astana Hires DC Lobbyists to Work on Softening Aid Requirements BY JOSHUA KUCERA
> For further information: www.eurasianet.org
* Interfax (Russia and Cis)
Interfax Russia & CIS Diplomatic Panorama, November 19
> For further information: www.interfax.com
* Istituto Culturale Ceco (Italy/Czech Republic)
In allegato l´invito all’inaugurazione del presepe “L´ADORAZIONE DEI PASTORI” di Jiří Netík che si terrà domenica, 29 novembre 2009 alle ore 16.00 nel Pantheon -Basilica di Sancta Maria ad Martyres (Piazza della Rotonda – Roma).
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILE
> For further information: www.czechcentres.cz/rome
* Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bucarest (Romania/Italy)
Invito mostra Somaschi.
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILE
> For further information: iicbucarest@esteri.it
* Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lubiana (Czech Republic/Italy)
In allegato l’invito per l’incontro con Claudio Magris e Drago Jančar che si terra’ il 26 novembre alle ore 20.00 presso la sala Klub del Cankarjev dom di Lubiana. - V prilogi pošiljamo vabilo na srečanje s Claudiom Magrisom in Dragom Jančarjem, ki se bo odvijalo 26. novembra ob 20. uri v Cankarjevem domu, Klub CD.
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILE
> For further information: www.iiclubiana.esteri.it
* Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Praga (Czech Republic/Italy)
Invito alle mostre/Pozvanka na vystavy
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILES
> For further information: iicpraga@esteri.it
* Latvian Centre for Human Rights (Latvia)
Newsletter of 19 November 2009
> For further information: www.humanrights.org.lv
* Lukoil (Russia and Cis)
PRESS-RELEASE:
OAO LUKOIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVES LUKOIL GROUP STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR 2010-2019
> For further information: www.lukoil.it
* Nato (Belgium)
Foreign Ministerial Meetings
Brussels, 3–4 December 2009
General
A meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of Foreign Ministers will be held at NATO Headquarters on Thursday, 3 December and Friday, 4 December 2009. Other meetings with Ministers of Foreign Affairs will include the NATO-Ukraine Commission, the NATO-Georgia Commission, the NATO-Russia Council, and a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with troop contributors in ISAF.
Programme and pools
The detailed programme will be given to media representatives when they collect their accreditation. It will entail restricted access by selected visual media to the opening of Council meetings and the official portrait, the unrestricted access to press conferences and the retransmission of media events to the press working area and TV/Radio editing booths. Information about individual ministerial media programmes should be sought directly from the national Delegation(s) concerned. A list of NATO Delegation press officers is available from the information desk and upon accreditation.
Press conferences are in principle media events open to all accredited media. The initial remarks of the various NATO meetings will be broadcast live on the internal closed-circuit television system and can be viewed in the press working area. Audiovisual media representatives who wish to cover the initial remarks from inside the Council room may make a written request for a pool card to the e-mail address given at the end of this advisory. No confirmation will be sent. Pool cards for restricted-access events will be given to a small number of cameramen and photographers drawn from among those who submit an accreditation request on time; these will be distributed at the Media Centre information counter starting at 7:30 a.m. on 3 December.
When a media representative accepts a NATO pool position it is with the strict understanding, in accordance with international practice, that the act of accepting the accreditation to be in a NATO pool implies explicit and unconditional agreement by that media representative that he/she will share immediately and upon request with other media accredited to the NATO event all information collected, and/or all material produced, while in that pool. It also implies explicit agreement that the media representative will share the material with no impediment from their own news organization, at no charge to other journalists and with no restriction on the use of the material for legitimate news purposes.
Media representatives can only accept the pool accreditation if they have the explicit backing of their employer to all of the conditions on providing pool material as the basis of accepting the pool position.
Photographers seeking pool photo materials should first contact the Wire service photo agency of which they are a member or client. Media representatives and the news organizations that employ them who accept any material from a pool accept it with the explicit and strict understanding that it must be identified as pool material any time it is used, that it can be used only for legitimate news purposes and that the receiving party has no right to sell pool material or otherwise profit from it.
The NATO photographers and cameramen will post the audiovisual sequences of all the media events on the NATO website; the sequences can also be obtained from the TV & Radio Unit (see the contact details below) and/or the NATO Internet Television Channel.
Accreditation and security checks
Journalists in possession of a valid NATO permanent media pass do not need to request accreditation.
Media representatives not in possession of a valid NATO permanent media pass who wish to cover the meeting must apply for accreditation. Applications for accreditation can only be made on-line via internet, by clicking on the following link: https://my.hq.nato.int/.
Applications for accreditation must be sent in no later than 12 noon on Tuesday, 1st December 2009. Requests received after that date are likely to be delayed and refused. Media representatives who have submitted the request for accreditation via the internet are encouraged to bring a print-out of the request confirmation. Late applications will not be taken into consideration for the pools.
The usual NATO accreditation procedures shall be applicable to this meeting. The accreditation process requires media representatives using the system for the first time to create a user name and password and to provide a digital picture (3.5 x 4.5 cm passport-type photograph in JPEG format). Media representatives who reside in Belgium are also invited to enter their Belgian press pass number and issuing authority (Belgian Interior Ministry or Ministry of Foreign Affairs) into the online interface of the accreditation request.
The accreditation platform is being modernized, so media representatives who already have an account in the old system but have not yet activated their account in the new system are asked to follow these steps. Click on the following link (https://my.hq.nato.int/). In the right-hand column of the Web page, click on “Forgot your password?” (1) and enter the e-mail address that was in your JAS accreditation profile (2) (an access code will be sent to that address). Next click on the “Forgot password” button (3) and check your e-mail. Then return to the home page (https://my.hq.nato.int/) and click on “Registered user”. You will be asked to enter your e-mail address and the access code that was sent to you. You can change this access code/password after logging in for the first time.
Please contact us if you have connection problems or any other questions (mailto:december-2009-mfa@hq.nato.int).
Media passes will not be mailed to applicants; they must be collected in person at the Media Accreditation Office upon presentation of an ID card or passport and a valid press pass (or accreditation letter from a recognized media organization). Media representatives will be given their accreditation at the main entrance of NATO Headquarters. Passes must be worn visibly at all times, and security personnel may ask to see another form of ID at any time. Media representatives are informed that security personnel will examine and may test equipment and personal effects carried onto the site and are advised to arrive with sufficient lead time to clear security checks.
Access to the Media Centre will be through the Press entrance (NB) only.
Media facilities
Eight TV editing booths and eight radio editing booths (each with an ISDN line, Internet access and a telephone) will be made available to representatives from those media. Contact the TV & Radio Unit (see contact details below) to reserve one of the booths, which will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Journalists, wire services and photo agencies using bulky equipment are urged to bring it to the Media Centre as of the Wednesday afternoon.
Opening hours
Accreditation Office Media Centre
Wednesday, 2 Dec. 2009 14h00 – 19h00 14h00 – 20h00
Thursday, 3 Dec. 2009 7h00 – 20h00 7h00 to close of business
Friday, 4 Dec. 2009 7h00 – 14h00 7h00 to close of business
Parking
Media representatives are informed that they will not be allowed to park their vehicles inside the NATO compound. They may, however, park in the east and west car parks outside the main entrance. Uplink vans may park in a special section of the east car park, or on car park H, upon request.
> For further information: www.nato.int
* Osservatorio sui Balcani e Caucaso (Italy, Balkans and Caucasus)
Test elettorale
All’importante test delle prime elezioni amministrative del post indipendenza, il PDK di Hashim Thaci si conferma prima forza politica in Kosovo. Come previsto la maggioranza dei serbi boicotta le urne. Venti municipalità avranno una nuova amministrazione solo dopo il ballottaggio
Puoi leggerlo in forma completa, visitando il seguente link
Battaglia presidenziale
E’ aspra la battaglia per le presidenziali del 22 novembre in una Romania fortemente scossa dalla crisi economica. I sondaggi rivelano un calo di interesse dell’opinione pubblica per le elezioni. Basescu resta il favorito ma tutto si deciderà al ballottaggio del 6 dicembre
Puoi leggerlo in forma completa, visitando il seguente link
> For further information: www.osservatoriobalcani.org
* Polish Jazz Network (Poland)
Tomasz Stanko, artistic director of Bielsko Biala Jazz Fall, invites you to attend 7th edition of the festival.
November 19th, 7:00 pm. At the Church of Maksymiliana Kolbe
Chick Corea piano & Gary Burton vibes
November 26, 6:00 pm. at Dom Muzyki BCK
* Arild Andersen Trio
Arild Andersen bass, live-electronics Paolo Vinaccia drums Tommy Smith tenor sax
* Andy Sheppard Quintet
Andy Sheppard – Saxophones John Parricelli – Guitar Eivind Aarset - Guitar, Electronics Arild Andersen - Double-Bass Kuljit Bhamra - Tabla and Percussion
November 27, 6:00 pm. at Dom Muzyki BCK
* Obra Special Quartet
Maciej Obara – sax Ralph Alessi – trumpet Mark Helias - Guitar, Electronics Arild Andersen – bass Nasheet Waits - drums
* TOMASZ STANKO QUINTET "DARK EYES"
Tomasz Stańko – trumpet Alexi Tuomarila – piano Jakob Bro – guitar Anders Christensen - bass guitar Olavi Louhivuori - drums
November 28, 6:00 pm. at Dom Muzyki BCK
Cecil Taylor solo
Cecil Taylor - piano
> For further information: www.polishjazz.com
* Presidency of Russian Federation (Russia and Cis)
Daily news report of 19 November 2009
> For further information: http://president.kremlin.ru/eng
* Rai - trasmissione EstOvest (Italy)
La recessione in Polonia è passata quasi in sordina. L’economia di questo paese di quasi 40 milioni di abitanti ha permesso di contenere la crisi globale mantenendo, unico Paese in Europa, un pil, seppure in calo, di segno positivo. Estovest, la rubrica della Tgr, realizzata dalla sede Rai per il Friuli Venezia Giulia, in onda sabato alle 11.15 su Raitre apre la puntata con un servizio di Gian Paolo Girelli e Renato Orso sulla situazione economica e finanziaria della Polonia.
Il ponte ricostruito dovrebbe essere il simbolo della riconciliazione tra le due comunità di Mostar, quella cattolica che vive nella parte ovest della città e quella musulmana che vive nella parte est. Ma a 14 anni dalla fine della guerra, anche qui in Erzegovina, le divisioni restano profonde e il tempo della pacificazione sembra lontano. Enzo Ragone ha raccolto le testimonianze del preside e dei giovani del liceo di Mostar, l’unica struttura pubblica multietnica della città, nonostante studenti musulmani e cattolici studino ancora in classi separate.
Estovest ha quindi compiuto un viaggio nel tempo alla scoperta di uno dei ritratti più belli del mondo, conservato al museo di Berlino inaugurato, nei giorni scorsi, in occasione dell’anniversario del crollo del muro. Nel servizio di Elisabetta Zaccolo la vera immagine di Nefertiti, una delle donne più belle dell’antichità, il cui volto è stato ricostruito da due studiosi, uno dei quali triestino. Chiude la puntata un’intervista di Dusan Jelincic allo scrittore e saggista triestino Claudio Magris, tornato da Francoforte con il prestigioso Premio per la pace degli editori, vinto a suo tempo da personaggi dalla statura di Hesse, Paz, Vargas Llosa e Pamuk. Magris, lo scrittore cui piace scrivere ancora nelle osterie e nei caffè a stretto contatto con la gente, parla del suo sogno di un’Europa veramente unita, delle identità di frontiera, dei suoi capolavori letterari, da "Danubio" a "Microcosmi" e "Alla cieca".
La rubrica Estovest è curata da Giovanni Marzini e Gian Paolo Girelli.
> For further information: www.estovest.rai.it
* Rai - trasmissione Levante (Italy)
Nuovo appuntamento con "Levante", la rubrica nazionale della TGR realizzata dalla redazione Rai di Bari a cura di Giancarlo Spadoni e Pino Bruno, in onda sabato 21 novembre alle 11.30 su Raitre. In questa puntata:
RI-CREAZIONE di Lorenza Brucoli
S-arte della RI-creazione. Poche parole per un grande progetto. Mettere insieme, con ago e filo, donne della comunità rom e cittadine baresi. Tutte unite dalla voglia di imparare l’arte del cucito, ma soprattutto curiose di approfondire la conoscenza reciproca, per abbattere steccati e stereotipi.
CITTADINI NOMADI di Sergio De Nicola
Shutka, a pochi chilometri da Skopie, è la più grande città rom d’Europa. Ci sono case, moschee, una scuola e un municipio. In tanti, dopo aver vissuto in Italia da nomadi, tornano qui per essere cittadini.
UN’ALTRA CIPRO di Umberto Braccili
Cosa sappiamo di Cipro? Che è un paese dell’Unione Europea, di ricca tradizione storica e culturale, dove si acquista in euro e dove l’economia è in ascesa. Sappiamo invece poco degli italiani che lì vivono e lavorano e dei ciprioti che studiano l’italiano. Adesso sappiamo anche che a Cipro la pizza napoletana non la sanno proprio fare.
IL SANTO DELLE DUE SPONDE di Fulvio Totaro
Due città separate dal mare ma unite da una comune devozione, quella per san Trifone. Adelfia, in provincia di Bari, e Cattaro, nella Repubblica del Montenegro. Le spoglie del santo non si erano mai mosse da Cattaro e per questo l’arrivo in Puglia è stato un grande evento, religioso e folcloristico.
"Levante" va in onda anche sul canale satellitare Rai Med, ogni giovedi’ alle 21.22 e alle 23.17. Rai Med e’ trasmesso in chiaro anche dalla piattaforma SKY, sul canale 804. L’intera puntata si può vedere sul sito Internet www.levante.rai.it
> For further information: www.levante.rai.it
* Sarke (Georgia)
News in brief of 18 November 2009
> For further information: www.sarke.com
SPECIAL FOCUS * Seenews (Bulgaria & Balkans)
Daily news report of Albania (19 November 2009)
Read and click ALBANIA on menu bar
Daily news report of Bosnia-Herzegovina (19 November 2009)
Read and click BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA on menu bar
Daily news report of Bulgaria (19 November 2009)
Read and click BULGARIA on menu bar
Daily news report of Croatia (19 November 2009)
Read and click CROATIA on menu bar
Daily news report of Macedonia (19 November 2009)
Read and click MACEDONIA on menu bar
Daily news report of Moldova (19 November 2009)
Read and click MOLDOVA on menu bar
Daily news report of Montenegro (19 November 2009)
Read and click MONTENEGRO on menu bar
Daily news report of Romania (19 November 2009)
Read and click ROMANIA on menu bar
Daily news report of Serbia (19 November 2009)
Read and click SERBIA on menu bar
Daily news report of Slovenia (19 November 2009)
Read and click SLOVENIA on menu bar
> For further information: www.seenews.com
TO CHECK * The Times of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia)
Free Newsletter - November 19, 2009 - In this issue:
1. POINT OF VIEW: Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan: Is the new name making a difference?
2. More information, less risks Credit bureau is a conduit of information between those seeking a loan and creditors
3. Kyrgyzstan and the United States intend to develop cooperation
4. LETTER FROM THE STEPPE: Statistics and tit-for-tat accusations
> For further information: www.timesca.com
* Vest (Slovenia)
Daily update of 19 November 2009
> For further information: www.vest.si