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* Albanianews (Albania, Italy and Kosovo)

 Forlì: Il Primo Marzo senza di noi

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:56 AM PST

Circa 300 persone hanno partecipato all’iniziativa, a carattere nazionale ed europeo, "1° Marzo - 24 ore senza di noi" che si è svolta nel pomeriggio a piazza Saffi.

 Il vero lavoro inizia da domani

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:32 AM PST

L’introduzione di Darien alla serata del Primo Marzo di Forlì in Sala Bruni, piena zeppa. Molti dei partecipanti hanno voluto testimoniare la loro esperienza ed esprimere la loro opinione sulle questioni relative ai migranti. Noi vi proponiamo quella di Darien.

> For further information: www.albanianews.it

* Ambasciata d’Italia in Ungheria (Hungary and Italy)

Pubblichiamo in allegato il notiziario economico per il periodo 15-28 febbraio 2010.

Si rammenta al riguardo che lo stesso potrá essere reperito anche sul sito di questa Ambasciata (www.ambbudapest.esteri.it), tra le News.

> For further information: commerciale.ambbudapest@esteri.it

* Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (Bosnia and Balkans)

 Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Balkan Insight Daily No. 479, March 05, 2010

 Justice Report n. 208

> For further information: www.birn.eu.com

* Balkans.com (Balkans)

Weekly update of March 05, 2010

> For further information: www.balkans.com

* Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Romania (Romania and Italy)

Pubblichiamo in allegato la raccolta dei principali bandi di gara pubblicati in Romania nel periodo 20 febbraio 2010 - 05 marzo 2010.

> For further information: www.cameradicommercio.ro

* Central Asian News Service (Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia)

Daily news report of March 05, 2010

> For further information: www.ca-news.org

* Civil Georgia (Georgia)

Daily news online of March 04, 2010

> For further information: www.civil.ge

* Council of the European Union (Belgium)

 Statement to the press by Herman VAN ROMPUY, President of the European Council, after his meeting with Mirko CVETKOVIC, Prime Minister of Serbia (original version)

 Statement to the press by Herman VAN ROMPUY, President of the European Council, after his meeting with Ivo JOSIPOVIĆ, President of Croatia (original version)

> For further information: www.consilium.europa.eu

* Ebrd (England, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)

 Project summary documents - New PSD/s available on ebrd.com:

Promsvyazbank Syndicated Loan II, Russia

 Procurement notices - Opportunities for suppliers, contractors and consultants worldwide:

Size Reduction and Decontamination Workshop (SRDW), Bulgaria

Yerevan Metro Rehabilitation – Lot 2: 60 No. New Tenon-Type, Armenia

Yerevan Metro Rehabilitation-Lot 1-New Maintenance Diesel, Armenia Updated

 Feature stories:

South-eastern Europe and the financial crisis

> For further information: www.ebrd.com

* Interfax (Russia and Cis)

 Interfax Russia & CIS Diplomatic Panorama March 05, 2010

 Russia & CIS Banking and Finance Weekly March 05, 2010

 Russia & CIS Business and Investment Weekly March 05, 2010

> For further information: www.interfax.com

* Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Budapest (Hungary and Italy)

 "L’Autunno delle nazioni” Varsavia Budapest Berlino Praga Sofia Bucarest 1989 – 2009 / presentazione del volume a Budapest

Sarà l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Budapest, martedì 9 marzo 2010, alle ore 18.00 ad ospitare la presentazione del volume “l’Autunno delle nazioni” Varsavia Budapest Berlino Praga Sofia Bucarest 1989 – 2009. Il volume, edito nel 2009 da Damiani Editore & Alessandro Turci Editore, è corredato dalle fotografie di Fabio Fantuzzi, Jurek Kralkowski, Roberta Mazzoleni, Federica Miglio, Domenico Ponziano, Elisa Venturelli, e contine la prefazione del Ministro degli Affari Esteri, Franco Frattini.

All’evento interverranno Salvatore Ettorre, Direttore dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Budapest e Alessandro Turci, dell’onomina casa editrice.

> For further information: ufficiostampa.iicbudapest@esteri.it

* Latvian Centre for Human Rights (Latvia)

Newsletter of March 05, 2010

> For further information: www.humanrights.org.lv

* Memorial (Russia and Cis)

 Dagestan: relatives of the arrested report on tortures

Ms Khasibat Borsieva, now living in Makhachkala, applied to the Human Rights Center Memorial stating that on February 21, 2010, her brother Shamsulla Borsiev was illegally arrested by security forces. He was tortured and beaten up. It has cleared that Shamsulla was arrested on suspicion of Adilgerey Magomedtagirov killing, Dagestan Minister of Internal Affairs.

On February 22, 2010 Borziev was conveyed to the Sovetsky District Court. At the court he felt sick. His father called for an ambulance but the policemen didn’t allow doctors help Shamsulla. The lawyer hired by Borziev’s family also was present but he was refused to meet the defendant after the session under the pretext that Shamsulla had preferred defender on duty to professional lawyer. After the session Shamsulla was taken away in the unknown direction.

The relatives managed to find that he was taken to Vladikavkaz. Neither relatives nor lawyers were allowed to meet him. The applications to the Public Prosecutors office of Vladikavkaz and to the investigating authorities of Makhachkala didn’t help.

On March 1, there happened a meeting organized by Borziev’s relatives at Lenin square of Makhachkala. According to Khasibat about three thousand people participated in it. The President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov received the delegates. He promised to help the lawyers to meet the defendant.

Om March 2, people gathered again at the square because nobody was allowed to meet Borziev. This time the meeting was dispersed by OMON.

Borziev’s relatives suppose that the investigation should clear up whether Shamsulla is privy to the Magomedtagirov’s murder or not but they demand all the legal procedures of Russian legislation to be observed.

> For further information: www.memo.ru

* Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia (Serbia)

Daily survey of March 04, 2010 (in Serbian and English).

> For further information: www.mfa.gov.rs

* Osce (Austria, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)

 Closer co-ordination between OSCE, Council of Europe would benefit all states, says OSCE Chairperson

GENEVA, 4 March 2010 - The OSCE and the Council of Europe work together well, but an even closer co-operation would be beneficial, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, State Secretary and Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Kanat Saudabayev, following a high-level meeting with the Council of Europe Chairmanship and Secretariat in Geneva today.

OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut also took part in the meeting, while the Council of Europe was represented by Swiss Chair of the Committee of Ministers, Federal Councillor Micheline Calmy-Rey, and Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland. They discussed the priorities of the two Chairmanships for the year, as well as co-operation between the OSCE and the Council of Europe, in particular with respect to field activities in Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.

"The OSCE and the Council of Europe promote co-operation in priority areas such as fighting terrorism, combating human trafficking, promoting tolerance and non-discrimination and respect for the rights of national minorities - based on the shared values of human rights, democracy and the rule of law," Saudabayev said.

"It is important that we co-ordinate our work, particularly in our field operations, to avoid unnecessary overlap and ensure that our activities are complementary, effective and beneficial to our states."

Saudabayev reiterated the strong support of the Kazakh Chairmanship for the Corfu process - the OSCE-anchored dialogue that aims to restore confidence and take forward discussions on wider European security.

Saudabayev said the Corfu process would be instrumental in preparing the groundwork for an OSCE summit this year, and he invited the Council of Europe to contribute to the agenda of such a summit.

Other fields of co-operation between the two organizations include election observation, legislation reform, Roma and Sinti issues, human rights, democratization and local government. The Council of Europe’s 47 member states are all OSCE participating States.

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> For further information: www.osce.org

* Osservatorio sui Balcani e Caucaso (Italy, Balkans and Caucasus)

 L’impeachment è una cosa seria

L’opposizione presenta nel parlamento sloveno una mozione di impeachment nei confronti del Presidente Danilo Türk, respinta poi con un’ampia maggioranza. Contestata un’alta onorificenza conferita a Tomaž Ertl, ultimo ministro degli Interni della Slovenia socialista.

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 Newsletter n. 9 del 2010 dell’Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso

> For further information: www.osservatoriobalcani.org

* Parlamento Europeo (Belgium and France)

 Diritti dei cittadini

I fondi per l’emancipazione dei Rom devono essere utilizzati meglio

Il tema dell’inclusione dei rom sarà discusso martedì con il Consiglio e la Commissione, in vista del secondo Vertice europeo sui rom organizzato dalla Presidenza spagnola (Cordoba, 8 aprile). I deputati adotteranno una risoluzione nel corso della prossima sessione.

L’interrogazione orale, presentata dal gruppo S&D, rileva che il finanziamento europeo sembra avere un "impatto limitato" sulla situazione socio-economica del popolo rom. Chiede quindi alla Commissione come intenda stimolare le autorità locali per un migliore utilizzo di tali fondi. Il testo sottolinea anche che "i rom subiscono discriminazioni esplicite ed implicite", e invita la Commissione ad affrontare entrambe le discriminazioni visibili (episodi di violenza razzista, discorsi di incitamento all’odio) e quelle invisibili (disparità di accesso ai servizi e alle norme sociali).

Dibattito: martedì 9 marzo - Votazione: giovedì 25 marzo - Procedura: interrogazione orale con risoluzione

> For further information: www.europarl.europa.eu

* Polish Institute of International Affairs (Poland)

 Please find enclosed next issue of the Bulletin: “New Chapter in US–China Relations” by Artur Gradziuk.

The development of relations with China is among Barack Obama’s major foreign policy goals. Its pursuit was to be eased by setting aside sensitive issues, but early this year contentious issues resurfaced, including internet censorship and freedom of expression in China, US arms sales to Taiwan, meetings by American politicians with the Dalai Lama, and also differences on the Iranian nuclear programme and on exchange rate policy. This change in US policy towards China will not only adversely affect bilateral relations, but also render more difficult the two countries’ cooperation in global affairs.

> For further information: www.pism.pl

* The Presidency of Russian Federation (Russia and Cis)

Weekly news report of March 05, 2010

> For further information: http://president.kremlin.ru/eng

* Seenews (Bulgaria and Balkans)

 Daily news report of Albania (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Bosnia-Herzegovina (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Bulgaria (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Croatia (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Macedonia (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Moldova (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Montenegro (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Romania (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Serbia (March 05, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Slovenia (March 05, 2010)

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> For further information: www.seenews.com

* Transitions Online (Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)

New at Transitions Online - March 05, 2010:

 Top Stories:

1: Film: Love in the Time of Post-Communism

2: Russian Unorthodox: This Watchdog Bites Occasionally

3: The New EU: Bewitched

4: Society: The View from Tbilisi: Statue of Limitations

5: Economy & Business: A Semi-Soviet Union is Born

6: Conflict & Diplomacy: The Birds and the Bees and the Bonus

 From the Archive:

Five years ago: Islam and Karimov

Ten years ago: Interview with Martin Mejstrik

 Announcement:

NEW books now on the TOL Store ... http://store.tol.org

 The Krajina Chronicle

 Comparative Media Systems

 Shadows on the Mountain

 Stalinism Revisited

> For further information: www.tol.cz

* Uzreport (Uzbekistan and Central Asia)

Daily report of March 05, 2010

> For further information: www.uzreport.com