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* Ambasciata del Kazakhstan in Italia (Italy/Kazakhstan)
- Politics
Italy-Kazakhstan: Napolitano calls for global effort against terrorism
Rome, 5 Nov. (AKI) - Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday called for international co-operation to resolve ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and reduce the threat of international terrorism. Napolitano was speaking while he met the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, at the Quirinale palace in Rome.
Napolitano spoke of " the need to find an exit strategy from the critical situation in Afghanistan, while also taking account of the situation in nearby Pakistan".
"We must foil the threat of terrorism and create conditions for economic and social growth based on the basis of well-being and institutional stability in Afghanistan, reinforcing the structure of security," he said
Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in central Asia and has more than 16 million people.
Islam is the largest religion in the country followed by the Russian Orthodox Christian faith and Nazarbayev has worked to promote interreligious dialogue in his country.
Kazakhstan has vast oil and mineral resources and bilateral trade between Italy and Kazakhstan is worth 13 billion dollars a year.
GE Oil & Gas, an Italian subsidiary of General Electric based in Florence, on Thursday signed a bilateral accord with Kazakhstan’s sovereign fund wealth fund for a joint venture to develop gas resources and delivery via Kazakstan and Azerbaijan.
During Nazarbayev’s visit, he was to endorse five bilateral accords with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi while another 13 commercial agreements were expected to go ahead.
- Politics
Italy-Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev and Berlusconi to endorse new accords
Rome, 3 Nov.(AKI) - Bilateral cooperation, trade and investment will be the main focus when the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, meets Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on a two-day state visit which begins on Wednesday. Nazarbayev will also meet Pope Benedict XVI for the first time.
"The purpose of my visit to Italy is to build on positive trends in Kazakh-Italian relations, expand and deepen trade and economic and investment cooperation, and also give a boost to political interaction, taking into account the leading role of Italy in the European Union," Nazarbayev said in a statement on the eve of his visit.
"The prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, and I plan to discuss actual problems of world politics, issues of bilateral cooperation in trade and economic and investment spheres."
The two leaders plan to endorse five bilateral accords during Nazarbayev’s visit, while Italian companies will sign 13 commercial accords with their Kazakh counterparts.
There are currently 130 Italian companies who do business in Kazakhstan and bilateral trade is worth 13 billion dollars a year. Energy giant, ENI, and defence and transport contractor, Finmeccanica, are among the companies expected to benefit from new trade agreements to be endorsed this week.
"A treaty on strategic partnership and a number of intergovernmental agreements on cooperation in the fight against organised crime, military issues among others, are supposed to be signed," Nazarbayev said.
"I am convinced my visit will open wide prospects of cooperation in various areas for us and, in general, will take our relations to a qualitatively new level."
Nazarbayev will also meet the pope for the first time in an historic meeting designed to strengthen interreligious dialogue. Nazarbayev is a practising Muslim.
Kazakhstan has more than 16 million people and Islam is the largest religion in the country followed by the Russian Orthodox Christian faith.
- Religion
Vatican: Pope meets Kazakh leader
Vatican City, 6 Nov. (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI met the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, at the Vatican on Friday. A Vatican statement said Nazarbayev and the pope discussed issues including the peaceful coexistence of different religions, and the economic crisis.
"During the course of the cordial discussions, attention turned to....the economic crisis in the light of the (papal) Encyclical ’Caritas in Veritate’, to inter-religious dialogue and to the promotion of peace, on the eve of Kazakhstan’s presidency of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe," the Vatican said.
The OSCE is the world’s largest regional security organisation whose 56 participating states span a geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok. Kazakhstan will assume the OSCE presidency in 2010.
After meeting the pontiff, Nazarbayev, a practising Muslim, met the Vatican’s secretary of state Tarcisio Bertone and Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for relations with states.
The Vatican stressed the good relations between the majority-Muslim country and the church.
Nazerbayev is on a state visit to Italy and has met Italian president Giorgio Napolitano and prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Islam is the largest religion in the country followed by the Russian Orthodox Christian faith and Nazarbayev has worked to promote interreligious dialogue in his country.
> For further information: www.embkaz.it
* Ambasciata di Polonia in Italia (Italy/Poland)
‘89 o Ottantanove?
Perché non possiamo (ancora) scriverne il libro
Perché è troppo presto per scrivere una narrativa coerente. Perché sono passati solo vent’anni. Perché gli archivi sono chiusi. Perché manca una rete intellettuale internazionale capace di superare il divario dei punti di vista e delle memorie. Perché l’89 non è mai accaduto. Perché la partita si è giocata prima dell’89. Perché la vera cesura è avvenuta dopo l’89. Perché l’89 non si è ancora pienamente compiuto. Perché l’interesse va a ciò che siamo vent’anni dopo. Perché ogni libro rimanda a un altro libro. Perché non c’è accordo sull’89, per alcuni una catastrofe geopolitica densa di effetti solo negativi, per altri solo positivi. Perché gli anniversari piacciono ai politici e agli editori, ma non c’entrano nulla con l’avanzamento delle conoscenze. Perché l’essenziale è già stato detto, manca solo qualche dettaglio... Perché?
Invitati alla discussione (confermati *):
*Federigo Argentieri, AISSECO-Associazione Italiana Studi di Storia dell’Europa Centrale e Orientale
*Vittorio Borelli, “East. Europe and Asia Strategies”
*Bianca Maria Bruno, “Lettera Internazionale. Rivista trimestrale europea”
*Lucio Caracciolo, “Limes. Rivista italiana di geopolitica”
*Fernando Orlandi, CSSEO-Centro studi sulla Storia dell’Europa orientale
* Francesca Vanoni, “Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso – il portale”
Moderatore:
*Paolo Morawski, “pl.it – rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi”
I libri recenti in italiano sull’Ottantanove sono molto ineguali. A titolo di esempio ricordiamo: 1989. La fine del Novecento, di Enzo Bettiza (Mondadori) – Giù la cortina. Il 1989 e il crollo del comunismo sovietico di Gyorgy Dalos (Donzelli) – L’anno che cambiò il mondo. La storia non detta della caduta del Muro di Berlino di Michail Meyer (Il Saggiatore) – 1989. Del come la storia è cambiata, ma in peggio di Angelo d’Orsi (Ponte alle Grazie) – 1989 un anno da ricordare di AA.VV. (Contrasto Due) – Il muro di Berlino. 13 agosto 1961-9 novembre 1989 di Frederick Taylor (Mondatori) – La caduta del muro di Jean-Marc Gonin e Olivier Guez (Bompiani) – Lipsia 1989. Nonviolenti contro il muro di Paola Rosa (Il Margine). Sul versante letterario: 1989 dieci storie per attraversare i muri a cura di Michail Reynolds e con le matite di Henning Wagenbreth (Orecchio acerbo). Sul prima e sul dopo Ottantanove: Storia della guerra fredda. L’ultimo conflitto per l’Europa di Federico Romero (Einaudi) e C’era una volta il Muro. Viaggio nell’Europa ex-comunista di Matteo Tacconi (Castelvecchi). Grazie in anticipo a chi segnalerà altri titoli e/o li porterà al nostro incontro.
Pochi tutto sommato i libri e poco visibili le riviste accademiche. Di contro svariate le rassegne cinematografiche e le mostre fotografiche. Inoltre molti, talvolta molto interessanti, i convegni e le tavole rotonde sul Muro di ieri e sui muri di oggi, sulla vecchia cortina di ferro e sulle nuove cortine, sul 1989 e sull’Ottantanove, sull’Est e il Centro-Est, sull’ex Urss e sull’ex impero sovietico, sui venti della libertà, sui vent’anni dopo, sulle attese e i disinganni eccetera. Convegni e colloqui per lo più promossi dalle università, dai centri di studio e dalle Fondazioni culturali della penisola, che hanno attirato ricche presenze internazionali. Sarebbe interessante tracciare – a futura memoria, come segno dei tempi – l’elenco dei luoghi dove si sono svolti questi diversi colloqui, dei temi trattati e dei partecipanti nazionali e internazionali che vi hanno preso parte. Solo in rari casi, infatti, potremo consultarne un giorno gli Atti.
Anche la stampa periodica e quotidiana ha contribuito alla commemorazione preparando dossier speciali che hanno divulgato contenuti non sempre banali e superficiali. Segnaliamo, tra gli altri: il “Corriere della Sera” con Storie. 1989-2009. Oltre il Muro; “Epoca” con Berlino 1961-1989. C’era una volta il Muro. Le grandi fotografie che hanno emozionato il mondo; “La Repubblica” con Atlante. 1989. L’anno del Muro; “Il Sole 24 Ore” con Il Muro che cambiò la storia; “Diario” con un’ampia sezione intitolata Vent’anni nel numero dedicato alla Libertà.
Le televisioni e le radio europee hanno prodotto numerosi programmi di approfondimento (documentari, reportage, interviste, dibattiti in studio), di livello – pare di capire – nel complesso assai elevato. Programmi che hanno richiesto alle volte un notevole impegno realizzativo, alternando materiali d’archivio e “memoria orale” raccolta incontrando oggi i protagonisti di allora. Programmi che hanno avuto un’adeguata collocazione in palinsesto, talvolta sgranandosi nell’arco di una settimana, di un mese o anche più. Programmi radiofonici e televisivi, infine, che hanno spesso trovato ricca sponda sui propri siti e su quelli dedicati all’evento.
Abbiamo lasciato per ultime, last but not least, le riviste cartacee e online che saranno le protagoniste della nostra discussione: “Aspenia” (n. 46: Il fine della storia: 89-09), “East” (n. 24: 1989 fine dell’Altro Mondo), “Lettera Internazionale“ (n. 101: Dopo il Muro), “Limes” (n. 5/2009: A est di Berlino), “Osservatorio sui Balcani” (dossier: Il lungo ‘89), “pl.it” (2009: 1989-2009. La nostra Polonia).
A che punto siamo dopo questo ventennale? Ne sappiamo di più sull’Ottantanove? In particolare su quali aspetti?Cosa ha rivelato questo ventennale sullo stato mentale e culturale del continente?L’intreccio delle commemorazioni ha contribuito a europeizzare le coscienze? Anche grazie a questo ventennale le memorie sono meno divise? Cosa vorremmo (ancora) capire sull’Ottantanove?
L’incontro si svolgerà a Roma, mercoledì 25 novembre 2009, presso la libreria LITHOS in via Vigevano 2 (c/o Viale Ippocrate), in collaborazione con l’Ambasciata della Repubblica di Polonia a Roma.
Uno spazio pieno di libri, dove il dibattito comincerà alle 18:30 in punto.
Con l’occasione verrà allestita una esposizione di libri e riviste dedicata all’Ottantanove.
Seguirà rinfresco.
Per ulteriori informazioni, è possibile contattare la Lithos Editori Librai: www.lithoslibri.eu; info@lithoslibri.eu; 06.97994012 oppure 3407766270.
> For further information: www.ambasciatapolonia.it
* Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (Bosnia and Balkans)
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Balkan Insight Daily No. 401, November 12 2009
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Balkan Insight Daily No. 402, November 13 2009
Balkan Insight n. 213
Justice Report n. 192
> For further information: www.birn.eu.com
* Camera di Commercio Italian per l’Ungheria (Hungary/Italy)
Nuova Circolare 203, Circolare dello Sportello Fiere e Sportello Europa.
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILES
> For further information: www.cciu.com
* Central Asian News Service (Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia)
Daily news report of 12 November 2009
Daily news report of 13 November 2009
> For further information: www.ca-news.org
* Central European Initiative (Italy and Central Europe)
Please find attached here-to the issue number 73 of the CEINewsletter, September 2009.
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILE
> For further information: www.cei-es.org
* Civil Georgia (Georgia)
Daily news online of 12 november 2009
> For further information: www.civil.ge
* Council of the European Union (Belgium)
Declaration on Georgia:
Read (original version)
> For further information: www.consilium.europa.eu
* Le Courrier des Blakans (France and Balkans)
Le Bulletin du Courrier des Balkans N°668
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILE
> For further information : http://balkans.courriers.info
* Crrc (Caucasus)
Research Connections — E-Bulletin * Issue 30, November 2009
- CRRC Library Builds Capacity
The CRRC-Georgia office librarian, Nana Berikashvili attended the Fall Associate Program at the Mortenson Center in the United States over this fall. The center offers professional development courses to librarians and information science professionals from outside the US. The program gathered 14 associates from nine countries. As Nana says: “while gaining wide experience and broad knowledge of the theory and practice of librarianship in the US, librarians also have a great opportunity to exchange information about practices of different countries, which makes the program really unique”. Participants were offered seminars on fundraisings and development, library services, preservation and conservation, library marketing and services to the disabled; through the practical sessions, librarians learned how to use the latest technologies; they visited various libraries including Chicago Public and Brookens Libraries. We congratulate Nana on this success! This further enhances the capacity of the CRRC library to work to international standards.
- Berkeley Hosts Scholars from the Caucasus
Three scholars from the South Caucasus have been chosen as winners of the Carnegie scholarship administered by ISEEES and CRRC. Satenik Mkrtichyan, Ruben Mirakyan and Korneli Kakachia have been chosen to participate in a two–weeks workshop at University of California, Berkeley this November. Follow up on our website for the next round of the scholarship!
- Selected Upcoming Events
Presentation: IMF Regional Economic Outlook for the Caucasus and Central Asia, Yerevan, Armenia, November 10 — Nienke Oomes (ENG, ARM).
Workshop: Youth Transitions and Their Family-household Contexts in the South Caucasus, Yerevan, Armenia, November 20 – Yerevan State University (ARM).
Presentation: Research Findings on Media in Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia, date TBD — Arpine Porsughyan (ENG).
- CRRC Publication Research Fellowship 2009 Available
Are you curious about a social science issue? Do you have some ideas or hypotheses that you want to explore further? CRRC Publication Research Fellowship 2009 could be the perfect opportunity for you!
CRRC is looking for social science research that addresses pressing issues in Armenia and Azerbaijan. Applicants with innovative ideas and projects are welcome to apply. Your research should aim to make a real impact by improving people’s lives. Moreover, fellows will be encouraged to use some of CRRC’s extensive data from the Data Initiative and other surveys.
Through our publication fellowship, fellows will produce international quality research and aim to publish their work in a peer-reviewed journal. CRRC expects that fellows’ works contain prescriptive richness. Fellows are also expected to present their findings to relevant interested groups (international organizations, NGOs, government agencies) in their home countries. Note: this fellowship is for those scholars from Armenia and Azerbaijan that are currently residing in their respective countries.
Write us a short e-mail now (latest by November 15, 2009) at nana+fellow@crrccenters.org to find out more, telling us about your field of interest, and, if you have it, your provisional research topic.
To subscribe, send an email to ebulletin@crrccenters.org
> For further information: Armenia www.crrc.am - Azerbaijan www.crrc.az - Georgia www.crrc.ge
* demosEuropa (Poland)
- Turkey in Europe: Breaking the Vicious Circle
30 November 2009 The Hall of Mirrors (Sala Lustrzana) at Staszic’s Palace, Nowy Świat 72, Warsaw
demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy and the Independent Commission on Turkey invite you to a presentation by His Excellency Martti Ahtisaari entitled "Turkey in Europe: Breaking the Vicious Circle". The presentation will be based on the latest report of the Commission, of which Mr. Ahtisaari is chairman. Mr. Ahtisaari, is the former President of Finland (1994-2000), the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former United Nations diplomat noted for his international peace work. The Commission is made up of former heads of state and government, foreign ministers, European commissioners, and other prominent Europeans. The Commission has been established to examine the challenges and opportunities presented by Turkey’s possible membership in the European Union. The British Council is supporting the Independent Commission in partnership with the Open Society Foundation-Turkey.
Turkey in Europe: Breaking the Vicious Circle, is the second report of the Commission. It analyses key developments in EU-Turkey relations since the start of accession negotiations and puts forward concrete proposals on how to revive them. The report argues that the negotiations have become stuck in a vicious circle where negative comments by European political leaders have contributed to a growing public apprehension about Turkey’s membership in many EU countries, which in turn has deepened resentment towards Europe in Turkey and slowed its EU-oriented reform process. The report calls for a reversal of this vicious circle in the interest of both Turkey and the EU. European governments must honour their commitments and treat Turkey with fairness and the respect it deserves. On its side, Turkey has to re-engage in a dynamic, broad-based reform process, thus confirming that it is willing and serious in its ambition to join the EU.
REGISTRATION
to register click above or visit: www.demoseuropa.eu
Programme
15.30 - 16.00 Registration
16.00 - 16.05 Welcome and opening remarks
Paweł Świeboda President, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy
16.05-16.45 Turkey in Europe: Breaking the Vicious Circle
Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the Independent Commission on Turkey, former President of Finland (1994-2000), 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Albert Rohan, Former Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs of Austria, rapporteur of the Independent Commission on Turkey
16.45 - 17.25 Questions and answers session
17.25 Concluding remarks
Paweł Świeboda, President, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy
Prsentation language: English
Copies of the report by the Independent Commission on Turkey will be available for all participants.
Participation in the event is free of charge.
The event is organized in cooperation with the Open Society Foundation.
- European perspective of the Balkan countries - the case of the Republic of Macedonia
28 November 2009 Headquarters of OSW (Conference room - ground floor) Koszykowa 6a, Warsaw
demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy and the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia have the honour to invite you to the lecture by Mr. Antonio Milososki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia.
REGISTRATION
to register click above or visit: www.demoseuropa.eu
Programme
15:45 - 16:00 Registration
16:00 - 16:05 Welcome and Introduction
Adam Balcer, Senior Fellow & EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Project Leader, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy
16:05-16:35 European perspective of the Balkan countries - the case of the Republic of Macedonia
the lecture by Antonio Milososki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia
16:35 - 17:00 Questions & Answers
17:00 - 17:05 Concluding remarks
Adam Balcer, Senior Fellow & EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Project Leader, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy
The event will be held in English only
Participation in the event is free of charge.
> For further information: www.demoseuropa.eu
* Ebrd (England, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)
Project summary documents - New PSD/s available on ebrd.com:
Russia: Fesco II
Allianz Bank Bulgaria SME loan
> For further information: www.ebrd.com
* Interfax (Russia and Cis)
Interfax Russia & CIS Diplomatic Panorama, November 12
Interfax Russia & CIS Diplomatic Panorama, November 13
Russia & CIS Banking and Finance Weekly of November 13
Russia & CIS Business and Investment Weekly of November 13
> For further information: www.interfax.com
* Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Budapest (Hungary/Italy)
Il Trio vocale e strumentale Alfaterna in concerto a Budapest
Prosegue il MittelCinemaFest 2009 a Budapest con Giulia non esce la sera di Giuseppe Piccioni
Mancano 3 giorni alla fine del MittelCinemaFest 2009
> For further information: ufficiostampa.iicbudapest@esteri.it
* Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Mosca (Russia/Italy)
L’Istituto Italiano di Cultura invita alla Master class del regista della Civica Accademia d’Arte Drammatica "Nico Pepe" Claudio de Maglio su "Tecniche della Commedia dell’Arte" venerdi’, 13 novembre, alle ore 14.00 presso il Teatro "Na Strastnom" (Strastnoy blv., 8A)
Итальянский Институт Культуры приглашает на мастер-класс итальянского режиссера Муниципальной академии драматического искусства "Нико Пепе" Клаудио де Мальо на тему "Маска в комедии дель арте" в пятницу, 13 ноября, в 14.00, в Театральном Центре "На Страстном" (Страстной бульвар, 8А).
> For further information: www.iicmosca.esteri.it
* Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Zagabria (Croatia/Italy)
4.SMOTRA NOVOG TALIJANSKOG FILMA 17. - 22. STUDENI / IV MOSTRA DEL NUOVA CINEMA ITALIANO 17-22 NOVEMBRE
U prilogu Vam šaljemo obavijest za medije povodom 4.SMOTRE NOVOG TALIJANSKOG FILMA / in allegato Vi spediamo comunicato stampa sulla IV MOSTRA DEL NUOVA CINEMA ITALIANO
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> For further information: www.iiczagabria.esteri.it
* Istituto Polacco di Roma (Italy/Poland)
Dal 17 al 19 novembre tutte le sere alle 21.00 ADDIO, GIUDA di Ireneusz Iredynski
con Roberto Zenca, Stefania Casellato, Antonio Rocco, Andrea Davì, Mauro Racanati regia di Beppe Leone musica composta ed eseguita da Francesco Casellato traduzione di Francesco Groggia
Dal 17 novembre va in scena al Teatro Belli, "Addio, Giuda" di Ireneusz Iredynski, uno dei più geniali e "maledetti" autori polacchi degli anni ’70, sceneggiatore del primo film a soggetto di Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Per il suo modo di vivere, di scrivere, Iredynski fu spesso attaccato dalle autorità comuniste polacche. Condannato a 3 anni di prigione, Iredynski fu compagno di cella di Jacek Kuron. Dopo la sua liberazione, scrive “Addio, Giuda” (“Zegnaj, Judaszu”), un dramma sul tradimento e i valori che accompagnano le relazioni umane, che rimane forse la sua pièce più conosciuta.
TEATRO BELLI PIAZZA SANT’APOLLONIA, 11/A
ingresso a pagamento
info e prenotazioni: 06.5894875 – http://www.teatrobelli.it/
per informazioni:
Istituto Polacco di Roma / via Vittoria Colonna, 1 / Roma
tel. 06 36 00 07 23 / segreteria@istitutopolacco.it / www.istitutopolacco.it/
“Addio, Giuda” (“Zegnaj, Judaszu”, 1971) Un dramma in tre atti sul tradimento, l’onestà e le apparenze. Di ambientazione contemporanea, si svolge tutto all’interno di una palestra. Giuda, Giovanni e Pietro sono membri di un gruppo di cospiratori che lotta contro un regime poliziesco e oppressivo. Quando il capo della cospirazione viene smascherato e la sua identità viene rivelata, la città si riempie di manifesti con il volto del ricercato. Pietro si incarica di trovare il delatore all’interno del gruppo. Ma anche il Commissario, per motivi opposti, cerca un traditore: per arrestare il capo e sgominare i ribelli serve qualcuno che all’interno dell’organizzazione collabori con la polizia. Sia Pietro che il Commissario vedono in Giuda il loro uomo, dimostrando come ideologie differenti arrivano ad applicare gli stessi metodi. E così Giuda, che è coraggioso, leale e sensibile, tanto da prendersi a cuore la sorte di una ragazzina povera e sbandata, finisce per incarnare la tragica impossibilità del singolo di sottrarsi a un destino che altri hanno preparato per lui.
Ireneusz Iredynski (1939-1985) - Scrittore, sceneggiatore e poeta, uno dei più interessanti della sua generazione, di quella bohème di autori non allineati degli anni Sessanta e Settanta. "Strano. Divertente. Un po’ bandito, un po’ pazzo, grande bevitore. Ma un ragazzo pieno di talento” (Stefan Kisielewski "Abecadlo Kisiela"). Dopo un’infanzia difficile, Iredynski scappa di casa e diviene rapidamente un fenomeno letterario. Cambia di nome, dimentica le sue origini, comincia a scrivere romanzi, drammi e sceneggiature. Il suo primo romanzo “Il giorno del truffatore” ("Dzien oszusta”, 1962) fu un grande successo. Nel 1973 collabora con Krzysztof Kieslowski scrivendo la sceneggiatura del primo film a soggetto del regista, intitolato “Przejscie podziemne” (Sottopassagio). Per il suo modo di vivere, di scrivere, Iredynski fu spesso attaccato dalle autorità comuniste polacche. Condannato a 3 anni di prigione, Iredynski fu compagno di cella di Jacek Kuron. Dopo la sua liberazione, scrive “Addio, Giuda” (“Zegnaj, Judaszu”), un dramma sul tradimento e i valori che accompagnano le relazioni umane, che rimane forse la sua pièce più conosciuta.
> For further information: www.istitutopolacco.it
* Istituto Slovacco di Roma (Italy/Slovakia)
Tutti quelli che amano la Cinematografia slovacca, oppure vorrebbero conoscerla, proponiamo due occasioni, una a Roma e l altra a Napoli.
Roma 17 novembre 2009 / sono previsti incontri al Centro Sperimentale del Cinema e le proiezioni nella Sala Trevi.
Napoli 18 novembre 2009 /sono previsti incontri e una proiezione.
Non mancate l occasione per vedere alcuni capolavori. Tutte le proiezioni dei film sono gratuite.
Ad EXPLORA
“I LIBRI Più BELLI DELLA SLOVACCHIA” - le illustrazioni dei libri premiati a Bibiana - Casa Internazionale dell’Arte per i Bambini di Bratislava
Inaugurazione Venerdì 13 novembre 2009, h 18.00 nel BookShop di EXPLORA Museo dei Bambini di Roma accesso libero
In mostra fino a Martedì 8 dicembre 2009, h 10.00 – 19.00
Nella libreria di EXPLORA è proposta la mostra delle illustrazioni di libri per bambini della Repubblica Slovacca, Una straordinaria selezione di libri illustrati dai maggiori disegnatori slovacchi pluri premiati anche all’estero. I libri in visione provengono dal patrimonio specializzato della biblioteca di Bibiana, Casa Internazionale dell’Arte per Bambini. Le opere offrono un grande contributo allo sviluppo dell’arte dell’illustrazione per l’infanzia: da Jaroslav Vodrazka a Martina Rozinajova.
È prevista peraltro la proiezione di cartoni animati e degustazione tipicità
La mostra rimarrà aperta dal 13 novembre all´8 dicembre 2009 dalle 10,00 alle 19,00 - Ingresso libero
Ringrazio per l’attenzione
Daniela Vaturi Ufficio Stampa d.vaturi@mdbr.it
Explora, il Museo dei Bambini di Roma Museo dei Bambini Societa’ Cooperativa Sociale Onlus
Via Flaminia 80/86 00196 Roma
Tel. 063613776 Fax 0636086803
http://www.mdbr.it/
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> For further information: is@roma.mfa.sk
* Latvian Centre for Human Rights (Latvia)
Newsletter of 12 November 2009
Newsletter of 13 November 2009
* Memorial (Russia and Cis)
- The first interrogation of Orlov Set on November 13
The interrogation of Oleg Orlov in the slander case is set on November 13, Friday, 11:00 am.
For all the materials of civil and criminal cases (in Russian and in English) visit Memorial’s site: http://www.memo.ru/2009/09/10/sud.htm.
- New Abductions in Dagestan and Ingushetia
Human Rights Center Memorial continues its monitoring of human rights violations in the North Caucasus. At the beginning of November 2009, relatives of three abducted individuals applied to the offices of HRC Memorial. See below for information about the crimes.
On October 22, 2009, at 8:15 am in the city of Khasavyurt (Dagestan) Eldar Meteev, born 1984, left his house and got into a minibus. He got out near a market to pay for his cellular at the office of a mobile company. Then he had to go to work. But he never made it.
Witnesses say that in Toturbiyev street, not far from the market, burgundy "Zhiguli" reached Eldar. Two men in civilian clothing got out, put handcuffs on Eldar’s hands, pushed him into another car, and took off in an unknown direction.
Upon learning about the abduction, Eldar’s relatives applied to the Public Prosecutor’s office and police. As of now we don’t have any information about where Eldar is and what is happening to him.
On November 3, 2009, Yakhmat Meteeva, Eldar’s mother, applied to HRC Memorial.
On October 17, 2009, near the Meteevs’ house there was an explosion, and Eldar’s relatives think that this incident could have been the reason for the abduction. The young man living in the house may have been suspected of organizing the explosion.
On November 29, 2009, around 4:00 am, in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya (Ingushetia) officers of an unidentified power structure abducted local resident Maskhud Malkhoev, born 1982.
Officers of unknown power structures (syloviks) approached the Malkhoevs’ home in an APC, some minibuses and other cars. They burst into the house without introducing themselves nor showing any documents. They spoke Russian and were wearing camouflage and masks. Some of the militants &&&& the owner of the house, Khamutkhan Malkhoev, and his wife, others burst into the room where Maskhud and his younger brother were sleeping. They set upon beating the two brothers, then tied Ibragim up, took Maskhud out of the house and drove away in an unidentified direction.
Malkhoev’s relatives applied to a district police department and to the public prosecutor’s office, but without result. And republic law enforcement authorities still don’t know who abducted Maskhud.
On October 29, 2009, Maskhud’s father, Khamutkhan Malkhoev, applied to HRC Memorial, but Maskhud Makhloev’s relatives still don’t know his whereabouts.
The Malkhoevs have already applied to HRC Memorial, when Maskhud had previously been abducted. On October 26, 2006, officers of an unidentified power structure took him away right from his place of work. For three days relatives struggled to find Maskhud. They applied to the Republic’s Public prosecutor’s office, that of Sunzhensky district, and the Sunzhensky district police department, but they were unable to reach the management and receive any answers to their questions. On the fourth day after his abduction, relatives learned from unofficial sources that Maskhud was being held in the detention center of the Sunzhensky district police department.
Within the first 24 hours of his abduction Maskhud was beaten during an interrogation where they attempted to force a confession that on October 31, 2006, he had attacked the acting chief of the Sunzhensky district police department Isa Merzhoev in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya.
The investigation of Makhloev’s case dragged on for almost 5 months with advocate Amir Dudurgov representing him. According to the words of the advocate, the investigation didn’t have any proof of Maskhud’s guilt. The case was closed. Whereupon Makhloev was released at the beginning of May 2007.
The same day Maskhud was abducted, December 26, 2006, in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya officers of an unidentified power structure detained Maskhud’s cousin Magomet Makhloev, born 1983. He was taken to the Sunzhensky district police department and accused of three articles of Criminal Code – gangsterism, illegal purchase and keeping of arms and encroachment on the life of an officer of the law. Specifically, he was accused of preparing the attack on the acting chief of Sunzhensky district police department.
In the beginning of May 2007, the criminal case against Magomet Makhloev was taken to court. His interests were defended by Memorial’s advocate Batyr Akhilgov. On May 22, 2007, the Sunzhensky district court looked into the case against two Ingush residents – Magomet Makhloev and Vakha Barkinkhoev. When the criminal case was first opened, both men were accused of three articles of Criminal Code – 209, 222 and 317, but when the case moved on to court only one article remained, the "softest" onе – article 222 part 1. Makhloev was accused of illegally purchasing cartridges from a member of the Ingush Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vakha Barkinkhoev, and keeping them. At the court session both of the accused received suspended sentences for 6 months. Makhloev and Barkinkhoev were released in the courtroom.
On November 4, 2009, around 12:30 am, in the village of Plievo (Ingushetia) approximately 25 armed individuals in camouflage and masks burst into Boris Pliev’s house. Without showing any documents or introducing themselves, they seized Aliskhan Pliev, born 1979, ripped his cellular from his hands, put a sack over his head, and took him to the front yard. Aliskhan’s sister asked where her brother would be taken. They answered rudely: "It’s none of your business! We know where we are taking him to." Aliskhan’s relatives say that on the road not far from the house some cars were parked, all with tinted glasses and without license plates. In one of the cars Aliskhan was taken in the direction of Nazran. Relatives of the abducted man applied to all Republic law enforcement authorities, and on November 9, 2009, Boris Pliev applied to HRC Memorial in Nazran.
- Memorial Receives the Victor Gollancz Prize
Tomorrow, on November 14, 2009, in the city of Gottingen (Germany) Memorial will receive the Victor Gollancz prize for defending rights of threatened peoples.
The prize was instituted by the "Society for the defense of the rights of threatened peoples" (GfbV). Work with ethnic and religious minorities all over the world is in the spotlight of the organization. The society fights against racism, genocide, fascism. There are offices of the society in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Bosnia and Iraq.
At the opening ceremony the president of the society Tilman Zulch will present the prize to Oleg Orlov, the Chair of the Board of HRC Memorial. As Zulch previously stated Russian Memorial was awarded the prize for unprecedented courage of its members. Russian human rights activists risk their lives in such hostile environment, pointed out Zulch in the interview given to the agency ERD.
Also, this year the Victor Gollancz prize will be awarded to Brazil project defending the rights of Indians Conselho Indigenista Missionario.
In 2005 Russian human rights activist Sergey Kovalev received the Victor Gollancz prize.
Victor Gollancz was a British public figure, publicist, human rights activist. Since 1993 he was writing about Nazi crimes. In 1945 Gollancz stood up for Germans living in the occupied territories, demanded more humane treatment for them. He organized the collecting of products and clothing for German and Italian residents. Moreover, Gollanzc wrote a string of pamphlets against deportation of the Germans from the territories taken by other governments. Together with Bertrand Russell and Robert Jung, Gollancz started the movement for nuclear disarmament.
> For further information: www.memo.ru
* Ministero degli Esteri (Italy)
Vi segnaliamo che è stata pubblicata la nuova Newsletter di Diplomazia Economica Italiana.
Il numero è dedicato alla presentazione del rapporto ANCE 2008 e alla collaborazione dell’Associazione con questo Ministero e con la rete diplomatica all’estero.
La invitiamo a consultarla al seguente link:
< For further information: www.esteri.it
* Nato (Belgium)
- Secretary General to visit Slovenia
The Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, will travel to Slovenia on 12-13 November 2009. He will hold meetings with President Danilo Türk, Prime Minister Borut Pahor, Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar and Minister of Defence Dr. Ljubica Jelušič.
The Secretary General will also open the Strategic Concept Seminar 2 “NATO’s Engagement in an Era of Globalization” at the Brdo Congress Centre.
- HIGH-LEVEL NATO-UKRAINE CONSULTATIONS AT NATO HEADQUARTERS 16 NOVEMBER 2009
The Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, will chair the seventh Informal High-Level NATO-Ukraine Consultations with participation of Defence Ministers and other senior officials from Ukraine and NATO countries, to be held at NATO HQ in Brussels on Monday, 16 November 2009.
Participants will exchange views on the ongoing transformation of Ukraine’s national defence and security structures and practices against the background of the current challenging economic environment and Ukraine’s first Annual National Programme.
Previous meetings in this format were held in Berlin (2002), Washington D.C. (2003), Warsaw (2004), Vilnius (2005), Sintra (2006) and Tallinn (2008).
> For further information: www.nato.int
* Osce (Austria, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports conference on trial within reasonable time
SKOPJE, 13 November 2009 - An OSCE-supported conference for Supreme Court judges on the right to trial within a reasonable time started in Skopje today.
The two-day event is organized by the Academy for Training of Judges and Prosecutors in co-operation with the Supreme Court, and supported by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. The conference will serve an open forum for legal practitioners to discuss the ways of handling complaints on violations of this right stipulated in the Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
"Ensuring citizens’ right to a trial is not enough; they must also have the right to be tried within a reasonable time. The OSCE Mission welcomes the authorities’ effort to make sure that the domestic legal remedy for violation of the right to a trial within reasonable time is effective," said Ambassador Jose Luis Herrero, Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje.
Justice Minister Mihajlo Manevski added: "Long court procedures and non-respect of the right to trial within a reasonable time have a negative impact on the efficiency of the judiciary system and undermine its credibility. All legal remedies should be used to revert the situation."
For PDF attachments or links to sources of further information, please visit
> For further information: www.osce.org
* Osservatorio sui Balcani e Caucaso (Italy, Balkans and Caucasus)
- “Il lungo ’89”
In anteprima per i lettori del sito web pubblichiamo il documento introduttivo alla Conferenza internazionale annuale di Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso intitolata "Il lungo ’89", Trento 13 -14 novembre
Puoi leggerlo in forma completa, visitando il seguente link
- “Il fascino discreto dell’Europa”
Il lungo viaggio nelle transizioni dopo il 1989. Dal crollo del Muro di Berlino alle nuove guerre, la vittoria dei nazionalismi e la trasformazione del progetto europeo. Nostro commento
Puoi leggerlo in forma completa, visitando il seguente link
- “Trst je naš”
Il vertice italo-sloveno di lunedì scorso non ha portato grandi risultati. Sulla questione del rigassificatore non ci si è mossi di un millimetro. Vertice anticipato da polemiche sul corto "Trst je naš" di uno studente di cinema sloveno
Puoi leggerlo in forma completa, visitando il seguente link
Newsletter settimanale n. 45 del 2009
> For further information: www.osservatoriobalcani.org
* Parlamento Europeo (France)
L’UE sviluppi le relazioni con la Russia, se tutela i diritti umani
Favorevole allo sviluppo delle relazioni con la Russia, il Parlamento chiede che il nuovo accordo non tratti solo le questioni economiche ma comprenda anche i diritti umani. Occorre rafforzare la cooperazione sull’immigrazione illegale, sulla sicurezza energetica, sul cambiamento climatico e nel processo di pace in Medio oriente. Ribadendo il sostegno all’integrità della Georgia, plaude alla missione europea sul posto, e chiede il coinvolgimento dell’UE nei negoziati sullo scudo missilistico.
Approvando una risoluzione sostenuta da PPE, S&D, ALDE, Verdi/ALE e ECR, il Parlamento europeo, riafferma anzitutto che la Russia "resta uno dei partner più importanti dell’Unione europea" e si dice favorevole a sviluppare "con pragmatismo" le future relazioni con tale paese.
Tuttavia, i deputati chiedono che il nuovo accordo vada oltre la mera cooperazione economica per abbracciare anche gli ambiti della democrazia, dello Stato di diritto e del rispetto dei diritti umani e dei diritti fondamentali. Nel ricordare che il Premio Sacharov per la libertà di pensiero del Parlamento europeo è stato conferito all’organizzazione russa "Memorial", sottolineano l’importanza del costante scambio di opinioni con la Russia in materia di diritti umani. Si dicono infatti preoccupati per quanto concerne "l’indipendenza della magistratura, l’accresciuto controllo dello Stato sui mezzi di informazione, l’incapacità della polizia e delle autorità giudiziarie di individuare i responsabili dell’uccisione di giornalisti e di attivisti per i diritti umani, le misure repressive adottate nei confronti dell’opposizione, l’applicazione arbitraria della legge da parte delle autorità e la correttezza delle consultazioni elettorali".
In tale contesto, il Parlamento invita le autorità russe a garantire che gli assassini di Natalia Estemirova, Andrei Kulagin, Zarema Sadulayeva, Alik Dzhabrailov, Maksharip Aushev, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasiya Baburova e Anna Politkovskaya "siano rintracciati e consegnati alla giustizia". Inoltre, condanna "il brutale assassinio" di Makšarip Aušev, l’attivista ed esponente dell’opposizione ucciso in Inguscezia. Le esorta poi ad adottare misure preventive per la protezione dei difensori dei diritti umani, ad esempio avviando indagini non appena minacce nei loro confronti sono noti a una procura o un tribunale. Inoltre, chiedendo all’UE di seguire "con la massima attenzione" il secondo processo in corso contro l’ex capo della Yukos Oil, Michail Chodorkovskij, esorta le autorità russe " a non utilizzare il sistema giudiziario come strumento politico".
Osservando con interesse il dialogo in corso tra l’UE e la Russia sull’ulteriore liberalizzazione dei visti, il Parlamento sollecita maggior cooperazione sull’immigrazione illegale, migliori controlli ai punti di frontiera e lo scambio di informazioni in materia di terrorismo e criminalità organizzata. Invita inoltre il Consiglio e la Commissione a raddoppiare i loro sforzi per risolvere i problemi legati all’attraversamento delle frontiere tra l’UE e la Russia e ad impegnarsi in progetti concreti.
I deputati guardano con interesse alla firma di un accordo sull’istituzione di un meccanismo di allarme rapido tra l’Unione europea e la Russia in materia di sicurezza energetica, anche per "evitare che si ripetano i tagli agli approvvigionamenti verificatisi negli ultimi anni". Rilevano poi che la cooperazione tra le due parti "dovrebbe basarsi sui principi dell’interdipendenza e della trasparenza, nonché sulla parità di accesso ai mercati, alle infrastrutture e agli investimenti". A loro parere, occorre attivarsi congiuntamente per utilizzare appieno e in modo efficiente i sistemi di trasporto dell’energia, sia quelli già esistenti sia quelli da sviluppare ulteriormente. Ritenendo poi "fondamentale" che l’UE "mostri una forte solidarietà interna", auspicano che siano declinate "le offerte russe di promuovere relazioni bilaterali con gli Stati membri disponibili".
Riguardo al cambiamento climatico, il Parlamento ritiene che, entro il 2020, i paesi industrializzati debbano raggiungere, nel complesso, i valori più alti della scala compresa tra il 25 e il 40% nella riduzione delle emissioni. Chiede quindi alla Russia di riesaminare la propria richiesta concernente un livello più elevato di emissioni, "riformulandola in modo consono al proprio alto potenziale di attenuazione del cambiamento climatico".
Il Parlamento rinnova il proprio sostegno all’obiettivo dell’adesione della Russia all’Organizzazione mondiale del commercio. Ritiene infatti che ciò "determinerà condizioni di concorrenza eque per gli operatori economici di entrambe le parti". Invita però la Russia a eliminare gli ostacoli che ancora si frappongono al processo di adesione, come ad esempio i dazi russi all’esportazione, il livello delle tariffe ferroviarie per il transito di merci, i pedaggi stradali e le restrizioni sulle importazioni di carne, di prodotti lattiero-caseari e di vegetali.
Nel rilevare la necessità di una maggior cooperazione su questioni cruciali dell’agenda internazionale, il Parlamento invita l’UE e la Russia a continuare a impegnarsi per far avanzare il processo di pace in Medio Oriente e trovare una soluzione alla questione nucleare iraniana, in particolare alla luce dell’accordo sul programma relativo al combustibile e le ispezioni da parte dell’ONU nel sito in costruzione per l’arricchimento dell’uranio del quale è stata da poco rivelata l’esistenza.
Il Parlamento invita l’UE a promuovere iniziative congiunte con il governo russo volte conseguire una soluzione pacifica dei conflitti in Nagorno-Karabah e in Transnistria e, soprattutto, in Georgia. In tale contesto, plaude ai risultati della missione di vigilanza dell’Unione in Georgia, "che ha dimostrato la volontà e la capacità dell’UE di agire con determinazione per promuovere la pace e la stabilità". Ribadisce inoltre il suo impegno a favore dell’integrità territoriale del paese e invita tutte le parti a rispettare gli impegni assunti. Si dice, peraltro, preoccupato delle implicazioni per la sicurezza internazionale derivanti dalla proposta di legge presentata dal Presidente russo che autorizzerebbe l’impiego della forza militare anche per proteggere cittadini russi all’estero, laddove la Russia "sta perseguendo una politica di rilascio illegale di passaporti".
Il Parlamento chiede alla Presidenza di esprimere il sostegno dell’UE ai colloqui tra la Russia e gli Stati Uniti su un nuovo accordo che subentri allo START, nonché a iniziative volte a costruire un sistema comune di difesa missilistica tra Stati Uniti, Russia e NATO. Sollecita i governi di Stati Uniti e Russia a coinvolgere pienamente l’Unione europea e i suoi Stati membri nelle discussioni sul futuro dello scudo missilistico di difesa, compresa la valutazione del rischio missilistico, "contribuendo in questo modo alla pace alla stabilità nel mondo e particolarmente in Europa".
> For further information: www.europarl.europa.eu
* Polish Institute of International Affairs (Poland)
Please find enclosed new issue of the Bulletin – “New Role of G20 in the Global Economic Governance” by Artur Gradziuk.
At the Pittsburgh summit a decision was taken to designate the G20 as the premier forum of international economic cooperation. The group, which since 2008 has been meeting at a heads-of-state level, is to work on major issues relating to the global economy. The elevation of significance of G20, besides being a response to complaints about non-representativeness of G8, addresses the need to strengthen cooperation among the world’s most important economies. Poland has no prospect of becoming a G20 member, yet it could influence the group’s activity by playing an active role in the process of working out the European Union’s position.
PLEASE, READ ATTACHED FILE
> For further information: www.pism.pl
* Presidency of Russian Federation (Russia and Cis)
Daily news report of 12 November 2009
Daily news report of 13 November 2009
> For further information: http://president.kremlin.ru/eng
* Rai – trasmissione EstOvest (Italy)
Le telecamere di Estovest nei luoghi di ritrovo della comuinità balcanica a Vienna. C’è chi ha nostalgia di Tito e della sua Jugoslavia, ma i giovani, superati i nazionalismi, esplorano nuove forme di convivenza.
Estovest, la rubrica settimanale della Tgr, prodotta dalla sede Rai per il Friuli Venezia Giulia, apre la puntata di sabato ore 11:15 14 novembre con un servizio realizzato in Austria da Lucio Giudiceandrea. Quella balcanica è la comunità straniera più numerosa a Vienna: 300 mila persone su poco più di un milione e mezzo di abitanti.
Poi, una storia di solidarietà. Cresce il numero degli stranieri che a causa della crisi economica perdono il lavoro e si trovano costretti a vivere per strada. Nel servizio di Angela Trentini la storia di 2 rumeni costretti a vagabondare per mesi, ma che hanno trovato a Ripa Teatina in Abbruzzo una preziosa amicizia che ha cambiato la loro vita.
Estovest ha partecipato alla decima edizione della Giornata europea della cultura ebraica, un evento che si celebra in 59 città italiane e in 28 paesi europei. "Conoscere e accogliere l’altro" è stato il tema della ricorrenza triestina, che si è svolta in maniera molto articolata con dibattiti, convegni, concerti e mostre. Viviana Valente ha seguito la manifestazione e intervistato Andrea Mariani, presidente della comunità ebraica di Trieste, che ha sottolineato l’importanza della multiculturalità e del cosmopolitismo della città.
Infine, sul carso triestino, al confine con la Slovenia, dove ogni due anni si celebrano le nozze così come le vuole la tradizione della minoranza slovena locale. Con il futuro sposo che chiede la mano della sua amata e con la romantica serenata. L’apice della grande festa paesana, che è anche una delle più importanti manifestazioni etnografiche slovene, è il vero e proprio matrimonio celebrato nell’antica chiesetta sulla rocca di Monrupino che risale al tempo delle invasioni turche.
Estovest è a cura di 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 14 novembre alle 11.30 su Raitre. In questa puntata:
LA BATTAGLIA DEGLI OCCHI di Vito Giannulo
Ogni giorno migliaia di occhi scrutano i porti europei. E’ la lotta al’immigrazione irregolare che greci e italiani affrontano insieme. Per settimane hanno lavorato, con buoni risultati, pattuglie miste di poliziotti a Bari, Ancona, Patrasso e Igoumenitsa.
IL PAESE DELLE FAVOLE di Annarosa Macrì
Una storia ti dirò. Così cominciano le favole, scritte in greco, di Cosmina Furchì Gliatas, un’italiana che vive ad Atene da 23 anni, da quando si è innamorata di un ragazzo greco suo compagno di università. Cosmina ha deciso, con grande successo, di pubblicare le storie che racconta la sera ai suoi bambini.
ISTANBUL 2010 di Costantino Foschini
La Turchia non fa ancora parte dell’Unione Europea ma nel 2010 Istanbul sarà la capitale europea dell’arte e della cultura. In vista dell’appuntamento, la città è diventata un laboratorio di creatività artistica, culturale, e architettonica, mettendo insieme ricchezza dell’oriente e dinamismo dell’occidente.
BALKAN SESSION di Sergio De Nicola
E’ un momento magico per la musica che arriva dall’altra sponda dell’Adriatico. I macedoni della Kocani Orchestra e i pugliesi dell’Orchestra balcanica hanno provato a fondere le rispettive esperienze.
"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 11 November 2009
News in brief of 12 November 2009
> For further information: www.sarke.com
* Seenews (Bulgaria & Balkans)
Daily news report of 12 November 2009
Daily news report of 13 November 2009
> For further information: www.seenews.com
* The Times of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia)
Free Newsletter - November 12, 2009
In this issue:
• 1.POINT OF VIEW: Kyrgyzstan all out to rebuild economy
• 2.Mercy Corps meets Wall Street: Micro-banking in Central Asia
• 3.Kazakhstan, Italy reach cooperation agreements
• 4.LETTER FROM THE STEPPE: Crumbing, crumbling, scrambling
1. Kyrgyzstan all out to rebuild economy
Presidents son appointed for a tough job (Kyrgyzstan, November 12, 2009-issue 590)
By Giorgio Fiacconi TCA publisher
BISHKEK (TCA) — Things are changing fast these days in Kyrgyzstan. After the announcement by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on October 20 of the new Government and Presidential Administration structures, the recent appointments have generated positive and negative comments and are a part of every day gossip.
The President is claiming that the new Government structure under the newly established Presidential Institution will be more efficient, more flexible and mobile, and will be able to provide better terms for sustainable business. The opposition claims that the increased power in the hands of the President will lead the country to an authoritarian regime.
In a fast sequence that has developed in recent weeks, former Prime Minister Igor Chudinov resigned with all his government, to give space to the new Presidential structure. He has now been appointed as the new CEO of the important Development Fund of Kyrgyzstan (DFKR). Melis Eshimkanov has resigned from his position of the head of the national TV and radio corporation, apparently to take a new position in the powerful Presidential Institution. But what makes more news and comments by the opposition is the appointment by the President, on 29 October, of his second son, Maxim Bakiyev, to the position of the head of the newly established Central Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic for Development, Investment and Innovation. The Agencys objective is to revamp the Kyrgyz economy with a new business oriented policy, a job where many have failed during the last eighteen years.
Comments on this new appointment are of various types — there are those that accuse President Bakiyev of trying to establish a dynasty while grooming his son to higher position and responsibility in view of future political career. But there are also those that appreciate the Presidents commitment by appointing his son to a risky job where past failures have been the norm. If the entire exercise is done in the hope to create a new business oriented engine free from barriers and the present overstaffed bureaucracy and harassment, we can only welcome the new approach.
Let us look at the facts in an objective and unbiased way. Kyrgyzstan strongly needs reforms as poverty, corruption and unemployment are rampant. Investments, if we exclude the financial sector, are at the minimum level and for sure there is little in the manufacturing, agriculture and tourism industry. In actual fact there are no new foreign investors at all and the country is totally dependent on imports. The State needs very badly to look after its population from the social and employment side. This cannot be done with the old system and we need a new drive, a new thinking head, new energy, and above all a commitment that has been missing in the past.
Maxim Bakiyev has been in business for ten years, and has been successful. He is young and has the will of doing good things for the country. Yes, he is also the Presidents son, but this doesnt make him less capable. The opposition claims that the appointment was unconstitutional and that the only objective was to concentrate all power in the hands of the presidential family. Whatever is said now the fact remains that the past was appalling and disappointing, and we should judge this new appointment from the results that it will deliver.
The new head of the development and investment agency is getting a difficult job where not only his personal prestige, but also his whole familys image is at risk. For this he deserves a proper consideration and the possibility to wait for what he will be able to achieve. The recent announcement has detailed the Agencys working program in four different directions — from the construction of affordable housing to a state owned micro-credit company to a leasing company and recapitalization of the agriculture and food corporation to guarantee farmers a fair price for their products.
So far so good, but what about building an industrial park inside and outside the Bishkek free economic zone to attract local and foreign investors? What about tourism development and delocalization of industry to less fortunate areas outside Bishkek? And above all how to attract investors and make sure that they prosper and stay in Kyrgyzstan building wealth for the entire country instead of being harassed and developed into a frustrated category of people? If the new Presidential Institution will be able to coordinate the work of various ministries and agencies and proceed with business decision-making parallel to certain reforms, there is no doubt that a young and capable person at the helm of the powerful Development and Investment agency is an advantage. It has been said many times that what is missing in Kyrgyzstan is the capability of implementing projects and the lack of action. The new head of the development and investment agency is well known to be a man of action in his business activity and although some may argue on the methods adopted no one doubts the results.
Our opinion is always the same — the country needs to change a system that was established and consolidated long ago. The fault is not of this or that minister or president, but goes back to many years ago and is a heavy heritage from where only the new generation will be able to come out. Kyrgyzstan has opportunities and the potential to develop not just into a transit trade country, but into a successful export oriented processing centre for agricultural and manufactured goods. Kyrgyzstan should develop into a tourism and entertainment attraction of Central Asia while expanding as an effective financial centre. Perspectives are certainly here but all this needs dramatic strategic changes and new approach in addition to different people.
No one can expect miracles within a short period of time, but if the economy of Kyrgyzstan will pick up, if new employment will be generated and local and foreign investments will be attracted and stay involved in long term business, then Maxim Bakiyev will prove to be the right man for the job and will deserve respect for a tough job well done. Probably there are too many ifs and only a result can give the answer to todays negative comments. Positive results will signify that the President has chosen the right person. From the other side, a failure and continuation of the present situation will only mean that the President of the Kyrgyz Republic will have nobody else to blame but himself.
2. Mercy Corps meets Wall Street: Micro-banking in Central Asia
(Kyrgyzstan, November 12, 2009-issue 590) By Jack Losh TCA correspondent
BISHKEK (TCA) — No longer do you have to give away your money to support a good cause, you can now just lend it. Jack Losh talks with the CEO of Mol Bulak Finance, a microfinance institution (MFI) that is causing quite a stir in the small, landlocked country of Kyrgyzstan, with big ambitions for the future.
Its a system thats improved the lives of millions since the Bangladeshi economist, Muhammad Yunus, first developed the concept back in 1976. By providing credit to the impoverished without requiring collateral from them, those most in need have been granted access to economic opportunities from which they were once excluded. Since the demise of communism in Central Asia, microfinance in the CIS has really taken off. While the region shares a common ideological, socio-economic predecessor in the shape of the former Soviet Union, each state has approached microfinance in a different way.
The Kyrgyz Republic was an early convert to microfinance and has been successful in developing a relatively advanced microfinance sector, writes Tom Jacobs, Project Manager at the Microfinance Legislation Development Project (MLDP), in his essay Microfinance in Central Asia: Varied, Growing, Reforming. Turkmenistan is only now beginning to consider the role MFIs should play in its economy. Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan lie somewhere along this continuum.
One of the leading lights to emerge in the region is Kyrgyzstans Mol Bulak Finance. Founded in 2005 by Chinara Moldazhanova, the company has stuck resolutely to the tenets of microfinance, that is, encouraging economic development by providing small unsecured group loans to individuals mainly women in rural communities who had no access to credit.
Since 2002, according to a report in Euromoney: Emerging Markets Handbook 2009/10 by Mol Bulaks charismatic CEO, Babur Tolbaev, over 300 MFIs have registered in Kyrgyzstan, only seven of which have shown visible growth. Mol Bulak Finance, Mr Tolbaev proudly tells me, is one of these seven.
After working with Mercy Corps in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, I joined Mol Bulak Finance in March 2008, Mr Tolbaev says, a bear of a man in his early thirties, educated in the US. Our founder started off with US$2,420 by selling her house, and brought me on board to help move the company forward. Since then, our loan portfolios grown by almost 700% a year, our client base from 1,500 to 21,000, and our staff from 15 to 294.
Investment in trade accounts for half of Mol Bulaks loan distribution, the livestock sector for 26%. While the average loan stands at $500, as much as $20,000 can be borrowed. This is rare, but as long as it sustainably benefits the community with jobs and services, it can happen. But youve got to remember, Mr Tolbaev adds, that $20,000 could provide 40 individuals with $500 loans, so we have to make sure this money is going to be used effectively.
Combining economic techniques learnt in the West with a keen, highly-tuned local knowledge, Mr Tolbaev is supported by a dedicated management team. They all really know their stuff, some of the things were doing is seriously innovative. And its OK if other MFIs copy our ideas its ultimately good for the people and thats our mission.
The companys name derives from two words: Mol, the Kyrgyz for abundant, and Bulak, a source or spring. On meeting some of the companys clients out in the field, women who have all seen their fortunes significantly change for the better, the MFIs title seems a fair description.
After my divorce, I wanted to start my own business and was recommended by a friend to go to Mol Bulak, says Aizada Bakirova, 30, a wholesale food and cigarette trader in the small town of Kant, 30km from Bishkek. So I paid them a visit and just liked the place. I started off with a loan of 50,000 soms ($1,150) five years later, my working capital is now 300,000 soms ($6,890).
I am responsible for eight people in my household, including my four year-old daughter. I have no husband so its all up to me, she says, beaming. The loans have empowered me. I have plans to increase stock, attract more clients and rent another container to sell from.
Empowering not only poor people but women in particular is at the heart of microfinance. While over 75% of Mol Bulaks clients may be from rural areas, 87% are women. Research shows that microfinance increases womens bargaining power within the home and awareness of social and political issues, along with improving their self-esteem and position in the community.
Male pride compels most men in poor areas to spend their profits in the wrong areas on a TV or a new car. Women, on the other hand, are happy to start out from the grass roots. They tend to invest their earnings in the right places, whether its back into the business or on the health, security and welfare of their families.
Statistically, its just better working with women, says Tatiana Vorobieva, Mol Bulaks Chief Operating Officer. They have much better repayment levels for one. When lending to groups, a limit of 30% is set on the number of men working in the group. Its not discrimination just sound financial sense.
Mr Tolbaev puts it another way: You lend to a man, hed spend it on a truck, fill it with apples and drive to Russia to sell them. Women, on the other hand, feel comfortable starting off with a small amount and would just sell the apples at the local market.
Of Mol Bulaks 300 staff, 40% are loan officers. Each new client is visited several times by an officer before and after the loan is made to ensure it is used correctly, followed up with quarterly visits to evaluate the business and check all is going smoothly as is the case with most MFIs. Clients are provided with basic business training and problems are identified and dealt with early on.
If we get a signal that the loan will default, we move in immediately to try and resolve the situation, says Gulmira Musaeva, a loan officer who joined Mol Bulak Finance in April this year. The groups work on a principle of solidarity other members must help out if there is loan delinquency.
Naturally, this takes time and money. MFIs must meet the expenses of providing the services that they render expenses which are generally much higher than those of commercial banks. For example, while a $500 loan costs the same to process as a $5,000 loan, it generates far less return through interest payments than the larger amount. Speaking with Mol Bulaks clients on the ground, though, it seems worth it.
I started borrowing from Mol Bulak Finance three months ago, Altyn Usupova tells me. A cafe owner in her late forties based in Toktonalieva village, 70km from Bishkek, today she is catering for a party of 50. I have plans to double the capacity of the cafe and increase the number of clients.
I feel empowered. I did the cafe up myself, for a start. And my husband certainly doesnt mind me working hes just happy to have an extra source of income.
Another woman, Alymbubu Shamyrkulova, 50, who makes traditional Kyrgyz drapes, cushions and shyrdaks (rugs) describes how Mol Bulak has helped her make it on her own. I was working in HR at the big Altyn gold mine company. I lost my finger there in an accident and had to leave. My 2,000 soms ($46) per month compensation wasnt enough to cover household costs so I took this up. Im 50 years old so there are no other jobs for me out there but this is what I love.
For poorer clients like Alymbubu, the short-term loans and smaller amounts are better than whats on offer at the bigger banks. Selling her wares to former colleagues at Altyn as well as locals in neighbouring villages, her cushions fetch 600 som ($14) each, shyrdaks round 1,000 som ($23).
The household set that Kyrgyz girls have to buy when they get married brings in 15,000 to 20,000 soms ($345-$460), she tells me with a big grin on her face. The marriage season has just come to a close so business has been good.
Mol Bulaks Tatiana Vorobieva also explains how the microfinance process goes beyond female empowerment. Once our clients have raised enough money, they can formalize their property documents. Legal empowerment is very much part of the process too.
Its difficult to discuss microfinance without mentioning Kiva.org, a company best described as Facebook with a social conscience. They connect lenders in the West with MFIs (such as Mol Bulak), and their credit-hungry entrepreneurs, overseas. As of October 2009 in Central Asia, that could mean a seller of womens underwear in Khojand, Tajikistan, or a cattle-breeder in Kant, Kyrgyzstan. Since its inception, Kiva.org has processed over $94.7 million worth of loans to 241,840 entrepreneurs across 185 countries, with a repayment rate of 97.8%.
For some MFIs, the difficulty of weaning themselves off donor funds to become more economically sustainable can be a very real problem. At the same time, they risk losing sight of their aims by putting financial viability above everything else. Generally, the reduced levels of interest charged to borrowers is a major part (if not the entirety) of an MFIs revenue stream. The challenge is to balance social mission with sustainability, explains Fiona Ramsey, who works at Kivas San Franciscan HQ. This also draws in the debate between non-profit MFIs versus for-profit MFIs a non-profit organisation is bound to its social mission and a for-profit one is bound to making profit. The drive within social enterprise these days is to balance a fiscally healthy enterprise with a social mission.
Central Asian republics are coming to recognize the benefits that a healthy, growing MFI sector can bring to its citizens and economies. While Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have similar portfolio sizes on a per capita basis, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan lag far behind. Significant differences also exist in how microfinance is defined, as Tom Jacobs again explains: Kazakh banks can include loans of up to $50,000, hardly amounts typical of traditional MFI clients. At the other end of the spectrum, the average loan of an NGO-MFI in Uzbekistan is only about $115. Thus, a radical difference exists as to what microfinance actually is.
Central Asian MFIs continue to be hindered by excessive bureaucracy, political prejudices and, in some cases, currency restrictions, impeding growth and reducing profit. Mol Bulaks Mr Tolbaev acknowledges there are still a lot of problems with current legislation. The sector is relatively new so there are bound to be difficulties. However, while microfinance has only existed in Kyrgyzstan for twelve years, it is also one of the most advanced systems in the CIS. The country is bringing out such talented microfinance professionals now our literacy rate, for one, is high compared to other ex-Soviet countries, and we have been very open to Western ideas since independence. Microfinance is ultimately about providing banking services to people who hitherto have had no access to them. However, the Microcredit Summit Campaigns annual reports repeatedly stress that microfinance is just one of the tools needed to end global poverty, that the mere availability of financial services must be accompanied by other services. Credit is a tool which can truly empower the individual but, of course, as with any tool, it is only as good as the person who uses it. For many microcredit borrowers, though, it has proved a godsend, and one that continues to break the cycle of poverty which has trapped so many for so long. In the words of Mol Bulaks Gulmira Musaeva, a loan officer on the frontline of this global mission, Providing small loans to low-income people gives them an opportunity. They must start from scratch but these small loans are making a big difference.
3. Kazakhstan, Italy reach cooperation agreements (Kazakhstan , November 12, 2009-issue 590)
Eni, KazMunayGas sign preliminary deal on oil and gas exploration in Kazakhstan
ROME — Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to endorse five bilateral accords between the two countries during a two day state visit to Italy last week.
Nazarbayev and Napolitano discussed a broad range of topics, saying their positions coincided on key international issues. Napolitano spoke about the important role Kazakhstan is expected to play after it assumes the rotating presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Kazakhstan’s presidency "will help raise the organization to a new level of activity, allowing it to play a greater role in global politics and deal with present day challenges and threats more effectively," Napolitano was quoted as saying.
The Italian president also backed Nazarbayev’s idea of calling an OSCE summit in Astana. "It would be an important event. The organization has not held summits since the Istanbul meeting in 1999. The world abounds in events and challenges which must be discussed," he said.
Energy deal
During Nazarbayevs visit, Italy’s Eni and Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas (KMG) have signed an agreement on cooperation that paves way for billions of dollars of investment in Kazakhstan’s oil and gas production and refining.
Eni said in a statement that the companies would explore the Isatai and Shagala deposits on the Caspian Sea shelf, study projects for gas usage enhancement, construction of gas processing and gas-turbine power plants, and a shipyard, as well as modernization of Pavlodar Oil Refinery.
The final decisions on investments in these projects will be made within two years after the completion of detailed feasibility studies, the statement said. The Financial Times quoted Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni as saying investment in these projects may amount to $40 billion-$50 billion, and that other partner companies, such as Chevron, Lukoil, BG Group, and Total, could be involved in the projects.
Defense cooperation
Energy was not the only focus of the bilateral agreements between the two countries. Italian aerospace and defense company Finmeccanica has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Kazakhstan sovereign wealth fund for a raft of cooperation deals.
The agreements cover helicopters, railways and electro-optics, including tank upgrades.
Kairat Kelimbetov, the chairman of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna, and Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, chairman and CEO of Finmeccanica, signed the Memorandum of Understanding in Rome in the presence of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The agreement includes the possibility of setting up technological centers of excellence.
One specific provision of the MoU with the Samruk-Kazyna fund — it is an industrial and financial state holding company — is "the establishment of a working group to analyze Kazakhstan’s changing needs and the business opportunities for Finmeccanica Group companies," Finmeccanica said in a statement.
Within the context of the MoU, KazEngineering and SELEX Galileo signed a cooperation agreement for the development of civil and military applications. The agreement provides for the use of SELEX Galileo electro-optics systems to upgrade the T72 tank for use by the Kazakh armed forces and for foreign markets, Finmeccanica said in its statement.
It added that plans "were being made to evaluate a joint venture between Finmeccanica unit AgustaWestland and Samruk-Kazyna to build a civil helicopter training and maintenance center, as well as a joint venture to build natural gas-powered buses in Kazakhstan."
Meeting the Pope
President Nazarbayev also took the time to visit the Vatican City and meet Pope Benedict XVI. Nazarbayev and Benedict XVI were reported to have discussed issues of inter-religious dialogue and the promotion of peace ahead of Kazakhstans presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The bilateral trade between Kazakhstan and Italy is worth $13 billion a year and there are currently 130 Italian companies doing business in Kazakhstan.
(Interfax, UPI)
4. LETTER FROM THE STEPPE
Crumbing, crumbling, scrambling (Kazakhstan , November 12, 2009-issue 590)
By Charles van der Leeuw special for TCA
ALMATY — Their billboards were all over Almaty. Their executives were decorated with awards and appeared on television boasting their successes. The Kuat Holding, which posted annual revenue in the order of 0.8 billion US dollars and employed in the order of 26,000, was held for untouchable.
They had the banks fighting for their projects, most of which are now half-built, with sites lying idle. No more talking heads on television, and the billboards that remain on the roofs of Almatys skyscrapers look bleak. Whether or not the executives, now hard to trace, have had to give their awards back is only one of the minor issues in focus.
Lake Sayran is located on the western outskirts of Almaty. On its shore is the long-distance coach station. The lake itself has muddy waters even though people still swim and water-peddle in it during Almatys long hot summers. The park surrounding it is a perfect example of sheer neglect. Stairs from the upper bushes down to the unruly beach are crumbling and rather hazardous to climb.
Benches, picnic tables, shelters and other facilities, or rather their remains, remind of Soviet-style planned leisure for those who worked hard during the week and had thereby the right to pursue regulated family life in the weekend. Today, cans and bottles spread all over the place are the main testimonies of modern-day free time spending.
On the eastern shore opposite the lake and spreading across the main street along its northern shoreline, half-built residential towers mark what was poised to be Kuats hour of glory: its Sayran mega-project which was set to include around 30,000 new apartments, thousands of office and shopping premises, sports centres, disco palaces, performance halls, casinos (before they were banned in Almaty and most of the rest of Kazakhstan) and other post-Soviet forms of leisure. Banks were at Kuats knees, smelling big cash in investment and mortgage financing.
In reality, Kuat did not own the premises. The formula was more complicated and at the same time considerably murkier. On paper, Sayran was the property of Sayran Holding, behind whom today law investigators suspect few others than Kuats elites joined by some peers in high circles to have been. This is why as of late summer this year, well over a hundred lawsuits were still pending against the biggest construction company in Kazakhstan or rather the shadow of what it once used to be. Earlier, in January, news media reported that another 138 lawsuits had been rewarded by a court of law in the form of Kuat having to pay 3 billion tenge in compensation to co-owners of Sayran. This is no more than 15 million euro or 22 million US dollars a trifle in comparison to what the banks currently demand from the Kuat Holding which runs up to hundreds of millions of hard currency.
Looking back at developments when Kazakhstan still let the good times roll, the following scheme becomes clear. No investment proper has ever been made in Sayran, investigators reportedly tend to believe. In more than one sense of the expression, construction started from scratch. On paper, Kuat was little more than a contractor. Its client was an empty shell company which issued off-market but transferable stock which was given as collateral for up-front cash provided by buyers of future accommodation at the site. With that money, owed in the form of real estate to the thousands of new owners of Sayran, construction started up.
As long as speculative buyers, part of whom simply wanted a home, an office, a shop or a workshop but a considerable number of others was lured by speculative numbers presented by Kuat on ever-rising real estate prices in Almaty, were pouring in, paper in Sayran could be issued and construction continue. Sayran, and Kuat behind it, put nominal prices per square meter for residential space at close to 800 US dollars per square metre. In the end, actual market prices could easily double that amount, the companys marketeers proclaimed. Banks, lured by the illusion of floating mortgage rates responding to demand, joined the chorus. In all, a modern, more sophisticated but hardly less treacherous variant of the pyramid schemes as used by Balfour in XIXth Century Britain and by Ponzy in the USA little later.
When spring was in the air this year, the head of the state property holding Samruk Kazyna threatened both real estate brokers and constructors with the ominous knock in the door if they would fail to live up to their commitment and turn Sayrans and similar projects paper into hard value. Legislation allowing authorities to do so is still pending and who is suspected of obstructing it is not too hard to guess. Most of Kuats plush boardroom community is keeping very quiet probably outside Kazakhstan. The trunk management that keeps controlling the company has reportedly been trying to sell either the company or its problematic assets to investors from abroad. But those will only be inclined to step in at bargain prices. In all: Kuat and a number of its fellow-holdings are trying to sell out. But the moment legislation is being adopted, which in the course of this winter can happen any moment according to plan, time will have run out and the axe is bound to fall. Whether that will give much comfort to the victims is something that remains to be seen.
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L’UE doit défendre les droits de l’Homme et la démocratie lors du Sommet UE-Russie
Le Parlement européen a adopté aujourd’hui une résolution en prévision du prochain sommet Union européenne-Russie qui se déroulera le 18 novembre 2009 à Stockholm.
Pour Hélène Flautre, députée européenne, membre de la Commission des relations extérieures "Il aurait été inconcevable que le PE garde le silence sur la situation des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme en Russie suite à la vague d’assassinats de ces derniers mois. L’amendement des Verts pressant la Russie de mettre fin au climat de terreur et de rétablir l’état de droit dans le Caucase du Nord en garantissant des mesures préventives de protection des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme est une voix européenne dissonante par rapport à l’agenda des Etats membres.
Je me réjouis que le Parlement européen refuse de limiter le prochain sommet UE Russie à une occasion de développer une coopération exclusivement commerciale et énergétique".
Le Groupe des Verts / ALE n’a de cesse de rappeler que la promotion et le respect des droits de l’Homme et de la démocratie sont des questions prioritaires que les Etats membres doivent avoir le courage de mettre au top de l’agenda européen avec des Etats tiers.
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