Archive for September 19th, 2008
Morales has spoken for a quick dialogue, criticizing Catholic Church for partiality
(They are going) to discuss about the oil revenues, the new constitution by Evo Morales and the Autonomy Statutes passed by Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija. European Union, Catholic Church, South American Union, American States’ Organization and United Nations will mediate in the conflict. The agreement also obliges to the evacuation of state buildings in the cited regions, the suspension of blocking routes and the need to investigate the violent events of Pando.
Morales added that in the Government’s name, the agreement was signed by two undersecretaries and criticized Tarija’s Government for publishing it in the national newspapers leaving a blank space in the president’s signature’s space.
He also criticized the work of cardinal Julio Terrazas, the main authority of the Catholic Church in Bolivia. M. Terrazas went with the prefects Cossío and Costas to sign the agreement in Santa Cruz.
‘I am very sorry about the cardinal supporting the people who defend the interests of the empire (referring to USA) and not those of the people”, he said in his speech, in which he asked Methodists and Evangelic Churches to mediate in the negotiation.
Morales propone adelantar diálogo y critica Iglesia católica por parcialidad.
Accompanying someone to the signature of such an agreement is to support him? I think Evo wants another “reformed Church of Bolivia”, like the one Chávez has built in Venezuela…
But there is another thing: it’s rather interesting that he wants now other churches to enter the negotiation, when he has assumed Catholic Church is against him. Why didn’t he ask them to take part since the first place? And why not inviting Jewish communities, Buddhists or other confessions to take part in the negotiation? Why only Christian churches?
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Pakistan: US did not warn of any strike
Pakistan said Thursday it was not warned about a suspected U.S. missile strike in its northwest that came amid American assurances that it respects the sovereignty of its anti-terror ally.
The suspected strike reportedly killed six people Wednesday in the South Waziristan region, a militant stronghold bordering Afghanistan.
Such strikes inside Pakistan have intensified in recent weeks, while a U.S.-led ground assault on Pakistan territory earlier this month prompted official Pakistani protests.
Pakistan: US did not warn of any strike – Yahoo! News.
I must say that this is a very difficult problem to solve. Al Qaeda is on South Waziristan and Pakistan does nothing about it. In fact, Taliban have already established Sharia tribunals, in areas where there are no other tribunals, something which can tell anyone what is the real influence of central Government.
Related reading: Pakistan’s tribal areas: A wild frontier.
Russian imperialism: is Ukraine next after Georgia?
Ukraine could not have ignored the war even if it had wanted to. Sebastopol, on the Crimean peninsula, is home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet, some of whose warships dropped anchor off the Georgian coast during and after the fighting. Evidence of Ukraine’s proximity to the conflict is also on show at Moscow’s military museum, where visitors can gawp at war booty: Georgian T-72 battle tanks that were modernised in Ukraine. This, say the Russians, shows Kiev’s support for what it sees as a “criminal regime”. Indeed, Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s president flew to Tbilisi to support his counterpart and friend, Mikheil Saakashvili.
Add to this the fact that Russian nationalists believe Crimea, which has a large ethnic Russian population, should be returned to Russia (there are rumours of new Russian passports being handed out, just as happened in South Ossetia and Abkhazia). Throw in, too, the fact that Ukraine, like Georgia, has for years been trying to secure a place in both the European Union and NATO. The inevitability of Ukraine catching a post-war cold becomes clear.
(…) At a European Union-Ukraine summit in Paris on September 9th, the EU too had little beside warm words of support to offer. The “maximum” it could do, said France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, was to offer to sign a vague “association agreement” next year. But unlike similar-sounding agreements for the Balkan countries, this one would not carry any implication of eventual membership. Countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany are unwilling at this stage even to hint at candidate status for Ukraine.
The Russians have been publicly silent about Ukraine in recent weeks, knowing that they hold some strong cards, besides having just defeated Georgia. Ukraine is almost entirely dependent on Russia for its oil and gas, for uranium enrichment, and as a market in which it can sell its own goods. It may agonise about its east-west choice, but in reality it will have to maintain reasonable relations with Moscow as well as the rest of Europe.
Worries about Ukraine after the Georgia war | Ukraine comes to the forefront | The Economist.
By the way, two days ago Russia has signed two treaties with the two Georgian breakway regions, South Ossetia and Abjasia. For economic and military cooperation:
“Our key task today is to ensure security of Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” Medvedev said during an elaborate signing ceremony in the Kremlin. “The treaties envisage that our nations together will take all the necessary steps to fend off threats to peace. We won’t allow any new military adventurism, no one must have any illusions about that.”
Meanwhile another journalist is critisized by the Kremlin:
Related news:
- about Venezuelan-Russia ties: Venezuela-Russia boost military ties. More here and here.
- also Russia envoy has warned NATO that it will not let it use Russian airspace if “member states did not stop hostile moves against Moscow“.
- US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has urged caution on NATO response to Russian policy towards Georgia.
Related posts:
- Are we in Cold War II? (whatever Putin says, it’s very likely that we are…)
- Russia sends S-300 to Iran.
- Anger at death of Kremlin critic.
- Russia cautions the West against making a historical error for defending the Georgian regime.
- Kremlin critic shot in Ingushetia…. at a police station.
“Kill TV owners that show immoral content”
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.
Always On Watch:SEMPER VIGILANS
A peaceful guy, isn’t he?
WHO cancels polio jabs for Afghan children after doctors killed
“Campaigns in the southern region are cancelled,” WHO spokeswoman Sona Bari told AFP.
The programme was due to start on September 21 and was intended to reach 1.2 million children aged under five in Afghanistan’s southern regions, she said.
lockandload: WHO cancels polio jabs for Afghan children after doctors killed.
