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10/13/2011

Demonstrations calling for an international resolution against the president of Yemen



Tens of thousands in the cities of Sana'a and Shabwa and Socotra, Yemen, Hodeidah in the procession for the UN Security Council to take a strong stance against the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, while the Security Council is discussing a draft resolutionurges Saleh to step down.

Protesters march in the capital Sanaa Street sixty slogans calling for the overthrow of protection and guarantees of non-prosecution after stepping down in favor.

The speaker addressed the crowd waved flags of the United Nations and slogans for peace, saying, "We hope to awaken the conscience of the world and the United Nations take a historic step for the Yemeni people."

The demonstrator said, "We are here to urge the Security Council to take a moral stancetoward the peaceful revolution in Yemen, we call them to say we want freedom and want to build a democracy, you have to stop supporting this dictator."

For its part, the government refused to resolve the crisis in the country through the issuance of international resolutions. And called for a peaceful solution instead.


A draft resolution
This comes at a time when the Security Council will discuss for a few days a draft resolution submitted by Britain calls for step down.

He said the German Ambassador the United Nations, Peter Viag The time has come for action, and demanded that the Council will be active, and ask the President for signature and acceptance, transition, and according to mediate the Gulf.

According to Western diplomats, it is expected that Russia and China supported theBritish draft resolution, despite their objections last week on a resolution condemningSyria for response force demonstrators demanding democracy.

One diplomat said "Russia and China supported the move of the Council on Yemen, The role of the armed opposition in Yemen to change things because the two countries wantstability and seem to see the situation in Yemen in a different way from Syria."

Risk of deadlock
In his statements after the meeting of the Security Council, warned the UN envoy to YemenJamal bin Omar, the risks of continued political stalemate and deteriorating security and economic situation in Yemen, and stressed that the security situation "deteriorated dramatically, especially since five or six provinces are no longer under the control of the government."


He explained that there was agreement between the ruling party and the opposition for a transitional period of two years during which organizes the elections, but Saleh refused tobe bound by this Agreement.

He ibn Umar that the political process "in trouble" adding that "during our consultationswith the Yemenis, there was a sense of urgency the need to address the crisis, especially as it has been going on in January last, and the result of which the repercussions ofhumanitarian, security and economic.

He stressed that "no solution can be found only in the context of a process led by Yemeni and collect all the political forces in the country."

For its part, emphasized the processes responsible for the United Nations humanitarianValerie Amos that "the conflict that is added to the poverty and drought in Yemen causesthe development of a daily struggle for survival for millions of people."

Amos said in a statement: "Every evening Yemeni third goes to bed hungry. In some parts of the country's children suffer from malnutrition, three of which are of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world." She stressed that "hospitals and clinics are overcrowded and do not work, and access to drinking water has become more difficult."

Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies

Anticipate the creation of 350 nuclear reactors in the world




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The Secretary-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano,on Wednesday he expected the creation of 350 new nuclear reactors in the world as well as the 130 reactors currently in place.



The official said the international press conference in the Kazakh capital of Astana where he participates in the forum "a world free of nuclear weapons" that some of the countriesreviewed its nuclear policy after the incident, Fukushima, Japan.



He explained that this does not mean that others should give up on the establishment ofnuclear power stations.



He said in his remarks carried by news agency Alkzakhih "according to our expectations,the number of nuclear reactors will rise to 350 add to 130 exist in the present time. This means that many countries will continue to use nuclear energy."


The Amano, who took over the Secretariat almost two years ago, he said after his electionthat he would do his utmost to prevent nuclear proliferation, alluding to the bombing of his country in the Hiroshima and Nagzaki during World War II, saying that a citizen came fromJapan will make efforts and wide to reduce nuclear arms.
           
  



Source: DBA

American killed in Pakistan raid





















The effects of an attack carried out by the Taliban in the Waziristan region (French - Archive)
Officials announced that the Pakistani security forces said four suspected militants were killed Thursday in a raid by U.S. drone aircraft in the tribal areas in northwestern Pakistan.
The raid targeted the town of Dundee Darboukal seven kilometers to the north of Miranshah, the largest city in Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan, a stronghold of the Haqqani network, which starts from the areas in Pakistan to attack U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
A security official who preferred not to be named, told the French press that "the U.S. plane fired two missiles, killing four gunmen in a raid." The Pakistani intelligence source in the raid, as well as the death toll of four.
It is noteworthy that the U.S. military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are the only two forces in Afghanistan, which were using drones in the region.
The Minister of Defense Leon Panetta has admitted that he is waging "war" in Pakistan, contradicting the official position who does not acknowledge the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency operations in this country.
The U.S. administration has always been keen on the non-recognition of strikes launched by pilotless drone aircraft belonging to the Intelligence Agency, tribal areas of Pakistan, for legal reasons and to maintain relations with Islamabad.
Since the beginning of the year, launched (CIA) of at least sixty strike by drones tribal areas, according to the census conducted by the research center based in Washington.
Source: Agencies

10/12/2011

Lake reveal hidden secrets of the earth





















Antarctic depths reveal secrets hidden from the earth (Reuters)
British scientists hope to discover the secrets of the earth in the expedition undertaken by them in an ancient lake in the Antarctic.
Mr. Martin will lead the Seggart team of scientists who will come to the South Pole next week, hoping to be the first explorers of the continent's hidden lakes, 387 lake.
The Daily Telegraph to Lake Ellsworth may contain bacteria and microbes and other primary forms of life, experts believe it has been hidden at a depth of kilometers away from the rest of the ground to about a million years.
Could detect water and sediment samples will be collected from the lake for undiscovered forms of life existed on Earth before the lake freezes, and it was the former climate of the planet.
It is expected to support the sediment collected from the bottom of the lake theory that the western ice sheet of Antarctica - which is shrinking because of rising global temperatures - has melted and collapsed in the past.
The professor from the University of Edinburgh Seggart they were planning 15 years ago to explore this secret world. And now only has to have the experience and technology to drill through the slab thicker ice in Antarctica and collect samples without contaminating the environment pristine and ancient.

Source: The Daily Telegraph

Chocolate reduces the risk of stroke



A new study of more than 33 thousand Swedish woman that those who ate 66 grams of chocolate - the equivalent of a board and half board - once a week I have the chance of stroke by 20%, and that women who consumed 8 grams or less per week was a risk with the highest .
And add the results published in the American College of Cardiology importance of additional studies to confirm an earlier health benefits of eating chocolate and coca.
The Daily Telegraph that experts from Cambridge University, discovered earlier this year that taking regular doses of chocolate can reduce the risk of heart disease by one third, while a separate study pointed to the possibility that chocolate be good for health such as sports.
Referred to as the scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Astntqgua 33,372 women for their eating habits in 1997 and over the next decade of 1600 the case suffered a stroke.
Said Susan Larson, one of three researchers who participated in the study they followed 33,000 women over ten years and found that women who ate large quantities of chocolate was a risk of stroke have less than about 20%.
Larson said he was expected to help the chocolate in the prevention of stroke because it reduces blood pressure, and thus reduce a major risk factor.
It is noteworthy that the women who participated in the experiment is not Sahin you were chocolate they ate dark or light, a difference that would have helped in determining the link between the more compact coca - preventive factor in chocolate - and the risk of stroke.
It is expected that the researchers are now conducting a similar study on men and expect to find similar results.

Source: The Daily Telegraph

High production of opium in Afghanistan


Protests on Wall Street .. Where to?



I took some American newspapers protests organized by the Movement, "occupied theWall Street" in the United States, and pointed to the increasing size of Hrakea popular and spread to many cities in the U.S. after New York began shy weeks ago.

She asked the Christian Science Monitor on the target from behind the marches of the "occupied Wall Street," and said that some of their supporters marched yesterday to the homes of some brokers in New York on the grounds that they bear some responsibilityfor the deterioration if the country's economy.


Science Monitor noted that the Wall Street moved protesters to demonstrate in front ofthe homes of some rich and millions of owners of banks in New York, in the third weekon the launch of protest demonstrations.

The movement of protesters also raised a slogan is that it represents 99% of the population of the United States, for about 1% of those who have money and control thenecks of people through their influence in the fields of government and financial institutions, who are responsible for the crisis affecting the economy.

Police responseThe New York Times talked about the escalation of police response in the light of the high frequency of demonstrations on Wall Street, especially after the accession of more demonstrators to protest, and police said that the U.S. follow the new tactics in dealing with demonstrators.
She added that the protest movement that began shy in New York are to escalate and spread in many cities in the United States, to include unions and celebrities and other people of the country, prompting the security men to take the necessary measures, the center may open the door to a new chapter of the movement protest.
She explained that the growing number of fans who organize days after the last of the demonstrators, the protesters make jumping to various areas in the new American cities experiencing a continuation of the demonstrations, which would raise the tension in the country.

The New York Times that the police arrested about a hundred demonstrators yesterday in Boston alone, when the demonstrations moved to different locations in the city.

The formation of policiesFor its part, the writer asked the U.S. for Katrina Hovil whether what she called a spark of the "Ahthelo Wall Street" will lead to the restructuring policies of the United States?
The writer said in an article published in a newspaper, the Washington Post that the organizers of the protests were inspired by the idea of ​​those who demonstrated in other countries in the world, and who occupied the fields and playgrounds in Madrid, Athens, Tunis and Cairo, and others.

And Hovil attributed to the organizers of the movement occupied a Wall Street David Graber as saying that the success of their way to protest the occupation of one of the required public squares, and then start planning on it as a headquarters of the protests and a starting point to other sites.



The writer added that the coming days, the challenges imposed on the movement of protesters fledgling Wall Street, and the success of the movement in the next tests would inflame the street, and thus keep the torch lit and the restructuring of American policy as a whole.
Source: U.S. press

High number of unemployed in Britain



The number of unemployed in Britain to the highest level since 1994, after the failure of private sector companies to compensate for jobs lost in the public sector, leading to fears of worsening the country's slide into the abyss of a recession.
 
The official data showed that applications for unemployment benefits increased by 17,500 requested in the September / September.
 
According to the National Bureau of Statistics said the number of unemployed - according to an index ILO broader - jumped by 114 thousand in the three months to August / August, to $ 2.57 million, the highest total since October / November 1994.
 
The unemployment rate rose to 8.1%, the highest since October / October 1996 compared with the forecast unemployment rate of 8%.
 
The link between the critics and the accelerated pace of increase in the number of unemployed downwardly big government spending in the public sector.
 
The trade unions announced a protest on a large scale in London and other cities on November 30 / November next.
 
And high unemployment will increase pressure on the British government to support the economy, which had not been recorded little growth over the past year, with reduced consumer spending and a slowdown in key export markets.
 
The Bank of England launched a new round of stimulus program last week, pumping £ 75 billion extra into the economy to prevent a recurrence of the recession.
 
D. Spencer said World Bank economist is likely to grow the economy vulnerable in the last quarter of the year.
 
Source: Agencies

Jewish students refuse to democracy





















Teachers and researchers complain of Israeli difficult to inculcate democratic values ​​intheir students the Jews, and adoption of ideas of national and religious extremist end offascism, and holds Palestinians inside and some observers, the Jews of Israel a great responsibility for youth extremism.

Indicates civics and citizenship instructors Jews to talk about their schools are withintolerance and the rights of the minority, usually ended wording of racism and racist insults against Arabs.

He asked those in the educational conference at the University of "Bar Ilan" wasMonday, how could education on equity and the laws prohibiting racial discrimination in the time of the rabbis continue to deny the issuance of fatwas Arab students rentapartments.

Hatred of the Arabs
Shows the civics teachers in the Jewish religious public schools that the lessons ofcitizenship reveals increasingly extreme positions towards all that is Arab and towardminorities.

It also alerts them to the breadth of feelings of alienation among the children of Jewish youth about the state, its institutions and the judicial system.

Says a teacher from the settlement of "Ma'ale Adumim" that attempts to talk about tolerance always collide with walls of rejection, pointing out that Jewish youngsters find it difficult to deal very leniently with their Arab neighbors.
It notes that a generation of students in Jewish schools prefer the official religious Zionism and religion on democracy and the lessons of citizenship and civics.
And hinted at the head of civil servants and the Israeli Ministry of Education Asher Cohen that these racist ideas is growing more religious in public schools that graduate usually the sons of the settlers.
In response to a question by the occupation army radio, Cohen said today that the student-dominated ideas Astekayaa of the house and his school, when contrary to democratic values ​​provided in the lessons of citizenship.
Responsibility of the ministryDownload researcher Eli Beaudet charge of studying methods of teaching and the Israeli Ministry of Education of responsibility, for they multiply the contents of Judaism and Zionism at the expense of civil topics.
In response to a question, Al Jazeera Net, Beaudet considered that the extremism of Jewish students today as a result of the normal educational process prior full of ideas about the Arabs, the contents of "Chitunhm" and incite them in literature, language, history, and even citizenship.
Beaudet and goes to confirm that the Israeli educational curricula play a role in perpetuating the conflict with the Palestinians for decades.
It concludes that the history books and civics feed the historical novel depicting the Zionist Jews Okhiara against the evil Arabs, in a systematic effort to prepare them for post military service Bhacdhm against the Arab enemy.
The show Astgrabh complaints civics teachers the Jews, and shows that of the implants harvested thorns thorns, warning that racism and fascist ideas will not stop at only the Arabs, "but will reach the East, women and all abnormal categories."

Beaudet also noted that the current Minister of Education personally sponsored projects had been approved last year, the emphasis on content even within the Jewish-Zionist Arab schools.
And co-Minister of Education Gideon Saar yesterday at a conference at the ministry, and urged educators, managers and inspectors on the first interest in Jewish education before the auspices of "Israeli identity."
This is invoked by Yoram Kanyuk it, and shows that the emphasis on the religious Jewish education means building a greenhouse for the ideas of racism and fascism.
Religion and StateIndicates Kanyuk - in the interview of the island - he was not surprised by complaints of teachers of civics, he said, "I teach civics voluntarily in several schools, and I can say that religious Jews are destroying our lives and change the Jewish people for the worst, but constitute a barrier to a settlement with the Palestinians."
He succeeded Kanyuk yesterday to issue a judicial ruling is unprecedented in scoring the same records of the Ministry of Interior "no religion", as he tries to turn the Israelis into a civil society which separates religion and state and freedom from the plague of racism.
Kanyuk deny that Zionism be the cause of rampant racism, and says she has always been a secular, considering the Jewish religion a fundamental reason for the national and religious extremism among Israelis.
It is noteworthy that successive Israeli opinion polls in recent years have shown that an overwhelming majority rejects the participation of Palestinians inside the decision-making and the proximity of the islands, while support among a broad idea of ​​their displacement.
The leaders of the Palestinians inside confirms what the researchers mentioned above, and carrying the rabbis and the Israeli establishment responsible for the burning of the royal mosque of Safed and the desecration of Muslim cemeteries and Christianity in Jaffa, a few days ago.

Source: Al Jazeera

BlackBerry service disruption



Said company Research In Motion for the manufacture of smart phones (Blackberry) The phone users in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Gulf and India, have suffered from a severe disruption in service on Monday reached to complete interruption.
Some customers could not for hours of receipt of electronic messages or sent.
After solving this problem, with some users in Europe are facing problems on Monday night in access to "instant messaging" services or surf the Internet.
The reports attributed this disorder to problems in data exchange centers in Britain and Canada, but RIM did not specify the size of the problem not the cause.
The company said in a statement: "We are now working to solve the problem affecting the current time on some of the participants in Europe and the Middle East, Africa and India. We are investigating and we apologize to our customers for any disturbances in the time we work to resolve the problem."
There were messages yesterday between users and groups for the BlackBerry Ukrainian hacker servers piracy in retaliation for the delay in the maintenance of telephone service and a demand for compensation for this neglect, the company refused to meet it.
Comes to this disorder increases the problems faced by the Canadian company in a steady decline in the smart phone market share due to competition with other devices such as the "iPhone" and "Galaxy."
Source: agencies

"Disgruntled" in Europe want to change the system





















The protesters are seeking to place a file request to direct the authorities of theEuropean Union (Alice)

Preparing hundreds of protesters from a number of European countries who call themselves the "disgruntled" to do a demonstration in Brussels next Saturday, after the march started from Madrid to denounce the liberal policies in place that would benefit only the rich in their opinion.

The protesters tried to stability and sit in the garden, "Elizabeth," but the mayor refused,claiming that the park is part of the national heritage in the Belgian and prevents sleep in addition to the need to maintain public security.

The Belgian police had to break all the tents erected in the garden, which was home tothe protesters, and arrested a number of them before being released, it was agreed to direct "disgruntled" to a university building near the park where the protesters will continue their activities.

Did not like the resolution of many of them, said one participant, "we move to the insidewalls of the university will work to block the movement and activities of our work will not be significant radiation to the citizens."

And received support from the movement of disaffected ordinary citizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the Belgian authorities to deal with members of the movement,and their willingness to supply what you need to continue the protests.


Of the "disgruntled" was launched from Spain
Against the backdrop of severe economic crisis (Reuters)


Request to file
Will seek protesters - who came to Brussels last Saturday - a week full of discussionsabout issues relating to economic and financial crisis and the file of the environment and democracy, to develop a European request to file notification to the authorities of theEuropean Union.

And emphasizes many of the participants that "the idea is not to establish a camp, but in the organization of the struggle for a better tomorrow," says Tatiana - one of the posts -"We must recognize that the economic system and political current has reached a dead end, so we try to propose alternatives to change the system ".

And is expected to culminate in the open forum for all citizens of different views of European and international demonstration on Saturday, President slogan "denounce theliberal policies applied in most countries, and laying claim political and economic system in the service of new citizens."

And the movement of disaffected activists want to go through the process of definition ofthe popular neighborhoods Bhrkihm and demands.


"Disgruntled" erected tents in the garden, "Elizabeth" before the intervention of the police (Al Jazeera )

Movement and partiesThe movement of disaffected and have the support of many politicians, especially from the left-wing parties, which called mostly to join the march Saturday.
These parties and seek - With the election season in a number of European countries - to take advantage of the popularity of these movements to publicize their programs and attract votes for their candidates.
The movement has renewed resentful that peaceful methods of struggle in the standardization of the protests at the level of European countries, but still lacked the political vision and a clear-cut.
And remains the only idea shared by all participants is the principle: people are the source of democracy and not the politicians or the ballot box.
It is believed most of the activists in the movement that must override the current capitalist system, without clear definition of the form of society and economic system of the new offset.
He said one of the members of the movement of disaffected in Belgium "The meetings will be held in Brussels and will continue in a number of European countries are the only means of identifying a minimum outlook for the future of this system."
The movement of activists representing all political currents of the reformist center-left radical.
The movement of disaffected and boasts that it is independent of any political organization Oaediologi, and self-funded and only accepts contributions of citizens.


 
Source: Al Jazeera

Ginger reduces the risk of bowel cancer





















A new study showed that meals and oriental dishes containing ginger plant can reduce the chances of getting bowel cancer.
According to the study published by the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph that he was hired thirty volunteers, 15 of them give the grams of ginger root pills for 28 days.
Experience has shown that time after signs of inflammation of the lower colon to have - a condition associated with bowel cancer - compared to the 15 other volunteers who were given a placebo.
Accordingly, the researchers considered from the Faculty of Medicine University of Michigan U.S. that ginger can be used for the prevention of bowel cancer.
She specialized in alternative medicine (which depends on the medication with natural unprocessed) The interest in this matter will increase at a time when people from non-toxic ways to prevent cancer and improve the quality of life in a non-expensive.
The newspaper pointed out that the study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research of the Cancer Research Society of America.
The bowel cancer kills 16 thousand people a year in Britain, more than breast or prostate cancer.
 
Source: The Daily Telegraph 

Aircraft weapon, the march of Israel and America





















Drone Mashatz 1 Israeli-made during a test flight (French - Archive)

Israeli military circles centered on the method of "UAVs" having become the preferred means for the United States and Israel in carrying out the assassination or the bombing against the programmer wanted for them.
The site of the Israeli army to this plane, which inspired its name (Waldron) of the voice of "the sound of bees" are able to target who you want wherever you want, anytime you want which is directed by remote control or programmed in advance of a road is used by, and often carry a payload to perform its functions as organs Cameras or even shells.
Armies advancedThe site reveals that Israel is a leader in the manufacture of aircraft, unmanned aircraft industry began in 1973 after he had inflicted missile batteries in Lebanon by Syrian aircraft losses.
In 1982 - during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon - is turned upside down, where Israeli aircraft dropped at the Battle of the Bekaa Valley 82 Syrian aircraft.
According to the site and it is after the development of technology for these aircraft became a key element in the armies of world's largest and most advanced, particularly the United States, which promised the first line of attack in what it calls "global war on terrorism."
Washington used this aircraft to "fish" al Qaeda leaders and organizations hostile to the tribal areas on the Afghan-Pakistan border in the desert and in the governorates of Yemen, Somalia and the far reaches of Africa.
For this reason, the site says the CIA "CIA" to establish a network of rules for this type of aircraft in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, Washington has also initiated the construction of new bases in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and the Indian Ocean Islands Sichlz.


Weapon of the future
He justified the senior U.S. official rules for the deployment of unmanned aircraft in theU.S. along the globe and view by saying "I do not know anything about the leaders of alQaeda in Africa, where it is not out of any young man from there to say I am the future ofAl Qaeda."

The U.S. official pointed out that, after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the person will come from our aircraft will be unmanned waiting for him.

And emphasizes the way for future wars the U.S. that there are experiments to developdrone targeting and can recognize and kill enemies, depending on the calculationscarried out by a computer and not according to the orders of the people.

The Israeli military official said that as long as the word "global war on (terrorism)" are the basis for foreign policy, the use of UAVs will continue and expand.

The attention of the site that Israeli forces used this type of aircraft, called thePalestinians "drone" to target Hamas cadres and also used widely in the wars inLebanon 2006 and Gaza 2008-2009.

Israel is using unmanned aircraft also in the control operation significantly.


Source: Israeli press

Washington renewed its rejection of Palestinian state





















Clinton felt that the only viable path for the application is the direct negotiations with Israel (French - Archive)

Renewed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her opposition to the Palestinian efforts to obtain membership of the United Nations for their state, and said that these efforts will not achieve anything now, at the time it continues to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his tour of Latin America to build support for this membership.
Clinton said in an interview with Reuters yesterday that many States explain to the Palestinians that their message delivered by the official on September 23 / September last, and requests a full member of the international organization will not give them a state, and that the only viable path for the application is the direct negotiations with Israel.
And continued "the case is being clarified that the right of the Palestinians is that the effort to join the United Nations will not reach anything in the foreseeable future, even if it came to nothing, you will not get the state through the United Nations."
She added, "So, you did what you need to show the seriousness of your objective, and you must now go back to negotiations, where you can actually start with talking about the border"
The Commission issued the Quartet for peace in the Middle East (European Union, Russia and the United Nations and the United States) issued a statement on September 23 / September last calls on both sides to hold an initial meeting within a month to prepare for an expanded peace negotiations.
Earlier yesterday, Clinton said she was "a great hope of the two sides would agree on this." In the interview with "Reuters," Clinton said she hoped that the meeting be held by the end of this month.


Abbas tourIn the meantime, the Palestinian president arrived to Venezuela yesterday, where he met President Hugo Chavez, as part of a regional tour to seek support for joining the State of Palestine to the United Nations.
Chavez said during a meeting with Abbas in the presidential palace, "I call on all members of the Venezuelan people to support the cause of the Palestinian people."
He added that "the Palestinians since the creation of Israel 63 years ago and they are subjected to repression and the invasion and bombing attacks and the United Nations resolutions against them, but the recognition of Palestine is inevitable."
The pre-meeting with Abbas, military ceremonies and official, "We have an ambassador in Palestine, Israel prevented him from entering the occupied territories."He criticized the other hand, the position of the United States "that have stymied the UN Security Council resolutions 43 times in order to protect Israel."
The Palestinian President, currently on a tour to drum up international support for membership of the UN organization, and was reached Friday to Latin America. He arrived yesterday from Venezuela, Colombia, in Bogotá, where he met President Juan Manuel Santos, who stressed that his country - non-permanent member of the Security Council - will not recognize immediately the United Nations of a Palestinian state.
Santos said "We want a Palestinian state, but this can not be the result of a vote at the United Nations or the result of a decision, and this must be the result of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, because negotiation is the only way to achieve peace."
Santos offered his good offices to provide appropriate conditions for the resumption of negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis.
The Columbia non-permanent member of the Security Council is one of nine votes (out of 15) necessary in the absence of any right of veto (veto) to obtain the recognition of the accession of the State of Palestine to the United Nations.
Abbas will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday in Paris.

Source: agencies

Israel apologizes to Egypt for the killing of soldiers





















The Israeli army killed six Egyptian soldiers near the border two months ago (Reuters - Archive)

Office said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday that the latter apologized to Egypt from the Egyptian soldiers killed six Israeli forces fire across the border two months ago.
The incident, which occurred during Israel's response to militants killed eight Israelis on the road to a border in August / August has caused the worst diplomatic row between the two countries since the popular revolution that overthrew the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last February.
The office said the Israeli defense minister said in a statement that after a joint investigation with the Egyptian army, Barak decided to "apologize to all of Egypt died from the Egyptian police in the performance of their duties as a result of fire launched by our troops."
Earlier, a senior intelligence official told Reuters that the Egyptian high-level talks on this issue between the two sides in the past few days, although Egypt has renewed "its demand for an apology from the Israeli border incident."
It is noteworthy that Egypt and Jordan are the only two Arab countries to have signed a peace treaty with Israel.
 
Source: Reuters

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