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David Cameron ha ganado estas elecciones en Reino Unido pero cuando la Reina de Inglaterra le renueve la petición de formar gobierno todos los desafíos seguirán ahí.

GJILAN/GNJILANE, 11 May 2015 – The municipalities of Ferizaj/Uroševac, Štrpce/Shtërpcë, and Klokot/Kllokot will tomorrow sign a declaration on community dialogue and co-operation. The ceremony will be held in Ferizaj/Uroševac and is supported by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

The declaration is an expression of good will by mayors to enhance interaction and dialogue between different communities residing in their municipalities through joint projects and activities.

The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger, Mayor of Ferizaj/Uroševac municipality, Muharrem Svarqa, Deputy Mayor for Communities of Štrpce/Shtërpcë municipality, Beqir Fejzullahu, and Mayor of Klokot/Kllokot municipality, Srećko Spasić, will be speaking at the event.  

Media representatives are cordially invited to attend the event, on Tuesday 12 May 2015, starting at 14:00, at the Ferizaj/Uroševac Municipal Assembly Hall.

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By Paul McLeary and Ariel Robinson

Bring in the drones. In January 2014, the United States sent 14 unarmed ScanEagle drones to Iraq as a part of a larger weapons deal to assist then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in quelling what was then seen as a rekindled Sunni rebellion in western Iraq.

We haven’t heard much about those birds since the initial announcement was made, but last week, on May 7, the Defense Department said that Iraq had completed the $10 million deal with the Washington-state based ScanEagle maker Insitu Inc. to operate the drones, along with providing enough maintenance personnel to support the “intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services program and force protection services for the government of Iraq,” at Camp Taji, just north of Baghdad.

The ScanEagle has been a workhorse for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The five-foot long, 30-40 lb. drone is capable of staying aloft for 24 hours at a time.

In other ScanEagle news, does anyone else wonder what happened to the 12 ScanEagle and NightEagle drones that the Yemeni government bought in September 2014? Some $500 million worth of U.S. military equipment was lost earlier this year when Houthi rebels took over a series of military bases there, but we haven’t heard many details.

Standing room only. It wasn’t the greatest view, but the steps of the River Entrance at the Pentagon was a nice little spot to watch the 70 WWII-era planes fly over Washington last Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. A good chunk of the press corps and a few hundred other Pentagon staffers shuffled out of the building around lunchtime to see the show, and we found ourselves standing just a few steps down from Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who was safely ensconced in the shade while we worked on a “good base tan” to start beach season.

Carter actually stood just a few feet behind a small group of reporters — we’ve discovered over the past three months that he certainly doesn’t like standing in front of us — while his chief of staff Eric Fanning (until recently the Undersecretary of the Air Force) was out in his shirtsleeves chatting up a group of Air Force officers. The scene made us a little regretful that we’re not up to date on the full list on Air Force one- and two-star generals, since there were lots of brass from the air service milling about, unencumbered by their staffs.

We also had a front row seat for the Curtis Helldiver that had to peel off and make an emergency landing at National Airport. It flew almost right over the Pentagon on its safe descent on to the runway. No one was hurt, thankfully.

Who’s on first? On Sunday, The New York Times’ Helene Cooper reported that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz would not attend the much-hyped Gulf Cooperation Council meeting that President Barack Obama is hosting at Camp David this week, in a move being seen as a snub to the Obama administration.

Just wanted to point out that FP’s own John Hudson reported last Thursday that  “a U.S. official told Foreign Policy the White House had not yet confirmed the attendance of a number of key officials in the GCC — a union that includes Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar.”

The weekend’s over and it’s time once again to start getting your daily fill of the mayhem and destruction — and occasional tentative stabs at hope and understanding — that our fellow human beings inflict on one another. Too dark? Let me know at paul.mcleary@foreignpolicy.com or on Twitter: @paulmcleary

Think Tanked

At 9:00 a.m. at the Brookings Institution, the shop’s Kenneth Pollack, senior fellow, Center for Middle East Policy talks “The future of Iraq: A conversation with Sunni leaders,” with Rafi al-Issawi, former Iraqi deputy prime minister and minister of finance, and Atheel al-Nujayfi, Governor of Ninewah Province. At 10:00 a.m. at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright and Sean O’Keefe, former administrator of NASA, talk about “U.S. Strategy for Civil and Military Space.” And then at 10:30 a.m., The Center for Cyber & Homeland Security at the George Washington University hosts the “State of the Cybersecurity Union,” with Adm. Michael Rogers, the head of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency.

Counterterrorism

The Daily Beast’s Jamie Dettmer reports from Turkey that he’s hearing Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “has been moved from Iraq to the Syrian city of Raqqa, the terror army’s de facto capital, amid tight security two months after sustaining serious shrapnel wounds leaving his spine damaged and his left leg immobile, say jihadist defectors.”

“Those guys are badass,” a U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber crew member recently told U.S. News & World Report’s Paul D. Shinkman about Kurdish fighters in the Syrian city of Kobani. Shinkman took a trip down to Dyess Air Force Base in Texas to talk to B-1 crews recently back from bombing runs over Syria, with one officer telling him that the Syria mission “gave us a recharge on the whole conflict, even in Afghanistan…we weren’t in a rut – we were still executing missions, but there was something different this time.”

AFP reports that “the global terrorist threat has entered a ‘new phase,’ where media-savvy Islamist extremists are successfully drawing lone wolf attackers to their cause, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security [Jeh Johnson] warned Sunday.”

This was echoed by Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) who told CNN, “the combination of those two groups [Al Qaeda and ISIL] — their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States, so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.”

Europe

Norway’s modernization plans for its defense forces have been making waves these last few weeks. Over the weekend, Defense News’ Vago Muradian spoke with Norway’s chief of defense, Adm. Haakon Bruun-Hanse, about a recently released report detailing the Norwegian military’s capabilities and weaknesses.

In Macedonia on Sunday, eight policemen and 14 gunmen were killed in an attack that authorities say was led by five Kosovars who were members of the now-disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, the BBC reports. More than 30 Macedonians and one Albanian were involved in the attack that left more than 37 additional officers wounded. “It’s total destruction,” one Macedonian is quoted as saying.

Last month, roughly 40 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo took over a police station, demanding the creation of an Albanian state within Macedonia. Tensions have been running high since an uprising in 2001.

Yemen

The Los Angeles Times’ Zaid Al-Alayaa and Patrick J. Mcdonnell report that Yemeni rebels have agreed to a five-day, humanitarian cease-fire proposed by the Saudis.

Nigeria

A gunmen opened fire outside the College of Administrative and Business Studies in Potiskum, Yobe state, Nigeria, the AFP reports, killing 12. The shooter blew himself up when he ran out of ammunition, but there were no additional casualties.

Egypt

Egyptian presidential spokesman Alaa Yousef said on Saturday that “Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed as firm relations between Cairo and Moscow, expressing his country’s support for Egypt,” according to Egypt’s State Information Service. During a meeting between Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the two leaders discussed bolstering their “already strong ties,” and “other issues of common concern.”  During the visit to Moscow, Sisi also met with his Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang.

The business of defense

“In the span of just a few weeks, a flurry of orders has reset the global fighter market,” writes Defense News in what’s bylined as a “staff report.” Since mid-February, Egypt, India, and Qatar all announced that they were planning to buy dozens of French-made Dassault Rafale fighter planes. In April, the United Arab Emirates said it was restarting talks with Dassault about the Rafale. Then, just last week it leaked that Kuwait was on the verge of buying up to 40 Boeing-made F/A-18 E and F Super Hornet strike fighters from the United States. “It’s a shocking amount of activity for a fighter market that often sees just one or two procurements a year globally, and one analysts say is being driven by world events,” in the Middle East, the story says.

One more thing

Finally, we know that it’s Seymour Hersh, but his new story in the London Review of Books about all of the lies behind the official narrative(s) of the bin Laden raid is a good read. Take it as you will.

 

 

Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi movement, which have been fighting for nearly two months, have reached a plan for a five-day ceasefire, set to begin on Tuesday. A Houthi official posted on social media that they will accept the ceasefire if it proves to be “real and serious.” The pause will allow the delivery of critical humanitarian aid, but it is unclear whether the agreement will hold as neither side has strong control of its forces. In the meantime, though, Saudi airstrikes have continued, including strikes targeting the estate of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh and more than a dozen Houthi leaders. Houthi forces have reportedly claimed responsibility for shooting down a Moroccan F-16 participating in the Saudi bombing campaign.

The United Nations has expressed its support for the planned pause in the conflict, but chafed at Saudi Arabia’s insistence on mediating humanitarian aid. U.N. policy states that the delivery of humanitarian aid should not be governed by a belligerent in a conflict. “The active engagement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is appreciated,” U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen Johannes Van Der Klaauw said. “However, in all crises, the emergency relief coordinator is mandated to lead the coordination of international relief activities and emergency response.” Some humanitarian organizations said they did not think sufficient aid could be delivered in five days to alleviate crises that include medicine, food, water, and fuel shortages.

Assad Regime Arrests Intel Chief for Coup Plot

The Assad regime has placed Ali Mamlouk, head of the country’s National Security Bureau, under house arrest amid accusations that he was plotting a coup. Mamlouk was reportedly communicating with Turkish intelligence to try to arrange the return of Rifaat al-Assad, who has lived abroad since plotting to overthrow his brother Hafez in the 1980s. Last month, two other security chiefs were taken out of power in mysterious circumstances: Gen. Rafiq Shehadeh, head of military intelligence, was fired after his supporters attacked and killed Rustum Ghazaleh, the head of the Political Security Directorate. The internal conflict is said to be a reaction to overbearing Iranian influence on the regime.

Headlines

• The Saudi government confirmed that King Salman will not attend the Gulf summit hosted by President Obama at Camp David this week and will send Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in his stead; other Gulf nations will also be sending diplomatic delegations instead of their monarchs.

 

• Libyan forces attacked a Turkish cargo ship carrying construction materials; Libyan officials said the ship was approaching rebel-held Derna, violating an embargo of the city, while Turkish officials say it was trying to reach Tobruk.

 

• European Union efforts to establish a quota system to distribute the burden of resettling migrants transiting the Mediterranean to Europe from North Africa have run into opposition from Slovakia and Estonia, possibly blocking its approval.

 

• Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davetoglu crossed into Syria to visit the tomb of Suleyman Shah, a figure from early Ottoman history, and said the Turkish flag “will fly over Suleyman Shah forever,” drawing criticism from the Assad regime for “a clear aggression.”

 

• An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in prison on corruption charges, reaffirming a previous ruling; Mubarak was previously acquitted of murder charges for deaths during the 2011 uprising against his rule.

-J. Dana Stuster

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EU Finance Ministers will meet on 12 May 2015 in Brussels to discuss ongoing work on the proposed European fund for strategic investments, the Commission's in-depth reviews of macroeconomic imbalances in the member states, as well as implementation of structural reforms.

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General : Tax rulings, EU-Russia relations, Turkey’s reform progress, boosting free trade with the US, empowering women in Africa and the current situation in Georgia are all on the Parliament's agenda when MEPs gather this week in Brussels. Political groups will also prepare for the plenary session in Strasbourg on 18-21 May. Meanwhile Parliament President Martin Schulz will be awarded the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen on Thursday.

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General : Tax rulings, EU-Russia relations, Turkey’s reform progress, boosting free trade with the US, empowering women in Africa and the current situation in Georgia are all on the Parliament's agenda when MEPs gather this week in Brussels. Political groups will also prepare for the plenary session in Strasbourg on 18-21 May. Meanwhile Parliament President Martin Schulz will be awarded the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen on Thursday.

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A Pázmaneum Társulás gyűjtést szervez Kárpátalja megsegítésére. A gyűjtés fő célja a nehéz helyzetben lévő családok és az egyedülálló idős emberek megsegítése Kárpátalján.

“Mindennapos gondokkal küzdenek a kárpátaljai magyarok, ezért adománygyűjtésbe kezdünk, hogy a befolyt összegből az ottani családokat, magányos embereket tudjuk segíteni. Kérjük a katolikus egyházközségeket, civil szervezeteket, vállalkozókat, hogy segítsenek kezdeményezésünkben és lakóhelyükön hirdessék meg a gyűjtést. Adományainkat a Kárpátaljai Katolikus Karitásznak juttatjuk majd el.” – írja a társulás, amely hivatalos, belügyminisztériumi engedéllyel folytatja a tevékenységét. A gyűjtés 2015. október végéig tart, amelyet egy jótékonysági koncert előz majd meg.

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Le 28 avril 2015, le patrouilleur hauturier (PH) l’Adroit a entamé deux semaines de patrouilles dans le canal du Mozambique. Une mission pendant laquelle il assure la surveillance maritime de la zone économique exclusive française, des contrôles de pêche et une veille contre l’immigration clandestine.

Rekord alacsony részvétel, a baloldal megsemmisítő veresége, Komowski bizonytalan helyzete – ezek a meglepő fordulatok.

Vortrag in Berlin am 17.02.2015 bei der Auftaktveranstaltung des Weißbuchprozesses 2016

Du 27 au 30 avril 2015, le Groupement tactique désert ouest (GTD-O) de la force Barkhane a mené une opération bipartite, en appui des Forces armées maliennes (FAMa), au Sud de Gao, dans la région d’Ansongo-Ménaka.

Általános : Hétfő délután az Európai Parlament meghallgatást tart az állatkísérletek betiltását szorgalmazó európai polgári kezdeményezésről. A kezdeményezés hatályon kívül helyezné a tudományos célokra felhasznált állatok védelméről szóló uniós irányelvet, és arra kéri az Európai Bizottságot, hogy nyújtson be új javaslatot az állatkísérletek betiltásáról. A vitát, amelyen a polgári kezdeményezés támogatói mellett szakértők is felszólalnak, hétfőn 15 órától honlapunkon is élőben közvetítjük.

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2016 nyarán Dance Congress címmel táncfesztivált rendeznek Hannoverben.

Damit der Klimawandel nicht vollends aus dem Ruder läuft, soll die Erderwärmung zwei Grad nicht...

Cette recension d’ouvrage est issue de Politique étrangère (1/2015). Camille Vaziaga propose une analyse de l’ouvrage de Boris Beaude, Les fins d’internet  (Limoges, FYP Éditions, 2014, 96 pages).

Dans l’ouvrage de Boris Beaude, chercheur au laboratoire Chôros de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, « les fins d’internet » désignent aussi bien les finalités qui ont conduit à la naissance de l’internet comme réseau ouvert et décentralisé, que la mise à mort de ses fondements sous la pression de sa commercialisation, des failles sécuritaires et de la régulation étatique.

À sa création, l’internet porte en lui les attentes de chercheurs qui perçoivent la Seconde Guerre mondiale comme le résultat, pour partie, d’un système de communication inefficient. Le nouveau réseau devait alors dépasser la territorialité des nationalismes, garantir la transparence des échanges et établir la liberté d’expression comme valeur commune dans le monde. La participation, l’indépendance et la transparence sont trois conditions nécessaires à la constitution de l’internet comme espace de liberté d’expression et de contribution à l’intelligence collective. Or ces conditions ne peuvent être remplies à l’heure où le réseau se privatise, où les collaborations répondent davantage à des enjeux professionnels qu’individuels et où des algorithmes aux formules mathématiques tenues secrètes organisent l’espace informationnel.

Les organisations privées ne sont pas les seules à mettre à mal la liberté d’expression sur le web, entendue ici dans une acception héritée des Lumières. Le discours libertaire porté par les pionniers de l’internet est, par nature, incompatible avec la notion d’État-nation et les enjeux sécuritaires de ces derniers. De ce fait, le réseau est devenu un espace régulé et surveillé sous des formes variant en fonction des cultures nationales. L’Iran construit son intranet tandis que la National Security Agency (NSA) américaine généralise au monde entier ses pratiques de surveillance. Pour Beaude, qui travaille depuis plusieurs décennies sur les relations de causalité entre espace et politique, cette hétérogénéité trouve une traduction dans la géographie même de l’espace internet. Conçu à l’origine comme décentralisé, celui-ci subit aujourd’hui une « hypercentralité ». Là encore, celle-ci est le résultat tant des organisations privées que des États.

D’une part les entreprises ont su détourner la gratuité favorisée par le fonctionnement même de l’internet : contre le service gratuit, l’internaute accepte de livrer ses informations personnelles et devient lui-même le produit vendu aux annonceurs. Les firmes du secteur cherchent désormais à monopoliser le plus grand espace, en imposant à l’utilisateur le choix par défaut d’un logiciel ou d’une application, en limitant l’interopérabilité des services, ou encore en diversifiant leurs activités pour capter tous les segments de la chaîne de valeur et de nouveaux créneaux commerciaux. L’utopie de déterritorialisation et de décentralisation portée par l’internet se heurte également au repli des États qui constatent la vulnérabilité de leurs données en ligne et la domination américaine. Pour l’auteur, ces deux facteurs conduisent au retour d’une certaine forme d’impérialisme et génèrent donc une méfiance des États entre eux, en contradiction même avec l’universalité à laquelle aspirait le réseau.

En conclusion, Beaude évoque la dérive d’un internet neutre vers un internet neutralisé, et invite les États-nations et les organisations privées, soit tous les acteurs qui se sont emparés du réseau, à initier un grand débat autour des enjeux politiques de « ce seul lien que l’humanité ait en commun ».

S’abonner à Politique étrangère.

Russia will launch a US communications satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan this year, the government said in a statement on Monday.

2015. május 9-én, szombaton lezuhant egy A400M közepes katonai teherszállító repülőgép a sevilla-i San Pablo repülőtér közelében. Az MSN23-as jelű repülőgép a Török Légierő részére készült, tesztrepülésre emelkedett a levegőbe helyi idő szerint 12 óra 54 perckor. Nem sokkal a felszállást követően a személyzet hibát jelentett, de időközben annyi magasságot veszítettek, hogy beleütköztek egy nagyfeszültségű vezeték oszlopába, az Atlas lezuhant és teljesen kiégett. A gép hatfős személyzetéből négyen életüket vesztették, két főt súlyos sérülésekkel kórházban ápolnak. 

Civil society participants strengthened their ability to recognize and record hate crimes at a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Malaga, Spain on 10 May 2015.

During the workshop, which was organized within the framework of the "Overcome all borders: UNITED against Intolerance" conference, 33 participants from 19 countries explored the concept of hate crimes and learned the importance of effectively identifying and acting on hate crimes through monitoring, reporting and working with local authorities. 

“To support co-operation between civil society and public authorities to end hate crime, ODIHR works closely with all actors to strengthen their awareness of the issues surrounding hate crime, from reporting to response,” said Cristina Finch, Head of the ODIHR Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department. “This approach ensures that victims can be helped in the most effective way."

The conference provided a forum for ideas and strategies to counter the intolerance migrants face in Europe, notably discrimination and hate crime. The ensuing workshop was part of ODIHR's continued engagement with civil society.

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