PALESTINSKI PARADOKS

Erol Avdović

(Avaz - link) 

Zbog toga što je izraleksi premjer Benjamin Netinjahu (Netanyahu) glatko odbio prijedlog predsjednika Obame, da se nova palestinska država formira u granicama iz 1967, kada je u posljednjem velikom ratu izmedju Izraelaca i Arapa, ponovo zgrabljena palestinska teritorija – Palestinci su odlučili tražit priznjanja za svoju državu.

NATINYAHU SAYS "NO" TO OBAMA: PALESTINIANS TO GO FORWARD?

Erol Avdovic (Webpublicapress)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a White House meeting Friday, rejected Obama's call to use the pre-1967 war lines as the basis for border talks with the Palestinians. Because of that, the Palestinians will move ahead with their request for U.N. recognition of their state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said, a Associated Press (AP) reported early Saturday from Ramallah. 

CHINESE-AMERICAN MUSIC DETENTE AT THE UNITED NATIONS

By Erol Avdović

Video by Halil Mula

Conductor-commander,
senior colonel Yu Hai; photo
Webpublicapress 2011

NEW YORK, (Webpublicapress) – When the Cold War was underway in the 1950s between United States and former Soviet Union, US president Dwight Eisenhower said he would go anywhere, any place, any time in pursuit of peace. In the case of North Korea, the New York Philharmonic’s concert in the beginning of 2008, at the time was viewed as “the small step". The hope was it would open the way for more cultural contacts and understanding between two countries that have been at "sword-point" since the 1950-53 Korean War.

UNMIK CHIEF IN NEW YORK

By Halil Mula

AFTER ALL - ANOTHER E.U. DEBACLE IN BOSNIA

Miroslav Lajčak

An authoritative comment by a long-term Balkan analyst on the recent visit to RS by EU foreign-policy chief. Richard Holbrooke often referred to the ‘Yugo-second’ as the amount of time that passed between when a Balkan politician made a promise and broke it. The EU's High Representative for foreign policy Catherine Ashton and her Balkan Director Miroslav Lajcak travelled to Banja Luka last Friday [13 May] in a poorly planned, poorly conceived and poorly executed trip, where they met with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik. The official purpose of the trip was to dissuade Dodik from holding a referendum and to have him revoke 24 problematic RS National Assembly conclusions. Lajcak's hidden agenda was to demonstrate the EU's ability to take over from the Office of the High Representative and prove that Bonn Powers are not necessary. 

EUROPE HOLDS TIGHT TO I.M.F. MONOPOLY

By Thalif Deen

Dominique Strauss-Kahn - IMF's  former boss Credit:UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

UNITED NATIONS, May 19, 2011 (IPS) - Since the election of Camille Gutt of Belgium as the first managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) back in 1946, the Europeans have continued to claim that job as their political and intellectual birthright.And successive IMF heads have come from France (which has held the post four times), Sweden (twice) and one each from Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. The resignation Thursday of the current IMF chief, Dominique Strauss- Kahn of France, following allegations of rape in a New York hotel room last week, has triggered speculation about another European for one of the most powerful jobs in international finance. 

OBAMIN GOVOR: PALESTINCI SE MORAJU DOGOVORITI S IZRAELOM

Erol Avdović

Barack Obama:
Vizija o Bliskom istoku

NEW YORK, (Webpublicapress) – Kada je riječ o američkoj viziji za Bliski istok, došlo je vrijeme kad Amerika mora pokazati da više uvažava obišnog uličnog prodavača u Tunisu, nego golu silu diktatora, rekao je predsjednik Obama obraćajući diplomatskom koru i članovima administracije, te drugim uzvanicima u State Departmentu, u govoru posvećenom u cjelosti bliskoiztočnim problemima. Predsjenika je u State Departmentu najavila državna tajnica Hillary Clinton. (Avaz - link) Ona je istaknulai kako je mjesto iz koga se Obama odlučio obratiti Americi i svijetu važno, jer u toj se instituciji uveliko kroji američka vizija svijeta, uključujući odrednice kako “zaštiti američku sigurnost, promaknuti američke interese, i projecirati američke vrijednosti”.

PALESTINSKA ZASTAVA SPREMNA ZA UJEDINJENE NARODE

Erol Avdović

Palestinski izbjeglica iz 1963 
(UN photo)

NEW YORK, (Webpublicapress) – Riječi predsjednika palestinskih vlasti Mahmuda Abaza (Mahmoud Abbas), kako će preko 130 zemalja, već ovog septembra priznati nezavisnu palestinsku državu stalno dobijaju svoj eho u zgradi Ujedinjenih naroda u New Yorku. Na East Riveru bi se tako, saznaje Webpublicapress (vidi Avaz), već na slijedećem 66 redovnom zasjedanju Generalne skupštine na jarbolima, na kojima su podignute 192 zastave zemalja članica UN-a, mogla zavijoriti i ona palestinska.

WASHINGTON BEZ SANKCIJA I BEZ NASTAVKA PRIČE O REFERENDUMU

Erol Avdović
(Avaz - link)

Hillary Clinton i Catherine Ashton: slažu se u svim
pitanjima (Photo Atlantic Council 2011)

Ako ovih dana u svojstvu novinara koji pokriva zapadni Balkan nazovete američki State Department, kako bi ste osigurali nastavak (follow up) priče i tumačenje kontradiktornih tvrdnji Milorada Dodika, kako "referendum u RS-u nije ukinut", i o toj verziji upitate nešto zvaničnike u Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova SAD, očekuje vas vrlo šturi odgovor. Uputit će vas na dvije kratke izjave sa susreta državne tajnice Hilari Klinton (Hillary Clinton) sa visokom predstavnicom EU Ketrin Ešton (Catherine Ashton).

PAPAGAJSKA DIPLOMATIJA

Erol Avdović

Na posljednoj otvorenoj debati u Vijeću sigurnosti, na kojoj analiziran rad Odbora (Komiteta Vijeća sigurnosti br.1267 koji nosi ime po istom broju rezolucije usvojene 1999) za praćenje Al-Qaide i talibana, iznova je konstatovano - da borbu protiv terorizma treba nastaviti u svjetlu boljeg razumjevanja stvarnih uzroka. A ne samo šamarati po posljedicama!

ENVER HOXAJ: SUDBINA SRBIJE JE UNUTAR A NE VAN NJENIH GRANICA

Razgovarao: Erol Avdović

 (Video Halil Mula) 

Enver Hoxaj, Ministar VP Kosova
(photo WPP Archive 2011)

Enver Hodža (Hoxaj) novi ministar vanjskih poslova Kosova, u ekskluzivnom razgovoru za Webpublicapress (Video Halil Mula) navodi kako je vlada Hašima Tačija – spremna u potpunosti suradjivati sa medjunarodnom zajednicom u vezi sa već pokrenutom istragom EULEX-a o navodnoj trgovini ljudskim organima za vrijeme oružanih sukoba 1999. "Želimo punu istragu odmah", kaže za WPP.