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Security Council Considers Amendments to Truce Plan in Lebanon
Security Council Considers Amendments to Truce Plan in Lebanon
By Barbara Schoetzau
New York
07 August 2006
At the United Nations, the Security Council is discussing amendments to a French-American sponsored resolution to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Diplomats met throughout the weekend to consider proposals put forth by Lebanon and Qatar, the only Arab nation currently serving on the Security Council.
France and the United States presented a negotiated draft resolution Saturday calling for a full cessation of hostilities leading to a permanent cease-fire and political solution to the crisis in Lebanon.
But Lebanon is urging the council to revise the resolution to include a demand that Israel immediately withdraw its forces from Lebanon and turn over its position to UN peacekeepers. According to the Lebanese proposal, the peacekeepers would help the Lebanese army deploy throughout southern Lebanon, which is now in control of Hezbollah forces, to the Blue Line, the U.N.-drawn boundary with Israel.
France's U.N. ambassador, Jean Marc de la Sabliere, says council members are trying to take into consideration all points of views, including those of the Arab League, which is sending a delegation to meet with the council.
"I said when we secured the text in the council that this text could be improved so I am going to work to day to improve the text," he said. "We have to take into account the concerns of all."
The Arab League envoy to the United Nations, Yahya Mahmassani, say the withdrawal of Israeli troops behind the Blue Line and a cease-fire are the top priorities. Next, he says, is putting the disputed Shebaa Farms area under U.N. jurisdiction pending its delineation. Lebanon claims the area, which Israel seized area during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. But the United Nations says it belongs to Syria and that Syria and Israel should determine the area's fate. Hezbollah says Israel's occupation of the Shebaa Farms area is the reason for its fight with Israel.
"The third point: there should be the transfer of the two Israeli soldiers and the Lebanese prisoners, including those who were abducted recently," noted Mahmassani. "There should be an equity. It should be done simultaneously. They way it is now in the present draft, it has a discriminatory tone and we do not accept it."
Once the Security Council passes the resolution, a second resolution is expected to deal with the issue of sending an international force to implement a cease-fire and a long-term solution to the situation in Lebanon.
Source : VOA News
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Senior British Police Officer Says Anti-Terror Efforts Alienating Muslims
Senior British Police Officer Says Anti-Terror Efforts Alienating Muslims
By Gary Thomas
London
07 August 2006
One of Britain's top police officers says anti-terror laws risk creating more radicals among the country's Muslim population. In a speech delivered Monday, he says toughened counter-terrorism laws in Western countries are fueling indirect discrimination against Muslims.
In a blunt speech to the National Black Police Association in Manchester, Assistant Police Commissioner
said anti-terror efforts have created a climate of what he termed "Islamophobia". Such a climate, he said, has angered young Muslims and made them susceptible to exploitation by Islamic radicals.
Commissioner Ghaffur, who is Britain's most senior Muslim police officer, called for a full judicial inquiry into the root causes of radicalization in Britain's Muslim communities.
"What we need is an evidence-based approach to identifying what the real causes are," he said. "And I, therefore, support those who have been calling for an independent review of the issues young Muslims are facing in the community themselves."
Britain is home to more than 1.5 million Muslims, most of them immigrants from South Asian countries and their descendants.
Fifty-two people were killed in suicide attacks on London's subway system on July 7 of last year. The attackers were all young British Muslims. Following that attack, Britain tightened its anti-terror laws.
Commissioner Ghaffur said people were being stopped and searched on the basis of appearance, rather than intelligence information.
Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission of Britain, told VOA that what he described as racial profiling by police has become more commonplace since the subway attacks. "Unfortunately, we have been sort of facing cases after cases of people who have been unduly sort of stopped, and not just stopped and searched, but stopped and harassed and searched," said Shadjareh. "And it's been totally counterproductive. It's about time that the Metropolitan Police acknowledged the problem and tried to find remedies."
Shadjareh endorsed Commissioner Ghaffur's call for a judicial inquiry, but said it should examine what he said is a growing Islamophobic climate in Britain. "I don't think radicalization, which means different things to different people, is the issue," he noted. "I think what we need, we need a full inquiry into the level of Islamophobia that is being played out in the policing, and find remedies to ratify that."
A British Home Office spokesman said Britain's counter-terrorism efforts are not aimed at any one race or religion or particular group, but at terrorists, and that the government is committed to improving relations with the Muslim community.
Source : VOA News
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15 Aid Workers Found Executed as Fighting Continues in Sri Lanka
15 Aid Workers Found Executed as Fighting Continues in Sri Lanka
By Patricia Nunan
New Delhi
07 August 2006
Fifteen aid workers have been found executed in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Muttur - where fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels has raged for nearly two weeks. Other humanitarian groups are trying to reach the town to provide assistance to civilians there, but have been prevented by an ongoing battle over a water reservoir.
Aid officials say 15 Sri Lankans - all ethnic Tamils working for the French aid agency, Action Against Hunger - were found dead in their office in Muttur. All had been shot in the head, and most were laying face down, suggesting an execution.
They had been working to provide ongoing assistance to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Muttur has been in the middle of 13 days of fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels.
Relief officials are concerned. Vignati Davide is a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
"The I.C.R.C. local staff is stuck in Muttur town," Davide explained. "We lost contact with them during the weekend. We know for sure they left our offices on Friday due to the shelling that hit slightly our offices. But nobody so far could enter Muttur."
Officials from the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, an umbrella group of Sri Lankan aid organizations, are traveling to the area to investigate the deaths.
Fighting began when government troops tried to secure a reservoir, held by Tamil rebels, who cut off water supplies to villagers in government-held land.
It is the worst violence since Norway helped broker a cease-fire in 2002.
But it is hardly the first cease-fire violation. An estimated 850 people have died in tit for tat incidents between the government and the rebels this year alone.
Senior Norwegian envoy, Jon Hanssen Bauer, is in Sri Lanka to try to save the tattered truce and stop the situation in Muttur from degenerating into all out war.
Sri Lanka endured two decades of ethnically fueled civil war as the Tamil Tigers fought for a separate homeland from the majority Sinhalese.
Source : VOA News
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Sri Lanka Says Tamil Rebels Propose Peace Talks
Sri Lanka Says Tamil Rebels Propose Peace Talks
By Patricia Nunan
New Delhi
13 August 2006
The Sri Lankan government says the Tamil Tiger rebels have offered to resume peace talks, which could bring an end to nearly three weeks of fighting in the country's north and east. But international monitors mediating peace efforts say they have received no formal communications about talks, and fighting between the two sides continues.
Sri Lankan officials say the Tamil Tiger leadership had offered Friday to return to the negotiating table - a proposal the government signaled it would be keen to accept. Since then, officials say, they have not heard from the Tamil Tigers.
Friday's initial messages were relayed informally through ceasefire monitors from the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission, the SLMM. But its spokesman, Thorfinnur Omarsson, says any possible talks remain on hold, because the SLMM has received no official communication from either side.
"It's not yet there," he said. "We hope that they will do it, but we are still waiting for a formal request."
No comments about peace talks have been posted on a pro-rebel webpage that frequently carries comments from the Tamil Tiger leadership.
A day after the rebels' reported offer to meet the government, fighting erupted on the Jaffna peninsula in the north of the country - the second front to open between the two sides in recent weeks.
The government holds the peninsula, but it borders rebel-held land where the Tamil Tiger leadership is based. Communication with the area is difficult.
Clashes are also continuing in eastern Trincomalee district, where the fighting is now in
The violence erupted when the government launched an offensive to take control of a water reservoir in rebel territory, after the Tamil Tigers blocked water from flowing to villagers on government-held land.
It was the worst eruption of violence since the two sides signed a ceasefire in 2002. The truce, brokered by Norway, was meant to put an end to more than two decades of ethnically-fueled civil war that has claimed some 60,000 lives.
The Tamil Tigers demand independence for predominantly Tamil areas in the north and east of the country, because of what they say is repression by the Sinhalese majority, which controls the government in the south.
Source : VOA News
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Vietnam in Uphill Battle Against Corruption
Vietnam in Uphill Battle Against Corruption
By Matt Steinglass
Hanoi
13 August 2006
As Vietnam prepares to ratify the U.N. Convention Against Corruption, the government continues its campaign to eradicate one of the country's most entrenched economic problems. But, progress is slow and one recent case has raised concerns in the foreign business community.
Vietnamese government officials are gearing up to adopt new anti-corruption measures when the country ratifies the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.
Nguyen Van Thanh, head of research at Vietnam's Government Inspectorate, says ratifying the U.N. convention goes along with a host of other measures that will make Vietnam a more transparent place to do business.
"From our point of view, it is very important for the investors to see the developing of our transparency, and if we do that we can get more investors internationally into Vietnam," he said.
Vietnam is involved in a massive anti-graft campaign, and the National Assembly recently passed a comprehensive law on corruption.
Since last year, Vietnamese government inspectors have uncovered a series of major corruption scandals.
The worst, at the Transportation Ministry, involved tens of millions of dollars and cost the minister and other senior officials their jobs.
Other investigations have targeted Vietnam Airlines and the government oil monopoly, PetroVietnam.
Soccer stars have been jailed for running illegal gambling rings, teachers have been caught helping students cheat on final exams, and a top official of the government inspectorate itself has been suspended for accepting bribes.
While welcoming moves toward transparency, some foreign investors remain worried.
A recent case of corruption by a government worker has embroiled a foreign company in both civil and criminal lawsuits and raises concerns that the laws are being applied unfairly and arbitrarily.
Incombank, a state-owned bank, has sued ABN AMRO for $5.4 million. It claims the money disappeared in speculative deals the Dutch bank made with an Incombank manager who was not authorized to trade currency. ABN AMRO says the trades were legal.
The manager has been arrested on charges of losing state resources through economic mismanagement. Two local ABN AMRO employees have also been detained.
Incombank spokesman Tran Duy Bich says the police think the Dutch bank is at fault.
Bich says the police decided that ABN AMRO had broken the law, and recommended Incombank demand its money back. He says Vietnam could expel ABN AMRO if it does not comply.
Previous finance cases have been investigated by Vietnam's State Bank, not the police. That change has some foreign investors in Hanoi worried.
"We are concerned by the criminalization of some civil cases in Vietnam," said Alain Cany of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.
Foreign businessmen still put little trust in Vietnam's legal system, which is not independent of the government or the governing Communist party. Many business leaders say it is impossible to win a case against a state-owned company.
Source : VOA News
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India's Cola Companies Face Bans Over Alleged Pesticide Contamination
India's Cola Companies Face Bans Over Alleged Pesticide Contamination
By Anjana Pasricha
New Delhi
13 August 2006
In India, six states have announced bans on the sale or manufacture of soft drinks produced by U.S. companies Coca-Cola and PepsiCo following allegations that they contain high pesticide levels. The controversy has sparked a heated debate in India over the issue of water and food contamination.
The controversy erupted last week when a New Delhi-based environmental watchdog said soft drinks produced by the cola giants contain pesticide residues 24 times higher than those set by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi have rejected the study by the Center for Science and Environment, saying their soft drinks are "the safest beverages you can drink today."
They say their Indian products meet international standards.
This is the second time the controversy has erupted. A study in 2003 by the same environmental group also claimed to have found high levels of pesticides in the drinks produced by the cola companies.
But this time the cola giants are facing more heat.
The communist government in a southern Indian state, Kerala, has imposed a total ban on production and sales of the soft drinks. Five other states have announced partial bans on the sale of the soft drinks in schools, hospitals and government offices.
The Indian Supreme Court has demanded that the companies reveal their recipe, so that allegations of high pesticide levels can be verified with further tests.
But consumer groups say the campaign against the soft drinks ignores the bigger picture. They say many Indian foods and beverages have high levels of pesticides because intensive use of chemicals by farmers has contaminated the groundwater. They are asking the government to focus on the wider issue of pesticide proliferation.
The head of the Mumbai-based Consumer Guidance Society of India, A.R. Shenoy, is calling for stricter implementation of safety standards in all food products, not only soft drinks.
"We have a lot of problems in other foods also, but who cares, who bothers? We have larger problems of water getting contaminated with microbes, and these are the microbes that will put you off [make you sick] because of diarrhea," he said. "Basically in the system as such there is no regulatory mechanism."
The cola companies are also trying to emphasize the wider issue of pesticide contamination as they mount a public relations campaign to calm consumers.
They have published prominent newspaper advertisements saying pesticide levels in their products are well below levels detected in other foodstuffs such as tea, eggs, grains, fruits and dairy products.
Controversy is not new to cola products, seen by some Indian nationalist groups as symbols of Western cultural imperialism. Coca-Cola pulled out of India in 1977 after the government insisted it reveal its formula, but returned 16 years later.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi control nearly all of India's soft drinks market. The 2003 study saying the drinks contained high levels of pesticides briefly dented sales, but the issue quickly faded from public memory.
Source : VOA News
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