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Les directions de l’éducation des Wilayas, ont rejeté 90 candidats en raison d’un retard de plus de 30 minutes à compter de la date d’ouverture des enveloppes contenant les sujets, tandis que plus de 7 000 candidats qui avaient  10 minutes de retard se sont vu autorisés à rejoindre leurs salles d’examens et ont évité […]

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MOSCOW, 25 June 2021 — OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid concluded her four-day visit to Moscow. Throughout the visit, she highlighted the value of the OSCE as a bridge-builder and a platform for dialogue between the East and the West.

The Secretary General met with Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council, Grigoriy Karasin, and other senior Russian stakeholders.

Her bilateral discussions focused on crises and conflicts in the OSCE area, including the Transdniestrian settlement process, a sustainable and peaceful settlement to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and addressing the consequences of the 2008 conflict in Georgia.  

Schmid reaffirmed the OSCE’s continued commitment to supporting efforts toward a peaceful resolution to the crisis in and around Ukraine which needs all signatories to live up to their Minsk agreements’ obligations and to implement the Paris Summit conclusions as agreed by the Normandy format.

The Secretary General underscored how the work of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine’s (SMM) - monitoring and impartially reporting facts from the ground - is crucial to helping to bring about peace and stability in eastern Ukraine. She also stressed that the SMM must have safe, secure and unhindered access on both sides of the contact line to do their job. 

Highlighting the importance of revitalising arms control in the OSCE region, Schmid said: “We need real dialogue both at the political and at the military level, to revive the spirit of transparency in military matters, and to help find common ground.” In her address to the IX Moscow Security Conference, she stressed the need for participating States to re-engage with the OSCE's arms control and confidence- and security-building measures, to reduce risks and enhance military transparency, predictability and stability.

Schmid also held talks with the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Stanislav Zas, and addressed the Permanent Council of the CSTO. Their discussions considered where co-operation between the two organizations might be intensified. “No country or organization alone can tackle growing transnational threats such as terrorism, organized crime, human trafficking or cyber-attacks,” Schmid said.

Schmid spoke at the Valdai discussion club on current trends in European security.

In the Secretary General’s meeting with representatives of the Women’s Union of Russia, she stressed the need to advance the role of women in all areas of public life. She also met with Russian civil society groups working to prevent violence against women.

In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.

The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions are maintained.

The meetings will be with remote participation for Members (being able to view and listen to proceedings, ask for the floor and intervene in the meeting). Other participants are invited to follow the meeting through webstreaming.

Following these decisions, the next meetings of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) will take place on 28 June 2021 (online).
The meeting agenda and documents will be published here.

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Membre du Comité scientifique de suivi de l’évolution de la pandémie de coronavirus et Spécialiste en maladies infectieuses, le Pr Akhamouk a livré aujourd’hui son analyse de la situation épidémiologique relative au nouveau coronavirus en Algérie. Le Professeur s’est exprimé sur les Ondes de la radio Sétifienne, et il s’est notamment penché sur les mesures […]

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The Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence will go over the outcome of the recent NATO Summit and the launch of the review of the 2010 Strategic Concept, together with NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană. The current Strategic Concept needs to be reviewed to take into account the situation of the international order and how NATO can contribute to European and transatlantic security in the current context. The meeting will be held on 28 June.

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Interceptés par la douane à Büchel, les fraudeurs ont utilisé un gaufrier et une batterie de voiture pour cacher les paquets.

A l’instar du Cameroun et du Rwanda, le Gabon et le Togo, d'autres pays francophones ont annoncé leur volonté d’être membres du Commonwealth. Mais qu’apportent les deux regroupements (anglo-saxon et francophone) aux pays membres africains ?

A l’instar du Cameroun et du Rwanda, le Gabon et le Togo, d'autres pays francophones ont annoncé leur volonté d’être membres du Commonwealth. Mais qu’apportent les deux regroupements (anglo-saxon et francophone) aux pays membres africains ?

By Maywa Montenegro, Matthew Canfield, and Alastair Iles
SANTA CRUZ, California, Jun 25 2021 (IPS)

In July, the United Nations will convene “Science Days”, a high-profile event in preparation for the UN Food Systems Summit later this year. Over the course of two days, the world will be treated to a parade of Zoom sessions aimed at “highlighting the centrality of science, technology and innovation for food systems transformation.”

Maywa Montenegro

Nobody disputes the need for urgent action to transform the food system. But the UNFSS has been criticized by human rights experts for its top-down and non-transparent organization. Indigenous peoples, peasants, and civil society groups around the world know their hard-won rights are under attack. Many are protesting the summit’s legitimacy and organizing counter-mobilizations.

Scientists are also contesting a summit because of its selective embrace of science, as seen in a boycott letter signed by nearly 300 academics, from Brazil to Italy to Japan.

Through the Summit, “science” has been weaponized by powerful actors not only to promote a technology-driven approach to food systems, but also to fragment global food security governance and create institutions more amenable to the demands of agribusiness.

Recipe for Elite Global Governance

The UNFSS was announced in 2019 by the UN Secretary General as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The announcement came just after the UN signed a strategic partnership with the World Economic Forum. It also elicited outcry from social movements when Agnes Kalibata, President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, was chosen to lead the forum — a powerful signal of UNFSS allegiances.

The “multi-stakeholder” structure of the summit has raised concerns from observers who recognize the privatization of multilateral public governance it presages. While Kalibata describes the UNFSS as an inclusive “peoples’ summit,” more than 500 smallholder and peasant organizations signed a letter criticizing the summit’s multi-stakeholder platforms: “Instead of drawing from the innovative governance experiences that the UN system has to offer, the UN-WEF partnership is helping to establishing “stakeholder capitalism” as a governance model for the entire planet.”

Matthew Canfield

Through one lens, multistakeholderism looks like a set of “inclusive” practices: the summit has five Action Tracks (e.g. “Ensuring Access to Safe and Nutritious Food for All” and “Boosting Nature Positive Production at Sufficient Scale”), an endless number of “dialogues,” and an elaborate online forum where anyone can participate.

However, this profusion of spaces obscures the fact that the UNFSS has no built-in structures of accountability. This is particularly troublesome because, as UN special rapporteurs have observed, the summit’s process was pre-determined by a small set of actors: “The private sector, organizations serving the private sector (notably the World Economic Forum), scientists, and economists initiated the process. The table was set with their perspectives, knowledge, interests and biases.”

The scientific ideas shaping those parameters, then, should invite our curiosity and concern. What kinds of science are included — and excluded? What are the implications for the future of global food system governance?

Defining Science as Investment-Friendly Innovation

A new Scientific Group of the UNFSS, created to support a “science- and evidence-based summit,” provides some clues. In theory, the Scientific Group works to “ensure the robustness, breadth and independence of the science that underpins the summit and its outcomes.” In practice, the Group’s practices impoverish the scientific base on which the summit is meant to make policies.

Unlike existing global science advisory panels where experts are nominated through an inclusive and democratic process, the Scientific Group is handpicking experts amenable to “game-changing” solutions — access to gene-edited seeds, digital and data-driven technologies, and global commodity markets.

Alastair Iles

As a result, key areas of expertise, such as agroecology, Indigenous knowledge, and human rights are being excluded while industry and investor-friendly viewpoints are promoted as visionary.

While the Scientific Group appears at first to be diverse in terms of disciplines and geographies, it in fact reflects a set of overlapping, elite networks. Partners include well-worn institutional champions of the Green Revolution (the CGIAR), the central nervous system for “free trade” policy globally (the World Trade Organization), and a powerful consortium of wealthy nation-states (the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), among others.

By drawing on these networks, the Scientific Group is serving as a gatekeeper for determining the meaning and boundaries of “science.” An analysis of its publications reveals critical flaws stemming from the Scientific Group’s narrow approach to scientific expertise. These include:

• Science, technology, and innovation are uprooted from their political-economic and social conditions. As a result, structural drivers that produce hunger even as they generate wealth (e.g. for Bill Gates) are eclipsed in favor of boosting productivity with a twist of sustainability.
• Biotechnology, Big Data, and global value chains are offered as the solution to all agronomic problems and the crisis of overfishing.
• Multicultural “digital” inclusion is redeployed to promote Black, Brown, and Indigenous incorporation into an imperial model of Science, Technology, and Innovation. This ignores the rich knowledge these communities already hold — and obscures that Indigenous and agroecological knowledge cannot survive without land.

Science can and should play a role in global food governance. But far from the current UNFSS model, science can support in all its complexity and breadth, alongside many other expertises with equal rights to shape the future of food.

Maywa Montenegro works as an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in politics of knowledge, biotechnology, and agroecology.

Matthew Canfield is an assistant professor of Law and Society & Law and Development at Leiden Law School specializing in human rights and global food governance.

Alastair Iles works as an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, researching agroecology policies and sustainability transitions.

 

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Oroszország reméli, hogy a NATO, amely folyamatosan fejleszti infrastruktúráját az orosz határok mentén, hajlandó lesz áttekinteni a feszültség csökkentését célzó javaslatait – mondta Vlagyimir Putyin.

Putyin szerint Moszkva a kockázatok csökkentésére, a kiszámíthatóság biztosítására, valamint a nézeteltérések párbeszéd és konkrét megállapodások révén történő rendezésére törekszik, egyebek között a fegyverzetellenőrzés kérdéseiben. Mint mondta, a Moszkva által kidolgozásra javasolt új “biztonsági egyenletnek” összefüggéseiben kell figyelembe vennie a stratégiai stabilitást befolyásoló valamennyi tényezőt.

Hangsúlyozta: az orosz fél “arra számít, hogy a józan ész és a konstruktív kapcsolatok kialakításának szándéka velünk végül győzedelmeskedni fog”. A politikai akarat és a kompromisszumkészség pozitív eredményeként említette a hadászati támadófegyverek csökkentéséről kötött orosz-amerikai Új START szerződés hatályának meghosszabbítását 2026-ig.

A konferencián Szergej Sojgu védelmi miniszter “robbanásveszélyesnek” nevezte az Európában kialakult helyzetet, és feszültségcsökkentő lépéseket sürgetett. Mint mondta, az orosz fél javaslatot tett arra, hogy a hadgyakorlatok helyszínét távolítsák el az érintkezés vonalától, és hirdessenek moratóriumot a közepes és kisebb hatótávolságú rakétáknak az európai szárazföldre telepítésére.

“Hadd emlékeztessek rá, hogy az állítólag a Kalinyingrádi megyébe telepített (orosz) 9M729-es rakétákról és a romániai és lengyelországi amerikai rakétavédelmi bázisokon lévő MK-41-es univerzális rakétaindítókról volt szó. Megerősítjük, hogy készek vagyunk együttműködni ezen a területen” – hangsúlyozta a miniszter.

Sojgu szerint a közepes és rövidebb hatótávolságú rakéták európai telepítése visszatérést jelentene ahhoz a helyzethez, “amikor az európaiak a Szovjetunió és az Egyesült Államok közötti konfrontáció túszaivá váltak”. Nem helytállónak minősítette azt az amerikai állítást, miszerint az Egyesült Államok globális rakétavédelmi rendszere nem irányul Oroszország és Kína ellen. Rámutatott, hogy Európában a NATO a regionális rakétavédelmi rendszert Oroszország feltartóztatásának elemeként “adja el”.

Hangot adott véleményének, miszerint fennáll a veszélye annak, hogy a világon új konfrontáció alakul ki, amely veszélyesebb lehet, mint a hidegháború. Kifogásolta, hogy a nemzetközi jog alkalmazását egyoldalúan bevezetett szankciók és egyoldalúan kitalált szabályokon alapuló rend alkalmazása váltja fel.

Valerij Geraszimov vezérkari főnök arra figyelmeztetett, hogy az Egyesült Államok és szövetségeseinek flottagyakorlata az orosz határok közelében “nyilvánvalóan provokatív természetű”. “Ily módon incidensek előfeltételei jönnek létre, ami nem kedvez a katonai feszültség csökkentésének” – mondta Geraszimov, aki példákat hozott fel arra, hogy NATO-tagországok hajói az elmúlt hónapokban megsértették az orosz területi vizeken való békés áthaladás jogát, illetve az államhatárt.

Geraszimov hangsúlyozta, hogy az orosz nukleáris politika védelmi jellegű, és Moszkva csak arra válaszul tartja fenn magának az atomfegyver bevetésének jogát, ha Oroszország vagy a szövetségesei ellen nukleáris vagy más tömegpusztító fegyvert alkalmaznak, illetve ha konvencionális fegyverekkel követnek el ellene olyan agressziót, amely az állam létét fenyegeti.

Alekszandr Bortnyikov, a Szövetségi Biztonsági Szolgálat (FSZB) igazgatója jelentős fenyegetésnek nevezte, hogy nemzetközi terrorszervezetek megerősítették az együttműködésüket hackercsoportokkal. Mint mondta, fennál a veszélye annak, hogy terroristák az informatikai infrastruktúra kritikus fontosságú elemeit vegyék célba a segítségükkel. Bortnyikov szerint különösen veszélyes, hogy nehéz idejében beazonosítani a kibertámadások valódi forrását, ami éles konfliktust provokálhat ki államok között. Úgy vélekedett, hogy ezt a problémát csak nemzetközi összefogással lehet megoldani. Kifejezte Oroszország készségét arra, hogy a kölcsönösség és kétoldalú megállapodás alapján segítsen az Egyesült Államoknak hackerek felkutatásában.

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A CAP with strong environmental and animal welfare incentives is needed to set the European Union on a path towards a more sustainable food and farming system and protect humans, animals and the environment

Shortly before the EU summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron suggested a meeting between EU leaders and Vladimir Putin in the near future. But in Brussels, the proposal was rejected as premature, in particular by Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Europe's media are also divided on the question of what approach to take with Moscow.

The pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily has been discontinued. Pressure from the Chinese authorities had increased in recent months: the paper's editor-in-chief and publisher were arrested and the company's assets frozen. China's authorities accuse the paper of "conspiring to collude with foreign forces". Publisher Next Digital has now announced that Thursday's edition would be the last. Europe's press is dismayed.