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Internationale Institutionen haben sich bei einer Geberkonferenz auf Wiederaufbauhilfen für Mosambik in Höhe von 1,2 Milliarden Dollar verständigt.

Le premier jour de l’Aïd el Fitr, qui correspond au premier jour du mois de Chawal 1440 de l’Hégire, sera célébré, demain mardi 4 juin. Le croissant lunaire du mois de Chawal a été observé en Algérie par le Comité national d’observation du croissant lunaire dans la wilaya d’El Oued. Toute l’équipe d’Algerie360 vous souhaite […]

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Lena Meyer-Landrut zeigt sich sexy, Britney Spears macht eine Velotour und Steffi Buchli drückt aufs Gaspedal. Willkommen zu den Foto-Storys des Tages!

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Amener les jeunes à avoir les compétences nécessaires dans le domaine numérique, et continuer à lutter contre le chômage et l'orientation pédagogique de la couche juvénile, sont entre autres les objectifs poursuivis par le réseau de téléphonie mobile, Mtn-Bénin à travers le ‘'21 Days of Yellow Care''.
Le lancement officiel de l'édition 2019 a eu lieu dans l'après-midi ce lundi 03 juin à son siège à Cotonou.

Durant la campagne qui va durer 21 jours, au moins 500 jeunes recevront des formations qui leur permettront de s'autonomiser et d'être professionnels dans ce qu'ils font.
Selon la directrice des ressources humaines de Mtn-Bénin, Viviane Sissuh, ces 21 jours seront consacrés à des actions sociales. Selon elle, il s'agira de faire du transfert de connaissances lié au digital.

« Le monde aujourd'hui se tourne de plus en plus vers le digital et il nous faut donner à ces jeunes les outils et les moyens pour faire face à la vie future, à la vie du digital »

, a-t-elle expliqué.
Pour le directeur général de Mtn-Bénin, Stephen Blewett, le réseau de téléphonie mobile s'engage à faire mieux que l'année dernière. « Cette année, nous avons de grands projets et nous allons impacter durablement nos différentes communautés », a-t-il rassuré.
Pendant cette campagne, les jeunes pourront se faire former dans les domaines du marketing digital, de la citoyenneté digitale, l'agriculture, la bureautique, l'infographie, le développement vidéo, la gestion communautaire etc.

A la date du 20 juin, il y aura la foire au métier. A cette occasion, plusieurs partenaires de Mtn exposeront dans les domaines du stylisme, coiffure, photographie etc. Les jeunes participants pourront également se familiariser avec les métiers d'avenir.

Au cours de ladite journée, une compétition de plan d'affaires est prévue et les meilleurs seront primés.
Le programme ‘'21 Days of Yellow Care'' a été mis en place depuis 2007. Il permet d'offrir chaque année aux employés, une plateforme pour marquer positivement et durablement les communautés dans lesquelles ils opèrent.
L'année dernière, Mtn a remporté dans le cadre de ce programme, le West and Central Africa President Awards. Ce qui lui a permis de décrocher une cagnotte de 30.000 Usd.
Des fonds qui ont été réinvestis dans les projets sociaux au sein des communautés.

F. Aubin AHEHEHINNOU

Une conductrice de 54 ans a perdu le contrôle de son véhicule, percutant un cycliste et deux enfants sur des trottinettes sur la chaussée opposée.

Les premiers résultats de l'enquête sur le cambriolage du domicile de l'ex ministre de l'économie et des finances, Komi Koutché seront bientôt disponibles. Selon une information rapportée par ‘'Frissons radio'', la police républicaine a déjà à sa portée des indices qui sont entrain d'être analysés. Selon les informations, les premières conclusions des investigations seront bientôt rendues publiques.
Le 31 mai dernier, un groupe de 14 braqueurs ont cambriolé le domicile de Komi Koutché situé à Atokolibé.
Arrivée à bord d'une 4X4, ces hors la loi avant de faire irruption dans la maison ont donné de coups de machette au gardien et l'ont ligoté. Les populations ont réussi à appréhender deux d'entre eux qui ont été confiés au commissariat de Gouka.
F. A. A.

Security forces attack pro-democracy protesters in Khartoum, reportedly killing at least 30 people.

Heidi Klum liebt ihr Pärchenleben mit ihrem Verlobten Tom Kaulitz. Ihren Followern passt das nicht. Sie finden, Klum sei zu alt für die Selfies aus dem Tourbus ihres Musiker-Freundes.

By Roberto Savio
ROME, Jun 3 2019 (IPS)

The terrible feeling I had on waking up and seeing the Italian voting results at the recent European elections was that my country was suddenly full of strangers. How could the majority of Italians reconfirm a government which has been the most inefficient in history, quarrelling on everything every single day and looking with total indifference to the looming problem of how to establish the next budget without clashing with the European Union or squeezing Italian citizens? Its irresponsible debate on the Italian finances has now led to a spread (difference of value) of 290 points with the Germans.

Roberto Savio

What is more, the results have rewarded Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who has spent a grand total of 17 days in nearly a year in his office (not of a marginal ministry … should it now be abolished?) and all the rest in an electoral campaign? Well, Italians doubled his votes, from 17% to 34%, while halving those of messy government partners the 5 Star Movement (whose leader Luigi Di Maio came to the post of Deputy Prime Minister with the only a job on his CV that of steward at the Naples football stadium). What has Salvini done concretely, beside blocking ports to immigrants, displaying rosaries, bible and crucifix in rallies, and mimicking Mussolini’s body language?

Then, of course, you realize that Salvini is not alone, and that probably my generation, which is based on the values enshrined in the Constitution (solidarity, social justice, equity, peace and international cooperation) is unable to understand today’s times. On October 31, 2017, Corriere del Trentino published an interview in which I claimed that we needed populists in government in Europe as soon as possible, so it would soon become evident that while their denunciations are correct, they would have no answer to the problems. And when the interviewer observed that the next elections to come were the Italian elections, I replied that as an Italian I was sad, but as a European I was happy, because the Italian populists would fail miserably.

Well, under normal logic, they have failed. The chaotic government has realised few points of its programme, and Italy is the European country close to 0% growth. But the majority of the Italian population has seen things otherwise … so this opens up a crucial question.

Those who are fighting for democracy (look at Poland and Hungary with the progressive elimination of checks and balances, courts, media, teaching system, etc.); for transparency and accountability (think of US President Donald Trump’s refusal to disclose his tax declarations); for social justice (today just 80 billionaires own as much as 2.3 billion people), peace (the arms race reached an unprecedented 1.7 trillion dollars in 2018), and so on, do they really understand why we are becoming a minority in many countries and globally?

Looking at Trump’s very probable re-election, at Marine Le Pen’s gains over Emmanuel Macron in France, are we sure that we understand the new politics, and that we can provide a valid answer? The question is all the more important because the tide is impressive. In the wings behind those in power (the Trumps, Orbans, Kaczynskis, Erdogans, Putins, Salvinis, Bolsonaros, Dutertes and so on) are those in waiting (like Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Jussi Halla-aho and so on).

Of course, all those respond to different realities. If we call the new wave nationalists, we should then add Narendra Modi, Shinz? Abe, Xi Jinping and the very large majority of the world’s citizens.

But, at least in Europe, they call themselves sovereigntists. This makes it easier to understand them, as they basically share a number of points: a) nationalism, tinged with racism); b) xenophobia, within which they include minorities and LBGTs); c) use of moral superiority to depict the adversary as an enemy of the people, whom they represent; d) fight against any international treaty and structure, which they claim have taken away the sovereignty of their country; and e) echoing Trump: my country first. So, the fight is not between left and right, it is between those who are for their nation and those who are associated with globalisation.

This, by the way, is a gross manipulation. Nations are the basis on which we build international relations and are the basis for our identity. Nationalism is an extremism built on a legitimate concept. And the principles on which United Nations, for instance, was built was the concept of development, which is exactly the opposite of globalisation; the concept and strategy for eliminating national sovereignty to make the maximum use of free flow of capitals and investments and support the transnational system. Development was a concept based on the idea that, in the end, everybody taking part in it was going to be more: globalisation on the idea that, in the end, everybody would have more.

A world in which the cost of advertising per capita surpass that of education, and the financial system reaches volumes 40 times superior to those of production of good and services, is a world clearly against the concept of development. To have fiscal paradises with at least 40 trillion dollars, whose taxes – if paid to nations – would be more than the total cost of all long-term programmes of the United Nations, clearly does not fit with sovereigntism.

And let us also remember that before the economic crisis of 2008, created by a corrupt banking system, there were no sovereigntist parties in sight anywhere, except for that of Le Pen in France. Yet, the new political system has hardly fought against the dramatic power of finance: Trump’s first year of government had a cabinet with the largest participation of bankers in American history (later replaced by military figures).

But we have no space here for a conceptual debate. Just let us call the attention to the fact that voters seem to have reached a point where they disregard the most basic element of political action: do not trust those who have lied to you, regardless of any political inclination. I will take just three examples: Italy, Great Britain and Lithuania.

As already said, Italy is now in recession, with no growth in sight. The government has already tried to ignore the limit imposed by the European Commission that deficits should not surpass 3% of the budget deficit. This was in fact imposed by the Council of Ministers. It is worth recalling that the Council, formed by governments, is the body which takes the decisions, which are left to the European Commission to implement. The European Parliament was created to introduce the much-needed principle of checks and balances. But politicians from every side conveniently presented unpopular measures and law that they approved in the Council’s meeting as coming from the Commission.

Salvini and Di Maio have already had to make an ignominious retreat and cut the deficit of the Italian budget after trying to force the Commission to accept an unbalanced budget. Now Salvini claims that, siding with the other European sovereigntists, he will force the Commission to change the rules, to accept the next Italian budget, which ignores not economics but mathematics.

There was a recent TV debate between the recently appointed Deputy Minister of the Economy Laura Castelli, a young business administration graduate, and Carlo Padoan, a respected economist, university professor, member of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the World Bank. When Castelli said that she would not fear it if the spread between Italy and Germany continued growing because that had no impact on the real economy and the growth of interest on the enormous Italian debt, a startled Padoan tried to correct her. After a while, the moderator tried to change the subject, observing that Padoan was a world authority on the subject. Castelli’s answer was emblematic of the distrust of the New Politicians with the elites: Why? Because he has studied more, does that mean he knows more than me?

Well, it seems Italians trust Castelli more than Padoan. After the elections, Salvini announced that he is going to allocate 30 billion euro for tax reductions, a clear gift to the northern Italy’s business sector. That means find at least 80 billion euro of income for the next budget. This is clearly impossible, without an increase in taxes and a serious cut in current expenses. As usual, education, research and health will be affected, unless the European Union agrees that the 3% rule be put aside.

Well, here is an easy prediction: Salvini will find out that his fellow travelling companions, the sovereigntists of Austria, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, not to forget Germany, will not agree to put their money to save the Italian budget. Will that show Italians that living in mythologies instead of realities is not helpful?

Salvini won on the fear of immigration. Well, according to the United Nations, the Italian population has been in decline since 2015. Last year, it lost 160,000 people, and projections say it will lose 1.8 million people by 2025. Italy now has 5 million foreigners, which includes 500,000 students, Italians born of foreign parents. There are an estimated 670,000 illegal foreigners, against whom Salvini took no real action: his winning electoral card was to close ports to immigrants. Yet, under the previous government, immigration was as low as 119,000 people in 2017 and 20,120 at mid-September 2018. Immigrants make up 7.5% of the total Italian population, which was estimated at 59.9 million (of which 71.8% urban) in 2018. According to the official statistics, Italy has 1,673 deaths per day and 1.353 births … and 22% are 65 or over, with only 13.5% under 15.

African and Arab immigrants account for 1.5% of the Italian population, and 2.5% are Europeans. Yet, according to a poll, Italians think that immigrants make up between 15 and 25% of the population. And they believe that the large majority are Muslim, when they are orthodox.

Clearly, without immigration, the Italian economy and the pension system are not viable. But this is unacceptable to say … and it does not help to say that in Japan, the country where identity and culture are defended as untouchable, the aging population and loss of productivity has obliged Abe to accept 230,000 immigrants this year.

The second example is Great Britain, home of the mother of parliaments, considered a politically civilised country. Well, everybody knows the Brexit saga. But what is impressive is that in the recent European elections Nigel Farage won more votes than the Conservative and Labour parties together. He created the Brexit Party just six months ago. He was fundamental in forcing the famous Brexit referendum in 2016. That referendum was based on much clearly false information, and Farage admitted so after winning. Among them, one made by Farage was that 76 million Turks were joining Europe and would invade Great Britain: Turkey has no chance of joining the European Union. Boris Johnson claimed that every week Great Britain was giving the European Union 350 million euro, which should go instead to reinforcing the country’s National Health Service: another figure that was so false he is being brought to court. The British gave Farage 31.6% of the votes (Labour 14.1% and Conservatives 9.1%) and Boris Johnson is in pole position to be the next Prime Minister. Of course, there are many explanations for that, but all exclude any consideration of the eligibility of proven liars.

The third example is Lithuania, which had general elections just before the European elections. Lithuania had 3.7 million people at the end of the Soviet Union. By 2018 this was down to 2 million because of steady emigration, especially by young people. The Farmers and Greens Union party brandished the anti-immigration flag and won easily. Last year, the “invasion” was in fact of 54.000 people, of whom 69% were returning Lithuanians. Of the real immigrants, all basically from Eastern and Central Europe, the Arab-Africans were a grand total of 208, of whom 120 have already left the country. As an excuse for the Lithuanians, we can say that they have a history of invasions, repression and resistance, and identity is a strong feeling, like elsewhere in Eastern and Central Europe.

By the way, eastern Germany is the heartland of the extreme Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) and it has few immigrants, unlike western Germany where the AfD did poorly). But, from any logical viewpoint, it is hard to believe that feelings and not reality could play such primary role. Of course, there are many difficult questions. Look at Ukraine, where 73% of the voters elected an untested comedian, Volodymyr Zelenksy. That shows that feelings are in fact reality. But then why in the United States, cradle of feminism, were 43% of Trump’s voters women, who elected a clear champion of misogyny and a well-known womaniser?

In other words, reality is no longer a factor in elections. Other factors like feelings are more important. And while we have no space to present a serious analysis of this, let us just offer some considerations on which to reflect.

1) Historians agree that greed and fear are probably the most important elements of change. If that is so, let us remember that with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and ideologies declared dead, the winners introduced globalisation as the route for which there were no alternatives (TINA, Margaret Thatcher). This was embedded in the so-called Washington Consensus, which reduced the role of the State as much as possible to give free way to the movement of capital. Social costs were considered unproductive, then came elimination of the difference between deposit banks and investment banks (Clinton 1999), which gave birth to the finance that we now suffer from. Among other changes for unregulated greed, let us not forget Tony Blair’s Third Way, an acceptance of globalisation from the left, to give to it a human face and make it less damaging. The result has been a separation of the European left from its base, and the progressive disappearance of a value-based debate, which put humans at its centre, in favour of the new values: competition, individual success, wealth as the basis of social relations, markets as the centre of the international relations.

2) That was accompanied by a decline of multilateralism, peace and international cooperation. The United States was the main engine for the creation of the United Nations, with an engagement to provide its headquarters and pay 25% of the budget. But, in 1981, Ronald Reagan took a distance, declaring that his country could not accept having one vote like others, and it would not accept binding resolutions from a majority of smaller countries. And then Trump came with the last straw, with the ‘America First’ campaign, which means in fact ‘America Alone’, preaching that the United States had no friends or allies to limit its action. This was the final act against multilateralism.

3) In 2008, a world economic crisis spread worldwide from the US banking system, creating a wave of fear, unemployment, reduction in salaries, loss of jobs and precarity that the political system was largely unable to address because its global dimension went beyond national capacity of response, accompanied by a sharp decline in political competence. This was accompanied by a rise in corruption, as politics became short-term and directed towards administrative problems, without any ideological framework.

4) Trump has created a ripple situation, with the New Right (or Alternative Right, as Steve Bannon calls it), free from the moral and ethical considerations that emerged from the Second World War. The New Right can conduct politics based on greed, and much more fear, using immigrants and minorities as the enemy to fight, for defending national identities and histories. This narrative has created new divides: rural against urban, elite the enemy of real people, any international agreement as a straitjacket of the nation, recovery of a glorious past as the basis for the future. Trump has legitimised behaviour previously considered unacceptable, and during his very probable second term he will change even more the world that we have created from the ruins of the Second World War.

5) Internet has gone wrong. Instead of being the new instrument for horizontal communication and sharing, it has become a creator of fragmented and virtual worlds, where people group along partisan lines, no longer exchange views and ideas. It is an arena for insults and hate, run by false identities with fake news, and where citizens are sold as consumers by a number of logarithms, based on maximisation of profit. It has created the largest fortunes in human history, multibillionaires who do not feel accountable to social values and interests. This has helped to create the loss of quality in the political debate, and the use of feelings and guts, instead of political rationality. Trump has 60 million followers on Twitter, more than all American media combined. They do not buy newspapers, and believe whatever Trump says. This will lead to his re-election, unless some serious blunder occurs, but with the bar of tolerance being raised continuously.

Let us stop here. There are, of course, many more points of reflections. But whatever reflection we make, let us remember that political ideas come and go in history. Certainly, sovereigntism is not as structured as communism or fascism. It was normal for politicians to write books. Now, Trump even brags that he does not read them, to avoid having his ideas influenced. The New Right is basically content free, although expert in mobilising people’s feelings. So, this wave will also finish.

The question is: will humankind be able to create a values-based political system again? And, before that happens, will the New Right with its extreme nationalism lead to wars and blood? Looking at the mobilisation on climate change, led by a young girl from Sweden, a winning card in the European elections, there are reasons for hope (but now climate change has become a left-wing issue).

We face a dramatic risk: if we fail, once the mythology of sovereigntism collapses in the face of an unsolved dramatic reality, people who have lost hope and trust in politics will tend to look for the way out of chaos in a Man of Providence, as Pope Pius XI called Benito Mussolini.

Publisher of OtherNews, Italian-Argentine Roberto Savio is an economist, journalist, communication expert, political commentator, activist for social and climate justice and advocate of an anti neoliberal global governance. Director for international relations of the European Center for Peace and Development.. He is co-founder of Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and its President Emeritus.

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SDGs SDGs:  16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions

This report is for the media and the general public.

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 31 May and 1 June, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.
• Between the evenings of 1 and 2 June, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region compared with the previous 24 hours and no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.
• A woman was injured by shrapnel in Pikuzy.
• Residential buildings were damaged by small-arms fire and shrapnel in Chermalyk and Dokuchaievsk.
• The SMM saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines in non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk region.
• The SMM facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to and the operation of critical civilian infrastructure.
• Restrictions of the SMM’s access continued in all three disengagement areas. The Mission’s freedom of movement was also restricted at a border crossing point outside government control and at a railway station near Voznesenivka, at a checkpoint in government-controlled Bohdanivka, and at checkpoints in non-government-controlled Zaichenko and Novoazovsk.*

• The SMM saw a gathering of members of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Chernivtsi.

Ceasefire violations[1]

In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 31 May and 1 June, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations, including about 140 explosions, compared with the previous reporting period (about 280 explosions). Over half of ceasefire violations were recorded in areas south-east of Chermalyk (government-controlled, 31km north-east of Mariupol) and east of Hnutove (government-controlled, 20km north-east of Mariupol).

Between the evenings of 1 and 2 June, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations, including, however, more explosions (about 180), compared with the previous 24 hours. Over half of ceasefire violations were recorded at south-easterly directions of Svitlodarsk (government-controlled, 57km north-east of Donetsk) and at southerly and south-easterly directions of Chermalyk (government-controlled, 31km north-east of Mariupol).

In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 31 May and 1 June, the Mission recorded more ceasefire violations, including more explosions (24), compared with the previous reporting period (six explosions). Over three-fifths of ceasefire violations, including all but one of the recorded explosions, were recorded in areas south-south-east of Nyzhnoteple (government-controlled, 26km north of Luhansk) and Popasna (government-controlled, 69km west of Luhansk). Between the evenings of 1 and 2 June, the SMM recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.

A woman was injured by shrapnel in Pikuzy

On 2 June, at a residential house at 45 Akhmatovoi Street in the central part of Pikuzy (formerly Kominternove, non-government-controlled, 23km north-east of Mariupol), the SMM saw a woman (65 years old) with approximately 15 cuts on her neck, shoulders, and upper back with pieces of aluminium stuck in some of the wounds. An SMM medic assessed that the wounds were caused by shrapnel. The woman told the SMM that she was working in the garden outside of her house in the evening of 1 June when she heard an explosion nearby and, a few seconds later, heard another explosion behind her and fell to the ground (due to security concerns, the SMM was unable to see the alleged impact). She said that her husband took her to a doctor in Pikuzy who provided first aid. While present at the location, the SMM heard two shots of small-arms fire at an assessed range of 500m west.

Residential buildings were damaged by small-arms fire and shrapnel in Chermalyk and Dokuchaievsk

On 2 June, in the south-eastern part of Chermalyk, the SMM saw a fresh bullet hole in an exterior south-east facing wall of a residential house, as well as a bullet embedded inside of it. A resident of the house told the SMM that he heard small-arms fire on 28 May.

On the same day, in Dokuchaievsk (non-government-controlled, 30km south-west of Donetsk), the SMM followed up on reports of damage to multiple buildings at five separate locations. At a four-storey apartment building at 1A Nezalezhnosti Street in the south-western part of Dokuchaievsk, the SMM saw a freshly broken north-west facing window on a communal stairway between the second and third floors as well as shrapnel damage (a fresh hole in the wall adjacent to the window). A resident of the building (female, in her thirties) told the SMM that she had been at home when she heard explosions in the evening of 30 May.

About 1.4km north-north-west from the previously-mentioned building, in the north-western part of Dokuchaievsk, at a local heating plant at 102B Lenina Street, the SMM saw a freshly broken double-paned second floor south-south-west facing window along with broken glass on the window sill. Between the window panes, the SMM saw a bullet (corresponding to a fresh hole on the outer side of the window pane. On the second floor, the SMM saw a fresh hole in a south-south-west facing window frame. The SMM assessed the damage as caused by small-arms fire. A senior technician at the plant (male, 45 years old) told the SMM that an employee reported hearing impacts during the evening of 31 May.

About 150m north-north-west from the heating plant, at a four-storey apartment building at 100 Lenina Street, the SMM saw a fresh bullet hole in a south-west facing window in a communal stairway between the second and third floors with pieces of glass on the window sill. About 100m north-north-east, at a five-storey apartment building at 106 Lenina Street, the SMM saw a fresh hole in a south-west facing bedroom window frame in a ground-floor apartment. In a third floor apartment at the same address, the SMM saw a freshly broken double-paned south-west facing bedroom window and a bullet lying between the two window panes. About 250m east of the previously-mentioned building, at a five-storey apartment building at 93 Tsentralna Street, the SMM saw two freshly broken south-west facing windows, one on a communal stairway between the second and third floors and one on the fifth floor. The SMM assessed all the damage as caused by small-arms fire. Six residents of the above-mentioned buildings (mixed ages and genders) separately told the SMM that they had been at home on the evening of 31 May when they heard shooting.

Disengagement areas[2]

During the day on 1 June, positioned near the disengagement area close to Petrivske (non-government-controlled, 41km south of Donetsk), the SMM heard and saw an explosion assessed as an impact of an undetermined weapon at a distance of 1km south-west (assessed as outside the area but within its 5km periphery).

On 2 June, positioned close to the disengagement area near Petrivske, the Mission observed a calm situation.[3]

On 1 and 2 June, positioned inside the disengagement area near Stanytsia Luhanska (government-controlled, 16km north-east of Luhansk), the Mission observed a calm situation.

Withdrawal of weapons

The SMM continued to monitor the withdrawal of weapons in implementation of the Memorandum and the Package of Measures and its Addendum.

In violation of withdrawal lines

Non-government-controlled areas

26 May

An SMM long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) spotted three towed howitzers (D-30, Lyagushka, 122mm) near Petrivske (69km south of Donetsk).

Beyond withdrawal lines but outside of designated storage sites

Government-controlled areas

1 June

The SMM saw:

• At least ten tanks (T-72), three towed howitzers (2A65 Msta-B, 152mm), and an anti-tank guided missile system (9P148 Konkurs, 135mm) at the train station in Rubizhne (84km north-west of Luhansk);
• an anti-tank guided missile system (9P148) near Smolianynove (61km north-west of Luhansk); and
• an anti-tank gun (MT-12 Rapira, 100mm) near Oleksandrivka (69km north-west of Luhansk).

Non-government-controlled areas

31 May

An SMM long-range UAV spotted 19 tanks and 17 towed howitzers in a training area near Myrne (28km south-west of Luhansk) (for previous observations, see SMM Daily Report 25 May 2019). In the same area, the UAV also spotted 37 infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) (BMP variants).[4]

Indications of military and military-type presence in the security zone[5]

Government-controlled areas

30 May

An SMM long-range UAV spotted two armoured combat vehicles (ACV) near Troitske (30km north of Donetsk).

31 May

The SMM saw:

• two IFVs (BMP-2) in a compound located approximately 30m from a residential house in Verkhnotoretske (23km north-east of Donetsk) and
• a 5m-long trench under a camouflage net on the western outskirts of Novoselivka (31km north of Donetsk) for the first time.

An SMM long-range UAV spotted an ACV (type undetermined) near Myronivskyi (62km north-east of Donetsk).

1 June

The SMM saw:

• nine IFVs (seven BMP-1 and two BMP variants) in Orikhove-Donetske (44km north-west of Luhansk) and
• an anti-aircraft gun (ZU-23, 23mm) mounted on a truck and an APC (MT-LB) with a red cross symbol near houses used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Nevelske (18km north-west of Donetsk).

2 June

The SMM saw an armoured reconnaissance vehicle (BRDM-2) in Talakivka (90km south of Donetsk).

SMM facilitation of repairs to civilian infrastructure

On 1 June, the Mission facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to water pipelines between Zolote-3/Stakhanovets (government-controlled, 61km west of Luhansk) and Popasna.

On 1 and 2 June, the SMM facilitated the operation of the Donetsk Filtration Station (15km north of Donetsk) and continued to monitor the security situation in the area of the pumping station near Vasylivka (non-government-controlled, 20km north of Donetsk).

Mine hazard signs seen for the first time in Kostiantynivka and Raivka and mine awareness signs seen in Marinka

On 2 June, in the north-western part of Kostiantynivka (government-controlled, 60km north of Donetsk), the SMM saw for the first time five mine hazard signs with “Mines” written in Russian, two posted on sticks at the entrance and three posted on the fence of a military compound.

On the same day, in Raivka (non-government-controlled, 16km north-west of Luhansk), the SMM saw for the first time a mine hazard sign (with the word “Mine” written in Russian), attached to a stick in the middle of a roadway leading to the contact line.

On the same date, the SMM saw for the first time three mine awareness posters issued by an international organization on a shelter located on road H15 at the entry-exit checkpoint near Marinka (government-controlled, 23km south-west of Donetsk) north of a previously reported mine field (for previous observations, see SMM Daily Report 30 May 2019).

Border areas outside government control

On 1 June, while at a border crossing point near Uspenka (73km south-east of Donetsk) for about an hour and a half, the SMM saw 31 cars (eight with Ukrainian and 21 with Russian Federation licence places, as well as two with “DPR” plates), a covered cargo truck and a bus (both with Ukrainian licence plates), and 17 pedestrians (14 women, mixed ages and three men, ages 20-40) entering Ukraine. It also saw 27 cars (four Ukrainian and 15 Russian Federation licence plates, as well as eight “DPR” plates), 25 covered cargo trucks (15 with Ukrainian and nine Russian Federation licence plates, as well as one “DPR” plate), two buses with “DPR” plates, and seven pedestrians (six women, 45-75 years old, and one man in his forties) exiting Ukraine.

On 1 June, while at a pedestrian border crossing point near Ulianivske (61km east of Donetsk) for 45 minutes, the SMM saw two pedestrians (a man and a woman in their twenties) entering Ukraine.

On 2 June, while at a border crossing point near Voznesenivka, the SMM saw two pedestrians (males in their thirties) entering Ukraine and two cars and a bus (all with Russian Federation licence plates), and four pedestrians (males in their fifties) exiting Ukraine. After three minutes, an armed member of the armed formations asked the SMM to leave the area (see below).*

Gathering of members of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Chernivtsi

On 2 June in Chernivtsi city, the SMM saw about 700 members of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) (mixed genders, about 40-60 years old) marching from the Holy Paraskeva Church to the Regional State Administration (RSA) at 1 Hrushevskoho Street where religious leaders lead the participants in prayers and songs. Representatives from parishes in Chernivtsi region, including those located in Tovtry, where the SMM recently saw members of the OCU gather, delivered speeches critical of members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) and called for the RSA to quickly process the changes in affiliation of churches who have filed to change from UOC to OCU.

The SMM continued monitoring in Kherson, Odessa, Lviv, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Dnipro, and Kyiv.

*Restrictions of SMM’s freedom of movement or other impediments to fulfilment of its mandate

The SMM’s monitoring and freedom of movement are restricted by security hazards and threats, including risks posed by mines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and other impediments – which vary from day to day. The SMM’s mandate provides for safe and secure access throughout Ukraine. All signatories of the Package of Measures have agreed on the need for this safe and secure access, that restriction of the SMM’s freedom of movement constitutes a violation, and on the need for rapid response to these violations. They have also agreed that the Joint Centre on Control and Co-ordination should contribute to such response and co-ordinate mine clearance. Nonetheless, the armed formations in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions frequently deny the SMM access to areas adjacent to Ukraine’s border outside control of the Government (for example, see below). The SMM’s operations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions remain restricted following the fatal incident of 23 April 2017 near Pryshyb; these restrictions continued to limit the Mission’s observations.

Denial of access:

• On 1 June, at a checkpoint 800m north of Zaichenko (non-government-controlled, 26km north-east of Mariupol), an armed member of the armed formations again denied the SMM passage to Pikuzy (formerly Kominternove, non-government-controlled, 23km north-east of Mariupol) and Sakhanka (non-government-controlled, 24km north-east of Mariupol).
• On 1 June, at a checkpoint north of Novoazovsk (non-government-controlled, 40km east of Mariupol), an armed member of the armed formations again denied the SMM passage south towards Novoazovsk and east towards the border with the Russian Federation, citing an ongoing operation in the area.
• On 1 June, at a checkpoint on the western edge of Bohdanivka (government-controlled, 41km south-west of Donetsk), a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier denied the SMM access to the main road, citing a safety restriction preventing all military and civilian vehicles from using the road.
• On 2 June, two armed members of the armed formations again denied the SMM access to the Chervona Mohyla railway station in Voznesenivka (formerly Chervonopartyzanska, 65km south-east of Luhansk), stating that the situation at the crossing point was “calm and unchanged.”
• On 2 June, at a border crossing point in Voznesenivka, an armed member of the armed formations told the SMM to leave the area, adding that the situation at the border crossing point was “stable.”

Regular restrictions related to disengagement areas and mines/UXO:

• The sides continued to deny the SMM full access to the three disengagement areas, as well as the ability to travel certain roads previously identified as important for effective monitoring by the Mission and for civilians’ movement, through failure to conduct comprehensive clearance of mines and UXO.

Other impediments:

• On the evening of 30 May, an SMM long-range UAV experienced GPS signal interference, assessed as due to jamming, while flying over non-government-controlled areas of southern Luhansk region.[6]
• On 1 June, on three occasions, SMM mini-UAVs experienced GPS signal interference, assessed as probably caused by jamming, while flying over government-controlled and non-government-controlled areas of central and northern Donetsk region.

[1] For a complete breakdown of ceasefire violations, please see the annexed table.

[2]Disengagement is foreseen in the Framework Decision of the Trilateral Contact Group relating to disengagement of forces and hardware of 21 September 2016.

[3] Due to the presence of mines, including on a road between Bohdanivka and Petrivske, the SMM cannot access its camera in Petrivske, and thus the SMM has not been able to access observations from the camera since 22 June 2018.

[4] The armoured combat vehicles mentioned in this section are not proscribed by the provisions of the Minsk agreements on the withdrawal of weapons.

[5] The hardware mentioned in this section is not proscribed by the provisions of the Minsk agreements on the withdrawal of weapons.

[6] The interference could have originated from anywhere within a radius of kilometres from the UAV’s position.

Au Bénin, dans le cadre de la célébration de la fête du Ramadan (Eid Al-Fitr) marquant la fin du jeûne musulman, le ministre du travail et de la fonction publique a annoncé à travers un courrier rendu public ce lundi, que la journée du mardi 04 juin 2019 est déclarée fériée, chômée et payée sur toute l'étendue du territoire national.
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