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The role played by all institutions of the Russian Federation at all levels has been praised by the Chair of the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons today, the International Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare.

Az alábbi írás annak a lehetőségeit járja körül, hogy milyen nem rendészeti-katonai jellegű lépéseket lehetne megtenni annak érdekében, hogy csökkentsük Hazánk terrorveszélyeztetettségét, illetve egy esetlegesen Bővebben ...

After nine months on the run from his life jail sentence, Albanian police have confirmed at Arben Frroku is under arrest in Holland.

A korábbi szabálykönyvet nagyjából 70 százalékban átírja a május 1-jén hatályba lépő új uniós vámkódex, ami a digitális kor követelményeihez kívánja hozzáigazítani a közös vámszabályokat. Az új rendszer működését azonban megnehezítheti, hogy csak 2020-ig bezárólag kell bevezetni az új informatikai rendszereket.

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North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has reportedly refused to accept the resignation of one of his senior officials who requested to resign because he was “overcome with stress”.

The resignation is reportedly not the only one, suggesting Kim Jong Un doesn’t have adequate levels of support from top cadres of the Korean Workers’ Party.

United Press International (UPI) quoted Ko Young-hwan, a former North Korean diplomat and defector, as saying that many senior North Korean officials are fearful of the “unpredictable” Kim and they “never know what could happen next”.

“Many high-level cadres are turning their backs on Kim and exiting the regime,” he added, noting that ordinary North Koreans have also “given up hope” in the future of the Kim regime.

According to Seoul’s unification ministry, official idolisation of Kim, who inherited power from his father, has increased, and has accelerated further since North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January.

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The Agency Headquarters Hospital (AHH) in Bajaur Agency, shortly after a Taliban suicide bomb attack in 2013. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS

By Lyndal Rowlands
Apr 29 2016 (IPS)

Hospitals, health care workers and patients in war zones are supposed to be protected under international humanitarian law yet recent attacks from Syria to Afghanistan suggest that they have become targets.

The seeming lack of respect for the sanctity of health care in war zones has prompted UN Security Council members in New York to consider a new resolution designed to find new ways to halt these attacks.

The Security Council is expected to vote on the resolution on May 3, just days after Al Quds Hospital in Aleppo, Syria was bombed. Twenty seven staff and patients were killed in the airstrike on the hospital on Wednesday night, Dr Hatem, the director of the Children’s Hospital in Aleppo told The Syria Campaign.

Among the victims was Dr Muhammad Waseem Maaz, who Dr Hatem described as “the city’s most qualified paediatrician.”

Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria told journalists in Geneva Wednesday that Dr Maaz was the last paediatric doctor left in Aleppo, although IPS understands there is another paediatrician in the Aleppo countryside.

Dr Hatem said that Dr Maaz used to work at the children’s hospital during the day and attend to emergencies at the Al Quds hospital at night time.

“Dr Maaz stayed in Aleppo, the most dangerous city in the world, because of his devotion to his patients,” said Dr Hatem.

Dr Hatem said that “hospitals are often targeted by government and Russian air forces.”

“When the bombing intensifies, the medical staff run down to the ground floor of the hospital carrying the babies’ incubators in order to protect them,” he said.

As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia will be expected to vote on the proposed new resolution reinforcing the protection of hospitals, doctors and patients in war zones.

“When the bombing intensifies, the medical staff run down to the ground floor of the hospital carrying the babies’ incubators in order to protect them.” -- Dr Hatem, director of the Children’s Hospital in Aleppo.

Another Security Council Member accused of bombing a hospital, the United States, is expected to release its report Friday of its own investigation into the attack on the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on Oct. 3 2015.

MSF say that 42 people we killed in the sustained bombing of the hospital, including 24 patients and 18 staff.

Roman Oyarzun Marchesi, permanent representative of Spain to the UN said that the “the wake up call (for the Security Council resolution) came from organisations such as Medecins Sans Frontieres who are forced to stay out of certain areas or countries due to the lack of protection on the ground.”

“Attacks against the provision of health care are becoming so frequent that humanitarian actors face serious limitations to do their jobs,” said Marchesi at an event held to discuss the proposed resolution at the International Peace Institute earlier this month.

The event brought together representatives from the medical community with the five Security Council members drafting the resolution, Egypt, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, and Uruguay.

Speaking on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose hospitals have come under frequent attacks in recent months and years, Jason Cone, Executive Director of MSF America called for greater accountability.

“As of today suspected perpetrators get away with self-investigating and there’s no independent follow-up of attacks,” said Cone.

“It is a critical moment for member states to reaffirm the sanctity of the medical act in armed conflict,” he said.

The current situation does not reflect the respect given to health care in war from the earliest stages of the Geneva conventions, Stéphane Ojeda, Deputy Permanent Observer to the United Nations, International Committee of the Red Cross told the meeting.

“The protection of the wounded and sick has been at the heart of International Humanitarian Law since the start,” said Ojeda.

“Indeed the wounded and sick and the medical personnel taking care of them were the first categories of protected persons under international humanitarian law because in the 1864 first Geneva Convention,” he said.

The principle that health care personnel should not be punished for caring for the wounded and sick also needs to be respected, said Ojeda.

“If you start questioning this that’s a whole pillar of humanity starting to collapse,” he said.

Cone also added to Ojeda’s calls for the duties of doctors in caring for the wounded and sick to be respected.

“We can not accept any criminalisation of the medical act, any resolution should reinforce and strengthen protection for medical ethics,” he said.

Les manifestations du 28 avril ont donné lieu à 214 interpellations selon le ministre de l'Intérieur Bernard Cazeneuve, qui a précisé que 78 policiers avaient été blessés.

Date de publication: Lundi 02 Mai 2016Couverture: Type de publication: OuvrageRésumé long: L’Institut Montaigne est convaincu que cet ouvrage porte un projet dont les candidats à l’élection présidentielle doivent se saisir.

Május 4-étől, szerdától két pár új személyvonat közlekedik Újvidékről Zombor és Gombos irányába.

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Slovakia’s Finance Minister Peter Kažimír was reportedly surprised when the European Union’s statistical service Eurostat revealed the country’s public finance deficit for 2015 was actually well above target and much higher than figures presented by the government.

As reported by The Slovak Spectator, the public finance deficit last year was at 2.97% of GDP, Eurostat reported in its regular spring notification on April 21. In doing so, it refused to acknowledge some of the payments that the government had booked as revenue. Kažimír said he was surprised, adding that in the past such operations were never questioned by Eurostat.

“Such surprises from the side of Eurostat at the very last moment are not fair and we will insist on more discussions about this topic,” he said. Slovakia entered notification proceedings with a deficit of 2.56%.

Despite consultation, Eurostat did not acknowledge as revenue repayments of more than €117m in financial aid from rail firm ZSSK Cargo, or payments from the State Fund for Development of Housing (ŠFRB) of almost €200m.

Analysts see Slovakia’s fiscal deficit of 2.97% of GDP as a failure to meet the 2.49% targeted in the state budget.

Compared with 2014, Slovakia’s fiscal deficit increased and if Greece, which continues to struggle with its major financial problems, is omitted, Slovakia is the only member of the EU whose deficit increased year on year.

Slovakia entered the notification negotiations with a deficit of 2.56%, including corrections of 0.3% of GDP related to drawing of EU funds on which the finance ministry did not have any influence, Finance Ministry spokeswoman Alexandra Gogová told The Slovak Spectator.

Meanwhile, the Fico government is targeting a balanced budget by 2020, a postponement of this goal by two years from the original date of 2018.

“I perceive the postponement… as a de facto confession [of the government] that this goal will be not met,” Martin Reguli, analyst from the F. A. Hayek Foundation, told The Slovak Spectator. “I do not expect keeping of this obligation as realistic as priorities will probably emerge, especially in public investments and social programmes.”

Peter Goliaš, from the Institute for Economic and Social Reforms (INEKO) think tank, points to irresponsible governance since 2014.

“The government has preferred bigger spending to revitalisation of public finances,” Goliaš told The Slovak Spectator. “I expect the same development also this year when instead of the planned 1.9% deficit we get near 3%.”

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C’est un secret de polichinelle. Catherine Bio Sarè, jusqu’à ce lundi, directrice des examens et concours (DEC) du ministère de l’enseignement secondaire s’est refusée de passer service à Kakpo Mahougnon nommé par arrêté ministériel pour lui succéder.

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Dr. Fabiny Tamás, a Magyarországi Evangélikus Egyház püspöke, egyben a Lutheránus Világszövetség kelet-közép-európai régióért felelős alelnöke szolidaritásáról biztosította a cseh Diakóniában dolgozókat a hétvégén történt támadás után, mely során ismeretlenek idegenellenes, fenyegető feliratokat festettek több prágai kávéház, intézmény és a Diakónia épületének bejáratára. Az eseményekről itt olvashat. Fabiny Tamás - kiemelten fontosnak tartva a Lutheránus Világszövetség tagszervezeteiben folyó...

Les 17 et 18 avril dernier, sur le camp de Canjuers, le 3e régiment d’artillerie de marine (3e RAMa) s’est massivement déployé sur le terrain afin de garantir la maîtrise de ses savoir-faire opérationnels. Une manœuvre dense sur une courte période alliant interarmes et modernité.

Forrás: romea.cz, Czech Press Agency Az egyik legnagyobb csehországi protestáns egyház, a Cseh Testvérek Evangélikus Egyházának vezetése szolidaritását fejezte ki a prágai Diakóniát ért támadás után, mely során jobboldali radikálisok fenyegető üzeneteket írtak festékszóróval a központi iroda épületére múlt hétvégén. A tegnap kiadott nyilatkozatban az egyházi vezetés arról foglalt állást, hogy az agresszió és a halálos fenyegetés sérti az evangélium szellemiségét. Eddig azonosítatlan...

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The European Union will first divorce Britain and then negotiate a new relationship in the event of Brexit, Reuters reported on Thursday.

If Britain votes out in June 23, 2016 the final exit would come on July 1st, 2018. Negotiations for an EU partnership agreement would begin then. In the meanwhile, trade ties would be disrupted.

The EU is Britain’s biggest trade partner and no doubt a singnificant market for a number of EU member states. But, it is understood that neither Brussels not London would want a prolonged negotiation period before the divorce comes into effect. .

The Treaty of Lisbon envisages a two year transition period for states that leave. The two year period would be used to settle pending budget balances from and to London, the issue of pensions for British EU civil servants, and the relocation of EU agencies from the U.K. However, this would not mean the Britain’s relations with the EU would continue on a “business as usual” mode. The two year period would be disruptive.

EU officials remain confident that Britain will ultimately vote “Remain” on the June 23 referendum on EU membership. However, there are already contingency plans being drawn, beginning with a brief two-day summit planned for Sunday, June 26 in case the vote is to leave. The summit would take place without British participation and could set a roadmap for subsequent action.

The “Out” and “Leave” campaigns believe that London will be able to negotiate a “special status” effective immediately, pointing out that Britain is the fifth largest economy in the world and that the free trade market “from Turkey to Iceland” will continue to be accessible to British products.

However, this will be politically difficult to achieve a minimally disruptive exit. Both Germany and France go to the polls in 2017 and it will be politically impossible to grand Britain special rights during the transition period. Moreover, it is clear that both Brussels and EU member states will try to make the case that leaving the EU does not pay.

Leave campaigners suggest that this is only scaremongering.

In the event of a Remain vote, the Commission has in place a seven member UK Task Force that will help implement the agreement secured by David Cameron in February. The agreement is automatically annulled if Britain votes to Leave.

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