26.8.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

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Article tools Printer friendly version Macedonia and Russia for improvement of overall mutual cooperation Skopje /24/08/ 12:08 Macedonia and Russia need to step up their overall cooperation, especially in terms of the economic relations between the two countries. This was agreed at the meeting between the delegation of the Macedonian foreign ministry and the Russian deputy minister of foreign affairs, Vladimir Titov, which took place in Moscow yesterday. The meeting was focused on the modalities of deepening of the Macedonian-Russian bilateral relations. Macedonian delegation, led by the state advisor with the foreign ministry Svetlana Geleva, held consultations in the Russian foreign ministry on the level of directors of the directorates for multilateral relations. “In the course of the consolations, the interlocutors exchanged opinions on large number of issues relating international peace and security, human rights, and other topics due to be put on the agenda of the upcoming 62nd session of the UN general assembly, while special emphasis was put on the regional cooperation and the open issues in the regions of the Commonwealth of Independent States of South East Europe, says the announcement of the Macedonian foreign ministry.

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Der Ischinger-Plan

Der EU-Verhandlungsführer bei den Kosovo-Gesprächen läßt erstmals Sympathien für eine Teilung der Provinz erkennen

Für ein ganzes Kosovo ohne Serben – Solidaritätsmarsch für den wegen Kriegsverbrechen angeklagten früheren UCK-Kommandeur Haradinaj im Mai in Pristina Foto: AP

Jetzt kommt Schwung in die Sache: Erstmals hat nicht irgendein Hinterbänkler, sondern einer der Entscheider in der europäischen und deutschen Politik eine neue Idee für die Zukunft des Kosovo auf den Tisch gelegt. Wolfgang Ischinger verhandelt seit gut zwei Wochen zusammen mit dem russischen Emissär Alexander Botsan-Chartschenko und dem US-Vertreter Frank Wisner mit den Konfliktparteien. Das Mandat hat die Troika im Juni von der sogenannten Balkankontaktgruppe bekommen, die ihrerseits wiederum vom UN-Sicherheitsrat beauftragt worden war. Die Vereinten Nationen gingen diesen unkonventionellen Weg, nachdem die von ihrem Kosovo-Beauftragten Martti Ahtisaari geleiteten Verhandlungen in Wien nach über einjähriger Dauer im Frühjahr 2007 abgebrochen worden waren.

Mission Impossible

Am zweiten Augustwochenende sprachen Ischinger und seine zwei Kollegen mit der serbischen Regierung und der kosovoalbanischen Provinzadministration. Dabei bekamen sie dieselben unversöhnlichen Standpunkte zu hören wie bisher: Belgrad will der Region alles an Selbstverwaltungskompetenz und internationalen Vertretungsrechten zugestehen, was unterhalb der Schwelle der Eigenstaatlichkeit möglich ist. Pristina will aber genau diese Schwelle unbedingt überschreiten – über alles weitere ließe man ansonsten mit sich reden.

Daraufhin bemerkte Ischinger am 17. August gegenüber Pressevertretern, die Troika werde »jede Übereinkunft« unterstützen, auf die sich beide Parteien verständigen. Als er gefragt wurde, ob dies auch eine mögliche Teilung der Provinz einschließe, antwortete er: »Wenn sie das wollen. Wir drängen beide Parteien dazu, die eingefahrenen Gleise zu verlassen.« Eine Teilung würde das Gebiet zwischen Nord-Mitrovica und der innerserbischen Grenze, wo ein Gutteil der noch verbliebenen 100 000 Orthodoxen lebt, vom Rest der Provinz und den dort wohnenden knapp zwei Millionen Albanern trennen.
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Ein mögliches Szenario

Allerdings hat die deutsche Diplomatie an dieser Option B schon länger gearbeitet. Bereits Mitte Juli hatte der regierungsnahe Think-Tank »Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik« (SWP) das Tabu gebrochen und die »Teilung als alternatives Szenario« skizziert. »Genauso abwegig wie die Annahme, daß Belgrad jemals wieder die Kontrolle über die gesamte Provinz erreichen könnte, ist auch die Vorstellung, daß Pristina die Herrschaft über den Norden der Provinz irgendwann vollständig gewinnt, außer mit Hilfe fremder Truppen.« Mit einer Teilung, so SWP-Autor Dusan Reljic, müsse gerechnet werden, »wenn es zur Anerkennung der einseitig ausgerufenen Unabhängigkeit Kosovos durch einzelne Staaten kommen sollte«. Dies ist eine Anspielung auf die Ankündigung der USA, das Kosovo nach Ablauf der jetzigen Verhandlungsrunde, also möglicherweise schon zum Jahresende, diplomatisch anzuerkennen.

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26.8.2007 by admin.

Verraten und verkauft

Von Sophie Büning

Die Armut treibt sie in die Hände von Verbrechern. Immer wieder fallen Mädchen aus Moldau Menschenhändlern zum Opfer. Der vermeintliche Weg ins Glück führt in Wahrheit oft in die Sexsklaverei.

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Natalia war schwanger. Endlich. Vier Jahre hatten die junge Moldauerin und ihr Mann gewartet. Nur: Wovon leben? Etwa 2,20 Euro betrug der Tagessatz, den Natalie erhielt, wenn sie auf den Feldern um die Hauptstadt Moldaus, Chisinau, herum arbeitete. Dazu die arbeitslosen, alkoholkranken Eltern und so gut wie keine Perspektive in Europas ärmstem Land, nordöstlich von Rumänien gelegen, dass es einmal besser werden könnte.

So ließ sich Natalie gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester auf den Job im Ausland ein. Des Kindes wegen, sagt sie später. Haushaltshilfe könne sie werden, versprach die nette Frau, die auf sie zugekommen war. 300 Euro im Monat, doppelt so viel wie der Durchschnittslohn in Moldawien, könne sie dort verdienen.

Erst am Flughafen in Istanbul, als dieser Mann sie am Arm packte, einem anderen ein Bündel Geldscheine in die Hand drückte und zu ihr sagte: “Du arbeitest jetzt für mich” - erst da wusste sie, dass es ein Fehler gewesen war. Zu spät. Das heute halbwegs rehabilitierte Mädchen wurde Opfer brutaler Menschenhändler………………………

http://www.zeit.de/online/2007/26/globalisierung-verbrechen-menschenhandel

Das Versagen der Deutschen Politiker wird deutlich, wenn man Milliarden in Afghanistan, Irak und Georgien sinnlos verpulvert, aber vor der Haustür keine Ordnung schaffen will, weil die Geschäfts Partner der Deutschen Politiker selbst die bekanntesten Sex Sklaven Händler und Benutzer sind: “Paolo Pinkel” alias Michael Friedman und die Drehscheibe ist der Kosovo für Europa: Deshalb lädt die SPD - FES ständig Hashim Thaci nach Berlin, damit diese Art des Geschäftes, wie auch der Drogen Schmuggel eine gute Basis haben in Deutschland.

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Bulgarian president ready to act as mediator in overcoming ethnic tension

26/08/2007

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Speaking Saturday (August 25th) on the 130th anniversary of the Shipka Epopee, one of the most important battles in Bulgarian history, President Georgi Parvanov rejected the idea of establishing an ethnically based national guard. “We can imagine what would happen if each ethnos begins to create such a guard. This is the shortest way to ethnic and religious confrontation,” Parvanov said, adding that he is ready to act as a mediator in efforts to reduce ethnic tensions between Bulgarians and Roma.

The president’s comments were in response to a recent Roma revolt in Sofia’s Krasna Polyana district. At least 200 Roma, carrying axes, cudgels, pitchforks and stones, sought to retaliate against a group of skinheads who injured a Roma teenager a couple of weeks ago. (BGNES, Darik, Focus, Sofia news agency - 25/08/07)

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Counterfeit euros discovered in Montenegro

26/08/2007

PODGORICA, Montenegro — Police announced Saturday (August 25th) that they discovered a large amount of counterfeit banknotes, mostly fake euros. The production methods used reportedly suggest the point of origin was Bulgaria. Counterfeit money typically turns up in small shops, hotels, gas stations and markets, according to the police. (Makfax, BTA - 25/08/07)

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26.8.2007 by Lupo.

When the UN auditors draw their conclusions they borrow an expression from James Bond. UNMIK had equipped Trutschler with a licence to steal”, they write. All normal scrutiny was disabled and the audit was a joke. High officials were vested with virtually unchecked authority, but were never called to account for their actions.

The diagnosis published in 2003 was alarming and was confirmed soon thereafter. Without ado the persons who employed Trutschler were able to leave the UN country with excellent recommendations and a considerable fortune in their pockets. Vice-Governor Andy Bearpark, who never took action against the German, was even entrusted with the reconstruction of Irak

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“The beneficiaries of donor support, who should have been the population, were instead the local mafias, some in local government, and cowardly and incompetent international administrators, who never ran anything in their lives but scared.”

Large sums of taxpayers’ money have been wasted on activities that have nothing to do with re-invigorating the Kosovar economy but with lining the pockets of the nomenclature of Kosovo and the UN, Fucci maintains.

She re-calls that half her working days were spent dealing with anti-corruption agencies, most of them not too competent either.” Until she became persona non grata.

Marie Fucci blames the UN, but adds that it was not the only agency responsible. “If it weren’t for the large flow of money from donors like the EU and USAID, financed by their countries’ tax-payers with minimal accountability, much of the corruption would not have been possible.”
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The first profiteer we will call Bo Olsson. He is of the modest kind and frequently found. In his native country, he was perhaps an ordinary office clerk. In Kosovo he emerges as an international top consultant at the telephone company PTK. As a matter of fact the position should have been publicly announced. “But I knew an Albanian in Bangkok who knew the Austrian boss in Pristina”, explains Bo Olsson. And what did he do in Kosovo? “Gave advise on how to organize and then I helped formulating some job vacancies.”

“He was not worth even a third of his salary” they tell me at his work place. Thats for sure. His salary was some 11,000 euros a month. How, could you guess? Oh, yes. It was determined by marauder number two:

Her name is Lema Xheme. She belongs to the category of local talents who have been appointed company managers by UNMIK. Since she is Albanian her salary as manager is set according to local level, 1,000 euros a month, but nothing prevents her from hiring personal advisers” from abroad at ten times that amount. She brings in half a dozen, says Olsson. Dear reader, you have most probably already seen through the plan. Correct: When Mrs Xheme and Mr. Olsson both end up in custody (on suspicion of corruption) she can deposit a bail of fifty thousand euros, but he can’t.

How many Olssons are there in Kosovo? Inga-Britt Ahlenius, head of the UN audit in New York, has investigated the UNs methods of hiring staff. Between the years 2003 and 2005 there were 403,792 applications for 1,758 positions in the UN. This means 229 applicants per job. According to UN regulations the candidate’s abilities shall be tested in stages. A very detailed study of the UN mission in Uganda shows that six out of ten vacancies are filled up the Bo Olsson way: the person gets the job by knowing someone, with no double check on formal merits and without the vacancy having been announced.

The third kind of marauder is related to the previous two but is more impudent. More environmentally adapted, you could say. His name is Gavin Jeffery and he is the managing director of the same phone company PTK. Bypassing the finance manager without further ado he engages an acquaintance from London. The latter stays for nine months, mostly plays poker on the internet according to his colleagues, and enjoys 16,000 euros a month, plus an office car, plus - yes, it’s true - an extra sum to be able to rent a car during weekends! (I did not think this was true until I saw the contract with my own eyes). Is it rude of me to remind you that the budget this money comes from is also the source for supporting the one million Kosovans living on less than 78 cents a day?

The fourth kind of marauder goes for larger preys so he is willing to run some risks. Like the Briton Roger Reynolds, another UN boss within the same company PTK. He finds a partner called Norway Invest and pays three hundred thousand euros up front to its owner Owe Johansen for a promised contract. A contract that could be worth up to ten million& It is said that Norway Invest will extend the emergency phone network. Thereafter Reynolds says thank you UN for the confidence placed in me and goes on to work for the Norwegian company where he enjoys a salary of 20,000 euros a month - of Kosovo money appropriated by himself.

Hey! Can you really do that? the Kosovo press clamours. Oh yes, it is perfectly all right, says Vice-Governor Andy Bearpark. There is no conflict of interest in this.

Now might be the be time to cheer you up a bit: Not everything is black in Kosovo. Even in the most evil tales there are good fairies. In Kosovo the fairies speak Italian and drive Alfa Romeos. And what luck, they actually arrive in time. One morning two black cars halt at Norway Invest and eight sad individuals step out. They (policemen from Guardia di Financa) need an hour or so to find out that this director Johansen, who for more than a year has been negotiating a gigantic contract with the UN, is not even allowed to run a sausage stall in Norway. He is a criminal, is not allowed to run a business, with liabilities of more than one hundred thousand euros and a little asset of three euros. Exit Johansen. But Kosovo never recovers the three hundred thousand.

When corruption is the size of six digits (in euros) it is local. When it grows to seven digits then the UN is involved” claims Albin Kurti, leader of the youth movement Vetëvendosje, who threatens to run the UN out of Kosovo.

Unfortunately he is right. As an example: for the assignment to improve the miserable energy supply in Kosovo, the UN entrusts the Irish company ESB International. The electricity company KEK makes a loss of 70 million euros a year, delivers five to six power cuts a day and manages to charge for every second kilowatt only. The Irish stay for three years, collect some 10 million euros in consultancy fees and leave KEK in about the same shape as when they arrived. No, Kosovo cant complain. In the secret contract there was nothing about enhanced performance. ESB got paid for&being there.

This contract is disloyalty to principal” says a lawyer. The principal is the people of Kosovo, he claims. And the disloyalty is brought about by the United Nations, who forced this contract through and then prolonged it in spite of protests from the locals. My friend the lawyer is a melancholy man. In his dreams he sees two black Alfa Romeos outside the UN headquarters. But he knows that will not happen.

And, I think to myself, nor will the Icelandic Government ever be held responsible. The Icelanders are plundering the airport” warns a UN economist in a letter to OLAF (European Anti-fraud institute). Yes, they do, and with the silent consent of the UN bosses.

It is said that pure charity was the reason why ICAA (Icelandic Civil Aviation Authority) gracefully undertook to supervise Pristina airport.

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Story over Jo Trutschler inside, fried of Mister Joschka Fischer, Tom König and the other gangsters

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26.8.2007 by Lupo.

When Bernard Kouchner lands in Kosovo in the summer of 1999 there is no mobile telecommunication. German Siemens and French Alcatel submit one offer each. A panel of local experts select Siemens. The offer is the cheapest and it is not colonial. At a fixed lump sum the Germans promise to build a network for Kosovo. The French offer says the network would remain French property and the country code of Monaco would be utilized.

What happens? Bernard Kouchner, Kosovos legislator, head of government and head of justice, all in one person, replaces the UNMIK director of post and telecommunications, an Albanian, with a certain Pascal Copin, who in turn awards the contract to Alcatel. It is the only feasible solution, claims Copin, because only Alcatel (in a collaboration with Monaco Telecom) can provide Kosovo, not a formal state, with a country code.

Result: Seven years later Kosovo boasts the worst and most expensive telephone system in the region, concludes the European Council. Yet every time a Kosovan lifts the receiver, money rattles into French and Monegasque bank accounts, and we are not talking about small money. Close to a hundred million euros over the years, more than Swedens annual aid to Kosovo.

Well paid, you must admit, for lending a country code (0377) and for some ancillary services. But why, a naïve Swede might ask, he who thought he was helping Kosovo and not France, why couldn’t UN arrange a country code for Kosovo? When the ITU, which issues country codes, is a UN organ? Kosovans were the first to ask this question. In 2002 they got the answer. They found a letter from UN man Copin to the ITU board. In the letter he asks ITU not to issue a country code for Kosovo.

Bedri Rama, at the time head of PTK, wrote an open letter to the UN. How am I going to explain to aid organizations that donate money for the basic needs of Kosovo that Kosovo assets at the same time disappear to Monaco? he asked.

“How can we explain this to different donors from whom we are seeking help for the elementary things in Kosovo’s everyday life? How can we explain this to pensioners, to the many unemployed, to teachers, to professors and to our doctors who live on the edge of existence?”

An impossible question. If someone thinks that the corruption in Kosovo has grown to bizarre proportions, he should bear in mind that the human being is an animal that adapts to its environment. These Trutschlers and Johansens would not have been able to carry on the way they did unless the UN had created an adequate biotope. Because in Kosovo they were privileged in a way that not even monarchs of the Middle Ages could have dreamt about. This is the theme of the next article.

Maciej Zaremba, Translated by Oliver Grassman

Mrs Hisari and Mr Bo Olsson in reality are called something else.
OIOS reports can be read on www.un.org/Depts/oios/otheroiosreports.htm
The analysis of the Trutschler case is number A58/592, the report on employment procedures is called AP2005-600-18.

The Ombudsperson reports can be found on www.ombudspersonkosovo.org

Information about French MIESE can be found in the French magazine L’expansion
http://www.lexpansion.com/art/134.0.125047.1.html
and in the government report “Les acteurs francais dans le ‘post conflict’”
http://www.hcci.gouv.fr/travail/avis/post-conflit-crise.html
Information about Kosovo on UNMIK’s website: www.unmikonline.org

The currency in the UN-protectorate is euro.

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Kouchner’s crime business mit Alcatel must work also in the future!

France’s Sarkozy voices support for Kosovo’s supervised independence

28/08/2007

PARIS, France — In a speech to his diplomatic corps on Monday (August 27th), President Nicholas Sarkozy said France supports the supervised independence of Kosovo. Presenting his platform for foreign policy to the country’s ambassadors, Sarkozy stressed that this model, implemented with the help of the EU, will guarantee that the rights of minorities in Kosovo are protected. (RFE, Telegrafi, Kosovapress, Top-Channel, Tanjug - 27/08/07)

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Bernard Kouchner and his Terrorist - Gangster friends Kosovo 1999!

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