Kyrgyzstan has opened for refugees border with Uzbekistan

Kyrgyzstan has opened the border with Uzbekistan for the passage of refugees from the collision zone in the Osh region.
It was said by the head of the interim government of the republic Roza Otunbaeva.
"Before we decided to open the border in the direction of Uzbekistan for the passage of women, the elderly and children. With the Uzbek side is understood in this part," - she said.
According to Otunbayeva, the authorities in Kyrgyzstan have gone to the opening of the border due to the huge number of calls, the incoming interim government "on the defenseless people."
Meanwhile, the number of people killed in clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan reached 50 people. According to the Ministry of Health, for medical attention 663. 429 had to be hospitalized.
The Provisional Government of Kyrgyzstan encourages junior and senior officers of the former employees of ministries of defense, interior, security services, as well as previous service in Afghanistan to join the counter-insurgency in the south of the country, reports news agency 24.kg. On Saturday, June 12 from Bishkek already fly the first group of volunteers numbering 300 people, said Beknazarov. Speaking about the situation in Osh, he said that "continued to fire, burn houses, people are scared."
Riots in Osh started Thursday, June 10, because of local clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. Because of the deteriorating situation in the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan is almost three times increased food prices, broken gas and there are shortages of electricity supply. Last night firefighters had to extinguish more than 30 large fires, which mainly were the result of arson.
On Friday, June 11, authorities announced the city under curfew. However, participants ignored the massacres that measure.

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Serbian police arrested the accused in the murder of premier Djindjic

Serbian police arrested on Thursday, June 10, on the border with Croatia, a member of one of the largest Serb gangs Milos Simovic, who is accused of involvement in the murder in 2003 of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
As the head of the Serbian Ministry of Interior Ivica Dachich, Simovic was arrested on the night while trying to illegally cross the Croatian-Serbian border. He had no identity documents and was taken to police headquarters in Belgrade for identification.
It is reported that Simovic will be sent to prison to serve his sentence.
According to investigators, Simovic, June 8 in the Croatian capital of Zagreb wounded by small arms fire another member of the Zemun group Sretko Kalinichev, then tried to escape. Kalinichev, received two wounds in the chest and abdomen, is in a Croatian hospital.
For involvement in the murder of Djindjic, both the offender sentenced in absentia in Belgrade to 30 years in prison. After the assassination of Djindjic, Simovic and Kalinichev left Serbia. They are a long time hiding in Croatia, but the local police had been able to leave their mark only after the attempt on Kalinichev Simovic. Belgrade has said that Serbia will seek the extradition from Croatia Kalinichev.
Recall, the Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Djindjic was shot in Belgrade on March 12, 2003 in front of the government. The investigation concluded that the assassination of prime minister is a criminal group Zemun clan.
In 2007, the court sentenced organizer of the murder - a former commander of Special Forces Red Berets Milorad Ulemeka, as well as gunman in the premiere Zvezdan Jovanović - to 40 years in prison. Several other persons involved in this case, received from 15 to 35 years in prison.

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Close window UN Secretary-General believes that Iran needs to meet the requirements of UN Security Council resolutions

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon believes that Iran needs to comply with the requirements of all relevant UN Security Council resolutions and cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to resolve outstanding issues on Tehran's nuclear program.
This is stated in a public statement on Wednesday, June 9, spokesperson of the administrative head of the international community.

"This will be a significant step in restoring international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program", - stated in the document.
General secretary UN continue to support the search for a "comprehensive and achievable solutions through negotiations" on this issue.
In this regard, Ban welcomes the willingness of the "six" - Russia, the USA, China, Britain, France and Germany - "to make further diplomatic efforts to promote dialogue and consultation" with the Iranian side, ITAR-TASS.
The foreign ministers of the Six hopes that Iran will respond positively to openness to dialogue and negotiation

In turn, the foreign ministers of the Six reiterated their determination to seek an early negotiated settlement of the situation around Iran's nuclear program. This is stated in a joint statement, foreign ministers in connection with the adoption of UN Security Council resolution number 1929 (2010) on Iran, reported in the Foreign Ministry.

"We, the Foreign Ministers of Britain, Germany, China, France, Russia and the United States would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm our determination to find an early negotiated settlement of the situation surrounding the Iranian nuclear program and commitment to this" - said in a statement.
"The adoption of UN Security Council resolution, along with the reflection of international concern over the situation around the Iranian nuclear program and evidence of the need of Iranian compliance with the requirements of UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors left the door open for further cooperation between the Six and Iran, the document says.
"The goal of our efforts is to achieve comprehensive and lasting settlement, which would restore the confidence of the international community in the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program, while respecting Iran's legitimate right to peaceful use of nuclear energy. We reaffirm the commitment to continue to work to achieve that goal. We also welcome and encourage all diplomatic efforts in this area, especially those that have recently been made by Brazil and Turkey with regard to the specific issue of the Tehran research reactor. We reaffirm our proposal of June 2008. which shall remain in force, as confirmed by UN Security Council Resolution 1929 (2010 ). In our opinion, these proposals provide a sound basis for further negotiations. We are ready to continue dialogue and cooperation with Iran in the context of implementing the understandings reached during a meeting in Geneva on 1 October 2009. We have asked the EU High Representative for foreign affairs and politics Safety with a request at the earliest possible efforts will be made with the Registrar of the Supreme National Security Council. We expect that Iran will demonstrate a pragmatic approach and respond positively to our openness to dialogue and negotiation, "- said in a statement.

Recall, June 9, the UN Security Council approved majority (12 against two with one abstention) a package of additional sanctions against Iran. This is the fourth resolution adopted by the UN Security Council for Tehran's reluctance to comply with international demands regarding its nuclear program.

As expected, the new sanctions against Iran, Tehran withdrew from itself. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called This document is useless and said that it should be thrown in the trash can used as a handkerchief.

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Special forces of Russia: Bin Laden is alive and not become a virtual figure

Russian security services have no data on deaths or destruction of the leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden.
Said on Thursday, June 10, Special Presidential Envoy for the fight against international terrorism and organized crime, Anatoly Safonov.
"We have no evidence that this figure has become a virtual" - quoted Safonova agency RIA Novosti.
He stressed that bin Laden from the Russian security services have no differences with American counterparts. "We are here with the Americans complete coincidence: both legal and practical, and efficient. The question of his detention or destruction, but rather technical. It is a matter of time", - said the representative of the Russian President.

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Recall that in December last year, U.S. Defense Robert Gates admittedThat his agency for several years had not received information about the whereabouts of the leader of al-Qaida.
In November of 2009, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Policy published report, stating that in 2001, the CIA tracked Osama bin Laden, but the operation to capture him failed.
In March this year, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder saidThat American intelligence agencies are unlikely to live terrorist № 1.

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Close window Foreign Ministry: U.S. sanctions against Minsk frivolous and useless

The U.S. sanctions in place against a number of Belarusian officials, bogus and useless.
With such a statement on Wednesday, June 9, was made by Foreign Ministry of Belarus, commenting on the decision of Washington extend for one year sanctions against the Belarusian leadership, introduced in 2006 by President George W. Bush.
"If we talk of sanctions against a number of Belarusian officials, after a long period of existence of these sanctions for all the obvious artificiality of these sanctions and isolation from real life," - said the Belarusian diplomat.
"We believe that the extension of those useless, but confrontational in nature of the sanctions, said the absence of the U.S. political will to develop cooperation in the interests of peace and cooperation", - added official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus.
In Minsk convinced that constructive engagement between the U.S. and Belarus will be useful not only for our countries, but also for the region and the world community as a whole. " Belarus offers the U.S. to move away from stereotypes of confrontational thinking and begin to remove the rubble in our bilateral relations, "- Foreign Ministry spokesman said, while stressing that the abolition of all forms of sanctions is a fundamental condition for the beginning of the dialogue.
Recall that in early May, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko saidThat he was disappointed the current relations with the West, which is not reciprocated by his country steps forward, and the policy of Moscow committed to forming pragmatic relations with Minsk.

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BP promised to completely stop the leakage of oil in the Gulf of Mexico in two months

Completely stop the leakage of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will only be two months, during this time will be set up so-called relief well.
Told the U.S. president Obama during a meeting with his advisers.
There are currently pumping oil in the Gulf are using a protective dome. Employees of British Petroleum in 12 hours sent to the White House a detailed report on the progress of the operation. According to recent figures, the dome collects more than half the fuel a day flowing from the well.
In the coming days, BP hopes to significantly increase its effectiveness. Nevertheless, to solve the problem completely dome could not.

  Apologized for BP ecological catastrophe

Cost BP at eliminating the consequences of the oil platform in the Gulf reached 1.25 billion dollars excluding 360 million, which the company will send the project for the construction of artificial islands near the barrage of Louisiana.
In addition, the oil company BP paid more than 48 million dollars to about 18 thousands of lawsuits have been filed against her in connection with an ecological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.
Also, the corporation British Petroleum released TV commercial with an apology for the ecological disaster that has occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. For residents of the United States appealed personally CEO Tony Hayward.
Recall controlled BP Deepwater Horizon platform sank off the coast of Louisiana on April 22 after a 36-hour fire, which followed a powerful explosion. Oil spill, which started after him, had caused damage in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and threatens the region of ecological catastrophe.

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MAC: collision avoidance system to land the plane Kaczynski was not defective

Collision avoidance system with the ground (TAWS) and on-board computers installed in the Polish Tu-154 crashed April 10 near Smolensk, were undamaged.
Said on Tuesday, June 8, the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).
Specialists IAC completed the analysis of materials prior record company Universal Avionics Systems Corporation (UASC) on the study of information systems on-board collision avoidance with the ground (TAWS - Terrain Avoidance Warning System) and on-board computers (FMS UNS-1D), installed on an aircraft.
"The study, which was launched May 4, 2010 in the laboratory of Research Center UASC in Redmond (USA, Washington), it was found that the equipment in flight on April 10 has been properly and provides the crew and aircraft systems necessary information" - IAC said in a statement.
Besides the technical committee held an additional MAC expert assessment of the flight crew actions of the Polish aircraft during landing.
According to the report, the assessment was based on the analysis of record flight parameters derived from the decoding of the parametric airborne crash recorders, records of negotiations members of the crew in the cockpit and controllers, air traffic control services, materials, flight subcommittee.
Recall, the Interstate Aviation Committee completed transcripts of flight recorders of the Polish Tupolev Tu-154 on May 19. In the IAC expelled attack, explosion or fire as a cause of the crash.
June 1 transcript records the black boxes of the presidential aircraft have been published on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration of Poland. As reported, with records that the crew was told about the impossibility of landing in Smolensk, still 15 minutes before the crash. In addition, pilots not react signals of an early warning system for approaching the earth (the system TAWS).
On the eve of June 7, the Polish newspaper DziennikGazetaPrawna reportedThat the manager of the military airfield in Smolensk could provide the crew crashed Tu-154 invalid data on the trajectory of his fit.
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The Polish government plane TU-154 crashed near Smolensk on 10 April. On board was the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski. The Polish leader, along with the official delegation flew to Katyn to participate in memorial events. On board were 96 people: 88 passengers and eight crew members. As a result of the crash did not survive one.

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Russian airline allowed to operate charter flights to Georgia

Unified transport authority of the Ministry of Regional Development and the infrastructure of Georgia gave Russian airline S7 (Siberia) approval for direct flights between Russia and Georgia.
As RIA Novosti reported with reference to the press service of unified transport administration, the resolution applies only to charter flights.
"We received an official letter of permission to fly, but the letter did not have data on flight schedules. We are writing to give permission, but this applies only to charter flights. At this stage we are waiting for a letter to flight schedules, which will continue negotiated, and then granted ", - reported the press service.
Note that currently the only company exercising Direct charter flights between the countries, Georgia is a private airline Airzena - Georgian Airways. She received permission to carry out 12 flights before July 1.
As is known, direct flights between Russia and Georgia were canceled in 2006 after tensions between the two countries for some time been restored in 2008 and then again lifted after the August conflict in 2008.

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The Iranian Red Crescent sends to the shores of Gaza, two ships with humanitarian aid

At the end of this week, Iranian Red Crescent Organization in the Gaza Strip will send two ships with humanitarian aid.
As informs AFP referring to the organization's representative Abdulraoof Adibzadeha on one of the vessels will be transported donations of Iranians, mostly medicine and food, and the other will float volunteers from the Red Crescent.
In a statement representative of the organization said that "volunteers who want to go to Gaza ... can register on the site of the organization."
As you know, the last time Israel has prevented two attempts by international activists to break the humanitarian blockade of the Gaza Strip and to deliver humanitarian aid there. The first ended in an international scandal. On the night of May 31, Israeli commandos seized the so-called freedom flotilla, consisting of six ships with several thousand tons for Palestine. As a result of the operation died nine people.

  The Israeli army attacked the ship of human rights defenders: Ten people were killed

 

Later, without the use of force was intercepted Irish vessel Rachel Corrie, which was carrying 19 people, including eight crew members.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - an elite military unit of Iran - has indicated its willingness to accompany ships with humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, where the supreme leader of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, give the appropriate instructions.

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Israel deports passengers trapped Irish vessel

All 19 passengers and the ship's crew Rachel Corrie signed consent to deportation and will be shipped from Israel to the next flight on Sunday.
It is reported by the British Radio and Television BBC.

"The whole process went very smoothly, and for tomorrow they will fly from Ben Gurion Airport," - said the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Israel Sabine Hadad.
She also added that the six citizens of Malaysia and one Cuban leave the country at the Allenby Bridge, which connects Israel with Jordan.
According to the Israeli military, they boarded the ship in the Mediterranean "with the full consent of the crew and without any incidents."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli military forces acted exactly the same as on Monday, but this time met with a very different reception from the activists of the ship.
Earlier on Saturday a ship loaded with humanitarian aid Israeli navy intercepted atattempt to break the blockade of Gaza, arrived at an Israeli port of Ashdod.
Israel claimed that its troops boarded the vessel, the Irish Rachel Corrie, even in the sea and did not encounter any resistance. From aboard the ship, including from activists, no statements have yet been received.

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