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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

EGYPT: Mohamed Morsi Who will he govern?


The historic victory of the candidate and undeniable Muslim Brotherhood should not hide the limits of his power. With 51.73% against 48.27%, Mohamed Morsi has obtained a short lead over its competitor. Especially, with a participation rate not exceeding 51%, the new president does not have a comfortable electoral legitimacy to manage the country at ease. If the Brotherhood wishes to reiterate the electoral success of the first legislative elections last December when the votes to elect a new Parliament, which should not occur for several month, and to curry favor with the revolutionary "lay" and "liberal" , it will need to be open and expand its support. The political challenge for the new president is even more important as a legal counsel of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (AFSC) had indicated that a new presidential election would be held once the Constitution promulgated. Anxious to collect, Mohamed Morsi said during his first speech after the results were announced, he wanted to be the "president of all Egyptians."

Broaden the sensitivities

Mohamed Morsi, who set about the composition of his government once elected, has asserted Tuesday, June 26, according to his entourage, he wished to entrust the post of prime minister to a personality "national independence". The government newspaper "Al-Ahram" evokes the name of the former head of the UN atomic agency and Nobel Peace Prize 2005, Mohamed ElBaradei. The latter is close to the revolutionary and had run for the presidency before withdrawing his candidacy. The daily also speaks of Hazem el-Beblawi, Finance Minister of a transitional government after the fall of Hosni Mubarak. The latter has denied having been approached. Throughout the campaign the second round, the Muslim Brotherhood arose in voice of those who initiated the uprising . Mohamed Morsi promised he would guarantee the gains of the revolution. Just as he assured that his government would be composed of Copts and women. However, if the Muslim Brotherhood do not want to antagonize the Salafi-coalition al-Nour, who wants the simple application of sharia, had obtained 24% of parliamentary seats, which derive their right to and may appear as an opposition force, the Brotherhood will have to negotiate again.

Skilfully maneuvering against the military

Besides the choice of members of his government, he will also co-manage the country with the AFSC.Lacking real power, Mohamed Morsi will have to maneuver tight. Until now, it was held in the speeches of circumstances. According to the official MENA news agency, he met Marshal Tantawi, head of the CFSA, and paid tribute to the armed forces have ensured the smooth conduct of polling. The fact that the military arrogated to be virtually full powers, paving the way for a period of compromises and power. The challenge for the new president? Do not suggest that he is unable to run the country. The army probably bet on the fact that it will crash. It could even complicate his task and then ask as the only possible regulator for the country's stability.

UN mourns the death of 200,000 people a year for illicit drugs

About 200,000 people a year die from illicit drug use, lamented Tuesday the UN agency in charge of the fight against drugs, also said in its annual report for 2012 a significant decline in cocaine production in Colombia between 2006 and 2010. In addition, the director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC UNODC or in its name in English), Yuri Fedotov, described as "disappointing" the draft Uruguay to legalize marijuana. "Heroin, cocaine and other drugs are killing about 200,000 people a year, shattering families and promoting (...) insecurity and the spread of HIV, "Fedotov said. According to the report, global production and consumption of illicit drugs remained relatively stable last year. Cannabis was the most consumed drug, with about 224 million consumers worldwide. With respect to cocaine, although the use and development remained broadly stable, "the trends are different depending on the regions and countries. " "The available data on crop yield and traffic indicate that there has been an overall decline in cocaine production, driven by a very significant reduction in cocaine production in Colombia during 2006-2010" the report said. "The main markets for cocaine remained in North America, Europe and Oceania (mainly Australia and New Zealand). In North America there has been a sharp decline in cocaine use, mainly due to the reduction in the States, 3% (2006) to 2.2% (2010) in adults between 15 and 64 years old, "he says. "While the U.S. market continues to supply almost exclusively with cocaine produced in Colombia, since 2006 has been a change in European markets, which offset at least partially, the lack of cocaine produced in Colombia with cocaine produced in Bolivia and Peru, "he estimates. The UN agency also said that the cultivation and production of sheet cocaine have increased in these two countries between 2006 and 2010. In March, Bolivian President Evo Morales coca leaves exhibited in Vienna, where the headquarters of UNODC, lamenting the "absurd ban on chewing coca leaf" . Fedotov said at the time it was "difficult to draw conclusions regarding the chewing of coca, because (...) have no clear medical evidence about their effects." "Initiatives like this can undermine long-term international law on drug control and cause a sort of domino effect," he said. On Tuesday, commenting on the draft Uruguay to legalize marijuana, Fedotov, held that, " if confirmed, would be a disappointing change. " For him, "cannabis is a drug not so innocent as some would like us to believe. According to medical reports, causes irreversible changes in the brain," he added.

Turkey declares country hostile to Syria

The Turkish military considered Syria a hostile country from now on, and therefore changed the protocol of military action: Now, any military element that approximates the border will be considered "a threat" , as indicated this morning the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan . "The Turkish army will respond to any violation by the Syrian border," assured the head of government. "As valuable as the friendship of Turkey, their anger is just as furious. Do not take our common sense and our cautious approach as a sign of passivity, "said Erdogan, who has stated that" Syria is a clear and present danger "to Turkey. "The radar records are clear. quelled fighter recognition in a solo test flight. That's a hostile act , "said the prime minister, calling it" intolerable ". Although Erdogan's speech sets the stage for future incidents, it seems that, for now, Turkey will not go to war with its neighbor . Something that does not even the father of the missing pilot, Ali Erton. It is wrong for a country goes to war by a pilot, aircraft or fifty planes . What matters is that my son serves his country, "he said yesterday Samanyolu television. "I am a man of faith, and I think the martyrs never die," he added.


NATO: 'Unacceptable'

"We believe that this act is unacceptable and we condemn in the strongest terms," ​​said, for his part, Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen . "The allies have expressed their strong support and solidarity with Turkey", he said. However, Turkey has failed, in the NATO meeting today, to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Charter, which states that an attack on one member will be considered an attack against all.

Killed at least 38 civilians and 24 military clashes in Syria

A total of 38 civilians and 24 soldiers were killed Tuesday in Syria, as Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has reported clashes between government forces and rebels of the Free Syrian army in the suburbs located on the outskirts of Damascus , in "the worst wave of violence" in the area since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al Assad, 16 months ago. The Centre has indicated that there have been intense fighting near the headquarters of the Republican Guard in Qudsiya and in the suburbs of Al Hama and Mashrou Dumar, located nine kilometers from the capital. According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, in clashes have been killed "dozens of terrorists," a large number of wounded combatientos and some detainees, and have seized their weapons, including RPG launchers, sniper rifles, machine guns and ammunition. Also reported that "armed terrorist groups" blocked the old road between Damascus and Beirut. A video posted by activists shows gunfire and explosions, including violent images in the area. Samir al-Shami, an activist based in Damascus, said that tanks and armored vehicles took to the streets in the suburbs. Some opposition sources have reported the explosion of a tank. The Centre, based in the UK and a network of activists in different parts of Syria, has indicated that the security forces and armored vehicles stormed the neighborhood of Barzeh , an opposition stronghold in Damascus, from which you have heard intense gunfire. At the same time, Syrian state television said the rebels abducted on Tuesday by four-star general of the Air Force Shahadeh Faraj, at home located in the heart of Damascus, and that a special forces unit was rescued.


FIGURES OF DECEASED 
According to the Observatory, over a hundred people were killed Monday result of violence, including 65 civilians and at least 31 members of the security forces. The highest number of fatalities have occurred in the city of Deraa (south), where at least 18 were killed, and Deir al Zor (east), with 17. At least 10,000 people have died in the conflict since March 2011, according United Nations, but diplomats say the real number is much higher. In the city of Homs, a video shot by activists shows heavy weapons explosions and plumes of black smoke rising above the roofs of the buildings destroyed and abandoned. Aid workers negotiating their safe return to Homs to try to evacuate the trapped civilians and wounded, has announced the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. "We can not foresee that the team can do it," Reuters said ICRC spokesman Bijan Farnoudi. Aid workers have requested access to the flashpoint city since government forces and opposition groups agreed last week agency request for a humanitarian pause in the fighting. SANA has argued that members of the Monitoring Mission of the UN in Syria (UNSMIS) traveled Tartous province on Monday and checked "peace, security and stability prevail. " 

The tower of Big Ben in London will now be called Elizabeth Tower

The iconic British parliament tower known worldwide as "Big Ben" will officially be called "Elizabeth Tower" coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England, was announced officially on Tuesday. The name change of the until now officially called the Clock Tower was approved late Monday by the body that administers the House of Commons, in response to a petition signed by dozens of deputies. "The commission welcomed welcome the proposal to rename the Clock Tower Tower Elizabeth in recognition of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen, and will ensure that this decision is implemented in an appropriate way in due time, "said a statement. of 96 meters, the Clock Tower, completed in 1859, is the most famous of the towers of the Palace of Westminster, which houses the two houses of British Parliament, the House of Lords (high) and the House of Commons (lower). It is generally known as "Big Ben", which actually is the name of the largest of its bells, of 13 tons.Although probably retain its nickname, the official name change is part of a logic that was already rename the square tower located southwest of Victoria Tower Palace in honor of the only other British sovereign completed this anniversary. Elizabeth II, who visited Northern Ireland on Tuesday, continues his travels around the country because of its Diamond Jubilee , the celebration reached its peak with four days of public entertainment in early June.

Cartoon of Muhammad: "Censorship of the sacred is institutionalized"

A Tunisian Internet was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on Monday for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on his Facebook page. Tunisian justice upheld on appeal, on June 25, sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on a young Tunisian Jabbeur Mejri , who had posted on Facebook of the Mohammed cartoons. A decision that caused consternation of his family and his supporters, offended by a "disproportionate punishment". The cartoonist Tunisian Z, which, after reporting on his satirical blog " Debatunisie "Ben Ali's regime, is now attacking the new government dominated by the Islamist party Ennahda, discusses this and gives his views on the caricature in Tunisia.