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Ousted Kyrgyz President Bakiyev charged with organizing mass murder

April 28, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Apr 28(ANI): Three weeks after ousting President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the interim Kyrgyzstan government has charged him with organizing mass murder linked with the country’s bloody unrest earlier this month.

Kyrgyz interim Deputy Prime Minister Azimbek Beknazarov said the interim government has adopted a legislation accusing Bakiyev of organizing mass murder and abusing power.

He said the legislation has also removed Bakiyev’s presidential immunity, and insisted the interim government would make a formal request for his extradition from Belarus to stand trial back home.

“A decree approving the extradition had been adopted by the interim government and the request would be sent to Minsk,” the Xinhua news agency quoted Beknazarov, as saying.

At least 85 people were killed in the protests that overthrew Bakiyev, whose security forces fired on the protesters as they stormed government buildings in Bishkek.

The interim government says Bakiyev ordered the police and soldiers to shoot.

After fleeing Bishkek, Bakiyev took refuge in his hometown of Osh and tried to regroup, but after being shot at, agreed to an internationally brokered deal to resign and go into exile. (ANI)

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Only four percent Israelis think Obama is pro-Israel: Poll

August 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Jerusalem, Aug. 28 (ANI): Only four percent Israelis consider the policies of President Barack Obama as pro-Israel, a Smith Research poll conducted by The Jerusalem Post has revealed.

More than half (51 percent) of Jewish Israelis consider Obama’s administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel, according to the survey, while 35 percent consider it neutral.

The support for Obama Administration has fallen 2 percent from an earlier poll published in the paper.

In June, 6 percent Israelis had viewed the policies of the Obama administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, while less than four in 10 said the policies were neutral.

The poll of 500 people representing a statistical model of the Jewish Israeli population had a margin of error of 4.5 percent.

Obama’s popularity among Israelis has been plummeting since a May 17 Post poll on the eve of a meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Obama at the White House.

The new poll was taken on Monday and Tuesday, before reports that Obama had agreed to exclude Jerusalem from a deal with Netanyahu on a construction freeze and to allow construction of essential public buildings, such as schools, to continue in Judea and Samaria.

The poll asked Jewish Israelis whether they would support freezing settlement construction for a year as part of an American-brokered deal.

Fifty percent said no, 41 percent said yes and 9 percent did not express an opinion. (ANI)

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Conservatives winning in Turkish Cypriot parliamentary elections

April 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Nicosia/Ankara – The conservative National Unity Party (UBP) was winning by a wide margin in premliminary results after Turkish Cypriots voted Sunday in parliamentary elections.

The UBP had 44 per cent with about two thirds of the vote counted, according to Turkish television reports.

The governing left-wing Republican Turkish Party (CTP), which currently has 25 seats in the 50-seat Parliament, was at about 30 per cent.

A change in government in the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a state recognized only by Turkey, will not directly affect reunification talks with Greek Cyprus but could put pressure on TRNC President Mehmet Ali Talat to take a harder line.

The eastern Mediterranean island has been divided into a Greek Cypriot south and Turkish Cypriot north since 1974, when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by Greek Cypriots seeking unification of the island with mainland Greece.

Reunification hopes were scuppered in 2004 when – in twin referenda – Greek Cypriots rejected a UN-brokered deal that was accepted by Turkish Cypriots.

Reunification talks resumed in September, and mediators are hopeful that a new deal can be brokered within a year. (dpa)

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Turkish Cypriots head for parliamentary elections

April 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Ankara – Turkish Cypriots go to the polls on Sunday in parliamentary elections with surveys predicting a change in government that could hurt re-unification talks with the Greek south.

According to a poll carried out by KADEM, the conservative National Unity Party (UBP) is 19 points ahead of the governing left-wing Republican Turkish Party (CTP) which currently has 25 seats in the 50-seat parliament.

A change in government in the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a state only recognised by Turkey, will not directly affect reunification talks with Greek Cyprus but could put pressure on TRNC President Mehmet Ali Talat to take a harder stance. Talat is considered a moderate and has softened Turkish Cypriot policy to Greek Cyprus compared to previous long-term Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash.

Earlier this week Greek Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias warned that a UBP victory could derail the UN-mediated talks, saying that it was difficult enough to find a solution with Talat in charge, let alone anyone who might take a harder line.

Talat’s five-year term as president ends next year.

The eastern Mediterranean island has been divided into a Greek Cypriot south and Turkish Cypriot north since 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by Greek Cypriots seeking unification of the island with mainland Greece.

Reunification hopes were scuppered in 2004 when Greek Cypriots rejected a UN-brokered deal which was accepted by Turkish Cypriots in twin referenda.

Reunification talks resumed in September last year and mediators are hopeful a deal can be brokered within a year.

The two sides have agreed in principle to a settlement based on a federation, but the Turkish Cypriots want a looser federation, while the Greek Cypriots want a stronger central government and more limited regional powers which will prevent the island falling back into partition.

There is disagreement on whether a bi-zonal federation would permit free movement or try to enforce the ethnic majorities in the north and the south.(dpa)

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