时事经纬
26-05-09

格鲁吉亚数万人举行反总统示威活动

格鲁吉亚２６日迎来独立日，格反对派从全国各地召集数万人在首都第比利斯举行示威活动，要求总统萨卡什维利下台。由于反对派的示威活动，格当局取消了按传统在第比利斯举行的独立日阅兵式。

斯里兰卡政府拟扩军防猛虎“复生”

斯里兰卡陆军司令萨拉特 丰塞卡２５日宣布，计划征召至少１０万名士兵，防止泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织死灰复燃。他说，猛虎组织境外残余力量计划成立新领导层，图谋卷土重来，发动自杀爆炸袭击。斯里兰卡政府拒绝猛虎组织加入和平进程。国防部常务秘书戈塔巴亚 拉贾帕克萨２５日说，猛虎组织过去所作所为表明，政府不能信任这一组织。 “猛虎 组织这么多年来从事暴力活动，我们根本不相信它能真心参与和平进程”。

巴自杀炸弹袭击23死百余伤

巴基斯坦警方说，一枚自杀汽车炸弹在东部城市拉合尔爆炸，对几座建筑造成严重损坏，并炸死至少23人死亡，炸伤100多人。还没有人宣称对这次袭击负责，但是有关官员说，他们逮捕了至少两名嫌疑人。这次袭击发生之际，巴基斯坦军队继续在西北部的斯瓦特河谷及其周边地区打击塔利班激进分子。

安理会新决议案拟加强临检确保对朝制裁实效性

美国准备同日本等国一道提交联合国安理会的新决议，要求通过加强对朝鲜船舶的临检，以彻底落实现有的制裁措施。内容包括确保安理会第1718号决议中规定的禁运及资产冻结等制裁措施的实效性--该决议是06年10月朝鲜首次核试验后在安理会通过--不过，中俄可能会在决议案的措辞等细节方面提出异议--追加制裁中将包括扩大可转用于核及导弹计划的军民两用品等禁运物资品种。

北韩警告韩国莫参与查船行动

北韩说，如果韩国参与美国领导的拦截涉嫌运载大规模杀伤武器的船只的努力，北韩就将对韩国采取军事行动。目前的紧张局势由于平壤本星期进行核试验而加剧。平壤星期三发表声明重申将把首尔的有关决定视为战争行为，而且不再受1953年停战协定的约束。与此同时，北韩已经重新启动宁边的核再处理设施。平壤从2007年开始，照六国去核会谈达成的协议，拆除宁边核设施。但安理会谴责北韩试射一枚远程导弹后，平壤曾誓言重启宁边核设施。

北韩：将以“军事打击”应对南韩参与PSI

发言人在当天发表声明说：“将把韩国全面参与PSI视为‘向我们宣战’。包括对我
方船舶和平运输进行管制和搜查，任何微小的敌对行为都将被视为对我们共和国主权的不可容忍的侵害，并给予及时、强硬的军事打击。”“位于朝鲜西海、我方海
上军事分界线西北侧领海的南方5岛的法律地位，以及在南方5岛周边水域活动的美帝侵略军、傀儡海军舰船、普通船舶的安全都不再有保障。”

“美国执政人士热衷于扼杀北韩的政策，不仅否定国际法，而且否定停战协定本身。甚至背弃作为停战协定签署人的责任，到底把傀儡拉进PSI这一圈套。在这种情况下，我军队也不会再受到停战协定的约束。若停战协定失去约束力，从法律角度来看，朝鲜半岛即返回战争状态，我革命武装力量将予以与此相应的军事行动。”“在美帝和李明博判徒放弃公正的国际法要求和双方协议的情况下，只要我方去履行是没有道理的。认为弱肉强食的美国式逻辑在我们这里行得通，这完全是打错了算盘。” “美帝和李明博叛徒把朝鲜半岛格局推进了战争状态。非战非和的我国不稳定的局势，正走向不知何时暴发战争的极限状态。”

朝核试验激化国内内部矛盾

美国专家分析中国与中亚能源合作

中国利用全球金融危机、其他国家和公司的困扰，靠巨大的现金储备以及安稳的中国经济，低价获取长期的能源或其他资源开发的合同。

美国陆军战争学院教授布兰克说，由于中东的局势动荡，中国担心海上输送中东石油通过印度洋和东南亚马六甲海峡面临美国、印度和其他国家海军和其他敌对势力封锁，中国加强了同中亚地区土库曼斯坦、乌兹别克、哈萨克和伊朗的能源开发合作以及铺设通往中国东部陆上石油管道的合作协议--不但获得中亚国家石油和天然气的开采权，也使得中亚国家不至于支持疆独分裂势力--中国相信美国在中亚的势力对中国构成威胁，包括美国在中亚的军事基地会构成军事威胁，及美国在中亚地区促进民主对中亚地区和新疆地区的稳定构成威胁。

美国PFC能源咨询公司的资深项目研究主任纳瑙伊女士发表书面证词指出，中国国有的石油和天然气公司在哈萨克的产量已经开始超过美国在哈萨克的石油公司
CHEVRON和EXXON MOBILE的产量；而中国国有的石油和天然气公司在土库曼斯坦、乌兹别克以及伊朗是在政府间进行合作，因此可以获得重要的开采和生产权，这对同这些国家进行打交道的美国一些私有跨国企业石油公司形成挑战，这些美国公司在这些国家的开发仍然居于次要地位。

中国海外资产10万亿成世界第二

中国以超过约9.92万亿元人民币的海外资产额仅次于日本，位列世界第二，其后为
德国、瑞士。

中国很难摆脱美元陷阱

North Korea abandons truce, threatens attack on South

The warning came after Seoul decided to participate in a US-led operation to intercept vessels suspected of carrying nuclear material. North Korea responded Wednesday, "Any hostile act against our peaceful vessels including search and seizure will be considered an unpardonable infringement on our sovereignty and we will immediately respond with a powerful military strike,""The Korean Peninsula is bound to immediately return to a state of war from a legal point of view, and so our revolutionary armed forces will go over to corresponding military actions,""Those who have provoked us will face unimaginable merciless punishment."

Lahore bombing death toll rises to 40

The death toll from a bomb attack targeting the police offices in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore rises to 40 as rescue teams find more bodies under the rubble. The death toll may rise further as some of the 250 injured are said to be in a critical condition.

Mingora to be cleared of Taliban within three days

Georgian opposition ends civilian parade in Tbilisi National Stadium

A civilian parade of the Georgian opposition is over at the Tbilisi National Stadium. The two-hour action that involved about 65,000 people called for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili. Opposition leaders strongly criticized the policy of the national administration and described Saakashvili as “the source of Georgian problems.”

Binyamin Netanyahu : We're bound by agreements signed by previous governments

Netanyahu said that Israel "welcomes" Obama's initiatives. "This is a new and refreshing thing that completely corresponds with our views." "We are acting to promote economic projects in the Palestinian Authority," he said. "There is an opportunity to induce investments by third-party countries in Europe, Asia and the Arab world. We will act and do what is necessary in order to change the economic situation."

Netanyahu said that his government was "bound to the diplomatic and international agreements signed by previous Israeli governments," "we expect that others respect their commitments as well."..."We wish to see an end to the conflict and want reciprocity regarding the demands of both sides and their implementation. We recognize international obligations. We will take concrete steps towards peace with the Palestinians and expect them to take similar steps. It would be good for the Arab states to take symbolic and concrete steps towards normalization, not later but rather now."

U.S. existing home sales expected to rise

A poll of 66 economists by Reuters produced a median forecast of 4.66 million sales of existing homes on a seasonally-adjusted, annualized basis, in April. That would be up from 4.57 million sales in March. Analysts noted that the pending sales index rose 3 percent in March, an encouraging sign for April sales. Meanwhile, the number of existing homes for sale dropped slightly to 3.74 million in March. Still, economists noted that foreclosures are still on the rise and that there is a large stock of "shadow" inventory, describing when would-be sellers put their houses back on the market when demand seems to be healthier.

Timeline: Pakistan under attack

After joining the "war on terror" following the attacks on the United States in September 2001, Pakistan saw a significant rise in attacks by tribal movements and groups linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

2007
July 10: More than 100 people are killed as Pakistani security forces storm the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) and a neighbouring religious school in Islamabad.
July 14: At least 23 paramilitary troops die and 27 others are wounded when a suicide bomber rams an explosives-packed car into their convoy in the town of Miranshah in North Waziristan region near the border with Afghanistan.
July 15: Another 49 people are killed and hundreds injured in a suicide attack and a number of car bombings across the North West Frontier Province in an apparent retaliation for the Lal Masjid operation.
July 27: A suspected suicide bomber kills at least 13 people at the Muzaffar hotel in Aabpara, Islamabad. About 140 people in total lose their lives to suicide attacks in the month following the mosque raid.
September 4: At least 25 people are killed and 66 injured in two suicide bomb blasts in high security areas of Rawalpindi during morning rush hour.
October 18: The convoy of Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister and leader of the opposition Pakistan People's Party, is attacked by a suicide bomber shortly after she returns from self-imposed exile. Bhutto survives the blast in Karachi, but about 140 people are killed and more than 450 injured.
October 30: A police checkpoint in the high security zone of Rawalpindi, less than one kilometre from Musharraf's camp office, is hit by a suicide bomber killing seven people, three of them policemen, and injuring 31 others.
November 24: Thirty people are killed in two suicide attacks in Rawalpindi.
December 21: A suicide bomb blast targeting Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, head of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, kills at least 57 people and injures more than 100 at Jamia Masjid Sherpao, in Charsadda District.
December 27: Bhutto is killed in a second suicide bombing after a rally in Rawalpindi. More than 20 other people are also killed in the blast.
Another 47 people die in riots following the attack as protesters blame Musharraf's government for failing to provide adequate security for the opposition leader.
2008
January 10: A suicide bomber walks up to police officers outside the high court in Lahore and detonates his explosives. Nineteen people die, including 16 police and three passers-by.
An explosion at an election rally in Charsaddain northwestern Pakistan leaves at least 25 people dead. The attack is believed to be targeting members of the secular ANP party, the leader of which was assassinated two days earlier.
February 9: An explosion at an election rally in Charsaddain northwestern Pakistan leaves at least 25 people dead. The attack is believed to be targeting members of the secular ANP party, the leader of which was assassinated two days earlier.
February 18: Aaj TV reports that at least 24 people are killed and nearly 200 injured in election-related violence.
February 29: About 38 people are killed and 75 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Mingora in Swat District during the funeral of a senior police officer who had been killed just hours earlier.
March 2: At least 40 people die when a suicide bomber attacks a traditional tribal meeting in the Darra Adam Kheil region, near the city of Peshawar.
March 11: Twin suicide car bomb strikes in Lahore kill 24 people, most of them in an attack on a government security office in the eastern city.
March 15: A bomb is thrown over the wall of an Italian restaurant in Islamabad, a favourite hangout for foreigners.<
A Turkish woman is killed and several others, including four FBI agents, are hurt.
May 18: A bomb attack on the Army's Punjab Regimental Centre market in the city of Mardan kills at least 13 people, including four soldiers.
This was the second attack in Mardan, a month after a car bomb on April 25 killed three and injured 26 people.
June 2: A suicide bomber blows up a car outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad killing at least six people and wounding about 20.
A message purporting to be from al-Qaeda claims responsibility for the blast and suggests it was a response to the re-publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad.
July 6: A suspected suicide blast targets police officers deployed to provide security for a rally marking the one-year anniversary of the Lal Msjid siege.
August 21: At least 59 people are killed by two suicide bombings as they arrive for work at an arms factory in the town of Wah, 30km west of Islamabad.
The Pakistani Taliban claim the attack which takes place just days after Pervez Musharraf steps down as president.
September 3: Snipers fire at Prime Minister Gilani's motorcade in a failed assassination attempt.
September 20: Over 50 people killed and hundreds injured in suicide bombing at Islamabad's Marriott hotel. The Taliban denied a role in the blast, but US intelligence said the attack had the "hallmarks" of an al-Qaeda operation.
November 2: At least eight Pakistani soldiers killed in suicide attack in South Waziristan, close to Afghan border, hours before arrival in Pakistan of David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command.
December 5: A car bomb kills 20 people and injures at least 45 others in Peshawar. The attack destroyed a hotel, a mosque and set fire to several shops.
December 28: At least 30 people are killed in a suicide car bomb blast at a polling station near Buner, a town in the North West Frontier Province during a by-election for a provincial assembly.
2009
February 5: At least 24 people are killed and 50 others injured in a suspected suicide bombing near a Shia mosque in Dera Ghazi Khan, a town in central Pakistan.
February 20: At least 30 people killed and more than 60 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a funeral procession in the city of Dera Ismail Khan in North West Frontier Province.
March 3: At least five policemen killed and six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team injured in attack in eastern city of Lahore.
March 27: At least 48 people killed and scores more injured after a suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers in the town of Jamrud near the Afghan border.
March 30: At least 12 policemen killed and 100 others injured in attack on police training academy near the eastern city of Lahore.
April 4: A suicide attack in Islamabad kills eight paramilitary soldiers.
April 5: At least 20 people killed and 50 others injured when a suicide bomber blows himself up outside a Shia mosque in Chakwal, 80km south of Islamabad.
April 15: A suicide car bomber attacks a security post in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 18 people, nine of them police and injuring five others.
The bomber set off his explosives as he pulled up at a checkpoint in Charsadda, near the city of Peshawar.
April 18: A car bomb is detonated at a checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani town of Hangu’s Doaba area, killing at least 22 people, including five security personnel, and injuring another 15.
May 1: About 100 people are reported dead after four days of fighting between government forces and pro-Taliban fighting in the Buner district, just 100km from the capital.
May 2: At least 16 fighters and two soldiers are killed in fighting after an attempted assault on a checkpoint in Mohmand tribal region.
May 3: Two government workers are killed by suspected Taliban fighters in retaliation for the army killing Taliban fighters.
May 5: At least four security men are killed after a suicide bomber rams his car into a police checkpoint near the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
May 6: Security forces target Taliban strongholds in Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) with helicopter gunships and artillery, forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes.
May 7: Government forces step up offensive in Swat and Lower Dir districts of NWFP, killing 60 suspected Taliban fighters.
May 8: Miltary says it has killed at least 140 suspected Taliban fighters in Swat valley. Major General Attar Abbas, a military spokesman, says a "full-scale operation" is in place against the Taliban.
May 10: Security forces kill up to 200 Taliban fighters during Swat offensive, military says.
May 13: Suspected Taliban fighters attack supply trucks parked at a transport terminal in Peshawar, destroying eight vehicles.
May 29: Car bomb in Lahore is said to have killed about 30 people.