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11-06-09

北约：美国按计划增兵阿富汗

北约部队一名高级指挥官说，为了今年8月举行的阿富汗总统选举，增派到阿富汗的几万美国部队应当会按时部署在阿富汗南部。星期四，8国国防部长将在布鲁塞尔举行会谈。美国国防部长罗伯特·盖茨对记者表示，他将在此次北约会议期间强调，国际社会对在阿富汗打击塔利班提供支持具有持续的极大重要性。

中国促美遣返在押维吾尔人

北京表示，美国即将送往太平洋岛国帕劳的17名中国穆斯林是恐怖份子。北京敦促华盛顿停止把这些“恐怖份子嫌疑人”移交给第三国，并尽快把他们遣返中国。

中国反对移送17名维族囚徒到第三国

美批准在驻华使馆设西藏处

美国国会众议院批准一项议案，要求在北京的美国驻华使馆内设立一个西藏处。这项于星期三通过的议案授权美国国务卿在使馆内设立西藏处，来关注西藏自治区和中国其他藏区的政治、经济和社会发展。议案说，在美方能够西藏首府拉萨设立领事馆之前，驻华使馆内的西藏处将从北京关注西藏事务。美国国会之前曾通过议案，要求在西藏设立领事馆，但这需要中国政府批准。这次在使馆内部设立西藏处是新的进展。另外，这项议案还要求美国各个部门在西藏问题上加强协调，并且要求任命一个西藏问题协调员。

七国就安理会对朝制裁决议案达成最终共识

各国代表将把草案报告本国政府等候指示，争取在12日进行表决。
决议草案写入了加强对朝鲜船舶的货物检查及追加金融制裁等内容。日美强烈主张的货物检查义务化因中国反对而被搁置，仅使用了“请求”各国加强检查的表述。
包括34项条款的对朝制裁决议草案重点在于，彻底履行在朝鲜2006年10月进行第一次核试验后制定、但除禁运武器以外并未切实实施的联合国安理会1718号决议，同时扩大武器禁运范围、加强货物搜查力度以及金融制裁。

美官员称美国已做好同朝鲜对话的准备

美国国务院负责东亚太事务的助理国务卿提名人科特·康贝尔10日表示，若朝鲜重返对话，美国已做好相应准备。康贝尔称，美国已向朝方阐明了这一点。他还称，美国正努力与同盟国及中国、俄罗斯进行磋商，并通过联合国采取应对措施。他强调：“我们的立场鲜明，决不会容忍拥有核武器的朝鲜。” 他表示，如果同朝鲜重启对话，应促使朝鲜采取无法扭转的措施。

日本众院通过北方四岛为“固有领土”的法案

就日本与俄罗斯有领土纠纷的北方四岛问题，明确写入北方四岛为日本固有领土的《促进解决北方领土问题特别措施法》修正案11日下午在日本众院全体会议上全票通过。该法案旨在通过在法律上定位北方领土以提高民众对归还问题的关心程度。日俄两国领导人将于7月举行会谈，届时俄方可能会对此提出抗议。修正案规定，国家有责任和义务“为早日实现日本固有领土北方四岛的返还作出最大限度的努力”。法案还包括：促进日本国民和北方四岛俄罗斯居民免护照、免签证的互访交流，以及帮助培养原住民老龄化后的返还运动接班人等。

秦刚：中国愿同印度通过谈判 寻求解决边界问题

秦刚表示，尽早解决两国边界问题是中印领导人确定的发展中印关系十项战略之一。中方愿同印方通过谈判寻求公平合理的解决方案，双方应努力落实两国领导人达成的共识，多做有益于双边关系发展的事情。秦刚表示，在中印两国边界问题上，两国有着共识和政治指导原则。中方希望双方能恪守有关共识和原则，共同维护两国边境地区的稳定与安宁。

格鲁吉亚西部发生多起爆炸

格鲁吉亚内务部１１日说，１０日夜间至１１日凌晨，位于格西部靠近阿布哈兹地区的祖格迪迪市接连发生３起爆炸，造成一人重伤。 格鲁吉亚目前政局动荡，反总统示威活动已持续两个多月，并从首都第比利斯扩展到位于格西部的巴统、祖格迪迪和阿扎尔等地。 祖格迪迪市靠近阿布哈兹地区，该地区原为格鲁吉亚的一个自治共和国，２００８年８月格和俄罗斯发生军事冲突后，阿布哈兹宣布独立。

犹太人大屠杀纪念馆发生枪击

一名持枪男子周三下午在美国华盛顿大屠杀纪念馆正厅内开枪射击，一名警卫中枪身亡，随后有两名警卫进行了回击。联邦调查部门说，这名持枪者名叫James von Brunn，来自美国马里兰州，今年88岁。纪念馆发言人说，枪击发生时馆内有几千人。

澳洲一空中客车起火急降关岛

这架A330型空中客车属于澳大利亚廉价航空公司Jetstar ，从日本飞往澳大利亚昆士兰省黄金海岸途中，驾驶舱的窗边起火。 Jetstar说，飞机上所有人员都没有受伤。机上大部分乘客都是日本人。 Jetstar 航空公司部分隶属于澳大利亚航空公司Qantas。 这架机龄只有两年的飞机将会继续停留在关岛，直至起火原因调查结束。

日本企业研发出发电效率世界最高的燃料电池

燃料电池通过让氢气和空气中的氧气产生化学反应从而发电。日本碍子公司此次研制的是固体氧化物型燃料电池。该电池为卡片型（长10cm、宽5.5cm，厚度1.5cm），主要原材料为陶瓷。使用时，将数十张该卡片电池摞在一起使用。电池的发电效率达63%，即所投入燃料的总能量中63%被转化为电能。其他公司的燃料电池发电效率最高只有55%至60%。

德国专家研发出高速光导芯片

光通道直径只有200、300纳米。速度比至今最快的芯片还要快四倍。
卡尔斯鲁厄的光子学和量子电子学研究所教授洛伊特霍尔德说，今后10年芯片的速
度将提高30倍，从而开创一片全新的高科天地。

中国5月出口同比续降 环比微升

中国表示，今年5月的出口出现创纪录的下跌。作为世界第三大经济体的中国继续感受到全球经济衰退带来的影响。中国海关总署星期四公布的数据显示，和2008年5月份同期相比，出口下降了百分之26点4。中国5月份全球贸易顺差为134亿美元，今年4月份的贸易顺差为131亿美元。美国和欧洲对中国出口商品的需求急剧下降，导致中国工厂工人大量失业。与此同时。中国的进口上个月下降了百分之25点2，4月份降幅为百分之23。数据说明，尽管中国推出的人民币4万亿元刺激方案以及政府引导的信贷流动有望促使国内经济很快实现全面复苏，但中国仍可能感受到更多来自全球经济衰退的影响。

美国股指期货走高，市场关注国债拍卖及零售额数据

美国股指期货周四走高。越来越关注债市走势的投资者将迎来新一批政府债券拍卖，美国5月份零售额数据也公布在即。标准普尔500指数期货上涨3.2点，至943.70点；纳斯达克100指数期货上涨5.2点，至1501点；道琼斯指数期货上涨20点。周三--10年期国债拍卖令国债收益率升至近4%；周四--110亿美元的30年期国债拍卖。

重庆法院两高层被双规

中纪委直接“双规”了重庆高级人民法院副院长张弢（tāo）和前任执行局长乌小青。据说两人被查是因为涉及当地一家工厂的土地评估拍卖。

North Korea Could Face New Round of Sanctions

The Security Council’s five permanent members agreed on Wednesday on a draft resolution that would ratchet up sanctions against North Korea by concentrating on its financial transactions and its arms industry, including allowing for inspections of its cargo vessels on the high seas.

Written by the United States, the resolution came after more than two weeks of negotiations among the five permanent members — China, Russia, the United States, Britain and France — as well as with Japan and South Korea. It was presented to the full Security Council on Wednesday, and although no timetable for a vote was announced, it could come as early as Friday. Given its supporters, the measure seems assured of passing.

Vitaly I. Churkin, the Russian ambassador, told reporters, “Having sanctions and things like that is not our choice, but a certain political message must be sent, and some measures must be taken, because we are facing a very real situation of proliferation risks.”

The biggest question mark involved China, which has been reluctant to deploy the full weight of its influence on North Korea out of fear of destabilizing it amid a leadership transition. But various analysts suggested that it would not have publicly backed such sanctions unless it was serious about responding to North Korea’s underground nuclear test on May 25.

The United States and its allies had wanted the draft resolution to include mandatory cargo inspections, if there was reasonable suspicion that the cargo was weapons-related — something Washington had been seeking outside the United Nations during the Bush years through its Proliferation Security Initiative.

But China and Russia balked at mandatory inspections. In a compromise, the resolution requests that states inspect ships on the high seas. If the country where the ship is registered decided to reject an inspection in international waters, then the country would be required to direct the vessel to a nearby harbor for an inspection. If neither happened, the episode would be reported to the Security Council’s sanctions committee. The resolution also suggests that states should cut off “bunkering” services, like refueling, for North Korean vessels.

It is assumed that North Korea would balk at any inspections of its ships, analysts noted, and the resolution does not come under a United Nations provision that would allow the use of force as the ultimate fallback.

The sanctions basically fleshed out measures that were first listed in a Security Council resolution passed after North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006. They were never enacted, because the North agreed to participate in talks to dismantle the program.

Analysts said the proposed sanctions with the most bite might be the financial ones. They called upon member states to cut off financial services related to the North’s nuclear and weapons programs, to avoid any new grants or loans to the country and to halt other trade support like export credits. Financial transactions for humanitarian or development purposes would be allowed.

William H. Tobey, the former senior Bush administration official for nuclear nonproliferation, who is now at Harvard’s Belfer Center, said that North Korea imported about $3 billion in goods annually, $2 billion of it from China. It exports about $1.5 billion legally, so it needs significant credit to make up the difference. “It would put a significant crimp in their ability to import,” he said of the financial sanctions.

US military wasted taxpayer money in Iraq: report

The first audit released by US Congressional Commission of Wartime Contracting reveals that the military has wasted huge sums of its USD 834b budget on contractors. The report refers to large-scale cases of fraud and mismanagement of contracts during the so-called 'war on terror', which have cost American taxpayers 'billions' of dollars.

"the disturbing implications go far beyond questions of good management and financial responsibility."..."They directly involve our nation's ability to achieve policy objectives and provide proper support and protection for our war fighters and civilian employees engaged in contingency operations."

The congressional body records say that over 70 percent of the deals in Iraq have been granted to subcontractors who employ cheap international labor force.

The panel registers more instances of irresponsible military spending in Afghanistan including a case in which the Army Corps of Engineers endorsed the construction of a multimillion-dollar project in order to serve as US command center. But the commission reported that many of the headquarters' equipment had gone missing.

Hundreds of US contractors have employed over 240,000 workers -- most of them foreign nationals -- in Iraq in an attempt to rebuild the country's infrastructure and overhaul its security issues. The report goes on to say that over 600,000 property items are currently held in US army HQs without proper documentation and maintenance.

Critics allege that the US government under President Barack Obama has done little to curb the fraudulent behavior of army contractors.
 

Three blasts rock Georgia’s Zugdidi, one man injured

Two blasts occurred with an interval of 15 minutes on the railway track near the railway station - - in an empty car of a cargo train and in a dustbin near the railway track in the city of Zugdidi in Georgia’s west overnight to Thursday, representatives of local authorities and the Georgian railway who arrived at the site of the incident told journalists.

According to them, the blasts occurred several dozens of meters away from an empty passenger train due depart for Tbilisi in the morning. As a result, the cargo car and several meters of the track were damaged. Besides, windowpanes of one of the nearest houses were broken. One railwayman, who was near the passenger train at the moment of the blast, got injuries.

The third blast occurred on the outskirts of Zugdidi two hours later. An explosive device was placed in a truck parked near a police station.


Iran Guard warns reformist groups

The political chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned reformists in the country against seeking what he called a "velvet revolution", vowing that it would be "nipped in the bud".

Yadollah Javani's comments appeared aimed at Mir Hossein Mousavi, a reformist candidate in the country's presidential elections and followed another day of bitter exchanges between Mousavi and his rival and current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The Revolutionary Guard is one of the pillars of the Iranian establishment and controls large military forces as well as a nationwide network of militia.

In a statement on its website, Javani drew parallels between Mousavi's campaign and the "velvet revolution'' that led to the 1989 overthrow of the communist government in then Czechoslovakia.

"There are many indications that some extremist [reformist] groups, have designed a colourful revolution ... using a specific colour for the first time in an election," the statement said.
Calling that a "sign of kicking off a velvet revolution project in the presidential elections", Javani vowed that any "attempt for velvet revolution will be nipped in the bud".

Javani also accused the reformists of planning to claim vote rigging and provoke street violence if Mousavi loses.

Ahmadinejad, the president, is believed to have wide support in the Revolutionary Guard and among Iran's ruling clerics, though neither have given public endorsements in the presidential race.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Sadegh Zibakalam, professor of political science at Tehran University, said that the Revolutionary Guard chief's statement would not change the course of the election.

"Over the last three weeks, hundreds, thousands - perhaps millions - of Iranians have been pouring onto the streets. More than supporting Mousavi or other candidates, they have been expressing their opposition to Ahmadinejad and his policies," he said.

"I do not think the Revolutionary Guard's interference will change anything because it is not as though there is a conspiracy that requires them to step in."

Al Jazeera's Alireza Ronaghi, reporting from Tehran, said this was the most unpredictable and most exciting Iranian presidential election in years because the main contenders each had strong support.

It was clear that Mousavi had a slight edge over Ahmadinejad in the capital, Tehran, but in other provinces it was a totally different story, our correspondent added.

Trita Parsi, the president of the Iranian-American Council, told Al Jazeera that Ahmadinejad's attacks on Mousavi "seems to have backfired and may have motivated the youth to come out and vote, supporting Mousavi's platform of change".

Afshin Molavi of the New America Foundation told Al Jazeera that accusations against Ahmadinejad and the ruling elites of corruption and fat cat insider dealings "will continue to hang in the air long after these elections, and many Iranians know this about the ruling elites".

He said that while Iran has traditionally had high voter turnout, "when we're seeing so many voters than previous polls, it tends to reflect a switch to reformist candidates".

Iran's reformists are hoping that a high turnout on Friday will help them oust the conservative Ahmadinejad, whom they accuse of increasing the country's international isolation and compounding its economic difficulties.

Mousavi's campaign appears to have motivated the youth in a country where one-third of the electorate is under 30 and born after the time of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

"I believe it is a new beginning and I want to take part in it," Parastou Pazhoutan, a 26-year-old Mousavi supporter, said.

"A month ago, I would have said Ahmadinejad was a sure bet,'' Sharif Emam Jomeh, a political analyst, said. "There was apathy especially with the youth. But now, until 3am, they are out in numbers and they care ... Below the surface, something was boiling."