WG: July 2000

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> Von:  Le Monde diplomatique[SMTP:dispatch@Monde-diplomatique.fr]
> Gesendet:     Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2000 16:22
> An:   dispatch@london.monde-diplomatique.fr
> Betreff:      July 2000
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>    Le Monde diplomatique 
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>                                  July 2000
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> NEW HOPE, OLD FRUSTRATIONS
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> Morocco: the point of change
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> by IGNACIO RAMONET
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/01ramonet>
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>                                              Translated by Harry Forster
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> THE KOSOVO CONFLICT
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> Nato on trial
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> by AVNER GIDRON and CLAUDIO CORDONE
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>      Established in 1998, the International Criminal Court is still
>      struggling for life. Many states are reluctant to ratify its
>      statute, when they are not actively opposed to it, like the United
>      States, Russia and China. The International Criminal Tribunal for
>      the Former Yugoslavia, on the other hand, was presented as the
>      precursor of a fairer international order. These double standards
>      may also apply to the assessment of Nato's bombing campaign against
>      Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. Amnesty International believes
>      that Nato "did not fully comply with the obligation to take all
>      precautions to protect civilians" and that, in at least one case,
>      it attacked a civilian object.
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/02kosovo>
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>                                                 Original text in English
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> Was the Serbian TV station really a legitimate target? *
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> by AVNER GIDRON and CLAUDIO CORDONE
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>                                                 Original text in English
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> The protection of civilians
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/04kosovobox1>
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> International law's highest standards
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/05kosovobox2>
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> STATES OF CONCERN
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> Armed peace in the Middle East *
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> by GEOFFREY ARONSON
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>      The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority were engaged
>      in a war of nerves before the Washington summit with President
>      Clinton. The Palestinians even accused Israel of preparing a
>      "military solution" while the Tel Aviv press was publishing the
>      brush strokes of an agreement proposed by the US. Meanwhile in
>      Syria, the new president needs to make a decision about talks with
>      Israel. Yet, even if accords are reached, US strategists do not
>      foresee more than an armed peace for the region.
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>                                                 Original text in English
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> Syria: the rise and rise of Doctor Bashar *
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> by ALAIN GRESH
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>                                         Translated by Wendy Kristianasen
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> THE SHINING PATH STILL GLIMMERS
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> Peru: pacified but not peaceful *
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> by our special correspondent KARIM BOURTEL
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>      After ten years in power, Alberto Fujimori was - controversially -
>      re-elected president after voting in April and May. Disowned by the
>      Organisation of American States, which withdrew its observers, and
>      reproved by the United States, Fujimori won after a second round in
>      which his opponent, Alejandro Toledo, refused to take part. But,
>      with Peru sunk in poverty, ballot fraud is not the whole story.
>      Many Peruvians, reliant on a regime that gives them a rickety
>      structure of social measures only in exchange for their allegiance,
>      and still seeing Fujimori as the man who beat hyperinflation and
>      the Shining Path terrorists, gave him their votes.
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>                                         Translated by Derry Cook-Radmore
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> Authoritarian rule not denied
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> Maurice Lemoine
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/09lemoine>
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> THE COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T QUITE EXIST
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> Haiti's last chance *
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> by our special correspondent CHRISTOPHE WARGNY
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>      Since June 1997 a long-drawn-out institutional crisis has paralysed
>      Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas. Many hoped that
>      elections (whose first round was held on 21 May) would bring a
>      return to normality. But though it showed wide support for the
>      party of the ex-president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Fanmi Lavalas,
>      the voting was full of irregularities and threw the country into
>      further confusion.
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>                                         Translated by Derry Cook-Radmore
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> The Aristide decade
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/11haitibox>
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> 'THE POOR HAVE THE RIGHT TO WAGE WAR TOO'
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> Ethiopia invades Eritrea *
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> by JEAN-LOUIS PÉNINOU
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>      After two years of war, the prospects of a genuine peace between
>      Ethiopia and Eritrea still seem uncertain, despite periodic lulls
>      in the fighting, mediation and hard-won ceasefires achieved by the
>      Organisation of African Unity - and even despite the peace
>      agreement signed in Algiers on 18 June.
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>                                               Translated by Julie Stoker
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> Conflict in the Horn of Africa
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/13ethiopiabox>
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> MUSLIMS WANT TO SEPARATE FROM CATHOLIC STATE
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> The Sultanate of the Philippines *
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> by our special correspondents SOLOMON KANE and LAURENT PASSICOUSSET
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>      Twenty-one Asian and European tourists were recently taken hostage
>      and held on the island of Jolo in the Philippines. The kidnappers
>      were members of the Abu Sayyaf group which aims to build a national
>      entity that is not just a haphazard outcome of decolonisation.
>      Along with other groups pursuing similar objectives in the Malay
>      and Indonesian archipelagos, Abu Sayyaf is using Islam as a lever
>      to achieve its aim. Islam is the key unifying factor between the
>      many different nationalities (87 in all) in the southern
>      Philippines.
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>                                                   Translated by Ed Emery
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> CANADA V FRANCE: WTO RULES
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> The asbestos conspiracy
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> by PATRICK HERMAN and ANNIE THÉBAUD-MONY
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>      Even though it is nearly 40 years since asbestos was scientifically
>      shown to cause cancer and it has now claimed thousands of lives,
>      the WTO is examining a complaint by Canada, which exports 99% of
>      its output, against France, which banned it in 1997. The WTO's
>      Dispute Settlement Body is quite capable of finding in favour of
>      the purveyors of death and the governments that so shamelessly
>      support them, since it habitually puts "freedom" for trade before
>      any other consideration. Since the outrageous ruling on
>      hormone-treated beef, anything seems possible.
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/15asbestos>
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>                                          Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
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> NO PATENTS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS
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> Africa defies licences for life *
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> by FRANCK SEURET and ROBERT ALI BRAC DE LA PERRIÈRE
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>      No country is self-sufficient in biodiversity. The WTO is seeking
>      an appropriate legal framework to encourage trade. But appropriate
>      for whom? There's the rub. The intellectual property system, which
>      champions the breeders' interests, is becoming an instrument of
>      neo-colonialism. The Organisation of African Unity, offering an
>      alternative that is in the public interest as well as its own, has
>      taken the lead in new thinking about the exploitation of life.
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>                                             Translated by Barbara Wilson
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> Protection or exclusion
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>            <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/17patentbox>
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>                                         Translated by Wendy Kristianasen
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> BACK PAGE
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> 'Do you know the way to San Jose?' *
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> by DANIÈLE STEWART
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>      Uncontrolled development is a growing threat to the US environment.
>      It is caused by the lack of efficient public transport, which helps
>      to concentrate housing in certain areas, but also private land
>      management and the rush to leave "unsafe" inner cities. The trend
>      is particularly alarming in what was once the Far West. Forests and
>      deserts are threatened by property developers and their "great
>      deals", by roads and car parks. Environmental pressure groups are
>      no longer the only people to question the merits, and cost, of this
>      form of "development".
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>                                              Translated by Harry Forster
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