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Cuba sees US
as dictator
Pak says stance on Kashmir won’t change
Militant gets 15 years in jail for Bali bombings
UNESCO award for TULF leader
Make Gyanendra President: minister
Iran claims cure for AIDS
Indian-origin man goes on firing spree
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Cuba sees US
as dictator
Havana, September 14 “The world we live in becomes more unjust and unequal with each day that passes....war and economic might are being used to impose a veritable dictatorship upon the world, while an intolerant and deceitful discourse aims to distort reality,” Carlos Lage, Vice president of Cuba’s Council of State said yesterday. He was addressing NAM delegates meeting here to finalise the agenda for their leaders summit on Saturday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will be attending the meeting. “What we have witnessed, instead, is the growing hegemony of a nation that resorts to economic and political pressures unscrupulously, that feels entitled to invade any country in the world to reach its objectives and which is leading the world we all live in to its own destruction,” he said on the third day of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit. “The hegemonic superpower demands that those responsible for crimes anywhere in the world be tried in and even extradited to the United States; on the other hand, members of the US military, for equal or worse crimes, are to enjoy impunity -otherwise, no credits or economic aid are made available.” “We must fight for a new, fairer and more equal world economic order, in which the special and differentiated treatment of third World countries is guaranteed,” Lage said. “Another world” is possible and urgently needed today, Lage said, adding “Our Movement is essential to the quest for a new system of international relations. We do not align ourselves to wars, to terrorism, to injustice, to inequality, to double standards. We align ourselves to peace and to justice.” Lage was of the view that the concepts of limited sovereignty, humanitarian intervention, preventive war and regime change are fascist; they are not modern theories designed to defend freedom and combat terrorism. In a critique of rich countries, he said “in this globalised world, poverty is the result of centuries of colonialism and neocolonialism and of an unjust and criminal international economic order.
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Pak says stance on Kashmir won’t change
Islamabad, September 14 He said an opportunity existed to resolve the Kashmir dispute, and that India’s efforts to find a compromise would determine a firm agreement by Pakistan to dispense with a plebiscite in the state, a decades-old demand of Islamabad which it had virtually given up of late. “I have not given an inch. We will not move away from our stance until we see India move away from its stance,” President Musharraf, expected to meet Dr Singh in Havana on the sidelines of the NAM Summit, told a conference on Kashmir at the European Parliament in Brussels yesterday. Asking India to take into account indications from Islamabad that it would no longer insist on a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir to determine its future, General Musharraf said it was India’s turn to make concessions. The President insisted on greater involvement of Kashmiris in resolving the dispute, saying “any settlement must be acceptable first” to the people of the state. Praising Dr Singh, the General said the Indian Prime Minister was a man of sincerity with a flexible approach. He hoped Dr Singh would show the courage needed to resolve the conflict. He said the best way forward would be to introduce confidence-building measures and increase the involvement of Kashmiri leaders, before finally focussing on a settlement. Terrorism, he said, should not hinder the peace process and the “rapprochement” with India. He maintained, “Finger-pointing will help no one. We need to move forward”. General
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Militant gets 15 years in jail for Bali bombings
Denpasar, September 14 The chief judge at the Denpasar district court said Anif Solchanudin, a 24-year-old mobile telephone salesman, was “proven without doubt to have participated in acts of terrorism". Solchanudin admitted during his trial that he had been interested in becoming a suicide bomber but denied any advance knowledge of the attacks. The prosecution had accused him of receiving training to become a bomber. Judge Daniel Palitin also told the court that the defendant was guilty of charges of possessing explosives. Solchanudin had been found with 29 bullets in his possession. "For the above acts, the accused is sentenced to 15 years," he said. Prosecutors had sought a 10-year sentence for him. The judge said that Solchanudin's "crime is a crime against humanity" and his acts had caused particular suffering to the families of the 20 bystanders killed in the attacks on three busy restaurants on the palm-fringed island.—AFP
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UNESCO award for TULF leader
THE Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has designated President of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) Veerasingham Anadasangaree as the laureate of the 2006 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh awarded for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence.
According to a UNESCO release, the prize was attributed on the recommendation of an international jury. The members of the jury are: Andrés Pastrana Arango, former President of Colombia; Bahia Hariri, President of the Commission for Education, Science and Culture of the Lebanese Parliament; Inder Kumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India; Sergei Markarov and Manu Dibango, both UNESCO Artists for Peace. Born in Sri Lanka in 1933, Mr Anadasangaree became the President of the Tamil United Liberation Front in 2002, after working as a teacher and lawyer. As an indefatigable advocate of democracy and peaceful conflict resolution, he has contributed to raising awareness of the Tamil cause in a spirit of dialogue, while seeking to promote non-violent solutions to Sri Lanka and opposing terrorism. The $100,000 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize was created in 1995 on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Mahatma Gandhi, all thanks to the generosity of the Indian writer and diplomat Madanjeet Singh, who is also a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Dedicated to advancing the spirit of tolerance in the arts, education, culture, science and communication, the Prize is awarded every two years to an individual or an institution for exceptional contributions in the promotion of tolerance and non-violence. In 2004, the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence was attributed to the Bangladeshi writer and journalist Taslima Nasreen. The Prize-giving ceremony will be held on International Day for Tolerance celebrated every year on November 16.
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Make Gyanendra President: minister
Kathmandu, September 14 “Gyanendra would be the last King and the first President of Democratic Republic of Nepal, if the seven parties and the Maoists agree on that and the King accepts the idea,” Minister for Physical Planning and Construction Gopal Man Shrestha told PTI in an interview. “This is my personal view and not the official line of the party,” said Shrestha, who is also the acting President of Nepali Congress (Democratic). — PTI
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Isfahan (Iran), September 14 Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Kamran Baqeri Lankarani said yesterday that the use of the formula for a three-month period would have clinical effects on patients for a two-year term, comparing it with other medicines which are only effective while being administered. He said the doctors had experimented the formula on patients and its two-year effect on the body is "guaranteed." — N.N.N. IRNA
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Indian-origin man goes on firing spree Toronto, September 14 The Canadian police today identified the 25-year-old man who went on a shooting spree at Dawson College as Kimveer Gill, an Indian-origin Montreal native. City police chief Yvan Delorme told reporters that Gill entered the college and opened fire on students leading to a panic rush in downtown Montreal. Delorme said the authorities did not know of a motive for the shooting. — PTI
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Denpasar, September 14
