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21/07/2010
Les policiers de l’OSCE au Kirghizstan dans “les semaines à venir”
By Anonymous
Created 07/17/2010 - 15:28
Monde
Une mission de policiers de l’OSCE sera déployée dans “les semaines à venir” dans le sud du Kirghizstan, théâtre de violences ethniques en juin, a indiqué samedi le directeur du Centre de prévention des conflits de l’Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe, Herbert Salber.
L’OSCE avait annoncé vendredi qu’un accord était intervenu avec le Kirghizstan pour déployer pour quatre mois dans le sud de ce pays d’Asie centrale une force policière de 52 hommes et qui pourra être portée à 102 officiers de police, pour aider à la stabilisation de la région.
“Je pense que dans les semaines à venir nous allons voir arriver les premiers au Kirghizstan”, a déclaré M. Salber, “je ne considère pas que l’OSCE travaille lentement à la mise en oeuvre de cette question”, a-t-il ajouté.
Il s’exprimait lors d’une réunion de hauts responsables diplomatiques des Etats membres de l’OSCE à Almaty, au Kazakhstan, pays qui exerce la présidence de l’organisation.
L’envoi de cette force chargée de conseiller et d’assurer le suivi de la police kirghize doit être validé par l’ensemble des Etats membres de l’OSCE et par le conseil permanent de l’organisation, dont la prochaine réunion est prévue jeudi.
Les violences ethniques dans le sud du Kirghizstan mi-juin ont fait 316 morts selon un bilan provisoire, mais les autorités kirghizes ont indiqué que le nombre total de victimes pourrait atteindre 2.000.
Les Etats-Unis ont pour leur part appelé le Kazakhstan à organiser au plus vite le déploiement de la force policière de l’OSCE à Djalal-Abad et Och, les deux principaux foyers des affrontements.
“Nous estimons que le Kazakhstan, en tant que président en exercice de l’OSCE, doit envoyer aussi vite que possible les officiers de police dans la région”, a insisté le secrétaire d’Etat adjoint, James Steinberg.
Le ministre kazakh des Affaires étrangères, Kanat Saoudabaïev a lui assuré que la mission de policiers serait déployée “dans l’avenir le plus proche possible”.
Les ministres français et allemand des Affaires étrangères, Bernard Kouchner et Guido Westerwelle avaient pour leur part appelé vendredi à une enquête de l’OSCE sur les affrontements ethniques.
La chef de la diplomatie européenne Catherine Ashton a elle aussi insisté à Almaty sur la nécessité d’une telle enquête, selon un communiqué diffusé samedi.
“Les propositions qui sont actuellement sur la table -un groupe de conseil de policiers et une enquête internationale indépendante- doivent être mises en oeuvre”, a-t-elle déclaré lors d’un dîner de travail vendredi, jugeant qu’il s’agissait d’une question de “crédibilité”.
Source URL: http://www.lematin.ch/flash-info/monde/policiers-osce-kirghizstan-semaines-venir
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Press release © OSCE 19952010
OSCE Chairperson announces agreement on summit, calls Kyrgyzstan crisis a ‘vitality test’ for Organization
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 17 July 2010 - OSCE Foreign Ministers meeting in Almaty today reached consensus on holding a summit in Astana this year and reinforcing OSCE assistance to Kyrgyzstan, said the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.
Formal decisions by the OSCE Permanent Council will need to follow the foreign ministers’ agreement.
“Today we decided that before the end of this year we shall hold a meeting of heads of state and government in Astana,” he told reporters at the news conference concluding the informal meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers.
“The forthcoming summit of OSCE leaders will be held after 11 years and will become a new and very important milestone in the life of our organization. We are convinced it will give an important impetus for strengthening security and developing co-operation.”
According to Saudabayev, a key topic for the summit will be the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian community - “shaping a united and indivisible security space, free of dividing lines and different levels of security.”
Other topics include reconfirming States’ commitments; reinforcing the OSCE’s institutional foundation and its transformation into a full-fledged international organization; strengthening arms control; enhancing the OSCE toolbox in all three dimensions on early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation; joint development of ways to peacefully settle protracted conflicts; and increased attention to countering trans-national threats.
He also said that boosting OSCE engagement, within its mandate, in international efforts to stabilize and reconstruct Afghanistan, countering economic challenges in the post-crisis period, strengthening the OSCE’s potential to counteract challenges in the human dimension and enhancing OSCE institutions’ ability to monitor implementation would also be discussed.
In his statement to the Ministers of the 56 OSCE participating States, Saudabayev said that the Organization’s ability “to effectively react and resolve existing and new challenges, including the need to stabilize the situation in Kyrgyzstan, will be a test of the OSCE’s vitality.”
“The OSCE is to play a key role in rendering assistance to Kyrgyzstan, including through the enhancement of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the proposed Police Advisory Group, an initiative which was supported by the participating States,” he said. “In addition, assistance from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights should be given for the upcoming parliamentary elections.”
Virginie Coulloudon Spokesperson OSCE Secretariat Press and Public Information Section
Roman Y. Vassilenko Chairman, International Information Committee Ministry of Foreign Affairs Astana Kazakhstan
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OSCE police advisory group for Kyrgyzstan to cost millions of Euros
15:00 17/07/2010© RIA Novosti. Andrey Babushkin
OSCE chair calls for prompt consolidation of int. efforts on Kyrgyzstan
Sending a police advisory group from Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to Kyrgyzstan for four months will cost several million Euros, Director of OSCE Conflict Prevention Herbert Zalberg said on Saturday.
Zalberg said on Friday that a police advisory group, composed of 52 officers from OSCE states, may be sent to the southern regions of Kyrgyzstan. The idea has already been discussed with Kyrgyz officials but the final decision will be taken on July 22.
“Several million Euros over four months is quite expensive,” Zalberg said at a briefing in the Kazakh city of Almaty during an informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers, adding that he hoped a decision on the matter would be “taken as soon as possible.”
“In the last few weeks, we have seen the deployment of the first police groups in Kyrgyzstan,” he said.
Violent clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan broke out in the city of Osh on June 11 and then spread to the neighboring Jalalabad region. Unofficial estimates put the death toll at around 2,000 people, while half a million may have been made homeless by the violent pogroms, which saw thousands of homes burned.
ALMATY, July 17 (RIA Novosti)
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Kyrgyzstan’s defence minister attacks OSCE police force plan, steps down
Published on July 20th, 2010
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe , Kyrgyzstan , BISHKEK , Southern Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan’s acting defence minister has attacked Western-backed plans to dispatch an international police force to the turbulent Central Asian nation.
Peace is fragile in the country’s south after hundreds died in last month’s ethnic violence, which forced many thousands to flee their homes.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is planning to send around 50 police advisers to southern Kyrgyzstan. But acting defence minister Ismail Isakov is instead calling for co-operation with regional security organizations dominated by Russia and China.
Isakov spoke Tuesday, as he stepped down from the temporary office to run for a seat in parliamentary elections set for October. He is the latest of several officials to resign from President Roza Otunbayeva’s caretaker government.
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http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Canada—-World/Society/2010-07-20/article-1594662/Kyrgyzstans-defence-minister-attacks-OSCE-police-force-plan,-steps-down/1
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Voir aussi Atimes, Badrakhumar, sur le sujet.
Olivier Laperche
27/07/2010
Le premier ministre Britannique, Mr. Cameron, était aujourdhui en Turquie pour une visite à Mr. Erdogan ; après avoir visité, hier, le président des Etats-Unis.
Il semble que les « special relationships » ne soient pas entièrement enterrées puisque Mr. Cameron a pu passer outre l´UE et suivre les US afin de se prononcer quant à l´adhésion de la Turquie au sein de l´UE. Il a de plus fustiger 2 pays qui semblent être contre cette adhésion et plus particulièrement la France (discours du Gal de Gaulle contre ladhésion de l´UK à l´UE).
La France et l´Allemagne sont donc des pays qui bloquent la construction Européenne et les anglais se positionne comme un pays prêt à lutter contre ces blocages.
Bref, rien de nouveau sous le soleil, si ce n´est que les « special relationships » sont encore à l´ordre du jour (malgré les récents discours UK).
http://www.independent.co.uk/video/show/?play=/News/Cameron:_Turkey_must_join_EU
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