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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 31. Juli 2006 / Time Line July 31, 2006
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UN SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ARMS EMBARGO IN DR OF CONGO
The Security Council voted unanimously today to
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extend by another year its arms embargo against militia groups in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), condemning the
continuing illicit flow of weapons into and around the vast African
country.
A day after Congolese began voting in their first and free
elections in 45 years, the Council's resolution expressed concern
that arms trafficking is fuelling and exacerbating conflicts
throughout Africa's Great Lakes region.
The 15-member body noted that militias have been exploiting the
DRC's natural resources to generate income to fund their
activities. The problem is most acute in the Ituri, North Kivu and
South Kivu provinces in the east of the country, where the arms
embargo began in 2003.
The sanctions regime has been extended by the Council until the end
of July 2007. Any group or person who violates the arms embargo is
subject to a travel ban and an assets freeze.
The Council also called on the Group of Experts to continue its
mandate of monitoring illegal arms flows for another year. Chaired
by Senegal's Ibra Deguène Ka, the Group is comprised of the
following experts: the Canadian Jacques A. J. Buisson (arms
trafficking), Switzerland's Enrico Carish (finance), Abdoulaye
Cissoko of Mali (aviation) and France's Jean-Luc Gallet (customs
and border control).
07/31/2006
World Association of International Studies Conference, July 31-
August 1, 2006
The World Association of International Studies (WAIS), in
cooperation with the Stanford Alumni Association, will hold
an international conference at the Stanford Alumni Association
building on July 31-August 1, 2006. We are trying to find out what
international issues most concern informed individuals. Each
speaker will choose any topic which he deems to be of international
significance. Thus the theme of the conference is very broad. Each
speaker will have 30 minutes, no more, to use in any appropriate
way, although it would be wise to divide the time equally between
the talk and Q and A.. Here is the lineup at present.
Michael Bonnie, "Teaching in northwest China"
Anthony D'Agostino History, Ideology and the Globalization
Bubble."
John Eipper, "Globalizing Studies at a small Midwestern College.
The Cuernavaca Program at Adrian"
Phyllis Gardner, "Guatemala Project on International Health"
Maurice Harari, "Internationalization of universities and
international university cooperation"
Tom Hashimoto, "Japanese Modern/ post-War Tenno (Emperor)"
David Hooson. "The Heartland Today: The Place of Inner Asia in
World Affairs".
David Krieger, “Embracing Double Standards: From Nuremberg to
Nuclearism.”
Harry Papasotiriou, American hegemony and its discontents: Global
politics after 9/11"
Paul Pitlick, "Development of a Pediatric Cardiac Center of
Excellence in St. Petersburg - A possible model for Development of
Tertiary/Quaternary Care in Russia?"
Nushin Namazi, "Economic Structure of the Food Industry and the
Global Epidemic of Obesity."
Charles Ridley, "Moral Education in East Asia"
Siegfried Ramler, "New paradigms for education in the 21st
century"
Stuart Rawlings, "Another Messiah"
Cameron Sawyer *
Eugen Solf, "Civil Resistance during the Third Reich"
Steven Torok, "The Future of the UN"
Kyle Ward, "Learning History"
David Westbrook, "the role of intellectuals in modern
societies"
Jaqui White, HH: *
* Title of paper to be announced. We would appreciate receiving
them ASAP.
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