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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 11. januar 2013 / Time Line January 11, 2013
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01/11/2013
Congress Demands Answers on Decommissioning of Antimissile
Vessel
The U.S. Congress has demanded that the Navy explain within six
months why it intends to decommission a cruiser equipped with Aegis
ballistic missile defense technology, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser
reported on Thursday.
The USS Port Royal hit a reef in 2009, an accident that cause a
sizable amount of destruction to the vessel, writes Global Security
Newswire.
01/11/2013
En klasevåpenprodusent og to kjernevåpenprodusenter
utelukket fra Statens pensjonsfond
- Utland Finansdepartementet har utelukket Hanwha Corporation
(sørkoreansk selskap), Serco Group Plc (britisk selskap) og
GenCorp Inc (amerikansk selskap) fra Statens pensjonsfond –
Utland i henhold til fondets etiske retningslinjer.
– I følge Etikkrådet produserer disse selskapene
hhv. klasevåpen og kjernevåpen, og den type produksjon
kan vi ikke være med på å finansiere, sier
finansminister Kristin Halvorsen.
I tillegg har Etikkrådet undersøkt Rheinmetall AG
(tysk selskap) og funnet at selskapet ikke produserer
klasevåpen per i dag. Selskapet utelukkes derfor ikke fra
fondet.
I henhold til de etiske retningslinjene punkt 4.4 skal
Etikkrådet gi tilråding om negativ filtrering av
selskaper på grunnlag av produksjon av våpen som ved
normal anvendelse bryter med grunnleggende humanitære
prinsipper. I NOU:22 2003 (Graverrapporten) og senere i
behandlingen av retningslinjene i Stortinget, er det forutsatt at
produksjon av klasevåpen og kjernevåpen skal omfattes
av retningslinjenes punkt 4.4, skriver Finansdepartementet.
01/11/2013
Norway Restricts Nuke-Linked Investments
A government-run investment pool in Norway can no longer hold
stakes in certain firms with ties to atomic arms production,
Reuters quoted the Norwegian Finance Ministry as saying on
Friday.
Jacobs Engineering Group and Babcock & Wilcox are now
off-limits to the $700 billion Norwegian Government Pension Fund,
the largest funding instrument of its kind and holder of roughly a
one-hundredth of all equities in the world.
Babcock & Wilcox "operates and has operational responsibility
for state-owned plants that produce fissionable material for
nuclear warheads, and maintains and upgrades such warheads," the
ministry said in released remarks. Jacobs Engineering Group "is now
participating in a joint venture company engaged in the
development, production, testing and maintenance of nuclear
warheads."
Norway said it had dropped similar restrictions on BAE Systems,
Finmeccanica and FMC, which had previously been "excluded due to
their involvement in the production of nuclear weapons."
01/11/2013
Frankrig starter,
støttet af
USA, militære aktioner mod islamiske oprør i det
nordlige Mali.
01/11/2013
France starts, supported by the United
States military action against Islamic rebellion in northern
Mali.
Literature: U.S. Spyplanes, Drones Already Flying over
Mali
Aviationist January 13, 2013
'According to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity
to the AFP on Jan. 12, the Pentagon would be evaluating the
possible contribution to the French air campaign in Mali'.
01/11/2013
Mali: UN Security Council expresses 'grave concern' over reports
of rebel military activity
11 January 2013 – The United Nations Security Council has
expressed grave concern over the reported military movements and
attacks by terrorist and extremist groups in northern Mali, in
particular their capture of the city of Konna.
“This serious deterioration of the situation threatens even
more the stability and integrity of Mali and constitutes a direct
threat to international peace and security,” the members of
the Council added in a press statement issued on Thursday night,
after a briefing on the situation from the UN
Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman.
According to media reports, on Thursday, Islamist rebels seized
control of Konna – a city of 50,000 people some 700
kilometres north-east of the capital, Bamako.
Northern Mali has been occupied by radical Islamists after fighting
broke out in January 2012 between Government forces and Tuareg
rebels – just one of several security, political and
humanitarian problems the West African nation has been dealing with
since last year.
The renewed clashes in the north, as well as the proliferation of
armed groups in the region, drought and political instability in
the wake of a military coup d'état in March have uprooted
hundreds of thousands of civilians. Over 412,000 people have been
forced to flee the country's north, and an estimated five million
people have been affected by the conflict.
The Malian Government and rebel groups are expected to meet for
peace talks in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, on 21
January.
In their press statement, the Council members recalled their
resolutions 2056, 2071 and 2085 – which dealt with the
situation in Mali and were adopted under Chapter VII of the UN
Charter – as well as the “urgent” need to counter
the increasing terrorist threat in Mali.
Chapter VII of the UN Charter allows the Council to use force in
the face of a threat to peace or aggression. One of key elements of
the 15-member body's response to the situation in Mali, contained
in its resolutions, has been the creation of an international
military force to help restore the unity of the West African
nation.
With resolution 2085, adopted in December last year, the Council
authorized the deployment of that international military force
– the African-led International Support Mission in Mali, to
be known as AFISMA – for an initial period of one year.
“The members of the Security Council reiterate their call to
Member States to assist the settlement of the crisis in Mali and,
in particular, to provide assistance to the Malian Defence and
Security Forces in order to reduce the threat posed by terrorist
organizations and associated groups,” the Council members
said.
“The members of the Security Council express their
determination to pursue the full implementation of its resolutions
on Mali, in particular resolution 2085 in all its
dimensions,” the Council members added. “In this
context, they call for a rapid deployment of the African-led
International Support Mission in Mali.”
Echoing comments made by a spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon on Thursday, the Council members also called for the
immediate issuance of an agreed political roadmap, “which
includes serious negotiations with non-extremist Malians in the
north and presses for the full restoration of democratic
governance.
The Secretary-General's Special Representative for West Africa,
Said Djinnit, is continuing his efforts to support the political
talks in Mali, including on the establishment of an inclusive
national dialogue and the development of a roadmap for
transition.
According to the Council's resolution 2085, AFISMA is tasked with
contributing to the rebuilding of the Malian Defence and Security
Forces, as well as supporting the Malian authorities in
“recovering the areas in the north under the control of
terrorist, extremist and armed groups and in reducing the threat
posed by terrorist groups.”
In addition, it will be responsible for, amongst other tasks,
supporting the Malian authorities in their primary responsibility
to protect the population and to create a secure environment for
the civilian-led delivery of humanitarian assistance and the
voluntary return of internally displaced persons and refugees,
writes UN News Centre.
01/11/2013
La guerre françafrique
France démarre, soutenu par l'action militaire
américaine contre la rébellion islamique dans le nord
du Mali.
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