With all due respect ,and this just a fact and not a position as you know
we are in soldiery on the issues pf change .although we are primary focused
on Colombia & Latin America issues .which are many
The point about Russia is simply,that Russia is pitiful sight and Russia is
getting worst everyday in every way the population is one the two either
they corrupt or they are desperate., TheRussia military has no money,no
weapons, no
mobility ,and the vast majority of the troops who have not been paid in
months and7officers are forced to find a second job in order to feed their
families. I cannot recall another "superpower"where the officers are cab
drivers at night and live with other military officer in one broken down apt
with out bathroom{sink} how does anyboby believe
that Russia have any influence/
Tme military especialty the inductee can not be trusted to defend their own
county ,never mind getting involved in another country,thereconstant
desertions.while fighting in against the chec rebel the russian soldier were
dying from their own weaponds as thre bullets are in some instances 50 yrs
old WW11 stock/
The old military general are most tragic parading around
with medals dating back to 1800 its painful to watch having once been a
feared world super power who has been reduce to fighting internal
insurgency's without a success and living off od all things IMF Western
European and the US.,it hurts for Russian supporter to see the realities
their other id the Brain drain noboby exxept the most fenatical will stay in
Russia ,at the first opportunity to leave=there GONE
The last performance with the submarine ,and not having the ability to
rescue 200 men told the world and especially NATO more than they need to
know. The US gives the Russian space program 800 million dollars a year not
because they need their broken down Russian space station ,but they do not
want the Rissian scientist going to a "ROUGE" country, Basically that the
only reason any country is helping that and Nuclear weapons ortherwise
putting investment/cash into that rathole would be foolish
The Balkan situation the Russian Navy only had enough fuel for one old
communication ship to observe in the old days the Balkans situation NAT)
would never went as far .because ussia was afeared and respected
nation..This not a bash Russia session ,but its galling to think the
opportunies wasted due4 their involvement and then to found the real PAPER
TIGER not only went down the drain,but took alot of supporters with them/
WE will just stop with this last tid bit information which is entire
Russian Navy is not seaworthy, and almost 50%of their fleet are use a
living quarters for the towns people or rotting due lack repair,
The ONLY fear is RUSSIAN Nuclear weapons .and what they will do about
them ,but even with Nuclear ,they are at standoff at best. and in the end
their woulds no Russia Russian has NO SAY and ARE told
ONLY WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW .sad but true ;
In all honesty we not do pity their self destruction,because their constant
mettling and stance against "armed Struggle' IN LATIN AMERICA or LACK dating
back to
CHE Guevera in Bolivia is the main reason the "party"
in La:tin America except {FARC-EP THANKFULLY IS NOT DEPENDANT} are just
empty suits with no agenda, no
weapons NO NOTHING,and no mother Russian to direct them
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>
> Vietnam, Russia agree on debt issue Russian Deputy Prime Minister and
> Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin and Vietnamese Finance Minister Nguyen
> Sinh Hung signed agreements on settling Vietnam�s debt to Russia on
> September 13 in the presence of Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai
and
> others. Under the agreement, 85% of Vietnam�s debt to Russia will be
> written off and the remainder gradually paid off in 23 years. Ninety
> percent of the amount will be used by Russia to invest in and purchase
> goods and services from Vietnam. The money will be exchanged under
> international rules. Russia has also agreed to use 0.25% of the debt�
> annual interest as non-refundable aid to help Vietnamese students in
> Russia. The agreement will help increase Vietnam�s export to Russia and
> facilitate conditions for Russia to expand its investment in Vietnam,
> opening a new stage of development in commercial ties between the two
> countries. In the morning September 14, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, his
> wife and other members of the delegation concluded their visit to Russia,
> leaving Moscow for Minsk, beginning their official visit to Belarus as
> guests of Belarussian Prime Minister Vladimir Yermoshin.
>
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>
>
> Vietnam pledges to actively contribute to UN development
>
> "In its capacity as a member of the United Nations and Chairman of ASEAN,
> Vietnam will do its utmost to actively contribute to the development of
the
> United Nations in general and ASEAN in particular, promote the
co-operation
> between Vietnam and the United Nations as well as between ASEAN and the
> United Nations," said Mr Nguyen Dy Nien, Vietnamese foreign minister at
the
> General Debate of the 55th session of the UN General Assembly held in New
> York on September 13.
>
> "It at the same time wishes to develop close and effective ties with
member
> states and organisations of the United Nations," the foreign minister
> further said.
>
> He continued: "Coming to this session, Vietnam shares the common resolve
to
> implement the historic Millennium Declaration to build a just and better
> world and a worthier and more effective United Nations. Fully aware of
its
> responsibility as a member state towards the United Nations and
> international community, Vietnam, therefore, has for many years, been
> making efforts for achieving the common goals of mankind and the United
> Nations, and it will continue to do so in the future. A most recent vivid
> example was the proposal put forward by the president of the Socialist
> Republic of Vietnam at the Millennium Summit, recommending that the first
> decade of the 21st Century be proclaimed as the decade of development and
> poverty eradication concentrating to the highest level all global efforts
> for these aims.
>
> "This year's General Assembly is of special significance as it takes
place
> right after the Millennium Summit, a Summit that marks an important
> development of the United Nations in discharging the lofty
responsibilities
> of the Organisation and its member states towards the future of
humankind.
> The Millennium Declaration adopted by the Summit has pointed out
humanity's
> most pressing issues and the Organisation's primary priorities and
> directions upon their entry into the new era. For this, the Millennium
> Declaration can be considered a new Charter and Platform of Action of the
> United Nations.
>
> "The question now presented to the international community is how to
bring
> the Millennium Declaration into reality. And this Session of the General
> Assembly must be a new beginning of a new awareness and determination, to
> be demonstrated by concrete results. Only by so doing, can we further
> consolidate the confidence of the world's people in the work of the
United
> Nations, the biggest organisation on our planet.
>
> "The realisation of the Millennium Declaration will be a long but not
> simple process, which requires the high determination and efforts of each
> country, the international community and the United Nations. It is
> especially more so when globalisation is exposing its negative impacts,
> leading to the uneven distribution of opportunities and benefits at the
> expense of developing countries.
>
> "Poverty eradication and development must be accorded primary priority
and
> supported so that we can achieve the targets set by the Millennium
Summit,
> including the target to halve, by the year 2015, the current proportion
of
> the world's poor people, endeavouring towards making the right to
> development a reality for everyone. Of the human rights, the right to
> development is of paramount importance. With poverty and without
> development, there can be no peace and stability, not to say human
rights.
> On the other hand, once international peace and security is consolidated,
> that will help create a stable, enabling environment for development and
> poverty eradication, in each country, each region, as well as the world
> over.
>
> "To achieve development and poverty eradication, the first decisive
> requirement for the countries is to enhance their efforts and adopt
> suitable policies and programmes aimed at making the fullest use of its
> resources and potentials; and, at the same time, to gather and
effectively
> utilise the resources from outside. The United Nations, on its part,
should
> strengthen its capacity and have the resources necessary and direct them
to
> support poverty eradication efforts of the member states. It is also
> extremely important that the developed and industrialised countries as
well
> as economic centres need to further enhance their assistance to
developing
> countries in their endeavour for development and poverty eradication.
That
> should include measures of debt relief and write-off and the increase of
> ODA to 0.7% of the GDP as has been committed.
>
> "The objectives set out in the Millennium Declaration have long been
> considered by Vietnam as its primary policy priorities. For example, by
the
> highest efforts of our own and with the assistance from the United
Nations
> and other countries, we have reduced the poverty rate, according to
> Vietnam's criteria, to 11% in 2000 from that of 30% in 1992. We hope that
> this support and assistance will be further enhanced to facilitate
> Vietnam's consolidation of the achievements recorded.
>
> "In the final analysis, all the above-mentioned issues are aimed at
serving
> human beings. Human resources and cultural development are two aspects
> closely related to each other in the overall programme of development and
> poverty eradication. They are therefore both the goal and the
driving-force
> of development. This is the lesson that we, from the experience of the
past
> many decades, can draw, and needs to be given the appropriate,
significant
> attention in the policies of all countries.
>
> "Those objectives have been reflected also in ASEAN's Vision 2020 and
Hanoi
> Plan of Action. They include the expansion of co-operation in south-east
> Asia and east Asia and the building of triangles and quadrangles for
> development crossing poor regions. Concrete examples are found in the
> promising initiatives of the East-West Corridor for development and the
> proclamation, also supported by ESCAP, of the first decade of the 21st
> Century as the Decade of Greater Mekong Sub-Region Development. Those
> programmes are fully compatible with the directions contained in the
> Millennium Declaration and they should therefore be properly supported by
> the United Nations and international community. To advance further along
> this path is also the contribution from Vietnam and ASEAN.
>
> On international affairs, Mr Nien said: "In many regions of the world,
> protracted conflicts continue, causing instabilities and hindering the
> efforts of those countries and regions for poverty eradication and
> development. Vietnam and ASEAN support the resolution of disputes by
> peaceful means, without interference and imposition, so as to improve and
> consolidate regional peace, and not to further complicate the situation
and
> adversely affect the confidence of the people of the countries in the
> endeavours of the international community. Our common responsibility is
> therefore to guarantee that such actions of interference and in violation
> of the United Nations Charter as those occurred recently will not happen
> again, and that an end should be put to the embargoes that have imposed
> untold sufferings on the people of Cuba, Iraq, and so on.
>
> "Greater efforts should be made to further enhance disarmament,
especially
> the disarmament of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction,
> and to prevent the growing dangers of a new arms race, including the
> attempts to deploy new missile systems.
>
> "In south-east Asia and east Asia, the ASEAN countries have been leading
> the efforts aimed at building a region of amity, co-operation, prosperity
> and free from nuclear weapons, resolving the outstanding issues in the
> region, implementing the Treaty of Amity and Co-operation (TAC) and the
> Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons Free Sone (SEANFS), and promoting the
ASEAN
> Regional Forum (ARF) for dialogue and co-operation with other countries
and
> organisations. In this field, confidence-building measures should be
> enhanced on the basis of strictly respecting the principle of
> non-interference in the internal affairs, and the preservation of the
> national and cultural identity of each country and of the region as a
> whole. Vietnam and ASEAN, bilaterally or through the ARF, will further
> promote the efforts to develop a regional Code of Conduct (COC) on the
East
> Sea between ASEAN and China, fully support the ASEAN Declaration of 1992
on
> the principles of resolving disputes in the East Sea, and welcome recent
> positive developments on the Korean peninsular.
>
> "In order to implement the new, major directions of the Millennium Summit
> and to follow up the momentum created by it, the General Assembly should
at
> this Session further enhance the process to reform, revitalise, and
> democratise the United Nations. Vietnam supports the restoration and
> strengthening of the central position of the General Assembly, an organ
> represented by all member states on the principle of sovereign equality.
> The reform of the United Nations, with the reform of the Security
Council's
> structure, composition and decision-making process being the most
> important, is the responsibility of all member states.
>
> "The reform of the Security Council should be based on the principles of
> the United Nations Charter, ensure the increased representativeness,
> democracy, and equitable geographical distribution, in which developing
> countries will be represented appropriately and participate fully in the
> Council's decisions on important matters of world peace and security.
> Vietnam supports the expansion in both categories of permanent and
> non-permanent membership of the Council. Regarding the increase in the
> permanent membership, the general package to be agreed upon should ensure
> that developing countries from the three continents of Asia, Africa, and
> Latin America be represented; and it may also take into account the
> inclusion of some developing countries that can play a significant role
and
> certain developed countries that have made major financial and material
> contributions to the United Nations, such as India, Japan and Germany.
Now,
> more than ever before, the United Nations must ensure that it can assert
> its ability to reform itself and move forward with tangible steps. We
need
> to act for the reform to reflect the abundant vitality of the United
> Nations. (VNA)
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> National Hero's death anniversary marked
>
>
>
> Tran Hung Dao's new bronze statue in Nam
Dinh.
>
> The 700th death anniversary of the National Hero Tran Hung Dao was
> organised on September 15 (the 18th of the 8th lunar
> month) at the Kiep Bac temple in Hai Duong province.
>
> Tens of thousands of people converged to Kiep Bac on the occasion.
>
> The Party and State delegation to the ceremony included Party General
> Secretary Le Kha Phieu; Pham The Duyet, standing
> Politburo member, president of the Presidium of the Vietnam Fatherland
> Front Central Committee; Nguyen Cong Tan,
> deputy prime minister; and many others.
>
> Mr Duyet, on behalf of the Party and State, delivered a speech on the
> general's biography, career and virtues, the national
> hero symbolising Vietnam's sense of purpose, uprightness and spirit.
>
> In the minds of the Vietnamese people, Tran Hung Dao was an immortal
Saint.
> Tran Hung Dao, and the great resistance
> against the Mongol Yuan invaders of the Vietnamese people in the Tran
> dynasty, have been the source of encouragement,
> consolidating the spirit of patriotism, unity and the will for victory of
> the Vietnamese people and army, contributing to
> Vietnam's strength in the Ho Chi Minh era, Mr Duyet said.
> General Secretary Le Kha Phieu and other Party and State leaders,
> authorities of Hai Duong province and people to the
> anniversary held an incense offering ceremony.
>
> Tens of big boats on the Thuong river in front of the Kiep Bac temple
> recreated the array with seething impetus by General
> Tran Quoc Tuan and his famous generals: Tran Quang Khai, Tran Khanh Du,
> Pham Ngu Lao, Nguyen Khoai, Nguyen Che
> Nghia and Tran Quoc Toan.
>
> Delegates to the ceremony planted trees on the Vien Lang hill by Kiep Bac
> temple.
>
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