Re: [romania_eu_list] Uzbek refugees arrive in Romania

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:01:27 -0700

Aceea e chestia pozitiva. Nu mi se pare deloc de ignorat ca a ajuns Romania sa fie privita drept loc de refugiu pentru partizanii "revolutiilor colorate" din spatiul fost sovietic, tocmai in momentul in care Rusia si China au clonat o mica Sfanta Alianta in Asia Centrala si le-au cerut americanilor sa plece din zona.   

mihai prodan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
...si unde e chestia pozitiva despre Romania in
articol?
in afara de referirea la locatia unde au ajuns
refugiatii nu se fac alte referiri la Romania.
MP
--- Mihai Zodian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> na, ca sunt si articole "pozitive". cu cat lucrurile
> se vor
> imbunatati, probabil ca vor fi mai multe. nu cred ca
> problema
> principala a Romaniei in exterior este imaginea.
>
> Uzbek refugees arrive in Romania
>
> 29 Jul 2005 12:52:18 GMT
> Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
> GENEVA, July 29 (UNHCR) – More than 400 Uzbek
> refugees have landed
> in Romania in a high-profile airlift from
> Kyrgyzstan, where the UN
> refugee agency is negotiating with the Kyrgyz
> authorities about the
> fate of another 15 still in detention.
> A total of 439 Uzbek refugees arrived in Timisoara
> in western
> Romania on Friday morning after a seven-hour
> chartered flight from
> the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, accompanied by staff of
> UNHCR and the
> International Organization for Migration. The group
> included 425
> refugees who had been airlifted to Bishkek from
> Sasik camp in
> western Kyrgyzstan over the last two days, as well
> as 14 who were
> released from detention in the Kyrgyz border town of
> Osh on Thursday
> night.
> "It was heart-breaking to see the joy on the faces
> of those who were
> released from prison when they were reunited with
> the families they
> had not seen since May," said UNHCR's Representative
> in Kyrgyzstan,
> Carlos Zaccagnini.
> One Uzbek who had been transferred from Sasik camp
> decided at the
> last minute against going to Romania and said he
> wanted to return to
> Uzbekistan instead. He is currently still in
> Kyrgyzstan.
> The 439 who did fly seemed happy and relieved when
> they landed in
> Romania. Some flashed peace signs at the crowd that
> had gathered to
> see them. The refugees are now in a reception centre
> in Timisoara
> run by Romania's National Refugee Office. They will
> stay there until
> procedures for permanent resettlement to third
> countries are
> finalized.
> The decision to launch the humanitarian transfer was
> taken after
> several weeks of intense pressure during which some
> refugees and
> asylum seekers were detained and four were deported
> to Uzbekistan.
> "During this complex and charged transfer operation,
> UNHCR has
> received enormous support from the authorities in
> Kyrgyzstan,
> particularly the Foreign Affairs Minister, the
> Romanian government,
> the US government, many other governments, the EU,
> OSCE, UN sister
> agencies, IOM and the international community,"
> UNHCR spokeswoman
> Jennifer Pagonis told reporters in Geneva on Friday.
>
> She added, however, that UNHCR is still very
> concerned about the
> fate of 15 Uzbeks who remain in detention in Osh,
> western
> Kyrgyzstan. "We are negotiating with the Kyrgyz
> authorities for
> their release," said Pagonis. "Eleven of the Uzbeks
> have already
> been accepted for resettlement."
> She stressed, "We have strongly reiterated to the
> Kyrgyz authorities
> that the Uzbeks in detention should not be returned
> to Uzbekistan,
> as this would be contrary to the 1951 Refugee
> Convention to which
> they have acceded, and contrary to Kyrgyz national
> law. The
> authorities have assured UNHCR that these 15 will
> not be deported to
> Uzbekistan but kept in Kyrgyzstan for further
> processing."
>
>
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/UNHCR/9c3871d7e951cba5a99e33
> 4ea212a7fa.htm
>
>
> July 31, 2005
>
> Uzbeks Order U.S. From Base in Refugee Rift
>
> By STEVEN R. WEISMAN and THOM SHANKER
> WASHINGTON, July 30 - Uzbekistan formally ordered
> the United States
> to leave an air base that has been a hub for
> operations in
> Afghanistan in protest over a predawn United Nations
> operation on
> Friday to spirit out refugees who had fled an
> uprising in Uzbekistan
> in May, senior State Department officials said
> Saturday.
> The officials said Uzbekistan had given the United
> States 180 days
> to close the base, which has played a central role
> in rooting out
> fighters of the Taliban and Al Qaeda and in carrying
> out relief
> operations.
> For several months, the Uzbek government said it
> wanted the United
> States to leave the base, the Karshi-Khanabad Air
> Base, called K-2.
> But no specific timetable was set, and there was
> hope that the
> matter could be negotiated.
> A top diplomat, R. Nicholas Burns, under secretary
> of state for
> political affairs, had planned to go to Uzbekistan
> to discuss that
> issue and a United States demand that Uzbekistan
> permit an
> international investigation into the violent
> suppression of a prison
> riot and public demonstration in Andijon in May. The
> Uzbek
> government estimated that 187 people had been killed
> in the
> crackdown, but the United Nations estimated that 200
> to 700 people
> had been killed. Now, however, Mr. Burns said he
> probably would not
> go to the region for several weeks to let feelings
> cool.
> "When we got notice of the Uzbek action Friday
> morning, we decided
> it would be inappropriate for me to go at this
> time," he said in an
> interview. "We were going to have a conversation
> about human rights,
> Andijon and the fact that the Uzbek government's
> failure to reform
> has put it in international isolation."
> Mr. Burns said the United States had been
> "profoundly concerned"
> about the status of the Uzbek refuges in Kyrgyzstan
> who fled after
> the Andijon incident. "We have energetically
> supported the efforts
> to bring them to safety in Romania," he said,
> "because we feared
> they would be persecuted if they were sent back to
> Uzbekistan."
> "We are not willing to overlook these very important
> human right
> concerns," he added.
> Another State Department official, speaking on
> condition of
> anonymity because of department ground rules, said,
> "Obviously we
> don't want to lose K-2." But he added that loss of
> the base was
> preferable to backing away from demanding that
> Uzbekistan start
> political and economic reforms and agree to an
> international
> investigation of the Andijon killings.
> He said that position had been endorsed by top
> officials at the
> Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Donald H.
> Rumsfeld has said
> that the base, while important, could be substituted
> if necessary.
> The State Department official said that 450 refugees
> had fled to
> Kyrgyzstan after the uprising in May but that the
> Uzbek government
> had wanted them back.
> The Kyrgyz government has picked up 29 refugees for
> detention
> because some were charged with crimes. The United
> Nations High
> Commissioner for Refugees has been working to get
> them to safety,
> the official said, and early Friday most were taken
> to an airport to
> be airlifted to Romania.
> The official said that only 15 had been left behind,
> all
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