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HE David Wright Miliband,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,

London, United Kingdom

Dear Mr. Minister:

The decision of the Government of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland to detain Dr. Ejup Ganic on the basis of an extradition request and at the behest of the authorities of the Government of Serbia raises concerns regarding your Ministry’s commitment to the ICTY, the Dayton Accords as well as the standards of justice expected. The Belgrade government has been unilaterally pursuing a “wanted list” of Bosnian & Herzegovinian citizens despite that this contradicts the authority and review of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, “ICTY,” the Dayton Accords as well as bilateral agreements.

The initial decision to honor the Serbian request to detain Dr. Ganic is at your Government/Ministry’s discretion and of a political rather than judicial character. The merits of the Serbian authorities factual or legal claims should have been rejected at this political/government level. To do otherwise places the UK Government now as well as the Belgrade authorities in the position to contradict the authority and review of the ICTY. The primacy of the ICTY is encoded in the Dayton Accords and related agreements, (as the “Rules of the Road” reached in Rome in 1996 which prohibited unilateral detentions by states and “parties” without review and confirmation of the ICTY). Unless I am unaware of some non-public communication, the ICTY’s authority was not respected, and more troubling, the Dayton Accord was violated now by the UK Government as well as Belgrade authorities.

Possible motives aside regarding the decision to detain, it is imperative that your Ministry remedies these violations. As an attorney, you may be aware that a hearing by the UK Court will not address the substance of the factual claims beyond a rather tenuous examination of probable cause, if that. Whatever proceedings are held before a UK court, they cannot mask the political and frankly flawed proceedings that would await Dr. Ganic in Belgrade. The long tradition of UK jurisprudence should not be allowed to legitimize such a sham, (especially keeping in mind Belgrade’s extended and continuing history of shielding indicted war crimes suspects and failing to yet heed rulings of the International Court of Justice, “ICJ” and the ICTY). Further, the treatment of Mr. Ilija Jurisic, already unjustly detained and committed to 12 years by a Belgrade court under similar circumstances only confirms our assessment of the political character and lack of justice in the proceedings. Most critically, the UK risks smear to its ongoing contributions and efforts of its many civil servants, as Lord Ashdown, in BiH. We encourage your Government to immediately intervene and remedy what has now become a violation of the ICTY’s own authority as well as the Dayton Accords.

Respectfully Yours,

Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey      Dr. Muhamed Saracevic, president

Former Foreign Minister,                      Congress of North Bosniaks 2000
Permanent Representative to UN,         Founder of World Bosniaks Congress
Agent before ICJ,
Representative and witness before ICTY
and Signatory of Dayton Accords,
 

web link
http://www.kbsa2000kbs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=58&Itemid=110
 

ENGLISH

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Marjan Hajnal, M. Sc., member of the IFIMES International Institute, presents his view of the current Iran-Israel relations. His article entitled “IRAN - ISRAEL: PEACE OR WAR?” is here published in its entirety.

 
Marjan Hajnal, M. Sc.
● Member of the IFIMES International Institute


IRAN - ISRAEL: PEACE OR WAR?

The chronology of recent events in the Middle East has been marked by a rather panicky search by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for constructive geopolitical guidelines that would be suitable to all the potential decision-makers resolving the burning issues. Without adequate responses to those issues it is not possible to foresee the answer to the question “Peace or War?”. Defence Minister Ehud Barack has also called the Palestinians to the negotiating table, although in a rather pathetic and untypical manner. The situation was further dramatised by the statement of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah who said that an armed response to Israel’s eventual new attack against Lebanon would be far more efficient and destructive for Israel than the 2006 war. Ehud Barack was no less militant as he replied that this time Israel would not give in to the demands to cease war activities and that it would use “all available means“. Despite the UN Security Council Resolution 1701 on the prohibition of armament for Hezbollah this paramilitary organisation has, according to certain reliable Israeli sources, accumulated 42 000 missiles able to hit targets as distant as Tel Aviv.

In this situation and without leaving any manoeuvring space, Netanyahu has called Syria to enter negotiations, sending it some ambivalent messages based on deceptive and insufficiently clear allusions to the return of the Golan Heights. In Syria those ideas are being carefully analysed without excessive optimism, especially since Israel has offered a dialogue without any prior conditions, while the Syrian condition for peace is the return of Golan which was occupied in the six-day war in 1967.


JERUSALEM – A DUAL CAPITAL?

At times when the Druze and Bedouin communities, who were traditionally loyal to Israeli authorities, are starting to give their votes to the Palestinians against the dispossession of land for the construction of new Israeli settlements, the Israeli government is feverishly making promises about changes while at the same time persisting on the non-division of Jerusalem and preservation of its jurisdiction. Contrary to the commitments made to the wider international community and its ambitions to meet the demands of its citizens on the allocation of new residential enclaves which are indenting like antipodes deeper and deeper into the Arab territory, the Israeli government is offering to the Palestinian side the trumps it does not posses. How else can we explain the statements of Knesset members on the need to enable the Palestinians to establish their own state, unless this future state is a priori allowed to proclaim Jerusalem their administrative seat? This casts a shadow on the agreements reached in Annapolis in 2007 on the creation of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as dual capital. This frustrating and deceiving vagueness has led the leader of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas to state that he would not run for the second term of office at elections which he has called for February next year. Although five years after Yasser Arafat’s death the Palestinians are still nostalgic about the legendary PLO leader, it should be noted that Abbas’s position has evolved from non-recognition (“Jewish state – what is that supposed to mean?“, April 2009.) to a sharp swerve and recognition (August 2009), which has led to deeper conflicts with Hamas, whereby Abbas was regarded as a traitor and non-Palestinian. The Israelis are sceptical about new concessions after the failed negotiations in Camp David led by the then president Ehud Barack and Yasser Arafat. They still remember concessions made by Yitzhak Rabin (who allowed Arafat to return after long years in exile and approved Palestinian authority over the Gaza Strip, Nablus, Jericho, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Hebron), which were in turn followed by unprecedented terrorist attacks against civil targets (busses, discotheques, markets, restaurants, university) and the bombing of southeast Jerusalem settlement of Gilo. Another disappointment followed when Ariel Sharon ordered the removal of Jewish settlements near Gaza as a pawn for peace, while the rocket attacks not only did not stop but even intensified and lasted for seven years until the Israeli forces eventually attacked Gaza at the end of 2008.


THE IZRAEL-HAMAS-HEZBOLLAH TRIANGLE

Additional arguments for Israel to dismiss the Goldstone report on war crimes committed by its forces were gained with the seizure of the Francop cargo vessel with over 40 containers with hidden missiles and other weapons of more than 300 tonnes of total weight, which was enough for one-month of intensive war. However, the seized weapons only represent the visible part of the iceberg in comparison with the volumes smuggled to Lebanon in spite of all the vigilance of UN observers. It should not be forgotten that the seizure of the Karine-A ship with about 50 tonnes of weapons on 3 January 2002 contributed to a direct brake-up of relations with Arafat and his captivity in Ramallah. In both cases the responsibility for the armament of Hezbollah and Hamas lay with Iran and Syria. For Israel this was the proof that even after devastating wars those states are not eager for peace. The seizure of armament on board the Francop vessel could just as well be a welcome decoy to distract attention from more serious problems such as the accusations of war crimes against the Israeli, Hamas and Hezbollah leadership. Despite the changed picture of Lebanon after the recent war ravages in 2006, little has changed in the militant rhetoric of Hezbollah’s spiritual leaders. After the change in power we have seen an assimilation of terrorists in the Lebanon forces who at first sight arbitrarily and sporadically fire missiles to the northern part of Israel thus maintaining constant tensions and verifying the tolerance levels of the Israeli headquarters. The aim of these high-level tensions and constant missile provocations is to stir up a new chaotic war with even more severe consequences. The synergy effect of the chaos doctrine is reduced to depleting and compromising the Israeli forces.


WAR AND/OR ILLUSION

The two pillars of the destruction of Logos are called War and Illusion. The battle of concepts at the level of self-realisation of the absolute self-conscience has been present since the Persian invasion of the ancient Israel or, subsequently, the devastation of Athens and the anathema launched from the Acropolis. The systems have changed from anthropocentrism and deism, atheism and Nazism to fictions and technological progress, but each megachange was initiated with the notions of some personal Demiurge who favoured the “chosen” people of “his own” nation. 

The catastrophe theory is not new – its origins can be found in ancient writings on Veda and Avesta, and during the human eras it was marked by impersonal deification of Illusion without identity. The fear of visualising God resulted in the tradition of annihilating any attempt of an aesthetic interpretation of deity through fine arts or literature (in Orthodox Judaism it was even prohibited to mention the deity in the original phonetic form, therefore the synonyms Elohim and Adonai, Lord of Hosts, Shem (name), or simply He were used). The Kabalists passed on the inherited perception of apocalypse as the state of general chaos or “tohu va vohu” to their Christian and Islamic successors. Their common feature was fatal nihilism and destruction of taboos, with the formation of two directions: the Jewish feminism and Islamist patriarchy.  All the future globally-situated suicidal bipolar paradigm on the impossibility of co-existence and even of existence has been based on this artificially conditioned entropic splitting of the social system. From behind the curtain most strings are pulled by the Gnostics, technotronic gurus, the chiefs of totalitary military unions, unifiers of regimes, creators of pacts, coordinators of conspiracies, controllers of pandemies and other plagues, who are mostly based on the idea on the destruction of Israel as a way of its restoration. This has been the common goal of Kabalists, Jesuites, neo-Templars, neo-Nazis and narco-inspirators of general anarchy or monarchy of Darkness and Terror. In other words, this game of the Lords of Light and Darkness has given birth to communism and all of its ideas with over 100 million victims, and to an even greater threat we are facing today: According to the revival of ornamentalism and collective nazi-hysteria which have overflown Sweden, England and the US, the story of Hitler has not ended. What is even more shocking, Nazism has found its followers in the former socialist countries (Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Croatia) despite the inconceivable losses they had suffered.


IRAN BETWEEN THE WEST, CHINA AND RUSSIA

It is the question of time when Iran will regret having overthrown emperor Pahlavi. It would be quite justified to propose a hypothesis on the infiltration of Western intelligence services in the overthrowing, since despite his alleged flexibility and intelligent pro-Western inclination Pahlavi had his own vision of autonomous ruling of the ancient Persian nation with the goal to preserve the original identity. As such he was regarded as indecisive on the outside and as a traitor on the inside (by the Islamists) and eventually became the victim of the change of eras. However, it is only now that the Iranian people have realised that they are terrorised by a handful of despots who are powerful enough to use the cruellest methods of punishing and keeping the whole nation frightened. What else can the young Iranians do but resort to suicidal ideas? On the brink of an abyss Ahmadinadjad's regime is resorting to dubious transactions with China and Russia, not realising that those circles are just as hypocritical, distant  and exploiting as those of the US, France and Germany. Just as Iran has cruelly persecuted members of the Bahai community, China has been engaged in persecuting, torturing and killing the followers of Falung-Gong – this is what the two countries have in common. China and Russia have both their own interests and reasons for helping Iran in developing military technology. The overthrowing of Shah enabled the creation of chaos and the exportation of Islamic revolution to Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has brought instability to the whole region. This has made it easy to control the former silk routes, only this time they are used for smuggling drugs, human beings and highly sophisticated military technology. It is not a coincidence that so many states are interested in controlling Afghanistan as all the routes to China pass through this wretched country. However, China is not content with its Eastern side being so very open, which is the reason for its substantial and insufficiently discreet assistance to Iran. Unfortunately, this “assistance” has been revealed in Gaza, the tragic intersection of the three continents. This is where the tripolar geometry of apocalypse starts and ends.

The role of Russia in this conglomerate of relations represents a partial enigma. The strengthening of Slavic white ethnic Nazism shows that Jelcin’s drunk jiving was in fact a virtuoso wire dance. Possessing all the demonic vitality of his Raskolnikov genes and having saved Russia from a coup d'état with his famous speech delivered from a tank on 19 August 1991, Jelcin foretold a new political orientation based on the principled rejection of any redundant economic ballast. The withdrawal from Eastern Germany had significant repercussions on the changes in relations not only in Europe but also in the Middle East. Instead of exhaustive direct confrontation with the West it is much easier to engage hirelings. Thus it is clear that Israel’s conflict with Syria and Iran actually goes beyond the borders of those states. The same applies to North and South Korea. No matter what kind of local war is being fought, it is always the superpowers that are indirectly testing their forces. However, the price of such insanity is always paid by the small nations. The crisis that arises from the failed multi-level ideology always hits most severely those who are the weakest. For the poor, wars are preceded, accompanied and followed by famine, while the wealthy do not even feel it.


ISRAEL AS A NUCLEAR POWER

Obviously led by distress, Israel has eventually become a nuclear power. Ehud Barack’s reply that Israel would retaliate using “all available means“ominously implies all available options. Despite being inevitably pushed in the direction of mystic Armageddon, Israel does not wish the nuclear premonitions to come true. By sending signals to the West that Iran’s nuclear programme is hiding much more malicious intentions, Israel is appealing to the sanity in an attempt to achieve the impossible: to survive, to enlarge and to enable the creation of the Palestinian state. In a beseeching call for help to prevent Iran’s imamites to get hold of a nuclear bomb the Jewish nation has put their already fragile reputation at stake, ruining it with forced military actions in Lebanon and Gaza. Undoubtedly that region has been sacrificed in advance as a polygon for testing the virulence of Syrian and Iranian intelligence services whose goals are indoctrination, fanatisation and technical training of potential suicide bombers. Faced with the Egyptian border porosity Israel has no other alternative but to build walls and set up more control points.

In an euphoric pursuit of support, understanding and protection, Israel's authorities have overlooked numerous weaknesses in their own rows. The inner enemy number one is corruption, followed by theocratic ruthlessness and insensitiveness towards those who are not the followers of “Tanakh” (“the Five Books of Moses”). This situation provides the pre-conditions for non-selective anti-Semitism, which leads to a general animosity towards everything that is related to Israel. The jargon of neo-Nazis is not a neo-jargon. It is unambiguously not only anti-religious but also generally antisemitistic, anti-Arabian and anti-Islamic. Nazi literature is being translated and read and new books with racist overtones are being written.

Thus, one small country or a micro-polis has become the nursery of macro-diversities. As if turned to stone by Medusa’s eyes, the world is lamenting the destiny and awaiting the sword of Perseus. Iranian religious leader Bab and before him Zarathustra, the real purebred Arians, were the modern Perseus, the envoys and favourites of Aryan Valleyo. Does the Middle East, following the humane impulses of its true prophets, possess the will and power to reach out the hand to its little brother, as did Khshayarsha, Xerxes I the Great,  the “ruler of heroes” in 490 BC when he generously allowed the Jews to return to their homes after Babylonian captivity? If the extremists get hold of the secret of the nucleus, will the destiny of Persepolis be repeated? With its dominating geostrategic position between the Persian Gulf to the South and the Caspian basin to the North, Iran may have a direct influence over the whole Middle East region. Thats is certainly known to the Western forces who want to weaken Iran’s power and establish full control over the oil energy products.

Nevertheless, hopingly the wisdom of the descendants of ancient Indo-Ariyan heroes will prevail and they will find the way out of the labyrinth of hopelessness without the illusive Ariadne's thread. The illusions on the re-levelling of blind powers would then be discarded with the victory of human mind freed from the bonds of violence, proving to the West that its cradle was once in the East.   

Ljubljana, 18 December 2009 

International Institute for Middle-East  and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) – Ljubljana

Directors:

Bakhtyar Aljaf       Zijad Beæirovic, M.Sc.

                 


 

Dutch

Europese media enorm kritisch over aanstelling Van Rompuy

Verschillende Europese kranten staan vandaag bijzonder kritisch tegenover de benoeming van Herman Van Rompuy tot eerste permanente voorzitter van de Europese Raad en van Catherine Ashton tot Hoge Vertegenwoordiger.
 
De Franse krant LIBERATION vindt Van Rompuy "een president voor het decor". "Als eerste daad heeft het Europa van het Lissabonverdrag dus gekozen voor mensen die niemand storen", klinkt het bij de krant. "Er is dan wel niemand van het 'Nieuwe Europa' benoemd, de 27 zijn er tenminste wel in geslaagd een vrouw te benoemen - zij het niet de meest briljante."
 
Twijfels
LE FIGARO vraagt zich af of "de president eerder een organisator zal zijn, een man die in de beslotenheid van de Raad goede diensten levert of een leider die als een gelijke met Barack Obama en Hu Jintao zal praten?"
 
In Spanje uit EL MUNDO ook haar twijfels. "Twee mensen die onbekenden zijn op het Europese toneel, en nog meer op de internationale scène, bijna zonder enige ervaring in buitenlandse politiek en nieuwkomers in de EU, nemen de vertegenwoordiging van de 27 in de wereld waar", klinkt het cynisch. EL PAIS meent dat "het nieuwe Europa, zoals dat werd vastgelegd door het Verdrag van Lissabon, bestuurd zal worden door twee kleurloze en low profile figuren".
 
Zonder glans
Ook in de Duitse kranten klinkt het unisono dat Van Rompuy en Ashton niet in staat zullen zijn om een krachtige Europese stem te vormen. "Kunnen deze twee personen het elan incarneren dat onze bestuurders ons beloofd hebben?", schrijft de FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG. "Het Verdrag van Lissabon is al de lichtere versie van wat in het begin de Grondwet van de Europese Unie genoemd werd. Dat woord was te groot voor de ambities van de Europeanen. De minister van Buitenlandse Zaken en de president van de EU wekken nu toch de indruk groot te zijn."
 
De FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU schrijft dat de EU nu "leiders zonder glans" heeft, "zonder visie en zelfs zonder ervaring in hun eigen domein".
 
Voldoende capaciteiten?
Een zelfde geluid in de Britse kranten. De FINANCIAL TIMES vindt dat "deze benoemingen twijfel zaaien over de capaciteiten (van Van Rompuy en Ashton, nvdr) om te kunnen wedijveren met Washington en Parijs. Wie Europa meer gewicht wilde geven op het internationale toneel blijft vol consternatie achter na de keuze voor twee relatieve onbekenden."
 
Voor de GUARDIAN hebben de keuzes "alle hoop van Europa dat de wereld haar opnieuw aandacht zou schenken" tot niets herleid. "Gisterenavond heeft het continent een stap teruggezet van de tafel van de groten en een kans gemist om zich op het wereldtoneel op het niveau van de G2 te handhaven, tussen de polen Washington en Peking."
 
Niet toegetreden
Dat Frankrijk en Duitsland onder elkaar uitmaakten om voor een onbeduidende Belg te kiezen, doet het voor de INDEPENDENT aanvoelen "alsof Zweden, Polen en de rest niet tot de club zijn toegetreden. De manier waarop de 27 landen tot een beslissing zijn gekomen doet het Vaticaan bijna transparant lijken." (belga/adv)


20/11/09 13u03
 

ENGLISH

Belgium's Van Rompuy, U.K.'s Ashton take EU top jobs
Darren Ennis and Adrian Croft, Reuters
Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009

BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the bloc's first president on Thursday and appointed Briton Catherine Ashton as its foreign affairs chief.
A consensus was reached at a summit in Brussels after Britain dropped its insistence that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair should become president, ending weeks of deadlock and opening the way to agreement on Mr. Van Rompuy.
The appointments are intended to bolster the EU's standing and help it match the rise of emerging powers such as China following the global economic crisis.
But Mr. Van Rompuy, 62, and Ms. Ashton, 53, are low-profile compromise candidates little known outside the EU and at least initially will not have the clout in foreign capitals that an established statesmen such as Blair would have had.
"The deal has been done. Both positions have been agreed," said an EU diplomat present at the talks, which involved all 27 member states.
The leaders had sought a political balance to satisfy member states and the European Parliament, whose approval is needed for Ms. Ashton. This was achieved by appointing a centre-right president and a centre-left high representative for foreign affairs.
Mr. Van Rompuy, who will not need the assembly's approval, won plaudits for holding together a fragile coalition government after becoming prime minister less than a year ago.
Ms. Ashton, a baroness and former member of the House of Lords, Britain's upper house of parliament, is hardly known even in Britain and has little foreign affairs experience. But she has made a good impression since becoming the EU's trade commissioner, its top trade official, last year.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's insistence that Mr. Blair should become president had been an obstacle to agreement, but a breakthrough became possible when he backed down and decided instead to back Ms. Ashton for the foreign policy job.
"As it became clear that the chances of a Blair presidency, for a number of good reasons, were declining, the prime minister made the decisive intervention in this meeting [to stop backing Mr. Blair]," a spokesman for Mr. Brown told reporters.
Mr. Blair had long been the front-runner but many other states wanted a cver his backing for the U.S.-led war in Iraq and many wanted a leader from a country that uses the euro currency.
Agreement on Mr. Van Rompuy and Ms. Ashton prevented a failure at the summit that would have highlighted the divisions in a bloc representing nearly 500 million people, and undermined the goal it had set of boosting the EU's image on the world stage.
In backing Ms. Ash, the leaders also answered calls by many EU officials for a woman to have one of the Union's top posts.
Although the EU is a major trading bloc, its political influence has not matched its economic might. Political analysts have questioned whether it will be able to do so even after the new appointments.
The post of president of the council of EU leaders was created under the EU's Lisbon treaty, which is intended to make decision making easier now the bloc has 27 member states. The foreign policy high representative received enhanced powers under the treaty, which goes into force on Dec. 1, and will be in charge of a new EU diplomatic corps.
 

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Welkom

De avond van "SEVDALINKA"

Het land van cultuur en interculturele uitwisseling, Bosnië en Herzegowina, staat hooggeplaatst op de muziekscala van een traditionele vorm: de sevdalinka. Sevdalinka’s bestaan ook in andere landen in de Balkan zoals Servië, Macedonië – we spreken hier over een heuse erfenis uit de tijd van het voormalig Ottomaans rijk.
Haar ritme is traag, evenwichtig en net zoals de amerikaanse blues wordt de sevdalinka gekarakteriseerd door melancholie, droefgeestigheid en liefde, maar dan wel een in de war gestuurde of onmogelijke liefde. De emotie voert de zanger zowel als de luisteraar naar een irreële fantasiewereld. De emotie die daaruit ontspringt noemt men ‘sevdah’, en vandaar dus ook het woord ‘sevdalinka’. Soms lijkt de sevdalinka wel dicht te staan bij de portugese muziek fado, dat eigenlijk een klaagzang over het lot voorstelt.

We hebben het genoegen u uit te nodigen op een concert van sevdalinka’s van Alija Arnautovic (zanger) en Haris Lojo (gitarist).

Beide artiesten zijn Bosniërs van geboorte en zullen u zowel sevdalinka’s brengen als traditionele macedonische muziek en ‘starogradske’ (oud-stedelijke) nummers eigen aan Servië.
Alija Arnautovic is geboren in Bosanski Petrovac (Bosnië-Herzegowina) en woont momenteel in Zweden, waar hij de muziekgroep "Ambis" heeft gesticht. Zijn bijzonderheid ligt in het feit dat hij naast zanger, tevens een kunstschilder is. Het brusselse publiek zal hierbij dan ook tevens de mogelijkheid hebben om zijn schilderijen te bekijken. Reeds vanaf 2003 heeft Alija Arnautovic zich een status van zweeds kunstenaar weten te verwerven in de zweedse cultuurscene.

Concert onder de naam van "SEVDALINKA-AVOND"

Alija Arnautović Haris Lojo

Datum : 21.11.2009.

Plaats : Koekelberg Basiliek, zaal Vita, deur 5

Inkom : 5 euro

17h00 : Coktail en tentoonstelling

19h00 : Concert

 Tentoonstelling "NOSTALGIE"

De tentoonstelling van de werken (schilderijen) van Alija Arnautovic onder de naam "Nostalgie" zal plaatsvinden in de vertrekken van de Representatie van het Kanton Sarajevo in Rue de Commerce, 49 – 1000 Brussel. Metro: Troon

Inkom: gratis

De opening van de tentoonstelling is voorzien voor 19 november, waarna een receptie volgt ter gelegenheid van de nationale feestdag van Bosnië-Herzegowina.

De tentoonstelling zal tevens bezichtigd kunnen worden op vrijdag 20 november, van 10u tot 17u

Vertaald door Nina Asotic
 

French

Bienvenue

"Le soir de la Sevdalinka / Nostalgie"

la Bosnie débarque à Bruxelles! Et pas n'importe laquelle...

Terre de culture et d'échanges interculturels, la Bosnie est le haut lieu d'une forme très particulière de musique traditionnelle: la sevedalinka. On peut retrouver aussi la svedalinka dans d'autres républiques des Balkans, comme la Serbie, le Monténégro, la Macédoine et il s'agit d'un héritage de l'époque ottomane.

Le rythme est lent ou modéré et, comme dans le blues américain, sont fort prisées les thématiques de la mélancolie, la tristesse, l'amour et l'amour contrarié ou impossible. L'émotion emporte le chanteur et l'auditeur dans un monde imaginaire et poétique. Cette émotion engendrée est appelé sevdah, d'où svedalinka tire son nom. On a parfois rapproché la svedalinka du fado portugais.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à un concert de svedalinka de Alija Arnautovic (chant) et Haris Lojo (guitare).

Tous deux natifs de Bosnie, ils nous proposeront des pièces de sevedalinka, ainsi que des musiques traditionnelles macédoniennes, ainsi que des chansons starogradske chantées en général en Serbie.

Alija Arnautovic est né à Bosanski Petrovac, en Bosnie, et réside actuellement en Suède où il a créé le groupe Ambis. Sa particularité est d'être aussi bien chanteur qu'artiste-peintre, une exposition de ses oeuvres sera d'ailleurs accueillie simultanément. Depuis 2003 Alija Arnautovic a fait une percée dans l'espace culturel suédois et il a désormais le statut d'artiste à part entière.
 

Concert "Le soir de la sevdalinka"

Alija Arnautović Haris Lojo

Date: 21/11/2009

Lieu: Basilique de Koekelberg, salle Vita (Porte 5)

Entrée: 5 euros.

Horaire: cocktail et exposition à 17h, concert à 19h.

Petite restauration et bar à prix démocratiques.

 

Exposition "Nostalgie"

L'exposition d'une série d'oeuvres (tableaux) de A. Arnautovic se déroulera dans les locaux de la représentation du Canton de Sarajevo, Rue du Commerce 49 à 1000 Bruxelles. Métro Trône.

Entrée: gratuite.

Inauguration le 19 novembre à partir de 18h. L'inauguration sera suivie d'une réception à l’occasion de la fête nationale bosniaque.

Horaire: Vendredi 20/11 de 10h-17h.
 

Bosnian

Dobrodošli

VEČE "SEVDALINKA / NOSTALGIJA"

Zemlja kulture i međukulturalne razmjene Bosna zauzima visoko mjesto na muzičkoj ljestvici tradicionalne forme: sevdalinke. Sevdalinka se može naći i u drugim zemljama Balkana kao recimo u Srbiji, Makedoniji, a radi se o naslijeđu iz doba otomanskog carstva.

>Ritam joj je spor, odmjeren, i kao u američkom bluzu, nju karakterišu melanholija, tuga i ljubav, ali ona ometana ili nemoguća. Emocija ponese pjevača i slušaoca u svijet nestvarnosti i mašte.  Tako rođena emocija  se zove sevdah a otuda i riječ sevdalinka. Katkada je sevdalinka bliska portugalskoj muzici fado, koja je, ustvari, tužba na sudbinu.

Zadovoljstvo nam je pozvati vas na koncert sevdalinke Alije Arnautovića (vokal) i Harisa Loje (gitara).

Obojica su rođeni Bosanci. Izvodiće sevdalinke kao i tradicionalnu makedonsku muziku, starogradske pjesme koje se mahom pjevaju u Srbiji.

Alija Arnautović je rođen u Bosanskom Petrovcu (Bosni), a trenutno živi u Švedskoj gdje je osnovao muzičku grupu “Ambis”. Osobenost je u tome što je on pjevač, ali i umjetnik-slikar. Uostalom, briselska publika će imati priliku da vidi njegova slikarska djela ovom prigodom. Već od 2003. Alija Arnautović se uspio probiti na kulturološku scenu Švedske i steći status švedskog umjetnika.
 

Koncert “VEČE SEVDALINKE”

Alija Arnautović Haris Lojo

Datum : 21.11.2009.

Mjesto : Basilika u Kukelbergu, sala “Vita” (Vrata 5)

Ulaz : 5 eura

17h00 : Koktel i izložba

19h00 : Koncert

Izložba “NOSTALGIJA”



Izložba djela Alije Arnautovića pod nazivom "Nostalgija" će se odvijati u prostorijama Predstavništa Sarajevskog kantona u Rue de Commerce, 49 – 1000 Bruxelles. Metro : Trone

Ulaz: besplatan

Otvaranje izložbe je predviđeno za 19. novembar, a nakon toga prijem u povodu Bosanskog nacionalnog praznika.

Izložba će se moći pogledati i u petak, 20/11 od 10h00 do 17h00

 

Vlaams - Nederlands

Time: 17:31 (GMT+01:00)
Date: 01 November 2009
Sender: FOD VOLKSGEZONDHEID / SPF SANTE PUBLIQUE

Verdeling vaccins pandemische griep verloopt zoals gepland
Het Interministerieel Commissariaat Influenza benadrukt dat de verdeling van de vaccins tegen de A/H1N1 griep volledig volgens plan verloopt. De vaccins zullen vanaf 7 november beschikbaar zijn in alle apotheken zodat huisartsen kunnen starten met de vaccinatie van hun risicopatiënten. Het griepcommissariaat betreurt de desinformatie door Dr. Rufij Baeke, ondervoorzitter van het SVH, die nodeloos onrust zaait onder de meest kwetsbare groepen patiënten en onder zijn collega’s huisartsen. België is klaar om als één van de eerste landen in Europa te starten met de vaccinatie van medische risicogroepen en andere prioritaire beroepsgroepen.
Zoals eerder aangekondigd, start op 7 november de vaccinatiecampagne tegen de A/H1N1-griep in ons land. Vanaf die dag kunnen huisartsen terecht bij de apothekers om er hun vaccins af te halen zodat de vaccinatie van de meest kwetsbare risicogroepen van start kan gaan. Het griepcommissariaat benadrukt dat de verdeling van vaccins, materiaal, informatiebrochures en bijsluiters volledig volgens plan verloopt.

Griepcommissaris Marc Van Ranst licht toe : “ De 42 betrokken geneesmiddelendistributeurs kregen vorige vrijdag een eerste levering van 550.000 vaccins voor verdeling aan de apothekers. Op maandagochtend volgt een tweede levering van 423.000 dosissen. Ons land zal dus volgende zaterdag als één van de eersten in Europa kunnen starten met de vaccinatie.”

Van Ranst reageert ook op het bericht dat de ondervoorzitter van het Syndicaat voor Vlaamse Huisartsen, Rufij Baeke, vanmorgen de wereld instuurde als zou de verdeling van de vaccins vertraging oplopen : “Zijn verklaringen kloppen niet. Onze teams hebben dag en nacht gewerkt om de verdeling van de vaccins in goede banen te leiden. Dr. Baeke zaait nodeloos onrust onder de meest kwetsbare patiënten voor wie deze vaccinatie belangrijk is. De verklaringen van Baeke zaaien ook onterecht verwarring onder zijn collegae huisartsen die momenteel volop bezig zijn met hun vaccinatieplanning. Maar ik kan hen geruststellen, de vaccins zullen zoals afgesproken op zaterdag 7 november beschikbaar zijn.”

Apotheker Jos Verdin van de koepelverenigingen NVGV-ANGR en Ophaco bevestigt dat alle bij hen aangesloten groothandelaars-verdelers vanaf donderdag 5 november het vaccin afleveren bij de apothekers die een bestelling geplaatst hebben. Xavier De Cuyper, Administrateur-generaal van het Federaal Agentschap voor Geneesmiddelen en Gezondheidsproducten, deelt mee dat zijn agentschap er nauw op toeziet dat alle leveringen volgens afspraak verlopen.

Contact :
Jan Eyckmans
0495/25.47.24
Personal Contacts:
Mr. Jan Eyckmans
Phone: 02/5249045
Email: jan.eyckmans@health.fgov.be

URLs
http://www.influenza.be

ENGLISH

30.10.2009

Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Karadzic's Absence at Trial Mocks Justice

The trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former self-proclaimed president of Republika Srpska, started on October 26, 2009. The trial is in session without the presence of Radovan Karadzic. He has been indicted on multiple counts of genocide and crimes against humanity committed against Muslims and non-Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) during the war of aggression from 1992 to 1995. He was, in addition to a number of other allegations, responsible for the 44-month siege of Sarajevo and the genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995 where more than 8.000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed. The siege of Sarajevo left at least 10,000 people dead of whom 85% were civilians.

The Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BAACBH) commends the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for its efforts to continue with the trial despite Karadzic's absence. We are appalled that an indicted war criminal is undermining the judicial process by boycotting the trial. The trial is of vital importance when it comes to reconciliation and stability in BiH and the Balkan region. The legal process is a reminder that indicted war criminals will face justice and that they will be held accountable for their atrocities.

Radovan Karadzic's absence is a testimony to his complete disregard for the judicial process and the rule of law and is a further insult to the victims. Families of the victims have waited for over 13 years to see him captured and transferred to The Hague to face trial. For them, his presence in a courtroom and conviction is the first step in the grieving process and hopefully, eventual closure.

The early release of Karadzic's successor Biljana Plavsic was a mistake and a grievous insult to thousands of victims of Bosnian genocide. This was confirmed upon her return by the outpouring of nationalistic sentiments in Republika Srpska at a time when rising nationalism in the country and the region is already overshadowing the process of reconciliation and reconstruction. The moral obligation of the ICTY and every citizen is to honor innocent victims and respect their families' quest for justice.

BAACBH is dedicated to advocating on behalf of Bosnian-Americans and will continue to advocate for justice, peace and democracy. We believe that to rebuild the bonds of humanity, it is imperative that those responsible for genocide and ethnic cleansing answer for their crimes.

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