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G20 Ministers draft Plan for Heads of State Summit while Global Change Popular Movement asks action

Written by ACM
Saturday, 15 October 2011
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Who will be faster ? This key question is obviously raised since this October 15, 2011, the same day that a crucial Minister of Finances and Central Banks Governors' G-20 International meeting concluded its efforts in Paris to prepare an exceptionally important G-20 Summit of Heads of State/Government at the beginning of November in Cannes under French chairmanship, while Popular Movements launched by "United for Global Change" a.o. World wide web pioneers mushroomed all over the Globe, spreading from Wall Street (New York) to Washington DC, California, etc. up to London, Rome, Frankfurt (ECB's headquarters), etc.

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- "Support Economic Activities for Growth", while, at the same time, carefuly "avoiding to take any (Austerity) measures that might affect the most Vulnerable, Poor People", is the "Best Reply" that States can give today to Young People's interrogations or cries, replied in substance the chairman-in-office of the G20 Ministerial gathering, French Minister Baroin,  to questions raised about various ECB officials a.o. statements on this coincidence.


+Meanwhile the preparation of an "Action Plan" due to be finalized at the November G20 Heads of State/Government Summit in Cannes, and agreements to start regulating Commodities' Prices (mainly Energy and Food) against excessive volatility recently, (Comp. Christine Lagarde's reply to "EuroFora"s question at the 1st G20 Ministerial gathering this year on February), emerged among a series of various  measures evoked at the Press Conference, after being examined and cited in the final, official Communiqué.

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Questioned today, at the concluding Press Conference of the G20 Ministerial gathering, whether all or at least some among the participants "felt any Comprehension" for these Popular Movements (which are going Global for the 1st time now), chairing French Minister François Baroin soberly but positively replied by distiguishing between 2 parts :

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- "Our Responsibilities, here, in these Structures (G20, etc), as well as of National Governments, it's, precisely, to set up the (right) Rules", since, in Economy, "LIberty is the main Rule, but there is no Libety without any Rules, he warned.


- I.e. he meant such Rules "which, by Supporting the Economic Activities" for more Growth, and by safeguarding "the Protection of a Social Model, with Solidarity vis a vis the most Vulnerable People in our Societies".


+ "For the rest, it's also a Specific Question concerning in particular each Country, according to the Austerity Measures that it takes".


- F.ex., "we try, in France" to advance towards this double direction (i.e. for more Growth, while keeping Solidarity : See supra), and that's why "we haven't taken any (Austerity) measure at all which might affect the most vulnerable People  : F.ex. the RSA (minimum revenue), the basic allocations, the poorest people, etc.", Baroin observed.


=>  - "That's the best reply from States and Governments to that Youth which raises questions and sometimes cries its hardships", concluded the chairman-in-office of the 2011 G20 Ministerial conference in Paris.

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    + Meanwhile, both the outgoing, experienced ECB President, Jean-Claude Trichet, and (even more) the incoming new ECB President Mario Draghi, reportedly gave some astonishing signs of understanding towards the main Popular concerns :   - "They are angry against the Financial World. I understand them", Draghi was reported saying in Paris, while Trichet, more sober, simply stressed towards THE Popular Movements going Global for the 1st time, that he "is Listening" to them...

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    But this didn't hinder Popular Movements  as "United for Global Change", etc., who organized the Worldwide October 15 events in "82 Countries, 951 Cities", as their Website claims, to spread out of New York, Washington DC, Boston, California or Chicago, etc., to Australia, but also London, Rome, Munich, and other EU Towns, including even Frankfurt, i.e. ECB's own European Headquarters...
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    + Meanwhile, on main Policy issues, among various other measures examined by the G20 Ministers in Paris, it's particularly an "Action Plan of Coordinated Policies", due "to address immediate vulnerabilities and strengthen the foundations for a strong, sustainable and balanced Growth", which is presented "for consideration" by Heads of State/Government at the November 2011 G 20 Summit, according to the Official Communiqué, as well as the New issues related to Raw Materials and other "Commodities", (Comp. new IMF and former French Economy/Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's reply to "EuroFora"s question at the 1st 2011 G20 Ministerial meeting, on February 2011 also in Paris), on which focus both most questions and expectations :

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 - A differentiated Draft "Action Plan" distinguishes between "Advanced" and "Emerging" Economies :  The first should "build Confidence" and "Fiscal Consolidation", but also "support Growth", either "based more on Domestic Demand", or by "increas(ing) National Savings", according to whether the Countries involved have "large Current Accounts Surpluses" or, on the contary, "Deficits", respectively. The others should "maintain Growth momentum in the face of Downside Risks, contain Inflationary Pressures and... enhance resilience in the face of Volatile Capital Flows, as well as adopt "Structural Reforms... towards Domestic Consumption", and "move towards more Market-determined Exchange Rate", according to the G20 Communiqué. 
 
- But "all Countries will undertake further Structural Reforms to raise Potential Growth" and "strive to Foster Growth, Job Creation and promote Social Inclusion", at the same time.


    + In this regard, "the proper functioning of Commodity Markets is Key for sustainable Global Economic Growth", stress from the outset the Collective Coclusions of the October 2011 G 20 Economy/Finance Ministers' gathering, issued this afternoon.

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    In order to fight against the recent "Volatility" of Raw Materials' prices, mainly Energy and Food, in particular, Gas and Coal are due to be included to JODI-Oil DataBases, together with "further work" for "Market Transparency", including " Annual Symposiums on Short, Medium and Long term Outlook and Forecasts", as well as "Recommendations toimprove the Functioning and Oversght of Price Reporting Agencies for mid-2012", according to the final G20 Communiqué.


    + At the same time, the G20 Ministers agreed also a series of "Principles" in order to "Regulate" the "Commodity Derivatives Markets", mainly of Raw Materials as "Energy and Food", f.ex. "by transposing the Rules already existing for Financial Markets", and by asking for the "Implementation" of the Recommendations included in a landmark new Report by IOSCO, which should report back "by the end 2012", as Baroin added later-on.


    - "Nothing but the (Official, Collective G20 Ministers') Communiqué, but all the Communiqué !", he simply but clearly added the chairman-in-office French Minister to a critical question at the Press Conference about the supposed reluctance of some organisations or countries...

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(See also "EuroFora"s previous NewsReport on G20-related issues etc, from Paris' Quai de Bercy and Elysee Palace, published yesterday)

 

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ECHR's President to "EuroFora" on Journalists Gongadze and Adali murders : Principles must apply to all States, without discrimination.


+ ECHR's Statistics on Freedom of Expression (See below).


 European Court of Human Rights' President, Jean-Paul Costa, questioned by "EuroFora" on Journalists' murders, as in Gongadze and Adali's cases etc., strongly stressed all CoE Member States' obligation to make efficient Investigations to find and punish those responsible, and underlined that ECHR's case-law's principles must apply to all without any discrimination.

His call was clearly supported by various Top MEPs who denounced a risk of "Double Standards" if some Journalists' murders are investigated, while others don't.

To avoid such risks, CoE's Parliamentary Assembly adopted a Resolution, on the occasion of Ukranian Journalist Gongadze's murder, "stressing", as a matter of general Principle, "the importance it attaches to the safety of Journalists and political activists, especially those linked to opposition groups, in ALL member states of the CoE". All "crimes against journalists and political activists must be investigated ... as a matter of priority, without political interference".

Costa was replying to "EuroFora"s question on the fact that, after CoE's Committee of Ministers, also CoE's Assembly had just adopted a Resolution on Gongadze murder case, based on an ECHR's judgement of 2005, asking a full Investigation from Ukraine, who has found and condemned  in 10 years of jail 2 executants, but not yet the instigators.

While nothing similar was yet done for dissident Turkish Cypriot Kutlu Adali's murder, with 5 bullets shot at his head out of his Family's home in the territories of Cyprus occupied by Ankara's army, despite another ECHR's judgement of the same year 2005, and despite Turkey's claim that nobody was found among those responsible for the murder, and that there was nothing more to do..

In order to be credible and efficient, CoE's mechanisms shouldn't find a way to at least ask for full investigations of all Journalists' murders anywhere they might be committed, without exceptions ?

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- "On the larger question that you raised, I'd like to say, since we are in a period of stock-taking on ECHR's 50 Years, that the Court's case-law developed certain concepts ....such as the Positive obligations of States, part of which are also the procedural obligations", started to reply ECHR's President.

 - "Whenever Journalists, Lawyers, Defenders of Human Rights, or even simple Citizens are murdered, the States are held responsible, not only if its their own security forces' agents who committed these murders, but also if they didn't make sufficiently substantial and efficient Investigations", he stressed.

- "I want to strongly underline that we (ECHR) have found in many cases numerous violations of Articles 2 and 3 against States, ....(about) murders or torture, ...because they didn't make enough Investigations in order to try to find and punish those responsible".

- "We (ECHR) do that vis-a-vis all 47 (CoE) Member States, without any discrimination".

"Naturally, the circumstances in each particular case may be differend, and we can't ommit to apply the rules of proof, or the rules of criminal procedure".

"But we try, by all means, to apply these principles of our case-law, to all States", he concluded.

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      Costa's call was strongly supported by several Top CoE MEPs, from various Political areas


- "To investigate the murder of one Journalist, and not of another, looks like Double Standards", denounced the President of EuroLeft Group in CoE's Assembly, Dutch MEP Tiny Cox.  

- "What is the reason ? Politics or specificity of a case ? Of course, if Cyprus and Turkey are involved, it's always a Political case"..

- "Murders of Journalists should always be fully investigated, because killing Journalists is not only killing persons, but also killing Free Press".  "We (CoE's Assembly) should do our outmost to help People who are working on Free Press and they are under threat or murdered".

Because for Free Politics, Free Press is a pre-requisitive : Parliamentarians  cannot  function without a Free Press. Not investigating, is not protecting ourselves".

So we should investigate all Journalists' murders : We are talking about Gongadze, about the Cypriot man (Adali), about the Journalist murdered in Moscow one week ago, etc", Cox concluded

- "CoE can' look at these cases differently. CoE can't wear Blinckers  !".
- "If the one is investigated, so has to be also the other. Why there wasn't full investigation ? Why's that ?", wondered British  Socialist MEP, Alan Meale.

- "A good idea" would be to "make a Motion for Resolution", and "join all Journalists' murders. Adali and Gongadze etc", said to "EuroFora" EU Parliament Political affairs Committee's President, Goran Lindbland, ChristianDemocrat MEP from Sweden.


(See also earlier News at "EuroFora" on similar issues).
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ECHR's Statistics on Freedom of Expression :


    Almost Half of condemnations by ECHR for violations of Freedom of Expression in 2008, concern Turkey : 20 out of a total of 48 for all CoE's Member States.

    Russia, Poland, France and Moldova were condemned only 3 times. Romania, Greece, Portugal, 2 times, and the other CoE Member States only 1 time, or none.
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    During the last Decade : 1998 - 2008, Turkey was condemned for violating Freedom of Expression in ..169 cases, while Austria only in 24.

    France and Moldova in 14 and 13, respectively, closely followed by Russia and Poland with 11 and 10, respectively. The rest of CoE Member States had less than ten condemnations.    
    

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