newsitems Finland President Halonen to EuroFora: Sustainable Development Report to UN SG Ban Ki Moon next week
Finland President Halonen to EuroFora: Sustainable Development Report to UN SG Ban Ki Moon next week
*Strasbourg/CoE/Angelo Marcopolo/- The experienced President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, who is also Co-Chair of UNO's Sustainable Development Panel on Growth compatible with Climate Change, speaking exclusively to "EuroFora", revealed that she is due to present, together with South African President Jacob Zuma, their long-awaited Report to UNO's Secretary General Ban Ki Moon "next week".
While EU is currently preparing a 1st €uroArea Summit focused on Growth, at the end of January 2012 in Brussels, notoriously expecting active cooperation from "G20" Countries and the IMF, the UNO move is due to provide precious and unquestionable High-level input for the forthcoming, exceptionaly important World Conference on Sustainable Development at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 2012, as well as for the Annual UNO's Climate Change Summit, due to take place on December 2012 at Quatar.
- "We'll give our Report" (on Global Sustainable Development) to UNO's Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, next week", Halonen anounced in reply to "EuroFora"s Question.
An initial Draft was prepared on January 12, 2012, at UNO's Headquarters in New York.
- But the official handout to UNO's SG is scheduled "at Adis Abeba, in the meeting with the African Union", revealed Halonen to "EuroFora".
- "So, I Hope that we shall see you in Rio !", optimistically suggested, smiling, UNO's GSP Co-Chair, and Finland's President, saluting "EuroFora" before her official speech and exchanges with CoE Assembly's MEPs, apparently based to her statements to "EuroFora" at the December 2009 Copenhagen Summit on "Climate Change", "the biggest in UNO's History, with more than 112 Heads of State/Government, as Ban Ki Moon had observed in Copenhagen, (Comp. "EuroFora"s NewsReports from the spot, at Denmark's capital).
At Rio, participants from all over the World, including Heads of State/Government, are due to take crucial decisions on Global Growth, Environment and Climate, while also reviewing the progress made by Humanity since the Historic, 1992 Rio "Earth" Summit, during the last 2 Decades (1992-2012).
+ Meanwhile, CoE's Parliamentary Assemby has voted recently (2010) in favour of recognizing also a "Human Right to a Healthy Environment", something that ECHR already partly ensures, in practice, by using for that purpose also several other, non-specific Articles of the PanEuropean Convention on Human Rights, (f.ex. protecting Family Home and/or Personal, Private Life ; against Inhuman/Degrading Treatments ; Human Life protection ; etc).
But the World Meteorological Organization has also warned, earlier on 2011, that Global Warming provoked by Climate Change, might trigger a growing series of "Extreme Weather Events", more and more Dangerous because of possible material Destructions, Mass Kilings, etc, s, f.ex. in the cases of the 2003 and 2010 French and Russian Heatwaves, respectivly, which killed some 15.000 and 30.000 innocent People, added to the Indian Tsunami back on 2004, and USA's Katrina giant Storm on 2005, as well as to several Floods, etc. in Central-North Europe, China and elswhere in the World, which have recently caused concern also among MEPs in EU Parliament, who have just started moves asking not ony to face the consequences of destructive EWEs, but also to launch, at last, the required Scientific and Technologic Research in order to try to Prevent, or at least alleviate damages, (See relevant "EuroFora"'s NewsReports, particularly on 2010-2011).
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UNO's Secretary General Ban Ki Moon picked up the Presidents of Finland, Tarja Halonen, and of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, as co-Chairs of UN SG's Panel on "Global Sustainability", after the 12/2009 Copenhagen UNO Climate Change Summit, from early 2010.
UNO's PGS' Members include High-level actors both from Europe, (such as f.ex. EU Climate Commissioner Hedegaard, former Norwegian President Harlem Brundtland, Swiss Foreign Minister Calmy-Rey, Spain's former Environment Minister Narbona Ruiz, Swzedish Development/Cooperation Minister Carlsson, Russian President's adviser Bedritsky, etc), and representatives from various other areas of the World, such as Asia (f.ex. Indian Minister Ramesh, Sheikh Al Nayahan of United Arab Emirates, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Babacan, former Japan's Prime Minister Hatoyama, South Korea's former Prime Minister and Expert, Seung-soo, etc), Africa (f.ex. Mozambique's former Prime Minister Luisa Dias Dogo, Nigerian President's advisor Amina Az-Zubair, etc), America, (USA's Ambassador to the UNO Susan Rice, Canadian Researcher Laurence Balsillie, Mexican Environment Expert Carabias, Prime Minister of Barbados, Stuart, Minister Vieira Reixeira from Brazil, etc), Australia (Foreign Minister Rudd), etc., the Administor being Zheng Guoguang from China.
(NDLR : "DraftNews", as already sent earlier to "EuroFora"s Subscribers/Donors. A more accurate, complete Final Version may be published asap, according to developments).
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Ten Years of ECHR : 1998 - 2008 show need of Revival in 2009-2010 coinciding with 2009 EU Election
A threefold, coordinated move by new Top French Political actors in the 2009 EU Parliament Elections, expressed in Strasbourg a will to boost Europe's Political dimension close to Citizens' concerns, going from protection of Economy to defence of Human Rights.
The move met an exceptional ECHR's call for a "revival" of Human Rights' protection mechanism', in a Mega-Conference, early 2010.
Obviously focusing on June 2009 Elections to EU Parliament, it involved from the outset the recently nominated "dual" Head of French Governing Party (UMP) Michel BARNIER and Rachida DATI :
- "As President Sarkozy has clearly said, we (France) are in favor of a Strong, Sovereign and Independent, Political Europe, which protects its Citizens, and not for a large Super-Market, nor for a Europe under influence",
"This goes for everything, including Energy", added to "EuroFora" the experienced former EU Commissioner, Minister of Foreign affairs, currently of Agriculture and Sarkozy's new pick as Leader of the Governing party UMP to EU 2009 Election, Michel BARNIER .
- Human Rights are important because they are at the Heart of the Political Europe that we aspire for : I.e. a Europe able to act and protect its Citizens, stressed also the New French Minister for European affairs, Bruno LE MAIRE, while meeting Strasbourg's Journalists at his first visit to the CoE.
This is one of the main interests for CoE, which is also a natural place for cooperation between EU countries and Russia or Turkey, which was recently helpful at the Middle East crisis, he added.
The move gained momentum with French Minister of Justice, Rachida Dati's main observations at ECHR's 5Oth Anniversary :
- "While we are seeking Europe's Borders and Identity, you (ECHR) remind us also of its Values", Human Rights, Dati noted.
Citizens seek more and more often ECHR's help, and the tempo accelerates, Europa awaits a symbol, while national legal orders are not freezed
And she expressed "support" to ECHR President Jean-Paul Costa's call to satisfy the vital need to revigorate the PanEuropean Court by deciding big changes at a High-Level Conference open to a large audience, a kind of "Etats Generaux" of Human Rights, at the beginning of 2010.
It's not so much the recently growing number of applications for Russia or Ukraine etc, which seems to be Costa's main concern : In fact, the cases declared "admissible" are much fewer...
But rather the persistent violations of Human Rights, sometimes very grave (ie. murders, torture, abritrary deprivation of liberty, oppression of freedom of speech, destructions of homes/properties, etc), despite numerous, repeated condemnations by ECHR. So that CoE's Ministers, due to "supervise execution" of ECHR's judgements, are overloaded.
F.ex. most Media noted that Turkey still remains, even in 2008, the 1st among 47 CoE member States in the number of condemnations by ECHR : 257, compared to 233 for Russia, with a population more than the double..
The problem is that it's not the 1st time at all : During all the last Decade 1998-2008, Turkey was condemned by ECHR much more than any other State, and for particularly grave violations :
- 1.652 condemnations, compared to 605 for Russia, 548 for Poland, 494 for France, 476 for Ukraine, etc.
Italy's second place with 1.394 condemnations is a misleading false appearance : In fact, most of them (999) concern mere "procedural delays" in national courts. Same for France.
On the contrary, Turkey was condemned 180 times for Killings, 192 times for Torture or Inhuman/Degrading treatments, 340 times for arbitrary deprivation of Liberty, 528 times for "Unfair trial", and 169 times for oppression of Freedom of speech, (etc). And the latest, 2008 numbers, indicate no change in this trend, (See supra).
The current Spanish CoE Presidency (November 2008 - May 2009) has made of the implementation of ECHR's judgements its 1st Priority.
ECHR's President, Jean-Paul Costa, stressed in its 2009 Annual Press Conference, CoE Member States' obligation to implement the judgements, according to Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Moreover, if CoE's Committee of Ministers delays to ensure implementation, then, the repetition of violations in similar cases provokes a multiplication of complaints tabled to the Court, which overload the mecanism for the protection of Human Rights, denounced Costa.
A series of Debates on "the situation of Human Rights in Europe", focusing on the "need to fight against Impunity" of perpetrators of grave crimes, is currently prepared by CoE's Parliamentary Assembly for the session of June 2009.
The final Timing comes shortly AFTER the EU Elections, but the main Reports should have been adopted before.
Meanwhile, French President Sarkozy and German Chancelor Merkel's recent call "for a Political Europe" in 2009 EU Elections (See earlier "correspondence from Paris, Elysee Palace), seems more and more endorsed also by other EU Countries' Top MEPs :
Thus, f.ex., EU Parliament's 1st vice-President, Greek MEP Mrs Rodi KRATSA, speaking to "EuroFora", agreed that 2009 EU Election would be a "naturally good" opportunity to debate what really interests EU Citizens : "The Future of a Political Europe, able to face the Economic Crisis, with a Culture and identity which attracts the People"
(Photo taken earlier during Sarkozy's 1st visit at EU Parliament, in 2007 : Sarkozy and Merkel's Ideas for a Political Europe inspire also other EU politicians accross the continent)...