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AA-Postscript 2.Qxp:Layout 1 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL British MPs to vote on recognising Palestinian state LONDON: British lawmakers yesterday a tremendous amount of pressure on Gaza in which more than 2,000 enough, called on MPs to lead by exam- and that the illegal settlement enterprise held a non-binding vote on recognising the current government and the next Palestinians and dozens of Israelis were ple. has no validity”. Palestine although government minis- government, which is likely to be a killed. “There is a lack of political will and Britain’s former international develop- ters will not take part, in a sign of the Labour government, to recognise The Palestinian Authority estimates our moral compass is missing,” the for- ment minister Alan Duncan, a political sensitivity of the issue. Palestine as a state,” Morris told AFP in at 134 the number of countries that mer Foreign Office minister told Sunday Conservative MP who is due to travel to The debate is being closely watched an email. have recognised Palestine as a state newspaper The Observer. Gaza with Warsi later this month, said the internationally after Sweden incurred “The UK recognising Palestine could although the number is disputed and “Somehow we have to breathe new country had an “historic and moral duty” Israeli wrath this month for saying it will give decisive momentum to more EU several recognitions by European Union life into these negotiations, and one of to recognise the state of Palestine. recognise Palestine. The symbolic vote is states following suit,” he said. Some pro- member states date back to the Soviet the ways we can do that is by recognis- Britain abstained in 2012 from a vote on a motion put forward by Grahame Israel Labour MPs will vote against and era. ing the state of Palestine,” she said. in the United Nations on giving the Morris, an MP from the opposition have voiced resentment at being Newly-elected Swedish Prime Referring to Israeli settlements in the Palestinians the rank of observer state, Labour Party, and is likely to get the back- ordered by the party leaders to vote in Minister Stefan Loefven this month occupied West Bank and annexed east which was granted despite opposition ing of most Labour members. favour in what is expected to be a announced his intention to recognise a Jerusalem, she added: “If the settle- from the United States and Israel. Within the two ruling coalition par- charged debate. Palestinian state. ments are not stopped... then the viabili- “We believe international recognition ties, some Conservatives and most The House of Commons debate, Sayeeda Warsi, a former British minis- ty of a two-state solution is over.” of a Palestinian state is premature,” US Liberal Democrats are likely to vote in which will start at 1330 GMT, follows the ter who stepped down in August saying Morris said recognition would be “a State Department spokeswoman Jen favour, despite the government’s posi- collapse of peace talks between Israel the government had failed to condemn clear and legitimate message that Britain Psaki said following Israel’s criticism of tion. “If the vote is a success it would put and Palestine and this year’s conflict in Israeli military action in Gaza severely and others recognise Palestinian rights Sweden’s position. —AFP Nationalists win Bosnia’s elections Serb seat remains undecided SARAJEVO: Nationalist candidates Economic woe and nationalism its internal problems or speed up its EU dent. Preliminary results showed the from Bosnia’s Croat, Muslim and Serb Although Bosnia-Herzegovina has aspirations. “Due to lack of a competent incumbent, Milorad Dodik, ahead by communities won the country’s three- been at peace since that bloodletting, choice and a serious political offer, citi- two points. man presidency, election results Sunday’s election, which also included zens voted for a kind of the return to Dodik, a nationalist firebrand, has showed yesterday, underlining contin- parliamentary polls, laid bare wide- the 1990s,” Kazaz said. grabbed attention by calling for the ued ethnic strains 20 years after the spread discontent over the economy Today’s “nationalists, those fake secession of the ethnic-Serb area from Balkan state’s civil war. and division along ethnic lines. moderates, will not make war, but they the rest of Bosnia-in other words With more than 90 percent of votes About 3.3 million Bosnians were eli- will not hesitate to engage in political renewing the kinds of aspirations that counted, Bakir Izetbegovic of the main gible to vote on Sunday, but turnout disputes” that damage the country’s plunged Bosnians into the disastrous Muslim SDA party and Dragan Covic of was 54 percent, about two percentage prospects. Backing up the trend set in war in the 1990s. Ivana Saric, a student from Sarajevo, said she had voted for a KIEV: In this photo taken on Sept 30, 2014, Ukrainian National Guard head small, multi-ethnic party, but she Stepan Poltorak, right, inspects a military base in the village of Novi doubted many others would have done Petrivtsi near Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko over the the same. “People are afraid to vote for weekend accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey and major change, possibly because they has nominated Poltorak as his replacement. —AP are traumatised by the past. Twenty years ago they chose democracy. That brought them independence and then, Ukraine hands popular later, war.” general tricky defence job EU deadlock Bosnia’s economic doldrums formed KIEV: Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko celebrated Poroshenko’s announcement as a grim backdrop to the vote. Average yesterday turned to the head of his frontline long overdue. monthly salaries are 415 euros ($525) forces to become his new defence minister “The dismissal of defence minister Geletey is and corruption that has plagued the ahead of a crunch general election and high- an important signal showing that the president country since its inception now costs stakes talks with Russia. of Ukraine is listening to voters, and the com- taxpayers some 750 million euros annu- The pro-Western leader asked National mander in chief-to the Ukranian army,” said the ally, according to non-governmental Guard irregular forces commander Stepan volunteer battalion chief for the eastern organisations. Major floods in May, Poltorak to become Ukraine’s fourth defence Donbass region, Semen Semenchenko. which caused an estimated two billion minister since Russia’s seizure of Crimea in Some analysts called Poltorak a politically euros in damage roughly 15 percent of March and subsequent separatist uprising in the safe choice who will help Poroshenko calm the Bosnia’s gross domestic product-have east. “I talked to the generals and met regular undercurrents of resentment running through further aggravated the economic situa- soldiers, battalion commanders,” Poroshenko the armed forces. Others said the nomination tion. told the 49-year-old career military man in a tel- will also probably be cheered in Moscow Bosnia’s EU aspirations have been evised meeting. “These conversations con- because it boosted Poroshenko’s election put on hold by political deadlock since vinced me about the accuracy of my choice.” chances and diminished the threat of national- 2006 due to ethnic tensions. Poltorak’s confirmation hearing in parlia- ists who reject all talks with Russia from win- Politicians from the three major eth- ment is set for today. Poroshenko on Sunday ning the vote. nic groups have failed to agree on accepted the resignation of embattled defence “The Kremlin is watching these elections, reforms needed for membership in the chief Valeriy Geletey after only three controver- hoping that parliament is filled with people like 28-nation European bloc, leaving sy-filled months on the job. Poroshenko who are ready to work with Bosnia lagging behind its fellow Balkan Geletey was pilloried for the August loss of Moscow,” said Kiev military analyst Valentyn SARAJEVO: Bosnian election helpers count ballots that arrived by mail in Sarajevo, yesterday. countries. Ahead of the vote, the more than 100 soldiers trapped near the Badrak. Bosnia held a general election on Sunday, its seventh since the end of the 1992-95 inter-ethnic European Union said that Bosnians Russian border by separatist militias who went war in the country. The election will show whether people are more concerned about the 44- needed to pressure elected officials on to seize back lost territory with the alleged Confronting Putin and Lavrov into bringing “much-needed reconcilia- percent unemployment rate or still mired in wartime nationalist divisions. —AP support of Russian troops. His dismissal high- Poroshenko told the nation he was taking tion” and to “close the gap with rest of lighted a sense of failure that has enveloped decisive steps to end the country’s worst crisis the Croat HDZ BIH party had won seats points lower than in 2010 polls, reflect- the presidential campaign, preliminary the region and ensure progress towards the once-proud force as the six-month conflict since its 1991 independence and defend in the collective presidency. ing widespread disenchantment with results for the 42-seat national assem- the EU”. Now the election is over, the with the pro-Russian gunmen drags on and the Ukraine’s interests in the face of Russia’s The Serb seat remained undecided, what is seen as the country’s corrupt bly showed dominance by nationalist winners have their work cut out, the death toll from fighting approaches 3,400. “aggression” against its western neighbour. with two nationalist candidates-opposi- and inefficient political class. parties-the Muslim SDA and the Serb Sarajevo-based Dnevni Avaz daily com- The military’s performance has humiliated His message of strength and peace came as tion figure Mladen Ivanic and Zeljka Unemployment is running at 44 SNSD.
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