Full Coverage: International Cooperation

03/30/2007 "In the last 10 years, Albania has made impressive progress, and the tasks and work of the OSCE Presence have substantially evolved as well," said Ambassador Pavel Vacek, the Head of Presence on Tuesday March 27 in 10th anniversary of OSCE Presence in Albania.

03/29/2007 Prezenca e OSBE-së në Shqipëri u krijua në bazë të një vendimi të Këshillit të Përhershëm të OSBE-së, më 27 mars 1997, në përgjigje të mosfunksionimit të ligjit dhe rendit publik në vend. Gjatë asaj periudhe, Prezenca u përqendrua në ofrimin e këshillimit dhe ndihmesës për kapërcimin e pasojave të kolapsit të fuqisë së shtetit, monitorimin e çështjeve të sigurisë, të të drejtave të njeriut, përgatitjen dhe vëzhgimin e zgjedhjeve dhe çështjet e demokratizimit.

03/29/2007 Kesäkuussa pidettävässä G8-kokouksessa keskitytään muun muassa Afrikan mikroluottotilanteen kohentamiseen, aids-työn lisärahoitukseen sekä ilmastonmuutokseen kehitysmaissa.

03/27/2007 The citizens of Macedonia in need of information about processes in the European Union and Macedonian accession can get the required information at the newly established MK-EU Centre, opened yesterday in Skopje.

03/27/2007 Struga, Macedonia, hosted 36 young people from four countries, March 16-25, 2007, who discussed the equal rights and opportunities and active participation of youth in civil society.

03/27/2007 Kehitysyhteistyön osuus Suomen bruttokansantulosta vuonna 2006 on ennakkotietojen mukaan 0,39 prosenttia. Suunniteltua 0,42:ta pienempi prosenttiosuus johtuu Suomen ennakoitua vahvemmasta bruttokansantulon kehityksestä. Suomen kehitysapu kokonaisuudessaan oli 659 miljoonaa euroa.

03/26/2007 Declaración del Comité Ejecutivo Regional (CER) de la Asamblea de los Pueblos del Caribe (APC) y de Grito de los/las Excluidos/das Caribe, el 17 de marzo 2007 en Santo Domingo, sobre la decisión del BID de cancelar la deuda externa de 5 países : Haití, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guyana y Bolivia

03/23/2007 China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and the European Union will attend as observers the 14th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in New Delhi on April 3 and 4.

03/23/2007 Provoked by the recent statements by the Speaker of the Sabor (Croatian Parliament) and the Prime Minister that the Government doesn’t plan to call for a referendum on Croatian entry into the NATO alliance, as well as the general communication strategy adopted by the Government on that issue, the Peace Studies Centre and Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights Centre from Osijek prepared an open letter to Croatian political leadership.

03/22/2007 Povodom nedavne izjave predsjednika Sabora i predsjednika Vlade kako Vlada ne namjerava raspisati referendum o ulasku Hrvatske u NATO savez kao i ukupne komunikacijske strategije Vlade za ulazak u taj savez, Centar za mirovne studije i Centar za mir, nenasilje i ljudska prava, Osijek pripremili su otvoreno pismo koje je upućeno hrvatskom političkom vrhu. Pismo su potpisale 33 nevladine organizacije iz cijele Hrvatske

03/22/2007 Anyone who knows even a little bit about school education in India knows that it is largely about exclusion. Only a tiny minority of children in our country get anything resembling a decent schooling - the rest are either excluded altogether, or provided very poor quality education with weak infrastructure and inadequate pedagogic attention, which in turn encourages high rates of dropout.

03/21/2007 Sunnuntaina 18.3. valitut kansanedustajat lupailevat kehitysmaille hyvää, mikäli globaalikysymyksiin keskittyneen vaalikoneen vastauksiin on uskominen.

03/21/2007 The new free trade agreements being signed up between rich and poor countries are proving far more damaging to the poor than anything envisaged within WTO talks, Oxfam said in a report

03/21/2007 Remittances – money sent home by immigrant workers abroad – are hugely beneficial to many countries across the world.India is the world’s top receiver of remittances. Flows into the country have grown dramatically in recent years, touching US$ 17.4 billion in 2003, up from some US$2 billion a year in the late 1980s.

03/21/2007 India has been remarkably successful in boosting economic growth: its economy has grown at about 6 percent per annum since the 1990s, with growth accelerating to 9 percent over the past two years. Absolute poverty has been cut in half, and the country seems set to achieve middle income status soon.

03/20/2007 “Our Future – European Integration” (OFEI) is an exchange programme and a network of young people from Kosovo, Serbia and The Netherlands.

03/20/2007 OWSA is organisin a half-day consultation on Climate Change that is being held in our premises on the 23rd March, 2007. The consultation is intended to facilitate deliberations on the topic - Climate Change: Where are we and where do we go?

03/20/2007 Nandigram in West Bengal has emerged as the lightning rod for criticism of the government’s economic policies. While previous clashes here over the proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have killed at least seven people including a policeman, the events of March 14 put a halt to the West Bengal government’s industrialisation bid and has forced a re-think at the national level.

03/19/2007 “Lo que estamos haciendo hoy, construyendo un mercado, es importante en sí, pero a mi me interesa mucho más como paso concreto y práctico hacia una nueva relación entre las dos naciones de esta isla de Quisqueya”, alegó el embajador de la Comisión Europea en nuestro país.

03/19/2007 Kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöt ovat koonneet keskuudestaan työryhmän, joka pohtii järjestöjen pienhankkeiden hallinnoinnin ulkoistamista ulkoministeriöstä. Työryhmä selvittää, sopisiko ulkoistaminen Kepalle tai jollekin muulle järjestöjä edustavalle taholle.