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ASEAN and Chinese Province Affirm Cooperation Agreement

Posted on November 12, 2008
On Nov. 6, 2008, the ASEAN Secretariat and the Hubei Province of the People’s Republic of China signed a Minutes of Meeting on Strengthening of Trade and Economic Cooperation. The Minutes of Meeting affirmed the two parties’ commitment to implement the Memorandum on Cooperation, which was signed by the Secretary-General of ASEAN and the Governor [...

Medvedev Redeploys Missiles to NATO Borders Hours After Obama?s Election

Posted on November 12, 2008
In a menacing speech broadcast live across Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev announced that he had ordered Russian missiles redeployed to the border of Poland last week. Medvedev’s remarks provoked concerns that Russia is reemerging as a threat to the U...

ASEAN Workshop on Domestic Violence Legislation

Posted on November 12, 2008
On October 20-21, 2008 the ASEAN Workshop on Domestic Violence Legislation was held in Hanoi, Vietnam in celebration of the country’s National Women’s Day. The workshop is one of the projects created under the Framework for Cooperation between ASEAN and the United Nations Fund For Women...

President-Elect Obama on International Law

Posted on November 12, 2008
Now that Americans have chosen the 44th President, international lawyers are beginning to scrutinize President-Elect Obama?s approach to foreign policy, and with that, how he perceives international law. During the Democratic primaries Obama was quizzed by the American Society of International Law, and he emphasized the importance of international law in the conduct of American foreign [...

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New ICJ Members Elected

Posted on November 10, 2008
The General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations voted last week to elect five new members to the International Court of Justice. The five judges haling from Jordan, France, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Somalia were affirmed for a nine-year term beginning in February 2009...

Ban Calls for Urgent Measures to End Congo Crisis

Posted on November 10, 2008
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon encouraged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring nations (namely, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and South Africa) to take ?urgent measures to contain the present crisis created by the upsurge of fighting in eastern DRC? at a UN-backed summit hosted by the African Union on November 7...

Central Asian Countries Seek to Improve Regional Business Climate

Posted on November 10, 2008
On November 4th and 5th, the Ministers of Economy and senior officials from seven Central Asian countries met for a conference hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)...

World Trade Slipped to 6% Growth in 2007

Posted on November 09, 2008
A World Trade Organization report published on November 5 has confirmed that growth in world merchandise trade slipped in 2007 to 6% from 8.5% in 2006. One of the primary causes of the slowdown is the reduction of import demand in the United States, Europe and Japan...

ICC has Jurisdiction over Crimes in the Kivus: ICC Prosecutor

Posted on November 08, 2008
On 4th November 2008, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo expressed concern over the situation in the Kivus area of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He further reiterated that his Office is closely monitoring the reports on the attacks on civilian populations in the area...

UN Secretary-General Responds to Escalating Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Posted on November 03, 2008
On Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an end to the violence in the North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The intensity of the conflict between Government forces (FARDC) and a militia group known as the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), led by former general Laurent Nkunda, has [...

Somalia?s Pirates Thrive Amidst Dismal Economic and Political Conditions

Posted on November 03, 2008
In late September, three speedboats, manned by Somali pirates hijacked a Ukrainian cargo ship loaded with tanks, ammunition, and other military supplies off the coast of Somalia. More than a month later, negotiations for the hostages and ship have not reached a conclusion...

Imprisoned Chinese Dissident Wins Sakharov Prize

Posted on November 01, 2008
Imprisoned Chinese dissident Hu Jia was awarded the European Parliament?s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on October 23, 2008, in a move some hope will lead to his release. Hu Jia, whose work has focused on bringing awareness to issues like AIDS, the environment, and the 1989 pro-democracy movement, was arrested in late 2007 [...

Network on Exchange of Information Expanded by New OECD Pacts

Posted on November 01, 2008
The British Virgin Islands, Guernsey and Jersey signed sixteen new bilateral tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) with various OECD countries. Since 2000 the OECD has been working with financial centers across the globe to sign TIEAs in order to increase the transparency and accountability of cross-border transactions...

United States Continues Support for U.N. Peacekeeping in Congo

Posted on October 31, 2008
Violence has broken out in Congo as forces loyal to former Congolese General Laurent Nkunda launch attacks on government troops. These rebel forces are believed to be preparing a strike on the city of Goma. Only ten months ago, rebel groups met in Goma to sign a peace agreement...

Albania, Croatia Move Closer to NATO Membership

Posted on October 31, 2008
On October 24 President Bush signed NATO accession protocols for Albania and Croatia, bringing the two nations one step closer to joining the organization. Senate ratification of the protocols and the presidential signature follows the extension of an official invitation to the two nations at NATO’s summit in Romania last April...

United States, Peru Announce Debt-for-Nature Agreement

Posted on October 31, 2008
A new agreement between Peru and the United States will forgive $25 million of Peru’s foreign debt in return for a commitment to pay for nature conservation. Under the agreement, Peru can redirect its debt payments from the United States to local funds set up to administer conservation grants to protect tropical rainforests in the [...

African Union Ministers Meeting to Discuss Impact of Financial Crisis

Posted on October 31, 2008
Dr. Maxwell Mkwezalamba, the African Union Commissioner for Economic Affairs, announced on October 29 that the African Union (AU) is organizing a conference with the African Development Bank in Tunis next month. Various AU ministers of finance and central bank governors will meet to discuss the impact of the global crisis on Africa and come up [...

Attacks on UN office in Somalia

Posted on October 30, 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks in Northern Somalia on October 29, 2008. These attacks included a suicide car bombing at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compound in Hargeisa which killed two UN staff and injured six others...

Lamy: Domestic Policies-Not Trade Protectionism- Solution for Financial Crisis

Posted on October 30, 2008
On 29 October, 2008, Pascal Lamy, the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in a lecture at the University of California, Berkley, emphasized the need for enhancing international trade under the WTO, particularly during the current international financial crisis...

ASEM Leaders Seek International Cooperation On Financial Crisis

Posted on October 28, 2008
At the seventh annual Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), leaders of European and Asian nations called for international participation in a global summit on the financial crisis. The summit is scheduled to take place on November 15 in Washington, DC. The 16 Asian and 27 EU leaders issued a joint statement saying that ?long-term stability of the global [...

European Court Annuls Iranian Fund Freeze Order

Posted on October 28, 2008
On October 23, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities annulled the December 2007 renewal of an order of the EU Council freezing the assets of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). The Court found that there was insufficient legal justification for the order...

Surge in Anti-Dumping Investigations (January - June 2008)

Posted on October 28, 2008
The WTO Secretariat reported a 39 percent increase in new anti-dumping investigations initiated during Janurary 1 to June 30, 2008 as compared to the 2007 corresponding period. 16 WTO Members initiated a total of 85 new investigations, 31 of which were by developed Members applying 13 of the 54 new final anti-dumping measures...

Serbia Wins Bid To Review Kosovo?s Indepedence

Posted on October 17, 2008
On Wednesday Serbia won a bid in the United Nations General Assembly to have the International Court of Justice review Kosovo’s recent declaration of independence. Serbia considers Kosovo to be a “breakaway province” which unilaterally declared independence and thus wants a ruling on the legality of the region’s actions...

Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 Awarded to International Mediator

Posted on October 16, 2008
Former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for his work as an international mediator in conflict resolution efforts around the globe. The Norwegian Nobel Committee particularly recognized Ahtisaari’s work in Namibia, Indonesia, Kosovo, and Iraq, praising his dedication to “peace and reconciliation” in those areas...

Former German President Criticizes ECJ

Posted on October 09, 2008
In an editorial published Wednesday by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, former German president Roman Herzog vehemently attacked the current state of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Herzog believes that the ECJ has lost the trust of the EU member states by its ?astonishing? rationales for interfering in national legal systems and member state competencies...

Congress Passes US-India Civil Nuclear Accord

Posted on October 09, 2008
The U.S. Congress passed legislation granting India access to nuclear technology on October 1. The move comes more than three decades after India tested its first nuclear weapon. On September 28, the bill passed in the House of Representatives. Shortly afterward, the Senate approved the measure by a vote of 86 to 13...

ASEAN Charter Approved in Bangkok

Posted on October 09, 2008
Thailand has joined eight other Asian countries in approving the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) Charter, a constitution establishing ASEAN as an international legal entity. The Thai Senate ratified the ASEAN charter in mid-September, sending the document to the King of Thailand for his signature...

More Peacekeepers Necessary in Congo

Posted on October 08, 2008
The top UN envoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has asked for an increase in the number of peacekeepers in the country (in addition to the 19,000 already there), expressing alarm about the renewal of hostilities in the eastern provinces...

US Ratifies Singapore Treaty on Trademarks

Posted on October 07, 2008
The United States ratified on October 1 the Singapore Treaty on the Law on Trademarks. The Singapore Treaty, concluded under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in March 2006, marks international efforts to update the 1994 Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) in light of changing trademark practices...

ECHR Upholds Turkey?s 10% Threshold in Elections

Posted on October 06, 2008
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on July 8 in the case of Yumak & Sadak v. Turkey. The case was brought by the plaintiffs after they lost in Turkey’s recent parliamentary elections. Although eighteen parties participated in the elections, only two were able to garner enough [...

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