Serbia does not want the issue of Kosovo to block its EU path, we want to provide permanent peace, says Head of the Serbian negotiating team Borko Stefanović.
He told daily Blic that Belgrade wanted to harmonize its national interest and what Brussels saw as possible solutions through direct negotiations with Priština.
As the anti-government protests rage on in Egypt, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan reminisces about his stay in the beautiful country of pyramids and hopes it “all comes to an end soon and in peace”. “I see incredible scenes of violence and disruption on television about what is happening in Egypt and in particular in Cairo [...]
We’re not sure if Jessica Simpson has started working on her wedding vows, but we can only hope they’re as animated as her Tweets! Some of us “Thank the Angels” for food, shelter, Vodka (Don’t you dare judge me!), and World Peace….Jessica, on the other hand, is thankful for ass — particularly the quarter-bouncer attached [...]
In Tunisia the delicate peace on the streets of the capital has been shattered by sporadic shooting during Sunday, reports euronews. Special forces fought a heavy gun battle with members of the ousted president’s security force at the presidential palace.
Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej wished the Serbian citizens peace, unity and love and fewer worries in the New Year.
“I wish what we all need, which is peace, harmony and unity of our homeland, with a hope that it will reach a safe port,†Irinej said in his New Year message.
A European defence giant heals wounds and looks ahead
LOUIS GALLOIS, the chief executive of EADS, seems to have been doing his best to make the company boring. In many respects he has succeeded, presiding over a period of uncustomary managerial calm at the European aerospace and defence firm. This is some feat: until recently EADS seemed perpetually at risk of being torn apart by the Franco-German rivalries that had persisted from its creation, in a pan-European merger, in 2000.
Although Mr Gallois has brought calm to the management suite, the firm had a lively end to 2010. Airbus, EADS’s civil-aviation arm, hit the news in November after a Rolls-Royce engine on a Qantas A380 superjumbo exploded in mid-flight. Rolls-Royce’s modifications of similar engines will continue to affect Airbus’s deliveries of A380s in 2011. In the same month an extraordinary error by the Pentagon saw EADS and Boeing, rivals for a $35 billion tanker contract from the United States Air Force, being sent confidential details of each other’s bids. In December two Airbus executives were charged in connection with a long-running insider-dealing investigation by French authorities. …
Bollywood stars are high on Christmas spirit. A string of actors has wished their friends and fans happiness and peace on the occasion and good luck for 2011. Actors Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan and Konkona Sen Sharma wished a simple Merry Christmas, while others posted elaborate messages on the social networking site Twitter. Here’s what [...]
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have recreated the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet of “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy” for FunnyOrDie.com.
The Nobel Committee has formally awarded jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo its 2010 Peace Prize in absentia, RFE/RL reports. “Liu has only exercised his civil rights. He has not done anything wrong. He must be released,” Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in a speech before placing the award, embossed with Liu’s initials, on an empty chair on the podium to highlight his absence from the ceremony.
Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Wei Jinghua says that China “highly appreciates†Serbia’s decision not to attend Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Liu Xiaobo.
“Serbian people know that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese dissident has nothing to do with peace,†he pointed out.
Funny guys Jason Segel and Jack Black have added a rock edge to “Little Drummer Boy” this holiday season. This song is the actors’ rendition of the 1977 classic, which was originally performed in a duet by David Bowie and Bing Crosby. The Gulliver’s Travels co-stars teamed up to rework the classic Christmas carol into [...]
Wikileaks head Julian Assange told Forbes that the next leak will be regarding a major American bank. He said that Wikileaks plans to release the documents early next year.Assange told Computer World in October 2009:”At the moment, for example, we ar…
A referendum can seal a peace deal. Or shatter it
WOULD a referendum help or hinder a peace deal between Palestinians and Israelis? On October 10th a ministerial committee, responding to pressure from hawkish Israelis, approved a bill mandating such a vote. By approving it, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, was sending a signal to hardliners that land would not be ceded without consent. But doveish types moaned that he was erecting new obstacles to a settlement, perhaps deliberately. Real diehards grumbled that a ballot might be a trick to bypass them.
That has sparked interest in the role of referendums in disputed territories. A web page on the subject maintained by Queen’s University Belfast, reported a surge of Middle Eastern visitors. They will not have found a clear answer: such polls may be a landmark on the road to peace or a roadblock. The keys are the timing, the question and the electorate. …
Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej called on all people to refrain from violence so that the peace may reign again the Belgrade streets. Bishop Atanasije, vicar of Patriarch Irinej, conveyed the message.
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to the Chinese political dissident and human rights campaigner Liu Xiabao. The 55-year-old was among the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Last year he was arrested and jailed for 11 years while collecting signatures for his pro-democracy charter.
A senior Israeli official is ruffling feathers with a controversial proposal for the current peace talks with the Palestinians, VOA reports. Israel’s hawkish Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has rejected the traditional formula of trading land for peace, which has defined the peace process for two decades.
The urge for peace is built into India”s psyche and its civilization. An Indian can be heard at any time to be reciting Om Shanti Shanti, as though peace would descend on this troubled planet by the recitation of shlokas. Nevertheless this is what every Indian desires. It is this Indian urge for peace that [...]
The Middle East peace talks move to Jerusalem today, with Israeli and Palestinian leaders still claiming they can reach a deal in the next twelve months. They spent the first day at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt working on the agenda, which includes borders and security as part of a two-state solution.
Renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are opening in Egypt, amid concern over the imminent expiry of Israel’s partial ban on West Bank settlement-building. Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas will each meet Hillary Clinton in Sharm el-Sheikh before a three-way meeting.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – President Asif Ali Zardari has condemned as “despicable” a US church’s plan to burn the Holy Quran on September 11, saying it could inflame Muslim sentiment across the world, a statement from his office said Thursday.
President Zardari said “anyone who even thought of such a despicable act must be suffering from a diseased mind and a sickly soul,” according to the statement.
“It will inflame sentiments among Muslims throughout the world and cause irreparable damage to interfaith harmony and also to world peace,” the statement quoted Zardari as saying.
“The President called for doing all that it takes to stop such a senseless and outrageous act,” the statement added.
Foreign Ministry has also spoken out against the plan.
“Pakistan strongly condemns and denounces the planned shameful burning of 200 copies of the Holy Quran by a small Florida Church on September 11,” foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit told a press briefing in Islamabad.
“The government and the people of Pakistan including Christians, are outraged at this planned act by a self-proclaimed pastor,” he said.
Basit urged believers of all faiths to “strongly condemn this fanatic approach and oppose those, who in the name of freedom and liberty, are resorting to bigotry and undermining the work that has been done towards promoting interfaith harmony since 9/11”.
In Multan, the demonstrators burned the American flag to express their anger and held placards that read: “Down with America” and “Blasphemy Unacceptable”.
