ဂရိအစိုးရသည် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ ရွှေ့ပြောင်းဒုက္ခသည်များအပေါ် ထောက်ပံ့သည့် ငွေကြေးအကူအညီများအား စီမံခန့်ခွဲသွားမည်ဆိုခြင်း

 

Greekcitytimes; Oct-1(Fri)

              ဂရိအစိုးရအနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံအတွင်းရှိ နိုင်ငံရေးခိုလှုံခွင့်တောင်းခံသူများအပေါ် ထောက်ပံ့ပေးသည့် ငွေကြေးအကူအညီများနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ အောက်တိုဘာလ ၁ ရက်မှ စတင်၍ စီမံခန့်ခွဲသွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ကုလသမဂ္ဂဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာ မဟာမင်းကြီးရုံး (UNHCR) က စက်တင်ဘာလ ၃၀ ရက်တွင်‌ကြေညာခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ် နွေဦး ကာလမှစ၍ ဥရောပသမဂ္ဂမှတစ်ဆင့် ဂရိနိုင်ငံအတွင်းသို့ဝင်ရောက်လာသည့် နိုင်ငံရေး ခိုလှုံခွင့်တောင်းခံသူ ၂၀၀,၀၀၀ ကျော်အား ငွေကြေးအထောက်အပံ့များပေးအပ်ခဲ့ပြီး ဖြစ်ကြောင်း UNHCR ၏ ကြေညာချက်တွင်ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။ အဆိုပါဆောင်ရွက်ချက် သည် ပေါင်းစည်းရေးနှင့်တည်းခိုနေထိုင်ရေးဆိုင်ရာအရေးပေါ်ထောက်ပံ့မှု (Emergency Support to Integration and Accommodation-ESTIA) အစီအစဉ်၏ တစ်စိတ်တစ်ပိုင်း လည်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။ အဆိုပါအစီအစဉ်အား ၂၀၁၈ ခုနှစ်တွင်စတင်ခဲ့ပြီး နေစရာနေရာ များနှင့် ငွေကြေးထောက်ပံ့မှုအစိတ်အပိုင်းနှစ်ရပ်ပါဝင်ပါသည်။ UNHCR သည် ESTIA အစီအစဉ်အား ဂရိနိုင်ငံနှင့် ၄ နှစ်ကြာ ပူးတွဲစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုများပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပြီးနောက် ၂၀၂၀ ပြည့်နှစ်တွင် ဂရိနိုင်ငံသို့ လွှဲပြောင်းပေးအပ်ခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။

              ငွေကြေးထောက်ပံ့မှုအကူအညီများသည် ရွှေ့ပြောင်းဒုက္ခသည်များအပေါ် လိုအပ်သည့်ထောက်ပံ့မှုများဖြစ်စေသည့်အတွက် ဒုက္ခသည်များအနေဖြင့် အကူအညီ များအား ဆက်လက်လက်ခံသွားရန်လိုအပ်ကြောင်းနှင့် အဆိုပါအသွင်ကူပြောင်းရေး ကာလ၏ အစီအစဉ်သစ်များအကြောင်းကိုလည်း ဂရိအစိုးရအနေဖြင့် အသိပေးသွားရန် အရေးကြီးကြောင်း ဂရိနိုင်ငံ၏ UNHCR ကိုယ်စားလှယ် မီရီလီဂီရက်ဒ် (Mireille Girard) က ပြောကြားခဲ့ပါသည်။ အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေးကာလသည် ရွှေ့ပြောင်းနေထိုင်မှု ပြဿနာကို အပြည့်အဝထိန်းချုပ်ရန်အတွက် အစိုးရ၏အစီအစဉ်တစ်စိတ်တစ်ပိုင်း ဖြစ်သည့်အပြင် သိသာထင်ရှားသည့် ခြေလှမ်းတစ်ရပ်လည်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း ရွှေ့ပြောင်း နေထိုင်မှုနှင့်ခိုလှုံရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ UNHCR ၏ ပူးပေါင်းပါဝင်မှု နှင့် ဥရောပကော်မရှင်၏ ရန်ပုံငွေထောက်ပံ့ပေးမှုများကိုလည်း ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိကြောင်း ဂီရက်ဒ်က ပြောကြားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ငွေကြေးထောက်ပံ့မှုအကူအညီများအား အစိုးရ၏ ရွှေ့ပြောင်းဒုက္ခသည်လက်ခံသည့်နေရာများ၊ အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊ ဥပဒေ ရေးရာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊ ဒေသန္တရဆိုင်ရာအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးအေဂျင်စီများနှင့် မှတ်ပုံတင် ထားသော အကျိုးအမြတ်မယူသည့်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအား အထောက်အပံ့များပေးအပ် သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။

တူရကီနှင့် အမေရိကန်ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးတို့သည် တယ်လီဖုန်းမှတစ်ဆင့်ဆွေးနွေးမှုပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ခြင်း

   တူရကီကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီး ဟူလူဆီအကာ (Hulusi Akar) နှင့် အမေရိကန် ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီး လွိုက်အော်စတင် (Lloyd  Austin) တို့သည် အောက်တိုဘာလ               ၁ ရက်တွင် တယ်လီဖုန်းမှတစ်ဆင့် ဆွေးနွေးမှုတစ်ရပ် ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အဆိုပါ ဆွေးနွေးမှုအတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက်မှုနှိမ်နင်းရေး၊ ဒေသတွင်းကိစ္စရပ်များအပါအဝင် နှစ်နိုင်ငံဆက်ဆံရေး တိုးမြှင့်ရေးနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြကြောင်း အမေရိကန် ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံအနေဖြင့် တူရကီနှင့် ကာကွယ်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဆက်ဆံရေးများအပေါ် အလွန်အလေးအနက်ထားကြောင်းလည်း အော်စတင်က ပြောကြားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထို့ပြင် နှစ်နိုင်ငံအကြား ပိုမိုနီးကပ်သော ပူးပေါင်း ဆောင်ရွက်မှုနှင့် ညှိနှိုင်းဆွေးနွေးမှုများမှတစ်ဆင့် ဆက်ဆံရေး ပိုမိုအားကောင်းလာ စေရန် ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ၎င်းတို့ ၂ ဦးက အဆိုပါတွေ့ဆုံမှုအတွင်း ထည့်သွင်းဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြသည်ဟု သိရှိရပါသည်။

ရုရှားနှင့် တူရကီတို့သည် နျူကလီးယားဓါတ်အာပေးစက်ရုံတည်ဆောက်ရေအပါအဝင်ဆွေးနွေးမှုများပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ခြင်း

 ရုရှားသမ္မတ ဗလာဒီမာပူတင် (Vladimir Putin) နှင့် တူရကီသမ္မတ ရီဆက် တေရစ်အာဒိုဂန် (Recep Tayyip Erdogan) တို့သည် ရုရှားနိုင်ငံ၊ ဆိုချီ (Sochi) မြို့တွင် တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးမှုများပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ရုရှားအစိုးရ၏ပြောရေးဆိုခွင့်ရှိသူ ဒီမီထရီပက်ကော့ဗ် (Dmitry Peskov) က အောက်တိုဘာလ ၁ ရက်တွင် ပြောကြား ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အဆိုပါ တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးမှုအတွင်း တူရကီနိုင်ငံ၏ တောင်ဘက်တွင် ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည့် နျူကလီးယားစွမ်းအင်သုံးဓာတ်အားပေးစက်ရုံကိစ္စရပ်များ အပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ်နျူကလီးယားဓာတ်အားပေးစက်ရုံ ၂ ခု တည်ဆောက်မှုဆိုင်ရာ ကိစ္စရပ်များအား ဆွေးနွေးမှုများပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ကြပါသည်။ ၎င်းအပြင် ရုရှားနိုင်ငံမှ ရင်းနှီး မြှုပ်နှံသူများသည် တူရကီနိုင်ငံ၏ မာဆင် (Mersin) စီရင်စုတွင် အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၂၀ ဘီလီယံတန်ဖိုးရှိ ၄.၈ ဂဂ္ဂါဝပ် ထုတ်လုပ်နိုင်သည့် နျူကလီးယားဓာတ်အားပေး စက်ရုံတည်ဆောက်ရေးအတွက် ရန်ပုံငွေထောက်ပံ့မှုများ ပြုလုပ်ထားရှိပြီးဖြစ်ကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။

Serbia, Kosovo reach deal after license plate dispute enters 2nd week

 
01.10.2021

The European Union announced Thursday that Serbia and Kosovo had reached a deal to deescalate border tensions over a dispute involving license plates which had entered its second week. 

The agreement followed two days of talks between Serbian and Kosovar officials mediated by the EU, according to Miroslav Lajcak, the EU's Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue.

“After two days of intense negotiations, an agreement on de-escalation and the way forward has just been reached,'' said Lajcak. 

According to the text of the three-point agreement shared by Lajcak on social media, Kosovar special police units that were deployed to the Jarinje and Bernjak border crossings will be withdrawn simultaneously beginning Oct. 2.

Prior to the withdrawal, the NATO-led international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, known as KFOR, will be deployed at the two border crossings. KFOR will be stationed there for about two weeks to ensure a safe environment and movement.

In addition, from Oct. 4, stickers will be placed over each country’s insignia on number plates at border crossings to cover them up as a temporary measure until a permanent solution is found.

In order to find a permanent solution to the license plate issue in line with EU standards and practices, a working group will be formed under the EU presidency involving Kosovar and Serbian officials.

The working group will hold its first meeting in Brussels on Oct. 21 and present its initial findings for a permanent solution in a report within six months.

The dispute arose on Sept. 20, when authorities in Kosovo began barring vehicles with Serbian license plates from entering its territory.

Since then, authorities had been requiring the owners of the vehicles to obtain temporary Kosovo plates.

Kosovo’s Interior Ministry pointed out that a free traffic circulation agreement signed between the two countries in 2016 had expired on Sept. 15.

Under the new regulation, motorists with Serbian plates were required to pay five euros (around $6) for temporary printed license plates which were valid for 60 days.

The temporary plates were placed on the windshields and rear windows of the vehicles, while the original license plates were covered.

Serbs in northern Kosovo reject the government in Pristina and opposed having to use a “Republic of Kosovo” license plate.

Meanwhile, Kosovo Serbs protesting and blocking roads leading to the Jarinje and Bernjak border crossings escalated the already ongoing tensions in the region.

Kosovo then deployed its special police units to the border, while Serbia flew fighter planes in the area in a show of strength.

The tense relations have grown worse since the ethnic Albanian-led government in Kosovo dispatched police units to an area mainly populated by minority ethnic Serbs.

The EU and NATO also called for de-escalation regarding the latest crisis.

Kosovo's "license plate" decision

Following the Kosovar Interior Ministry’s decision on Sept. 20 on the issuance of the temporary Kosovo plates, the ministry reported that on Sept. 25, the vehicle registration center in Zubin Potok in the north of the country was set on fire by unknown individuals.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti targeted Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic over the incident.

A visit by the Russian Ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, to Serbian military units on the Kosovo border the next day also received attention in Kosovo.

Serbia reacted very harshly to Kosovo's license plate decision.

Deploying the country's army on the border with Kosovo, President Vucic pointed out that the army did not enter Kosovo and were only in the region to be prepared.

"We will not enter with our troops. We do not want to harm peace in any way. Peace is what we need most,'' he said.

Protest by Kosovo Serbs

The road to the Jarinje and Bernjak border crossings on the Serbian border in northern Kosovo continued to be blocked by barricades set up by Kosovo Serb protesters.

The stationing of Kosovo special police units and the Serbian army at the borders also continued.

The situation remained calm at the border crossings guarded by Kosovo police as KFOR increased the duration and number of patrols in the region.

NATO and EU call for de-escalation

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who met with the leaders of the two countries, said the tensions in the north of Kosovo should be reduced.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who visited Kosovo, also said that it is very important to reduce the tensions.

Dialogue with Serbia

In 2011, the EU initiated a dialogue process to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia. However, the process was interrupted by tensions over the last few years.

The former Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence on Feb. 17, 2008 and is recognized by more than 100 countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany and Turkey.

Belgrade continues to see Kosovo as its own territory.

Serbia, Russia and China are among the countries which have yet to recognize Kosovo’s independence.

Serbia, Kosovo reach deal after license plate dispute enters 2nd week (aa.com.tr)

Turkey's Erdoğan criticizes Biden, asks for money back on F-35

 1.10.2021

Fresh off his first visit with Vladimir Putin in over a year, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused a top Biden official of "supporting terrorism" and demanded the U.S. pay $1.4 billion for kicking Turkey out of a stealth fighter jet program.

Why it matters: Erdoğan's belligerence and deepening cooperation with Russia is sending a key U.S. relationship in the wrong direction, serving up yet another foreign policy headache for President Biden.

Driving the news: Speaking to reporters on his way back from Sochi, Erdoğan condemned Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa and former anti-ISIS envoy, for allying the U.S. with Kurdish militias in Syria that Turkey considers a top threat to national security.

• Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has said that U.S. support for the YPG, the Syrian wing of the Kurdish separatist movement and terrorist group PKK, is the biggest challenge facing the bilateral relationship.

For the U.S., a far more pressing issue is Erdoğan's purchase of Russia's S-400 missile defense system, a move that triggered sanctions and Turkey's removal from a program that develops F-35 fighter jets.

• "We made a $1.4 billion payment, what will become of that?" Erdoğan told reporters. "We did not — and do not — earn this money easily. Either they will give us our planes or they will give us the money."

How we got here: Biden's relationship with Erdoğan began with a "cold shoulder" period, says Aykan Erdemir, a former Turkish member of parliament now at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

• The incoming administration was critical of Turkey's human rights abuses, and it took until April for Biden to speak to Erdoğan — a courtesy phone call that the president delivered one day before he formally recognized the Armenian genocide, enraging Turkey.
• The relationship between Erdoğan and the past two U.S. presidents has gone "from one extreme to the other" says Sinan Ülgen, a former Turkish diplomat and visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. The Biden administration has been "aloof" in its engagement with Turkey, while Erdoğan enjoyed a close personal relationship with President Trump.
• Biden's strategy can explained both by his desire to pivot to the Indo-Pacific and to avoid cozying up to a man he called an "autocrat" during the 2020 presidential campaign.

Relations improved after Biden met with Erdoğan at the NATO summit in June, with the administration muting its criticism as it sought Turkey's cooperation on securing Kabul's airport.

• But Biden's refusal to meet with Erdoğan at the UN General Assembly last week — denying the image-conscious strongman a photo op — prompted a new outburst.
• "In my 19-year-long life as a ruler as prime minister and president, the point we arrived in our relations with the U.S. is not good,” Erdoğan told reporters Wednesday. "I have worked well with Bush Jr., with Mr. Obama, with Mr. Trump, but I can’t say we have a good start with Mr. Biden."

The big picture: A meeting next month at the G20 summit in Rome could help patch things up.

• But the long-term trend remains entrenched and troubling for the U.S. — Turkey is drifting from NATO and deepening its military and industrial cooperation with Russia, giving the Kremlin more opportunities to use Turkey as a "spoiler" within the Western alliance, Erdemir says.
•  သတင်းလင့် Turkey's Erdoğan criticizes Biden, asks for money back on F-35 - Axios

US hits out at Turkey after Erdogan doubles down on threats, criticism

 01 October ,2021

The US hit out at Ankara Thursday after the latest rant from Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erodgan, who has been criticizing Washington and accusing it of supporting terrorism for the last several days.

Washington said they had seen the reports and comments from Erdogan, a State Department spokesperson told Al Hurra on Thursday.

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But the US has warned Turkey “at all levels” not to keep the S-400 system and to refrain from any further purchases, the official was quoted as saying.

The official also said new sanctions would be imposed for more purchases.

Last week, Erdogan was quoted as saying that his country would purchase more Russian weapons and accused the US of supporting terrorists. He also said ties with the Biden administration had “not start off right.”

Asked about his comments, a State Department official told Al Arabiya English last week that the US considered Turkey “to be an ally and friend.”

“Even when we disagree, we seek opportunities to strengthen our longstanding bilateral partnership,” the official, speaking on background, said.

And this week, Erdogan doubled down on his criticism of Washington during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After meeting Putin in Sochi, Erdogan said Turkey was looking to increase its defense relationship with Russia, adding that he would not back down from buying the S-400 missile defense system.

The Russian-made S-400s are deemed incompatible with NATO’s partners.

Erdogan also hinted at the possibility of buying ships and submarines from Russia.

Nevertheless, Erdogan and US President Joe Biden are expected to meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit next month. The Turkish president said he would raise the issue of the F-35 jets it purchased but was subsequently kicked out of due to its purchase of the S-400s and US sanctions.

Separately, Biden’s nominee to become the next ambassador to Turkey warned Ankara against more purchases of Russian weapons.

“I will also warn Turkey that any future purchase of Russian weapons risks triggering further CAATSA sanctions in addition to those already imposed,” Jeff Flake said during a testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

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Poland illegally pushed migrants back into Belarus: Amnesty

 

Poland in late August illegally turned back Afghan refugees who were stranded on the border with Belarus, the rights organization Amnesty International said on Thursday, citing an analysis of satellite imagery and other photos and videos.

A group of 32 refugees, including a 15-year-old girl, are stuck in precarious conditions on the Belarusian side of the border, with no access to food, clean water, shelter or medicine, Amnesty said.

The director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, Eve Geddie, said the organization has evidence "strongly suggesting" that the Afghan refugees "were victims of an unlawful forced return."

Imagery indicates forced deportation

Satellite imagery from August 18 indicates the movement of the migrants from Polish territory back into Belarusian territory, Amnesty said.

Poland has sealed off the 418-kilometer border and declared a state of emergency, officially banning journalists and aid organizations from entering.

According to Amnesty, the migrants fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took power then crossed the Polish-Belarusian border in August. Polish border guards then reportedly brought them back to Belarus.

"Our analysis irrefutably shows that their position shifted overnight from Poland to Belarus on August 18," Geddie said. Since the movement apparently took place as armed Polish border guards surrounded the refugees' makeshift camp, Amnesty has assumed forced repatriation.

"Forcing people back who are trying to claim asylum without an individual assessment of their protection needs is against European and international law," Geddie said.

Among the thousands of migrants who have crossed into Poland since July, more than 30 have been trapped on the precipice of the Polish and Belarusian border since mid-August.

Amnesty's finding was published ahead of a meeting in Warsaw on Thursday between European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson and Polish Interior Minister Marius Kaminski to discuss the situation along Poland's border with Belarus.

The human rights group called on Poland to provide the migrants with shelter, food and water, as well as access to lawyers and medical care.

Poland's state of emergency along the border is expected to be extended by another 60 days starting Thursday.

Poland illegally pushed migrants back into Belarus: Amnesty (msn.com)

EU should accelerate accession of Western Balkans, Greek and Slovak leaders agree

 

ATHENS, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his visiting Slovak counterpart Eduard Heger called for the acceleration of the Western Balkan countries' European Union (EU) accession process during their meeting here on Thursday.

"We agreed that the accession process ... must be accelerated in order to prevent the Western Balkans from becoming a hotbed of new problems. The Balkan Peninsula is European, therefore its future passes only through Europe," Mitsotakis said in a joint statement to the press, quoted by the Greek national broadcaster ERT.

The meeting was held ahead of the upcoming EU-Western Balkans summit to be held in Slovenia next week, which according to its agenda will explore ways to strengthen cooperation on political and security matters and help the region's socio-economic recovery in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Security in the wider region, which includes the eastern Mediterranean Sea, is a key precondition to economic growth after the pandemic, Mitsotakis stressed.

The two leaders also discussed the migration crisis in the light of recent developments in Afghanistan and the challenges of climate change.

Slovakia is ready to help Greece by sharing know-how and experience in reforestation, Heger said, expressing solidarity with Greece over this summer's destructive wildfires, which scorched forested areas and farmland.

"We will all benefit if we face the challenges together," he stressed.

EU should accelerate accession of Western Balkans, Greek and Slovak leaders agree - Xinhua (news.cn)