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The chief Palestinian national administration Mahmoud Abbas has informed that the Palestinian fractions “on 99 %” have solved the questions connected with formation of the national unity government, but the cabinet formation will be declared not earlier than in a week.
After the next round of coalition negotiations with Prime Minister Ismail Hania, Mahmoud Abbas has told to journalists that they have solved 99 % of the questions connected with formation of the national unity government.
As it has become known, the parties have practically coordinated a nominee of new Minister of Internal Affairs, having eliminated the basic obstacle in a way of coalition government creation.
According to this data, the post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be most likely offered to the general Jamal Abu Zayed, who is considered as an independent candidate who has been connected neither with Fatah movement, nor with Islamites from Hamas structure.
The interPalestinian arrangements leave for Hamas the right to choose the chapter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from among independent applicants, but force Islamites to coordinate the personnel decision with a management of Fatah movement.
One month ago at negotiations in Saudi Arabia Fatah and Hamas have agreed about the termination of intestine collisions and creation of the government of national unity instead of a one-party cabinet of Islamites.
In the middle of February Mahmoud Abbas has accepted resignation of Hania and has charged him to generate the new government. According to the legislation, Hania has only five weeks to cope with this task and the deadline expires on March, 21st.

On Thursday at the IAEA Vein board meeting the decision on toughening sanctions against Iran was accepted.
In particular, the western countries are measured to stop rendering the technical assistance to Iran. For example, this can be supply by new technologies. Such radical measures have been accepted in reply to Teheran’s refusal to curtail work on uranium enrichment.
As BBC, referring to the IAEA representatives, informs, the majority of the IAEA commission members have voted for freezing 22 of 55 projects on rendering assistance to Iran.
The United States and France which supervise the IAEA scale programs on rendering assistance to the different countries, demanded acceptance of even more rigid sanctions against Iran.
The countries of non-alignment Movement, to which Iran also belongs, have made the protest against the IAEA’s decision. They are afraid, that the decision concerning Iran can adversely be reflected in their own mutual relations with IAEA, whose programs of the help are necessary for maintenance of developing economics.
The IAEA Programs, which have now appeared, are inaccessible to Iran, meaning the help to the country in development of technologies on fuel manufacture.
The Iranian authorities have condemned the IAEA’s decision. In their opinion, the UN Security Council has impartiality affected on the IAEA’s experts.
As the diplomatic representative of Iran has declared, that Iranian nuclear program has nothing common with creation of the nuclear weapon and its development will be continued despite of any obstacles.
On Wednesday the European Union has called Iran to accept the IAEA’s requirements, having promised, that if it will do this, all sanctions against Iran, supported the EU, will be immediately cancelled.
For all 50-years history of the IAEA’s existence only two countries (Northern Korea and Iraq) were exposed to rigid sanctions from this organization because of similar fears.
 

Recently it has become known from the three-year investigation of one of the most influential banks in the Near East activity, that the Saudi businessmen transferred tens millions dollars to Hamas, “Islamic Jihad ” and other Palestinian groupings which used a part of money for the organization of acts of terrorism against the Israeli citizens.
Los Angeles Times informs that the Ministry of Justice of the USA has begun investigation against the New York branch of bank, which checks bank’s communications with the Palestinian groupings in autonomy. The bank is suspected in financing an infrastructure of terror and services of terrorists-condemned men who arranged acts of terrorism in Israel.
The American and Israeli families, whose relatives were killed in result of acts of terrorism, have submitted the claim of several millions dollars against the bank. It is told in the claim that the bank translated 5,300 dollars to each family of the terrorist-condemned man involved in acts of terrorism against the Israeli purposes.
The bank’s management denies participation in financing terror. It is also spoken in the official application that money was forwarded on humanitarian needs and economic support of inhabitants of the Palestinian autonomy.
However in 2005 the bank has agreed to pay 24 million dollars of the penalty for infringement of antiterrorist laws to the federal government as it could not represent the report on suspicious transactions.

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called Hamas movement to continue resistance to Israel. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made such application today at meeting with Hamas Political bureau chairman Haled Mashaal, who came to the Iranian capital, is with two-day business trip. The Iranian executive authority chief has emphasized that the Zionist mode has its ”hard time” today and that it is close to disappearance.
He has also specified the necessity of the Palestinian government support by the Islamic countries. It was also noted that supporting the national government of Palestine, the Islamic states can play the important role in opposition of this government to Israel and destruction of intrigues of enemies of an Islam. The Iranian President has expressed confidence that the result of humiliated Palestinian people resistance will soon become obvious. Supporting the elected government, Palestinian people create a ground for Jerusalem releasing.
The Iranian President has noted that prevention of civil strife in the Palestinian society is the important problem for Hamas movement. Haled Mashaal has declared, that Israel and the USA “aspire to overthrow the Palestinian government by full isolation of autonomy; however these intrigues had no success owing to stability and unity of Palestinians and support of their friends”.  He has also said that Hamas’ principle position is in protection of the Palestinian people rights, refusal in an official recognition to Israel and further resistance.

The members of the International agency on an atomic energy (IAEA) are not assured, that the nuclear program of Iran has an exclusively peace character and that it is not intended for the military purposes. Such suspicions have declared today by the IAEA general secretary at the IAEA Council meeting in Vein.
The general secretary has declared that the Agency still does not have sufficient clearness concerning all aspects of the Iranian nuclear program. He has also emphasized, that the IAEA cannot unequivocally declare, that this program has exclusively peace character and it is not intended on the military purposes.
The general secretary has told that the present Iranian nuclear power question remains a deadlock. The general secretary has reminded, that in the past Teheran has almost for two decades been engaged in not declared nuclear activity in infringement of the Nonproliferation nuclear weapon Treaty.
The IAEI general secretary has noted that now the IAEA’s inspectors had an opportunity to check up all the declared nuclear materials in Iran. However the inspectors still cannot recreate a complete picture of history of the Iranian nuclear program and its some components because there was no necessary level of an openness and cooperation from Iran.
It was also emphasized, that, despite of the Security Council’s requirements, Teheran continues enrichment of uranium and approves, that, remaining the participant of the Nonproliferation nuclear weapon Treaty, it has the full right of using nuclear technologies in the peace purposes.
The general secretary has noted that the trust will be restored after Iranian authorities will answer all questions and will show readiness for the open cooperation.

Since April, 1st, 2007 the air passengers, taking off from Brazil by the international flights, can carry by aboard only one 100-gramme bottle with a liquid. Thus it should be sealed in transparent plastic packing.
The interdiction extends not only on all kinds of liquids, but also on a tooth-paste, cologne and creams. Medicines at presence of the recipe of the doctor, children’s feed and special dietary liquids, but only in the quantity necessary for the period of flight will make an exception.
Travelers can freely carry aboard the drinks bought in duty free shops at the Brazilian airports.
Similar recommendations on possible acts of terrorism prevention have been made in 2006 by the International organization of civil aircraft after disclosing plot in London.

Street disorders have flashed with new force in Copenhagen. Groups of young men shower policemen with stones and sticks, set fire to garbage tanks. Collisions occur at once in several areas of city. 16 people have been arrested last night.
It is the third day that street disorders take place in the Danish kingdom. According to police, up to 3 thousand persons have already taken part in the manifestations, nearby 500 have been imprisoned. Basically these are the active youth organizations members.
On the eve policemen have lead a series of searches in houses which these days have turned into the resistance headquarters.
Disorders have begun after authorities’ forces have moved tenants of the Youth house ― the original informal members’ commune.

France’s Foreign Minister Phillip Dust-Blazi has declared that some positions of the previous resolution demanded from Teheran to suspend enrichment of uranium will be strengthened, and new restrictive measures are also to be added in the new United Nations Security Council resolution across Iran. Phillip Dust-Blazi has noted, that this theme was discussed on the eve during telephone conference Foreign Affairs Ministers of the “six” (the USA, China, Russia, France, the Great Britain, and Germany).
The Minister said that the parties have discussed the possible maintenance of the following resolution. As he said, the representatives of the “six” consider, that the new resolution “should correspond to spirit of the resolution 1737 and give greater force to it”. Not having specified, what measures have been discussed during the telephone conference, the minister has told that it can be reached by strengthening of some positions of the resolution 1737, and also acceptance of additional measures.
Phillip Dust-Blazi has informed, that during telephone conference of political directors the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of six countries, they have agreed that according to positions of the resolution 1737, establishing the sanctions against Iran, it is necessary to move to the new resolution on the basis of clause 41 of the UN Charter, which allows UN Security Council to accept all necessary for observance of the resolutions measures, except for militaries. The new teleconference of representatives of the countries of “six” will pass on weekend, and then the discussions about the maintenance of the following resolution will be continued in New York.
 

The US National Intelligence Director John Michael McConnell has declared that the Russia’s policy becomes more and more antidemocratic and rigid in process of approach of presidential elections. This performance was opened for press and consequently cautious, but on hands senators had its full text, and after the introductory speech, all the journalists have been removed from a boardroom and the closed hearings have been held.
However, even the introductory speech has amazed with a lot of contradictory and shocking facts. John Michael McConnell has started his speech with accusing Russia of the further deviation from a democratic rate and in aspiration to give the power to the new anti-democratic successor. McConnell said that all possible and impossible measures are being taking in order to control the population, parties and so on - up to that the following head of Russia will be simply specified. As one of negative examples the US National Intelligence Director has resulted Alexander Litvinenko’s murder in London and has declared, that such incidents “accumulate problems and friction”. Having concerned Vladimir Putin’s sensational speech at the Munich conference, McConnell has admitted, that it became a surprise for the American special services.
As The Washington Post informs, McConnell has assumed, that the aggressive Russian last weeks rhetoric, directed against the USA, can be the reflection of political tendencies in Russia.
As a conclusion the US National Intelligence Director has told that Putin has got in an environment of extremely conservative advisers which treat the USA with suspicion.
McConnell has told that Russian authorities continue to bring a spirit of “rivalries and antagonism” into Russian-American relations, in particular, when it is a question of America’s actions in the territory of the former USSR. McConnell has told that such position will not lead to productive cooperation in any questions: from counteraction against terrorism up to power and the Near East democracy distribution.