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| Egypt Wants UN Resolution Banning Asylum for Terrorists |
| 2004-03-22 |
| Egypt wants the United Nations to adopt a semi-binding resolution that would ban all countries from giving âsanctuary or political asylum to terrorists,â President Hosni Mubarak said here yesterday. Mubarak, speaking at a news conference with his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade, repeated a longstanding call for a UN-sponsored conference on terrorism, which he said should force countries to keep out terrorists. He stressed that âanti-terrorist operations under way in various regions could not definitively settleâ the problem. âWe must hold an international conference within the United Nations, which would adopt a semi-binding resolution or resolutions for all states to prevent them from granting sanctuary or political asylum to terrorists,â he said. âThat is one of the reasons why terrorism is thriving at the moment,â Mubarak said. Meanwhile, Wade said Egypt and Senegal were in âcomplete agreementâ on how to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli problem. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Jen - it's actually over $2B per annum now, with all the various bits summed in... Here's a link to the Egypt entry in USAID's "Greenbook" - which only goes through 2001. You can see Egypt received $1.7B that year. Grown since then. Here's the link to the USAID's "Yellowbook" which details business-oriented loans and grants - mostly NGO stuff - also through 2001. No one can call us skinflints, that's for damned sure. B-a-R - I can't locate the UN list either. tipper - Thx! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-22 10:48:56 PM |
| #6 You know, President Bush has invited Mubarrak to Crawford in a few weeks--you can only surmise that they'll have lots to talk about, like how Egypt can keep getting that $1 billion in aid. This dealie about "refusing to harbor terrorists," though--isn't this just another way to say to the Paleostinians," Look, when the Israelis have chased you out of the West Bank and Gaza, don't think for a second that you'll have a new home here." "King" Abdullah of Jordan has said basically the same thing, too. Yasser Arafat is Egyptian--the first place he'd try to run to, to set up the new PA-in-exile would be Egypt. Mubarrak's signalling to him (and Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, etc., etc., etc.) that that will NOT be an option. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-3-22 10:29:33 PM |
| #5 th edefinition of terrorist was previously debated in the General Assembly IIRC, and could not be decided on - too many "freedom fighters" where Jooooos are ready to be killed |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-3-22 8:34:54 PM |
| #4 Bomb-a-rama, try this |
| Posted by: tipper 2004-3-22 6:14:35 PM |
| #3 Heh, did Egypt think about what position the Palestinian Authority would be placed in when they proposed this? On a side note: searching the UN web site for a list of designated terrorist organizations turned up references to lists, but no actual list. Does such a thing exist? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-22 3:45:26 PM |
| #2 Several rabid islamic terrorists from Egypt have been granted sanctuary in Britain and other countries. This isn't quite as crazy as it sounds. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-3-22 2:25:17 PM |
| #1 "a semi-binding resolution or resolutions for all states to prevent them from granting sanctuary or political asylum to terrorists" Of course, in their minds, and the minds of many, paleo suicide bombers are "freedom fighters," not terrorists. And Israel, to these same, small minds, is "a terrorist nation." Welcome to the orwellian world. Get used to it. It'll be here for a while. Egypt and Senegal were in âcomplete agreementâ on how to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli problem Interesting they don't say how. Would that, perhaps, be to eradicate the Zionist Entity? |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-3-22 2:05:40 PM |