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FoxTroop escreveu:Por acaso nós, portugueses, não enviamos (quem não tem dinheiro não tem vícios). Eles sim, enviaram várias delegações que acompanharam os nossos exercícios militares e, inclusive, chegou a haver em Santa Margarida um pequeno exercício em que participaram alguns meios.

O que Israel está a tentar desesperadamente é encontrar alguma corda à qual se agarrar, visto que os únicos aliados que tinha a área foram à vida, um devido à revolta que mudou todo o paradigma politico e o outro pela enorme falta de tacto que deixou os próprios americanos irritados visto que os USA trabalharam incessantemente para arrefecer o clima e um acordo estava praticamente fechado, quando os extremistas no governo sionista torpedearam o acordo e fizeram o PM israelita retratar-se à última. A fúria dos turcos é mais que legítima e, como um dos funcionários americanos disse, "Israel cuspiu nos olhos de todos nós e agora vamos ter de limpar o cuspo e dizer que afinal é apenas chuva"

Nesse campo, até se poderia considerar os gregos uma boa "corda", se os equilíbrios fossem outros e as dinâmicas econômicas também fossem diferentes. Para os americanos é uma catástrofe geopolítica e mostra a fraqueza a que o "soft power" americano baixou, incapaz que é de formar consenso entre dois aliados, um dos quais (a Turquia) é indispensável para os planos americanos de expansão e acesso aos vastos recursos energéticos na Ásia Central. Daí que os russos, geralmente bastante simpáticos aos gregos, estejam a olhar para isto com bastante curiosidade e até tenham um certo interesse em ver o circo chegar ao ponto de quase combustão.

Para a Europa é um rude golpe, pois não tendo o discernimento de assimilar uma Turquia, cada vez mais pujante no seu seio, levou a um afastamento da mesma e alienou a elite turcas que se viraram na busca do que era o seu espaço geopolítico. É a Turquia que agora dá graças por não estar metida na armadilha europeia.

Para Israel é um buraco. Cada vez mais isolado e sem nada para oferecer em troca que não seja chatices e com o seu único aliado incondicional a esvair-se financeiramente e cada vez mais incapaz de fazer ouvir a sua voz na arena internacional, não tem muito por onde se virar. O risco (muito diminuto) é que os extremistas tentem uma saída para a frente, levando a região a uma guerra naquela região, que por acaso é mesmo o que as economias globais estão a precisar.

Caso o impensável aconteça e a Turquia seja deixada de calças na mão, não dou 7 anos para que os turcos estejam no clube dos nucleares, junto com o Irão o Egipto e a Arábia Saudita.

Vai ser preciso muita calma e paciência e é bom que a Europa se defina já no tabuleiro. Nisto não vai dar para ficar na plateia.

Turkey plans Cyprus gas drill tit for tat
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News

Turkey and Turkish Cyprus have completed preparations for a retaliatory agreement for their own oil and gas exploration efforts, a diplomatic source says. Greece immediately condemned the move
This file photo shows a floating oil platform tugged from a harbor in Russia’s northern port of Murmansk. REUTERS photo

This file photo shows a floating oil platform tugged from a harbor in Russia’s northern port of Murmansk. REUTERS photo

Turkey has warned that it will sign a continental shelf delimitation accord with Turkish Cyprus if Greek Cyprus proceeds with plans to start offshore drilling for oil and gas next month.

Such an agreement would designate areas in the eastern Mediterranean Sea where Turkey and northern Cyprus could launch their own oil and gas exploration projects.

Meanwhile, Greece on Thursday said Turkey should drop threats to Cyprus over the latter’s gas exploration plans. “Turkey is trying to escalate the tone... this is dangerous and it needs to stop,” foreign ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras said.

“We hope that Turkey will behave soberly and will refrain from further raising tension...there needs to be stability in our area because we are in a very sensitive period,” Delavekouras said.

Turkish officials met Thursday with a Turkish Cypriot delegation to discuss the dispute with Greek Cyprus, which has been escalating in the background behind a crisis with Israel that has already prompted a Turkish decision to step up military presence in the East Mediterranean. “As a result of the meeting, it has been agreed that [Northern Cyprus] will conclude a continental shelf delimitation agreement if the Greek Cypriot administration proceeds with offshore drilling activities in the south of the island,” a Foreign Ministry statement said.

“We are determined to protect the rights of the Turkish Cypriots. They are not going to be spectators if the Greek Cypriots start to drill,” a senior Turkish diplomat told the Hürriyet Daily News.

‘Contract is ready’

All preparations for the delimitation agreement between Turkey and Turkish Cyprus have been completed and it will be signed “immediately” if Greek Cyprus starts exploration work, he said. A Turkish delegation, led by the Energy Ministry’s undersecretary, will go to northern Cyprus on Friday for further consultations on the issue. The delegation will include representatives from the General Directorate of Petroleum Affairs, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation and the Foreign Ministry. Turkey has repeatedly urged Greek Cyprus to suspend oil and gas exploration plans, arguing that such unilateral action would preclude Turkish Cypriot rights to the island’s natural resources. Contribution from AFP stories were used in this report.

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — A pro-Russia party could emerge one of the big winners in Latvia's snap election on Saturday, a historic watershed in a small country firmly integrated with the West and where much of the population is still distrustful of Russia, which effectively ruled it during the Soviet and tsarist eras.
Not once in the past 20 years since Latvia restored its independence has a party catering to ethnic Russians — who make up approximately one-third of the Baltic state's 2.2 million people — had a role in national government.
But polls show that the leftist Harmony Center, which now controls 29 opposition seats in the 100-member Parliament, will likely gain at least that many, if not more, in the next legislature, improving its chances of taking part in a ruling coalition.
"Getting Harmony into government is extremely important," said the party's co-leader, Nils Usakovs, who wants to show that ethnic Russians can be trusted to help run Latvia.
History lies at the heart of Harmony's difficulties.
Harmony Center politicians refuse to acknowledge that Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union for a half-century after World War II. Usakovs has admitted that the Baltic states — Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania — were "illegally incorporated," which is a step short of occupation.
To circumvent the delicate subject, Usakovs has proposed a three-year ban on discussing history — or until the next general election in 2014. Prime Minister Dombrovskis, however, has rejected the idea and insisted that Harmony recognize Latvia's occupation before it can enter government.
Usakovs, 34, is regarded a political trailblazer since two years ago he became the first ethnic Russian mayor of Riga, Latvia's capital and largest city. Now he wants to take the municipal experience to the national level.
"Even if Harmony Center ministers fail, or I fail, we will nevertheless be the first to break the stereotype" of Russians barred from holding top government posts, he told The Associated Press. "Probably we will fail. But the next time there are Russian-speaking, left-minded ministers, it will be easier for them."
Saturday's vote is extraordinary, coming less than one year after a scheduled election that was regarded as a show of support for the current leadership, which has struggled to rescue Latvia from deep recession.
In May then President Valdis Zatlers dissolved Parliament after lawmakers interfered with a major probe into high-level corruption — a decision that was subsequently backed by 94 percent of voters in a July referendum, setting the stage for Saturday's ballot.
Lawmakers punished Zatlers by refusing to re-elect him in June, choosing challenger Andris Berzins instead. But by then Zatlers had given Harmony Center a golden opportunity to tap popular resentment and claim an unprecedented electoral victory this weekend.
Unemployment remains stubbornly high — 16.2 percent, according to Eurostat — and tens of thousands of people have left the country to find jobs elsewhere.
A recent poll conducted by Latvijas Fakti for the Baltic News Service shows that nearly 21 percent of voters are prepared to cast their ballots for Harmony Center, nearly seven percentage points ahead of second-place Unity, the main force in the current ruling coalition. The poll was conducted on Sept. 8-9 and included 1,001 respondents.
But the poll also showed there is a huge swathe of undecided voters — 28.6 percent — and these tend to be ethnic Latvians, said Toms Rostoks, who teaches political science at the University of Latvia.
"The undecideds are trying to figure out who stands for what. Nearly every day there is a debate between prime minister candidates, so voters are watching and trying to learn something more" before making up their minds, he said.
The ethnic Latvian vote will largely split among four parties: Unity, represented by Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, Zatlers' Reform Party — the only new party with a chance of gaining seats — the populist Greens and Farmers Union and the right-wing National Alliance.
Zatlers' Reform Party had a 11.4 show of support in the Latvijas Fakti poll, while the populists had 8.4 percent and the nationalists 6.9 percent.
Unity and the Reformists agree on most issues, and together they are likely to determine whether Harmony will be invited to the next government.
But a key element to Harmony Center's success is whether it can attract ethnic Latvians, and this is where Usakovs — who nearly died in May after collapsing from heat exhaustion during a half-marathon in Riga — comes in.
"Usakovs is very acceptable for some Latvian voters. He is young, good-looking individual who is perfectly fluent in Latvian," said Rostoks

26/05/2010
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Ankara's denial to sign Convention important obstacle for Turkey's EU accession. Georgios Koumoutsakos MEP

http://www.eppgroup.eu/press/showpr.asp ... rolID=9403

FoxTroop escreveu:Por acaso nós, portugueses, não enviamos (quem não tem dinheiro não tem vícios). Eles sim, enviaram várias delegações que acompanharam os nossos exercícios militares e, inclusive, chegou a haver em Santa Margarida um pequeno exercício em que participaram alguns meios.

soultrain escreveu:
Não compreendo mais uma vez, é a atitude de Israel. O memorando é mais uma provocação.

soultrain escreveu:E quem foi o único país com importância que não retificou???

Penguin escreveu:

Israel’s show of force
September 14, 2011 | Filed under: Geopolitics

After threats of Ankara concerning the presence of the Turkish Navy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 14 Israeli fighter jets reportedly flew to the limits of the FIR of Egypt, while the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan was visiting the country. Then the fighters entered the FIR of Cyprus, having lodged a flight plan and continued their course to the limits of the Turkish FIR.

Source: kathimerini.gr