Comoros: Editorial. A National Liberation

Saturday 21 March 2009, the head of the? S State? Is sent to the nation. His method, as citizens take control of her trying to defend the? National interest. On l? Saw in March 2008. The President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, the father of green revolution initiated in May 2006, is well aware that his power is that of the people, by the people and for the people. Indeed, c? Is on this principle that the Guide to the Green Revolution s? Supported to forge the tools to lead our country towards a smooth and controlled. Yes, it? IS? A Revolution strictly green. Green by its scale and dimension. Green color of life, one that dominates our flag. More developed on the evening of 21 March 2009, the Green Revolution has resulted in this doctrine and political action aimed at? Total independence of our beautiful archipelago: Maore, Ndzuwani, Mwali and Ngazidja. Throughout his address to the nation, President Ahmed has called for a powerful national liberation forces unit on our historical, cultural, linguistic and religious identity. One nation, one people, four islands: Mayotte, Anjouan, Moheli and Grande Comore.
Because, s? Committing to self-determination, the Comorian people chose? The right of peoples to dispose of? Themselves?. The head of the president? State has insisted that the sovereignty of the people remains the absolute and perpetual power, which must govern the Republic. C? Is the sovereign people should have the last word. L? Article 37 of the Basic Law, giving full power to the first magistrate of the country? Initiate any reforms necessary and useful.
Finally, the President appealed to the patriotism of all and to? Commitment of all for the return of Mayotte to its natural. The reform of the Basic Law and the? Harmonization of elective are dictated by the need to prepare l? Future. For this, the President Sambi can boast of? Triple legitimacy: legal, law l? Authorizes popular, he was elected, more a large part of l? Submits its draft opinion, consensus, dialogue inter Comoros has recognized the need to reform the constitution.
Harmonizing elections, c? Is avoid the cumbersome financial d? An election each year for a country with very limited resources. Like yesterday in March 2008 at? L? Operation Democracy in the Comoros?, The President urges the sovereign people of Comorians? Inside of those? Outside support for his project? Best interests of the Nation which is dear to us all.
Dja Ahamada, Director General

Mayotte: the review process of? Civil simplified

For Rene DOSIERE who has participated in several missions parliamentary Mayotte, departmentalization is unthinkable if we did not previously established a reliable civil.
Under the draft law for the development of? Overseas (LODEOM), the Senate passed Thursday 12 March in the evening an amendment of the Government to "simplify the procedure? Allocation of? A marital status to Mahorais and fluid processing applications.
The amendment, as amended by the Committee on Finance of the Senate, allows Mahorais to choose a name and a name among the terms by which they traditionally identify. It reduces the length of time required for recovery at the request of interested birth certificates and marriage. It also fixes at 31 December 2010 the deadline for Mahorais to obtain a state of civil law.
This amendment was described as "very important" by the Secretary of State for Overseas, Yves Jgo. "Until 31 December 2008, the civil status of local law entered the CREC before it and expressed their choice of names and surnames, in the conditions defined by the order. This possibility was eliminated by 31 December 2008 deadline amendments introduced by Parliament in the Act of 21 February 2007 on institutional and statutory provisions relating to overseas. By this amendment, it is proposed to entrust the choice of the CREC family name, which would, of course, after a dialogue with the person concerned: of course we do not impose surnames without the interested have had their say! , Told senators Mr. Jgo.
Considered by the government as by a number of French parliamentarians as an urgent matter, the record of civil status is one of the process of departmentalization of the island. In November 2008, the Socialist MP Ren DOSIERE departmentalization had considered the "unthinkable if we did not previously established a reliable civil.
According to the authorities, civil status is properly established in about half the population of Mayotte. Begun in 2001 when it was created CREC (Review of civil status), a specific structure Mayotte, this process should enable the reconstruction of civil status of Mahorais before 2001. It should also ensure the transition from the civil status of local law and the law.
But the state never provided the necessary means for a rapid revision. While the mission of the CREC was supposed to end in 2006, late 2007, only one judge was responsible for dealing with 14,000 cases pending.
The government itself admits that the CREC "has only partially responded to this concern because of various malfunctions and procedural," said Secretary of State for Overseas, Yves Jgo. The Pact for departmentalization provides a lot of work in this field. "To accelerate [the process], the State undertakes to simplify the process and put into works of a general census in each municipality," says the summary of the Covenant, which was sent to all electors of Mayotte.
RC (with AFP)

Media: reorganization of the Moscow offices facing the capital of food shortages

Moscow threatens food shortages, and to blame - not a crisis, a capital reorganization of the customs. In early March, was closed 45 customs posts, and clearance of imported goods, including perishable products, referred to the terminals near Moscow. As a result, on the way to Moscow, grew out of the Fur queue waiting ", suppliers and manufacturers have a multimillion loss. According to market participants, the situation is close to critical.

It attempted to understand the magazine The New Times. Korrespondent edition went to the terminal in the village of Fences, relating to Podolsk Customs, and his eyes saw a tremendous turn of the Fur. According to some drivers who have to stand for several days, while on the ground for decent accommodation and basic hygiene is not even a question.

Many say that even wanted to organize a protest, blocking the road, but - have been warned that their cars headlights. However different times and using fists - because they have to pay a penalty for delay at customs when leaving the country, and in such cases is always to blame the carrier. Drivers are forced to sign explanatory: he said, were due to congestion. And the fact that the congestion created by the fault of the Customs, not written anywhere.

- Terms of screening products - the monstrous, often "leak" has already unfit goods
- The city has its own supply of food, but its resources are quickly depleted

A member of the terminal with which the correspondent was able after much persuasion to talk, "clarified" the situation: if earlier in the day came 15-20 Fur, now, due to the closure of offices in Moscow, comes to 150. This "bandwidth" terminal - 40 cars maximum.

The incumbent flatly refused to miss a journalist inside the post, saying that "it protects the FSB."

New Customs concept of "written" in a month and took in a hurry

In the middle of 2008, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered to develop a concept for the development and streamlining of customs clearance of goods. The Federal Customs Service (FCS) concept composed of a month. And, without waiting for approval in line ministries and departments, have been introduced - in an experiment. And for the visibility began immediately with a capital of terminals, through which passed much of the imports.

December 17, the head of FCS Andrei Belyaninov signed the order number 1621, which requires from the beginning of March, close to Moscow, 45 customs points, and "" of the goods transferred to terminals near Moscow. In the FCS is the decision explained that the string of Fur on the way to Moscow did not decorate the city, and most importantly - the ability to inhibit the flow of already congested metropolitan highways.

In doing so, importers, have only found out about the content of the concept, asked customs officials to preserve the capital's office at least for perishable goods, ie food. Those in private talks calmed: say, do not worry, " did not insult. But as it turned out - offended.

Carriers have no warned by customs officials working in the regime is unclear - that day, then night. The machines were sent to Customs the items unevenly: in some posts plugs, while others are ready to hold "" a couple of hours.

The press service of the Central Customs Administration Customs in response to a request from The New Times expressed confidence that "the place at the customs stop all", as perishable goods (eg meat and meat products) have the right to issue a 10 customs posts Zelenograd, Noginsk and Podolsk Customs . In addition to unload part, on the customs posts organized on weekends and holidays, and put double work.

But in terms of market situation is close to critical. As the magazine executive director of the National Agricultural Union Alexey Afanasiev, trucks with foreign food of the Moscow region in search of the post, where you can quickly get ".

Terms of screening products - the monstrous, often "leak" has already unfit goods

But much, but the posts are still few. In the Moscow region until March was the only one qualified as having experience of working with fruits and vegetables in sight. Therefore, the importers were beginning to send their cars there. And very soon there was no push, followed by customs officers literally under the convoy began to send trucks into Domodedovo, Stupino, Kolomna, Dmitrov. Now there always stood the queue, which explained: office, no experience with vegetables, fruit did not have.

Terms of inspection and control, to recognize themselves importers, monstrous. After three or four days of waiting in the car gate, sanitary doctor opens the door just a glimpse of the truck and inspect the goods. According to suppliers, a large part of it is actually the realization of already inadequate. However, the inspection is over, the machine is closed and sent.

But even such an accelerated process would not save the situation. Previously, Moscow, say experts, the day passed 400-450 on machines with fruit and vegetable products. On the design of a truck took three hours. Today, through the efforts of the Moscow customs office on the day takes place 70-80 cars. A long wait for day.

According to Alexei Afanasieva, reliable figures of how much of "a" simply rotted, waiting queues at the customs, not yet. After all the goods since "" comes not directly on the counter, and on wholesale basis, where "Exporters should discarded.

A loss can be judged only on some indirect data. For example, Afanasyev said that the daily supply of meat in the capital since the beginning of March decreased by more than 50%. Experts expect that the same will soon happen with the fruit and dairy products. Moreover, the situation could get worse because, as argued by Alexey Afanasiev, at the Moscow posts have been "avalanche-like effect." By not pass the clearance time for the next day, add another 200 cars next day - the 200, and so every day.

The city has its own supply of food, but its resources are quickly depleted

Vendors claim: in the near future a new system of customs operations will lead to lower quality and a narrower range of food supplies on the shelves of metropolitan stores. But the Moscow authorities still prefer to comment on the situation in a calm tone.

Press Secretary of the Department of Food Resources in Moscow, Leonid Ivakin told The New Times, that "regrets that the route was closed in Moscow." However, he said, the city has a revolving supply of food, so do not fear that the products would not be enough.

However, upon closer investigation, that these stocks are not bottomless. In February, the first deputy head of the Department of Food Resources in Moscow Victor alder said that stocks of meat in enough at 1.5 months, the fish - for 2 months, oil - for 1 month.

According to the Director General of the Institute of Agricultural Marketing Elena Tyurina, a reduction in product variety due to customs issues quite effectively, in fact, this may lead to further price increases on products.

According to the head of the Department of Consumer Market and Services, Vladimir Malyshkova, now in Moscow's food stores sold imported mainly from stocks purchased another "pre-crisis' prices. However, imports will inevitably rise. In addition to growth in the dollar and the euro is now the price will affect and customs risks.

The young Mexican custody arrives in Paris

Panorama of contemporary Mexican literature by the leader of the younger generation, Jorge Volpi, Mexican novelist best known living in the world after Carlos Fuentes, author of Garden devastated published by the threshold.

Author of a trilogy of the twentieth century (In Search of Klingsor, La Fin de la folie, Le Temps ash) which has experienced international success, Jorge Volpi, 41, is returned to Mexico after ten years abroad. He referred to the authors of his generation who managed to escape the weight of their illustrious seniors (Rulfo, Paz, Fuentes), but remain dependent on a network of very small libraries. These writers are also victims of the Mafia who print and distribute a quarter of all books sold in the country. Endemic crime is one of their favorite subjects.

LE FIGARO. - How did you feel about your return to Mexico, having been a diplomat in France and Italy? VOLPI Jorge. - It was not easy. And I know I will not stay long. Daily life in Mexico is terrible. It is a city made for cars, not for pedestrians, as may be Paris or Rome. And it's a city hard, dangerous.

Your latest book, The Garden devastated, still speaks of the war in Iraq in this case, but also, and this is new, Mexico, which you criticize fiercely. This is the most autobiographical book that I wrote. I returned to my early writing, tight, fast. This book is a kind of balance. I spent ten years abroad, ten years since I spent my trilogy of the twentieth century that embraces all world conflicts. Going back in my country for my 40th birthday, I wrote this novel, which explores my dark and gloomy part of Mexico. It is also and especially the exploration of the pain of others into 114 short chapters.

In a country of 100 million inhabitants, of whom 22 million live in the capital, why writers are so little read? It's simple: the network of libraries is very low and there were few publishing houses. As we represent one quarter of the population of Spanish-speaking Latin America, the average circulation of a novel in Mexico is 2 000 copies ... This does not obviously pirated publications printed and distributed by the mafia, which represent 25% books sold in Mexico

You say love the Mexican culture but hate literary life. Why? The quality of literary criticism has totally disappeared. Today, the weight of magazines as Letras Libres (right) and Nexos (left) is no longer the same as at the time of the great controversy between Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes (1). This has two consequences. The first is positive in the sense that, for the first time, you can write in Mexico what we want, choose its type, style, without fearing the censors. The other negative, because there is more space or write to Mexican literature. To summarize, the writer has never been so free and so alone

When you say "I stand by my obsessions, this includes the obsession it formal? Yes, I am in favor of the mixture and test novel, political science and history. The novel is not just telling stories, but think about the world. Our literary movement, the Crack, was not created in the 1990s to investigate the trial of Garcia Marquez and this generation of writers that called the Boom, but to refute the idea of "magic realism" as only means of expression of Latin American literature. Those of my generation have said that they liked in the Boom was before its cosmopolitan side.

The shadow of the giants Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes did not prevent the 'new talent? The next generation has suffered and has struggled to locate. But in recent years the emergence of writers like Daniel Sada, Alberto Ruy-Sanchez, Mario Bellatin for whom Fuentes, Paz and Boom were no longer competitors, but rather classical. In respect of those seniors is the same admiration tinged with criticism among younger writers like Martin and Guadalupe Nettel Solares.

Margo Glantz, Jewish Ukrainian, and Elena Poniatowska, Franco Poland, two figures of the Mexican company from Eastern Europe, are they a symbol of the assimilation policy of Mexico in the twentieth century? Yes, even if they are a little atypical. In my eyes, Spanish emigrants as Tomas Segovia, Ramon Xirau, Angelina Muniz-Huberman are more representative of Mexican assimilation.

Violence is an endemic problem in your country. Do you find that writers talk about it enough? We can consider that authors such as Mario Bellatin, Guadalupe Nettel, Ignacio Padilla, Cristina Rivera Garza, not interested in the reality there. But many others are susceptible, particularly in the north. Writers such as Sergio Gonzales Rodriguez, Mario Gonzalez Suarez, Rogelio Guedea show in their books that much of the violence is linked to drug trafficking. For me, the best portrait of this world is that of young Yuri Herrera with Trabajos del , not yet translated into French.

(1) Cahier de l'Herne Fuentes, led by Claude Fell and Jorge Volpi, 331 p., 36 .

"The Garden of Jorge Volpi devastated translated by Gabriel Iaculli Seuil, 167 p., 18 .

For further
Mexico, visitors to the dream of Philip Laprune-Oll, La Difference, 120 p., 15 . : Two years after his remarkable anthology hundred years of Mexican literature, this passionate installed in Mexico City where he runs Casa Refugio Citlatepetl hosting residencies to writers persecuted in their countries gives this short essay with the best introduction to this literature of the Mexican born language of the invading Spanish five centuries ago.
New Mexico, anthology of Francis Gaudry, Mtaili, 384 p., 13 . : Thirty-two writers, many translated into English for the first time, are gathered in this volume. The opportunity to discover the richness of a literature which for three decades continues to surprise and captivate.
Dictionnaire Mexico, Jean-Claude Carrire, Plon, 507 p., 24 . The screenwriter, playwright and novelist discovered Mexico in 1964 with filmmaker Louis Malle. It has ceased to become passionate about this country.
The taste of Mexico, and selected texts presented by Jean-Clarence Lambert, Mercure de France, 119 p., 6.20 . Designed in three parts "See Mexico", "Taste Mexico" and "Live Mexico", this little book brings together texts by Mexican writers (Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Homero Aridjis) and foreign (Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry, DH Lawrence, Dos Passos, Kerouac, Le Clzio) that the Mexican capital was spellbound.

Madrid and Barcelona are more expensive to live than London

London

Had a reputation of being one of the most expensive cities in the world, but is no longer the case as the index of the cost of living carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the group editor of the magazine 'The Economist'. Ranked 27 in the ranking, a position that lags behind Barcelona (18) and Madrid (20).

Devaluation of the pound, the product of the UK recession and massive injection of liquidity is one of the main reasons why the City has fallen from eighth to the post 27 when comparing the cost of living there income of its citizens. If in the summer of 2008 one pounds worth two U.S. dollars, now the change is about 1.4 units.

By contrast, cities in the euro area have noticed a minor devaluation of its currency, which has grown from nearly $ 1.6 change in the summer of last year at a rate of 1.25 units in the today.

Cheaper cost of living in some western European cities due to the depreciation of their currencies. Nevertheless, the region remains more expensive to live in the world.

Tokyo

Has regained its position as the world's most expensive city, ahead of Osaka, having appeared in sixth place in the 2008 study.

In third position contained

Paris, followed by Copenhagen, Oslo, Zurich, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Geneva.

Oslo, which was once the most expensive city in the world has moved to fifth place, while Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, a country that does not wake the hell of the crisis has gone from being the fifth most expensive to be 67.

Other cities are expensive

Singapore, which occupies the tenth position, Hong Kong, rising from the 28-11, Dublin, in the thirteenth place, and Brussels and Milan, which share the fourteenth.

Among the Latin American

, Caracas is the thirty-fifth to the twenty-first and is ahead of Chicago, Los Angeles and New York (all at the 23 after having been in the past 39 years).

Other Latin American cities that are among the top one hundred is the capital of Guatemala (67), Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo (both in the post 83), Bogot (86) and Santiago (97), immediately following Cambodian capital.

Cities

Cheaper still predominantly Asian, among them Nepal (128), the Indian New Delhi and Bombay (129 and 130 respectively) and Karachi (132).

Fall more sharply is the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, which has since fallen from 65 to 124. It is an exemplary case of the collapse of the Eastern countries.

MPs asked to support a bill that protects investors CC

The Russian government has made to the State Duma a draft law designed to protect the interests of investors, the imposition of criminal liability for violations of the securities market, the "Prime-TASS."

Experience has shown that bringing offenders to administrative responsibility is not enough, therefore, the Government proposes to complement the new Penal Code articles. These articles provide for criminal penalties for violation of rights accounting for securities, manipulating the prices of the securities market, various obstacles and unlawful restriction of the rights of holders of securities.

Prosecution for the crimes provided for in cases where they involve the infliction of a major harm to citizens, organizations, or State or relate to revenue on a large scale. Thus, under a major injury (income) means the expense (income), the size of which exceeds 1 million rubles, particularly large - 2.5 million

Under the new law, violation of rights accounting for securities, resulting in major damage to citizens, organizations, or state, refers to a small gravity of crimes and punishable by a fine of 300 to 500 thousand rubles or imprisonment for up to 2 years with a fine a lesser amount or without penalty. The same crime, but by a group of persons acting in conspiracy, an organized group or caused harm to a particularly large amount, is considered a serious offense and is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 2 to 6 years.

Obstruction of or unlawful restriction of the rights of owners of securities also will be considered a small crime of gravity (a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles or imprisonment for up to 2 years). If the offense is committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or an organized group, it refers to crimes of medium gravity (fine of 300 to 500 thousand or imprisonment for up to 5 years).

Manipulation of prices in the securities market, according to the bill - a felony and is punishable by a fine of 500 thousand to 1 million rubles or imprisonment for a term of 2 to 6 years of age or if it is committed through the media - to imprisonment for a period of 5 to 7 years.

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