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   Le Monde diplomatique 
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                                 July 2000
                                      
     
NEW HOPE, OLD FRUSTRATIONS

Morocco: the point of change

by IGNACIO RAMONET

           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/01ramonet>
     
                                             Translated by Harry Forster
     
     
THE KOSOVO CONFLICT

Nato on trial

by AVNER GIDRON and CLAUDIO CORDONE

     Established in 1998, the International Criminal Court is still
     struggling for life. Many states are reluctant to ratify its
     statute, when they are not actively opposed to it, like the United
     States, Russia and China. The International Criminal Tribunal for
     the Former Yugoslavia, on the other hand, was presented as the
     precursor of a fairer international order. These double standards
     may also apply to the assessment of Nato's bombing campaign against
     Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. Amnesty International believes
     that Nato "did not fully comply with the obligation to take all
     precautions to protect civilians" and that, in at least one case,
     it attacked a civilian object.
     
           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/02kosovo>
     
                                                Original text in English
     
Was the Serbian TV station really a legitimate target? *

by AVNER GIDRON and CLAUDIO CORDONE

                                                Original text in English
     
The protection of civilians

           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/04kosovobox1>
     
International law's highest standards

           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/05kosovobox2>
     
     
STATES OF CONCERN

Armed peace in the Middle East *

by GEOFFREY ARONSON

     The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority were engaged
     in a war of nerves before the Washington summit with President
     Clinton. The Palestinians even accused Israel of preparing a
     "military solution" while the Tel Aviv press was publishing the
     brush strokes of an agreement proposed by the US. Meanwhile in
     Syria, the new president needs to make a decision about talks with
     Israel. Yet, even if accords are reached, US strategists do not
     foresee more than an armed peace for the region.
     
                                                Original text in English
     
Syria: the rise and rise of Doctor Bashar *

by ALAIN GRESH

                                        Translated by Wendy Kristianasen
     
     
THE SHINING PATH STILL GLIMMERS

Peru: pacified but not peaceful *

by our special correspondent KARIM BOURTEL

     After ten years in power, Alberto Fujimori was - controversially -
     re-elected president after voting in April and May. Disowned by the
     Organisation of American States, which withdrew its observers, and
     reproved by the United States, Fujimori won after a second round in
     which his opponent, Alejandro Toledo, refused to take part. But,
     with Peru sunk in poverty, ballot fraud is not the whole story.
     Many Peruvians, reliant on a regime that gives them a rickety
     structure of social measures only in exchange for their allegiance,
     and still seeing Fujimori as the man who beat hyperinflation and
     the Shining Path terrorists, gave him their votes.
     
                                        Translated by Derry Cook-Radmore
     
Authoritarian rule not denied

Maurice Lemoine

           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/09lemoine>
     
     
THE COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T QUITE EXIST

Haiti's last chance *

by our special correspondent CHRISTOPHE WARGNY

     Since June 1997 a long-drawn-out institutional crisis has paralysed
     Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas. Many hoped that
     elections (whose first round was held on 21 May) would bring a
     return to normality. But though it showed wide support for the
     party of the ex-president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Fanmi Lavalas,
     the voting was full of irregularities and threw the country into
     further confusion.
     
                                        Translated by Derry Cook-Radmore
     
The Aristide decade

           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/11haitibox>
     
     
'THE POOR HAVE THE RIGHT TO WAGE WAR TOO'

Ethiopia invades Eritrea *

by JEAN-LOUIS PÉNINOU

     After two years of war, the prospects of a genuine peace between
     Ethiopia and Eritrea still seem uncertain, despite periodic lulls
     in the fighting, mediation and hard-won ceasefires achieved by the
     Organisation of African Unity - and even despite the peace
     agreement signed in Algiers on 18 June.
     
                                              Translated by Julie Stoker
     
Conflict in the Horn of Africa

           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/13ethiopiabox>
     
     
MUSLIMS WANT TO SEPARATE FROM CATHOLIC STATE

The Sultanate of the Philippines *

by our special correspondents SOLOMON KANE and LAURENT PASSICOUSSET

     Twenty-one Asian and European tourists were recently taken hostage
     and held on the island of Jolo in the Philippines. The kidnappers
     were members of the Abu Sayyaf group which aims to build a national
     entity that is not just a haphazard outcome of decolonisation.
     Along with other groups pursuing similar objectives in the Malay
     and Indonesian archipelagos, Abu Sayyaf is using Islam as a lever
     to achieve its aim. Islam is the key unifying factor between the
     many different nationalities (87 in all) in the southern
     Philippines.
     
                                                  Translated by Ed Emery
     
     
CANADA V FRANCE: WTO RULES

The asbestos conspiracy

by PATRICK HERMAN and ANNIE THÉBAUD-MONY

     Even though it is nearly 40 years since asbestos was scientifically
     shown to cause cancer and it has now claimed thousands of lives,
     the WTO is examining a complaint by Canada, which exports 99% of
     its output, against France, which banned it in 1997. The WTO's
     Dispute Settlement Body is quite capable of finding in favour of
     the purveyors of death and the governments that so shamelessly
     support them, since it habitually puts "freedom" for trade before
     any other consideration. Since the outrageous ruling on
     hormone-treated beef, anything seems possible.
     
           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/15asbestos>
     
                                         Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
     
     
NO PATENTS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS

Africa defies licences for life *

by FRANCK SEURET and ROBERT ALI BRAC DE LA PERRIÈRE

     No country is self-sufficient in biodiversity. The WTO is seeking
     an appropriate legal framework to encourage trade. But appropriate
     for whom? There's the rub. The intellectual property system, which
     champions the breeders' interests, is becoming an instrument of
     neo-colonialism. The Organisation of African Unity, offering an
     alternative that is in the public interest as well as its own, has
     taken the lead in new thinking about the exploitation of life.
     
                                            Translated by Barbara Wilson
     
Protection or exclusion

           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2000/07/17patentbox>
     
                                        Translated by Wendy Kristianasen
     
     
BACK PAGE

'Do you know the way to San Jose?' *

by DANIÈLE STEWART

     Uncontrolled development is a growing threat to the US environment.
     It is caused by the lack of efficient public transport, which helps
     to concentrate housing in certain areas, but also private land
     management and the rush to leave "unsafe" inner cities. The trend
     is particularly alarming in what was once the Far West. Forests and
     deserts are threatened by property developers and their "great
     deals", by roads and car parks. Environmental pressure groups are
     no longer the only people to question the merits, and cost, of this
     form of "development".
     
                                             Translated by Harry Forster
     
   
   
   
          English language editorial director: Wendy Kristianasen
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