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The International Justice endorses unilateral proclamations of independence

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The ruling in favor of the legality of Kosovo independence will probably be recognized by more countries, in addition to the 69 states that have already given their support for the independence of the former Serbian province. According to analysts, the five states that have refused so far to recognize the sovereignty of Kosovo, Spain is one of them, now will have to do so.

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http://www.directe.cat/noticia/55681/la-justicia-internacional-avala-les-proclamacions-unilaterals-d-independencia

Para Catalunya, España es un mal negocio.

http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20100803/53976618206.html
La Vanguardia
David García | 03/08/2010 - 10:32 horas 
El aumento del independentismo en Catalunya no es casual ni tampoco responde a una serie de circunstancias difíciles de explicar.

Mientras el independentismo catalán de principios de los 80 y de los 90, pese a ser portador de la actual llama, respondía en muchos casos a cuestiones identitarias, que en algunos casos imposibilitaba una mayor aglutinación; podemos decir que a día de hoy se puede constatar con soltura a equivocarnos que el independentismo catalán del siglo XXI es transversal, plural, cívico y sobre todo democrático, por ello no deja de aumentar. El independentismo catalán crece porque las razones para apostar por un nuevo estado, son muchas y muy diversas; la cuestión económica, la supervivencia cultural, la profundización a nivel democrático, el derecho inalienable que tienen los pueblos a decidir su futuro, las cuestiones históricas, los agravios comparativos con España, la voluntad de vivir mejor, etc.

Por ello el abanico de razones son numerosas y porque la actitud del estado español hacia Catalunya no ha hecho nada más que contribuir y aumentar la desafección de los catalanes hacia a la España monolingüe y centralista. Por contra, el españolismo o unionismo en Catalunya sólo responde a día de hoy a puras razones identitarias, pero más allá de estas razones no se expone ningún argumento que justifique la actual dependencia de Catalunya con España. Y aquí, pese a que el discurso economista no entusiasme a ciertos colectivos independentistas, es donde podemos tejer complicidad con ciertos sectores de la sociedad catalana que hasta ahora no mostraban demasiadas simpatías hacia el independentismo. Al final, no sólo la situación cultural muestra el espíritu colonialista de España con Catalunya, el aspecto económico diría que es donde actualmente se visualiza de manera clara y rotunda la política colonial que fomenta la España constitucional respecto a Catalunya.

Porque si dejamos las razones identitarias a un lado y nos centramos en el día a día, ¿quién puede defender el espolio que padecemos todos los catalanes, independientemente de si se sienten españoles o catalanes?

¿Quién puede defender por razones identitarias que España robe a Catalunya 60 millones de euros al día a partir del déficit fiscal?

¿Quién puede defender que los estudiantes catalanes reciban sólo el 5% de todas las becas del estado y los estudiantes de Madrid reciban el 58%?

¿Quién no querría ver aumentada por meras cuestiones identitarias la renta per cápita anual de los catalanes en unos 2.400€ al año si tuviésemos seguridad social propia?

¿Quién puede defender que el "Ministerio de Cultura" haga un gasto anual por cada español de 47€ y por cada catalán sólo de 5€?

¿Quién querría viajar por puras cuestiones identitarias con el 40% de los trenes construidos por el estado durante la década de los 70 que se consideraron obsoletos y que aún circulan por Catalunya, mientras que Madrid sólo tiene el 4%?

¿Quién no querría ver a su país 7 veces más rico como dijo el Premio Nobel de Economía Aplicada en la UB el pasado mes de mayo?

¿Quién puede defender por causas identitarias que 1 de cada 3 años el Ministerio de Fomento no invierta nada de nada en Catalunya?

¿Quién quiere, pese a ser catalán y sentirse español, que cada año nos roben 20.000.000.000 de euros (11% del PIB), siendo así la región del mundo que sufre más déficit por parte de su gobierno? ¿Realmente sentirse español en Catalunya compensa eso?

Como residente en Catalunya, ¿quién puede tolerar, por cuestiones identitarias, que por cada 12,7 millones de euros que se invierten en medio-ambiente en el aeropuerto de el Prat, se inviertan 300 millones al de Barajas?

Por muy españolista que uno sea en Catalunya ¿se puede defender que entre 1985 y 2005 sólo se hayan construido en Catalunya 20km de autovías mientras que en Madrid se hagan cerca de 900 en idéntico periodo?

Por motivos identitarios ¿se puede aceptar y no protestar cuando en Catalunya sólo se invierte un promedio del 12% del PIB español anual pese a aportar el 22% del mismo PIB español?

¿Realmente las razones identitarias compensan el agravio que hemos sufrido por ejemplo con el AVE? EN Catalunya, por el AVE, el gobierno invirtió 316€ por catalán, pero en el mismo año invirtió 1.198€ por andaluz, 894€ por madrileño, 574€ por aragonés y 407€ por castellanomanchego.

¿Justifica el sentimiento de identidad pagar peajes y más peajes?

Es preciso ser estúpido para defender la dependencia de Catalunya con España cuando nosotros los catalanes, independientemente de si nos sentimos españoles o catalanes, si vamos con la roja o no, estamos perdiendo la oportunidad de vivir mejor. Estamos perdiendo la oportunidad de dar un futuro mejor a nuestros hijos por una cuestión identitaria y si uno se para a pensar fríamente llega a la conclusión que nadie no podría llegar en tolerar por una cuestión identitaria tal contradicción. ¿Aquellos que son tan identitarios aceptarían sufrir un agravio al revés?

España es un mal negocio a nivel cultural pero sobre todo a nivel económico, y lo es porque tratar a Catalunya como una colonia forma parte del su leitmotiv nacional.

Motion in support of a referendum of independence for Catalonia

High Noon in Big Ben at the UK Houses of Parliament. Below: Massive street protests and massive independent votes for independence.

Nine members of Parliament in London have tabled an Early Day Motion in support of a referendum of independence for Catalonia. The occupation of Catalonia in 1714 by French and Spanish absolutists was made possible by the betrayal of the English Parliament, at the time, of their allies in Catalonia in return for the right to sell slaves in the Spanish Empire among other baubles (Search How England betrayed the Catalans):

“That this House notes that more than one million people attended the 10 July 2010 protest in Barcelona in favour of proper powers for Catalonia; welcomes the continuing debate over the constitution of Catalonia; believes Catalonia to be a nation; recognises that independently organised votes on independence have shown a majority in favour; expresses concern that the democratic will of the people of Catalonia as shown in the 2006 referendum on the Statute of Autonomy should be over-ruled by the judiciary of Madrid in its ruling of June 2010; expresses further concern that future constitutional developments in Catalonia which take place with the support of the government and people of Catalonia may face judicial review by organisations which are not neutral or independent in this matter; and calls for the 2006 statute to be carried out in the form which was supported at the ballot box and that the residents of Catalonia should be allowed the right to determine democratically their own future.” Signed by Hywel Williams, Elfyn Llwyd, Jonathan Edwards, Pete Wishart, Angus Brendan MacNeil, Mike Weir, Caroline Lucas, Stewart Hosie, Eilidh Whiteford, MPs.

(Catalan Statute of Autonomy, Early Day Motion, Parliament UK, 14 July 2010)

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmedm/100714e01.htm

Catalonia was born to become a nation, not to become a province.

Sunday, 11 July 2010

Força Catalunya

Catalonia was born to become a nation, not to become a province.

The presentation of the web of Força Catalunya may seem, at first glance, a purely political act. However, to understand and grasp its deepest sense, it is necessary to view it in a broader context; the transformation of the conscience that is happening worldwide, and especially, within our nation.

The old thinking, still present in large sectors of our population, is ruled by deception, error and fear. With the conception engendered by this conscience, people, Nature and nations are reduced to objects which can be manipulated and subdued. Whoever is anchored with this conscience oscillates between weakness and despotism, producing the old game of dominations, where some act as victims and may only beg for what it is already theirs, and others who erect themselves as owners of what it does not belong to them.

This old consciousness has furnished the world that we step in as we open our front door, switch the TV on and on reading the newspapers. A world so full of such flagrant contradictions that is cracking everywhere.

The new conscience that is emerging, without too much noise, recognizes the sacred character of human being, Nature and nations. All beings deserve of this honour. This new conscience originates a clear perception of profound order of the reality and the place every man and every nation occupies. It knows that the destiny of people and countries is determined by their capacity to well their own creativity for everything necessary. This conception of reality creates a new type of relationships, respecting and valuing the others, cooperating and enjoying together the material and spiritual wealth that everybody bears inside.

The political process that the Catalan Nation is living at this moment, it is inscribed in this paradigm of change, where all submissions, and specifically the national, are meant to be overcome. We have entered in a stage where an increasing number of Catalans are not willing to continue with our nation being a Cinderella. We want that Catalonia becomes the owner of its own History.

For dignity of Catalans, and precipitate this new conscience of free men that is joining together, we cannot continue allowing that foreign nations illegally take over the fruits of our intelligence and our work as it has happened for the last Centuries. In no time, it will be the Catalan Nation who shares its national genius, equal-to-equal, with the rest of nations of the world.

Making this change of conscience visible in our nation requires men and women who love every one of their acts in front of the country, men and women who catch their sacred character and have intimate conviction of their huge capacities. Men and women who transmit with their doing the pride of being Catalans and have courage to crown with success the task of freeing our nation. Men and women who be the honourable speakers of the Catalan Nation in front of the Humanity.

So, to precipitate the emergency of the men and women who incarnate this new conscience, is why Força Catalunya has been born.

Maria Torrents
Counsellor Catalunya Acció

Serbia drops UN challenge to Kosovo independence and its relevance to Catalonia

Thursday, 9 September 2010

Serbia drops UN challenge to Kosovo independence and its relevance to Catalonia

English newspaper "The Guardian" informs us that Serbia has agreed to make last minute U-turn in its wish to reverse, question or invalidate Kosovo's independence at the United Nations. The debate had to take place at the UN general assembly on September 9th but Serbians dropped the challenge only hours before the hearing.

Serbia, then, bowed to pressure from European and US diplomacy, clearing the way for a settlement between Belgrade and Kosovo leadership and the Serbians joining the EU, which would have been compromised should Serbia had kept the challenge to Kosovo's independence. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, pressed Serbian President Boris Tadic to agree on a "last-chance" formula acceptable to the rest of Europe. Joe Biden, US vice-president, reinforced the message.

Kosovo declared unilateral independence from Serbia in 2008, which has not recognized the new State. Since then, Serbia lost a case at the International Court of Justice that ruled the secession did not breach international law.

The ruling by the ICJ and the intercession of the EU and the US, to stop Serbians from invalidating the independence of its former Republic, will be very useful to Catalonia when we declare our independence. We have now the precedent of the most influent international diplomacies mediating and negotiating for the recently formed European State, not the former, Serbia. It will certainly break mental schemes of a lot of people, always scared to take the step for freedom and independence, probably due to so many years of having to bow in front of the oppressor Spain and France.

Europe and the US show us that the modern day diplomacy may help the new democratic countries, if they make themselves interesting to the World powers. Catalonia must work towards establishing international networks and lobbies throughout the world, especially US, Europe and Israel. And it has to be made soon, because Catalonia will be the next State in Europe.

Jordi Margalef Turull
Catalunya Acció UK

Carta a l'Honorable Sr. Fatmir Sejdiu, president de la República de Kosovo

Honorable Sr. Fatmir Sejdiu, president de la República de Kosovo,

Des de Catalunya us felicitem i saludem el poble kosovar per la seva independència,
confirmada per la recent sentència del Tribunal Internacional de la Haia.

La Plataforma pel Dret a Decidir (PDD) és una entitat que aplega 700 organitzacions i
que lluita pel dret del poble de Catalunya a l’Autodeterminació i a decidir sense límits el
seu futur.

Heu fet una aportació inestimable envers el reconeixement del drets dels pobles a
l’Autodeterminació, tal com estableix el Pacte Internacional dels Drets Civils i Polítics
de les Nacions Unides de 1966, al qual no es pot oposar el dret a la integritat territorial
dels estats. Això últim no pot ser una eina per justificar la subjugació dels pobles
sotmesos per un estat.

Catalunya és un poble que, com el kosovar, també lluita per la seva independència
i per la plena sobirania com a nació amb una cultura, una llengua, un dret, una
estructura econòmica i un desig de viure lliure. Com ho va fer Sèrbia amb Kosovo,
també Espanya vol impedir la independència de Catalunya mitjançant articles de la
constitució que proclamen “la indissoluble unitat territorial de la nació espanyola” i que
s’oposen al reconeixement del nostre poble com a nació i al dret a decidir amb llibertat.

Fa poc, Catalunya ha vist com el Tribunal Constitucional espanyol desfigurava l’estatut
d’autonomia plebiscitat pel nostre poble el 2006, el qual pertenia ampliar l’àmbit
de la limitada autonomia política garantit per l’estatut de 1979. El tribunal ha negat
l’evidència de l’existència de la Nació Catalana, ha desfet tota garantia de les mínimes
competències d’autonomia política i ha relegat la nostra llengua i la nostra cultura a
una situació subsidiària. Aquesta agressió va ser constestada el dia 10 de juliol passat
a Barcelona a través d’una massiva manifestació d’un milió i mig de persones, el lema
de la qual proclamava: ‘Som una Nació i tenim el dret de decidir’.

El poble català ha tingut relació amb els pobles albanesos des del segle XV, quan el
nostre rei Alfons IV el Magnànim va ajudar-vos davant l’embat turc. Catalunya és una
nació mil·lenària que té en les seves arrels la lluita per la llibertat de les persones i els
pobles, tal com va proclamar el nostre músic Pau Casals davant de l’Assemblea de
les Nacions Unides el 24 d’octubre de 1971, en inaugurar l’himne d’aquesta institució
internacional que ell va compondre.

El poble de Catalunya saluda i celebra la independència de Kosovo, i tramet una
salutació fraternal al Poble Albanès, al qual desitja un futur plenament lliure i pròsper.
Tenim en el vostre poble una guia en el nostre camí envers la llibertat, i agraïm la
contribució que heu fet en el reconeixement dels drets col·lectius dels pobles a la
independència. Sabem que el poble kosovar serà un aliat de la nostra independència
per tal com nosaltres, en la mesura de les nostres possibilitats, donem suport i

celebrem com a nostra la vostra llibertat.

Visca la independència de Kosovo!

Visca Catalunya lliure!

Rebeu una salutació fraternal,

Josep Cruanyes
President de la Plataforma pel Dret de Decidir
www.tenimeldretdedecidir.cat

News Analysis

Trying to Buck Odds, Obama Takes On 3 Big Mideast Tasks

By DAVID E. SANGER

Published: August 31, 2010

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President Obama is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals.

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History shouts that all the odds are against him. White House officials, eager to show concrete progress on the hardest foreign policy challenges at a time when Mr. Obama is struggling with a variety of domestic issues, contend that that the president has changed the political climate in all three arenas and has the best shot in years at creating positive and interlocking results.
When President Bill Clinton tried a similar strategy, he argued that a comprehensive peace between the Israelis and Palestinians would make it easier for Arab nations to join in the “dual containment” of Iran and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. It turned out that the reverse was true as well: When one of those efforts fell apart, so did the other two.
A month before invading Iraq, President George W. Bush argued that toppling Saddam Hussein would create “a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region,” leading Arab countries “to support the emergence of a peaceful and democratic Palestine, and state clearly they will live in peace with Israel.” Instead, Iraq went up in flames and hopes for peace collapsed. Iran accelerated its drive for a nuclear capability.
Mr. Obama’s argument, which formed one subtext of his speech to the nation on Tuesday night about the end of the American combat mission in Iraq and which will play out Wednesday and Thursday as he gathers Israeli and Palestinian leaders for their first direct talks in two years, is more subtle about the linkage among the issues.
“There are three big chess pieces here, and in each of those places we are now poised for success,” Rahm Emanuel, Mr. Obama’s chief of staff and a major voice in Middle East policy, said in an interview Tuesday. He argued that while the linkages are loose, “victory begets victory, and success will be reinforcing.”
While Mr. Obama’s thinking contains elements of the logic that drove his predecessors, there are also some critical differences, and success or failure hinges on how significant those turn out to be. Those differences include evidence that the United States is truly pulling out of Iraq, far tougher sanctions on Iran and the tentative emergence of a working Palestinian government in the West Bank.
The main problem is that success is not assured in any of the fronts in question, and the dynamic among them is unpredictable.
“It’s hard to make the case that progress in the peace process is going to resolve the political stalemate in Iraq, or force the Iranians to reconsider their nuclear program,” said Martin S. Indyk, who served as American ambassador to Israel and now is the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. “But I think you can claim that success would help make headway in isolating Iran, and Iran’s claims to leadership in the region would be challenged. The risk — the one we forgot in the Clinton years — is that failure can also diminish your credibility.”
It is in Iraq, a war Mr. Obama campaigned to end, where he is claiming progress. While Iraq’s fractious politicians have still not agreed on a government nearly six months after an election and insurgents have landed some punishing recent attacks, overall violence has fallen and the withdrawal from combat missions happened a few weeks ahead of schedule. “It is clear in Iraq a genuine political process is under way,” said Dennis B. Ross, Mr. Obama’s top Middle East adviser.
Still, Mr. Obama is loath to declare anything resembling victory, and he said Tuesday that a “tough slog” remained. The question is whether the American public is willing to see more money and lives spent there while Iraqi politicians argue.
As Ryan C. Crocker, the former American ambassador to Iraq, wrote recently in The National Interest: “Strategic patience is often in short supply in this country. It is not a new problem for us, and it is not limited to Iraq.”
While 50,000 American troops remain in Iraq for now, Mr. Obama made clear Tuesday night that he was intent on moving on from that war, proclaiming that his primary mission now was to jump-start the American economy and address domestic issues like energy and education.
But as the Iranians have learned in recent months, Mr. Obama also seems persistent in finding new ways to turn the screws, and that is another element of the strategy.
When Mr. Obama came to office, three successive sets of international sanctions against Iran had had little effect, and there was virtually no prospect of getting a fourth.
It took 17 months for Mr. Obama to build the case for another round, and to orchestrate far more damaging additional measures — enforced by Europe, Japan, Australia and even some Arab nations — that have cut gasoline imports into Iran, sliced access to most foreign banking, and made it enormously difficult for shippers to obtain the insurance they need to go in and out of foreign ports.
“We finally have leverage,” said Mr. Ross, noting that for the first time Iranian officials have started calling for resumed talks with the West.
But few believe that the pain will cause Iran to give up its nuclear enrichment program. In fact, Iran could respond by speeding it up. There is also the possibility, some believe the probability, that Iran will seek to do whatever it can to prevent the direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians from becoming fruitful.
Still, Mr. Obama’s advisers argue that conditions have never been better for those talks: Attacks on Israel are down and the government of President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority has brought infrastructure, policing and better living to the West Bank. Many in Israel and among the Palestinians say they want a two-state solution, although support is ebbing. But many analysts are pessimistic that either side is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve it.
The big question is whether the image of America pulling out of Iraq, and of the White House re-engaging in the peace process, will be enough.
“In none of these areas have we achieved success,” Mr. Ross said. “But now we have the possibility and the potential for significant progress.”

 

 

Notícies

Dimecres  01.09.2010  19:25

Israel acceptaria la divisió de Jerusalem en dues ciutats

Hillary Clinton es reuneix per separat amb Netanyahhu i Abbas · L'Autoritat Palestina deté 150 membres d'Hamàs per la mort de quatre israelians

El ministre de Defensa d'Israel, Ehud Barak, ha dit avui al diari Haaretz que l'estat hebreu està disposat a cedir part de Jerusalem als palestins en el marc d'un acord de pau i ha recuperat la proposta d'establir dues ciutats i crear un règim especial en els espais sagrats. Barak ha dit també que qualsevol acord que s'aconsegueixi estipularia que els llocs d'avançada jueus aïllats situats ara a Cisjordània es traslladarien a Israel, que acolliria assentaments urbans més grans.
La tensió entre israelians i palestins continua augmentant la vigília de la represa de les negociacions de pau a Washington. Les forces de seguretat de l'Autoritat Nacional Palestina (ANP) han detingut aquesta nit cent cinquanta membres d'Hamàs per la mort de quatre colons israelians ahir, a prop de l'assentament de Kiryat Arba. Mentrestant, la secretària d'Estat dels EUA, Hillary Clinton, s'ha reunit per separat amb el primer ministre israelià, Netanyahu, i el president de l'ANP, Abbas.
L'ANP diu que els detinguts seran interrogats dins la investigació que duu a terme per localitzar els autors de l'assassinat que ahir va tenir lloc a prop d'Hebron, a Cisjordània. Més, espera que els colons israelians no utilitzin l'atac d'ahir com una excusa per causar disturbis a Cisjordània i afectar negativament les converses de pau directes que comencen demà a Washington.

El braç armat d'Hamàs va reivindicar ahir l'autoria de l'atac i el va elogiar per ser una 'resposta natural als crims de l'ocupació'. Les Brigades d'Al Qassam han dit en un comunicat que faran més accions armades.
El primer ministre israelià, Benjamin Netanyahu i el president palestí, Mahmud Abbas, ja són a la capital nord-americana, on s'han reunit per separat amb la secretària d'Estat dels Estats Units, Hillary Clinton. Totes tres parts han condemnat l'assassinat dels quatre israelians i han dit que no aturarà la represa de les negociacions de pau. Més, Netanyahu ha avançat que condicionarà qualsevol acord final de pau al reconeixement del dret d'Israel a 'confrontar aquest tipus de terrorisme i altres amenaces', i que abonarà la creació d'un estat palestí a Cisjordània i a la franja de Gaza només si totes dues regions són desmilitaritzades.
Les converses a tres bandes no començaran fins demà. Avui al vespre Obama oferirà un sopar a Netanyahu i Abbas, en què també serà present l'ex-primer ministre britànic, Tony Blair, que és l'enviat especial de la Unió Europea per al Pròxim Orient.

La qüestió dels assentaments

La represa de la negociació directe entre israelians i palestins arriba després d'una aturada de vint mesos, per culpa de la invasió de Gaza per part d'Israel, entre el desembre del 2008 i el gener del 2009. Un dels temes cabdals és el de la construcció d'assentaments en territori palestí; els Estats Units no volen que s'ampliï la construcció, però no ha demanat pas a Israel que allargui la congelació de les construccions, que fa uns quants mesos que dura. En canvi, Washington ha demanat a ambdues parts que prenguin les mesures necessàries per evitar que la negociació fracassi i que pugui desembocar en la constitució d'un estat palestí en el termini d'un any.

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• US says Hebron attack must not derail Middle East talks BBC.
• Trying to Buck Odds, Obama Takes On 3 Big Mideast Tasks The New York Times.