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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Europa & Palestine News « Europa & Middle East News

Europa & Palestine News « Europa & Middle East News



50 to 60 Percent Agreement On Iran’s Nuclear Deal But Finalization in May

DSC_7575Vienna International Center – Kawther Salam – Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy chief said in a joint statement with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during a press conference held today afternoon at the Vienna International Center that the nuclear talks between Iran and the six world power countries were “standing in the way of a comprehensive agreement and we are trying as hard as we can to drive the process forward.”
She said that `’a lot of intensive work will be required to overcome the differences ahead.”  Ashton suggested some progress was made and the negotiators are now looking to the next round on May 13 2014. She said: “We will now move to the next phase in the negotiations in
Ashton and Zarifi stated that the negotiators will meet again on May 13 2014, two months before July 20 2014, the deadline for finalizing the accord. She said that “a lot of intensive work will be required to overcome the differences ahead.”  
DSC_7705Iran and six world powers namely the USA, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany started a new round of nuclear negotiation on Tuesday April 8 in Vienna, aiming to reach a draft of a final agreement.
The power countries want Iran to scale back its uranium enrichment activity to deny it any capability to quickly produce an atomic bomb, if it decided on such a course. Iran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and wants them to lift sanctions.
Iran’s foreign minister Zarifi spoke in Farsi while reading his statement despite there was no translation during the press conference, he said that his country and six world powers are reached “50 to 60 percent agreement” on the shape of a nuclear deal meant to crimp any potential Iranian attempt to build nuclear arms in exchange for an end to crippling economic sanctions.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam:

Egyptian Cultural Evening In Vienna
فرقة الماريمبا المصرية تعزف في النمسا
An Egyptian Marimba Band led by the young artist Nesma Abdel Aziz, one of the most famous and successful Marimba groups worldwide, appeared on Thursday evening May 31, 2012 at an artistic evening at the Palace Auersperg in Vienna. The musical evening was held under the auspices of Egyptian Ambassador to Austria H.E Khaled Shamaa, the Egyptian Cultural attaché Dr. Morsi Abu Youssef, the Egyptian tourist Office and Egyptian Airlines. The evening was attended by many diplomats, Austrians guests and dozens of representatives of the Egyptian and Arab communities interested in Arab music, art and culture.
Vienna has many cultural, musical and artistic activities throughout the seasons of the year and gathers the attention of thousands of tourists who come to Vienna to enjoy this centrer of art, music, culture, science, opera. In the midst of the Austrian cultural activities, the Cultural Department of the Egyptian Embassy continues its efforts to focus the interest of Viennese society and the representatives of diplomatic missions to Austria by holding evenings of art and culture which highlight the cultural role of the Arab Republic of Egypt among the European and countries. Click on the image to make it bigger.
The Arab Republic of Egypt holds its ongoing artistic and cultural activities at multiple Austrian sites: theaters, palaces, the venues of the Egyptian Cultural Center in the first district of Vienna as well as in a number of Austrian cities. The Egyptian activities, events and presentations have become part of the Austrian cultural programs and compete with the culture programs of many embassies in Vienna.


Monday, May 21, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Hungarian Bodybuilder Championship Wins Over Austria

Hungarian Peter Molnar wins the first place over his rivals, the Austrian Klaus Drescher from Kärnten and Hungarian Istvan Kis during the final term of the International Championships and European qualifying Championships in bodybuilding and fitness (“Internationale Meisterschaften und EM-Qualifikation in Bodybuilding & Fitness”) that took place yesterday May 19 2012 and ended after competing in the House of Encounter (Haus der Begegnung – Donaustadt) in the 22 district of Vienna.



Mr. Molnar received a golden medal and the Silver Cup of the tournament from Mr. Mustafa Muhammad, vice President ABPF, Austria, Judge WBPF with warm applause by the audience. The jury was comprised of judges representing a number of EU countries. The event was attended by Mrs. Ildiko Buranta, Secretary General WBPT Europe.

Different multi-sports show of women took place during the International and European qualifying Championships in bodybuilding and fitness. Mr. Mustafa Muhammad, vice President ABPF, Austria, Judge WBPF and trainer, was responsible for organizing the event in coordination with different Austrian organizations in the same field of fitness and sports.

From left: Klaus Drescher, Peter Molnar, Istvan Kis

From left: Mrs. Ildiko Buranta, Peter Molnar, Moderator ??? and Mr. Mustafa Muhammad

From left: Mrs. Ildiko Buranta, Peter Molnar, Moderator ???



May 20th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Austria, EU, Syria, UK, Vienna, Wien

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam « No Evidence For Israeli Attack Against Iran/ Video

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

No Evidence For Israeli Attack Against Iran/ Video

Defense Minister: No Evidence for Israeli Attack against Iran

Read in German

Vienna – Kawther Salam – Friday – May 11 2012 – Minister Nobert Darabos, the Austrian Defense Minister, said at a press conference held today May 11 2012 at the Ministry of defense, together with the newly appointed director-general of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS), Major-General Wolfgang Wosolsobe: “there is no confirmation that Israel will attack Iran and Austria has no plane of defense in this matter.

The question asked Minister Darabos was:
If Israel attacks Iran, and Iran responds with a nuclear attack against the EU
1) How will the EU military evacuate the European citizens from Iran?
2) What preparations has the EU military taken to protect the civil population in case of a nuclear war with Iran?

Minister Darabos answered (translation):

There is no evidence that Israel will attack Iran, what makes the question moot. Furthermore, this is not an issue of the EU and the question is very hypothetical. I can only support the hope that things will not escalate in this way.

My opinion as Austrian Minister of Defense is that a military attack against Iran would not be sensible. It would be much more correct to take care of resolving this issue by the way of negotiations.

The EU has not taken any precautions which should be made known to the public about this scenario which in my opinion will not come to pass.

The issue of a possible attack of Israel against Iran is being pushed by nonstop propaganda in western media since years, so it was logical to use the opportunity and ask people well connected to defense establishment of the EU. The answer of the minister is reassuring in several ways. Mr. Darabos could have stuck with the propaganda which is being spread by the system media worldwide, and the question was asked to leave ample room for that, but instead he put that propaganda to rest. Based on his answer, it would appear that at least in the EU the defense establishment is being led by responsible people and there is consensus that a war of aggression is not the right way to go forward about issues to be resolved in the diplomatic context.

See video clip below


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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam « Zions Two Minutes of Hatred in Vienna

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Zions Two Minutes of Hatred in Vienna

Today 8 May is the day on which Nazi Germany capitulated to the allied forces in 1945, what put an end to the second world war which cost the lives of 60-70 million Europeans, uncounted casualties and destroyed infrastructure throughout the continent. The memories of that war are still alive among many Europeans, as probably most people here know of members of their family 2-3 generations ago who died, were wounded, interned, expelled or victims of assorted other atrocities.

One small group of such people, about 300 members of conservative student unions („Burschenschaften“) gather every year in Vienna to commemorate and mourn the fallen. They do this in the Heldenplatz (Heroes Place) in the inner city, and this year was no exception. This simple act has attracted them the unrelenting hatred of the representatives of zion and their fellow travelers. These students are labelled nazis, neonazis, holocaust deniers and whatnot for having the temerity to commemorate the fallen of a long since passed war.

This year appears to be special. While in the past these commemorations elicited protests from the usual suspects, it appears that the students had to been dealt a lesson for thinking different from the rulers. The loyalist media started with their vituperations against those horrible deviants some days ago, the government declared these activities to be undesirable, and the great parts of the city were closed off and drowned with nervous riot police apparently scared from the somber-looking „peaceful“ protesters, far-away loudspeakers screeched hysteric harangues against those anti-socials and their commemoration and thoughts which the system deems undesirable. Just as in the book „1984“, the system and its minions allowed themselves their two (long) minutes of pure and unadulterated hatred against people who think different from them.

I had been invited but I did not register for event, so I witnessed what was happening on the „outside“. I was treated to a rabble brimming with hatred flying american, british, communist and israeli flags, shouting slogans and ostentatiously displaying their moral superiority. One of the press photographers who is always present at government press conferences, who I know is a jew and who knows that I am a Palestinian, appeared next to me, spat on the floor before me and then disappeared in the crowd. This was the usual, disgusting display of racism, hatred and petty vindictiveness for no discernible offense which I know from the extremist squatters of the West Bank, those ugly americans and Europeans who use their religion to justify all kind of disgusting and criminal behavior for, after all, they are the „choosen ones“.

As a Palestinian I am automatically labelled a terrorist, a subhuman and other far less polite words. Palestinians who defend their family, possessions, livelihood and homeland are murdered, abducted, tortured, their houses bulldozed or burnt by the zionists and their minions. So, if we are being treated in this way by the zionists for doing what is natural and claiming nothing more than our inalienable rights, then it is very possible, I thought, that those students whom I don’t know and whose politics I don’t know, must also be doing something that is natural to humans, namely honoring their dead and keeping to their traditions. Why does the rabble have the right to fly the israeli flag which symbolizes a 70-year long rampage of genocidal criminality against us Palestinians but these Austrian students are denied the right to keep to their traditions and respect their country in a way of their choosing?

When that „colleague“ came by to insult me by spitting on the floor, things somehow started to make sense, in the same way how George Orwell imbued the activities of the psychopaths in power in his famous novel with sense: people who defend and stand up for their values, their traditions, their families, their country, such people are deemed enemies of the system, heaped with scorn, labeled with the worst possible epithets and slated for destruction. On the contrary, people who tolerate abuse against themselves, their friends, family and country, people who betray their own and their values, people who engage in antisocial, immoral and criminal activity, people who vicariously show themselves as ignorant and hate-filled dolts, such people are praised and elevated to examples to be emulated.


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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

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Morocco Government Protests Austrian FPÖ Party


From left: H.E. Dr. Wolfgang Angerholzer and Youssef Amrani
Rabat, Morocco – the government cited the Austrian Ambassador in Rabat, H.E. Dr. Wolfgang Angerholzer for a conversation and condemned Austrian rightist party FPÖ after the Innsbruck fraction of the FPÖ used election placards describing Moroccans as “thieves”.
Youssef Amrani, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Rabat, called Austria’s ambassador to express “the dissatisfaction of the Kingdom of Morocco and its condemnation of the racist events and the defamation towards the Moroccans citizens residing in the Austria, which is a member of the European Union”.
The public prosecutor in Innsbruck (in the West of Austria) announced earlier that he had opened an investigation against the right wing Austrian party FPÖ on charges of “incitement of hatred” following their use of placards hostile to Morocco during electoral campaign which precedes the municipal elections scheduled on April 15 2012 in Innsbruck.
The controversial slogan appeared on the placards of the candidate for the position of major, Mr. August Penz, stating in German: “My Plan for Innsbruck: Love for my homeland instead of Moroccan thieves”. The placards have apparently been retired after the initial scandal they provoked when featured on Austrian national TV.
Meanwhile, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed the Austrian Ambassador that members of the government of Morocco have decided to take part as civil parties in the court proceedings expected to take place against Mr. Penz, in representation of the Moroccan community in Austria.

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Syria and Golan Heights Discussed At UN Meeting

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who visited Austria to attend the Paris Pact Ministerial Conference, an event to mark the 15th anniversary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), met today February 16 2012 with Federal President Heinz Fischer and Federal Minister Michael Spindelegger at the Hofburg Palace after the opening session of the conference.
SG Ban Ki-Moon mentioned the Golan Heights, the current humanitarian issues in Syria and the Austrian peacekeeping troops (UNDOF). These were main topic at the press conference held today February 16 2012 by the Austrian President Heinz Fischer and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Federal President Heinz Fischer strongly condemned the deplorable murders and violence in Syria. He said “too many people have been killed, too many suffer oppression. This situation is unacceptable. (Austrian) Defense Minister Norbert Darabos is concerned about the Austrian UN soldiers on the Golan Heights because of the popular uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria”. President Fischer said that Secretary General Ki-moon had described the situation in the Golan Heights as “stable” SG Ki-moon himself said that he himself reads the reports prepared by the commander of the UN mission in the Golan Heights (UNDOF) every day, saying that all necessary measures for the safety of the UNDOF soldiers have taken.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the Syrian regime is “almost certainly” committing crimes against humanity and demanded from President Assad “to stop using indiscriminate force against civilians” who are caught up in the middle of fighting between government troops and President Bashar Assad’s opponents. He stated that “thousands of Syrians have died, 25,000 people have fled and an estimated 70,000 have been displaced within the country” and that the numbers were rising by the day.
SG Ki-moon said that the lack of agreement in the Security Council does not give the (Syrian) government license to “continue its assault on its own people. The longer we debate the more people will die”, adding that the most important thing at this time is that the Syrian authorities must stop killing their own people.
Ki-moon said that he has discussed with President Fisher how to send humanitarian aid to Syria. “It is vital to establish humanitarian access as soon as possible to Syria” said Ki-moon. He added that he wants to meet with the Mr. Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
SG Ki-moon met Minister Lavrov later. According to a UNIS press release, Ki-moon and Lavrov exchanged views on the situation in Syria. The Secretary-General emphasized “the need for an urgent end to the violence and bloodshed”. He said that it was vital to establish humanitarian access as soon as possible while the search for a political solution to the crisis continues. The Secretary-General said that the United Nations was reviewing all options for any eventual decision by member states in addressing these issues in Syria.
The Secretary-General also encouraged Russia’s support for the Rio+20 sustainable development process.

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