Barbados Advocate Newspaper
Third Annual Report to Congress
www.transparency.ord Probidad, a daily summary of newspaper reports on corruption in Latin America: ... February 28, 2003 III. UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO ENCOURAGE RATIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION BY OTHER SIGNATORIES In the 2002 reporting period, Belize, Brazil and Suriname ratified the Convention. The OAS and the Department of State have encouraged ratification by five eastern Caribbean countries -- Barbados, Barbuda and Antigua, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Lucia -- that have not yet signed and ratified the Convention. The dates of the ratifications and the deposits of the instruments of ratification are set forth in Appendix C. The State Department has begun a series of interactive video and audio conferences with Latin American audiences that focus on the role of universities in the struggle against corruption. Participating U.S. embassies bring together representatives of government, non-governmental organizations and pub ... [Read More]
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The Zambian press gave the Decolonization Committee’s visit thorough coverage. Each day the Zambia Daily Mail and Times of Zambia carried articles summarizing the previous day’s testimony. On April 19 both newspapers printed photographs of members of the UN team which visited Guinea-Bissau looking at an "American made" bomb dropped in a village in Guinea-Bissau. In an editorial on April 22, the Times of Zambia said that the Committee has been criticized for not having freed any territories. The Times observed that while some criticism is justified, most is based on a misunderstanding of the Committee’s mandate and the "severe obstacles placed in its way by members of NATO." The Committee’s main task, the newspaper said, is to accelerate the decolonization process and to supplement the efforts of the liberation movements. "The freedom fighters must be made to understand that it is their responsibility to achieve it" (freedom). In his statement marking the clo ... [Read More]
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4. In the past we have never in Committee Five objected to the inclusion of Part VI in the budget. However, such an objection has been made each year by the USSR and other Bloc countries that refuse to contribute in dollars to Part VI. The Soviet Bloc withholding is one of the causes of the UN deficit. We have felt that one of our bargaining counters in an effort to induce the USSR and the delinquent countries to make a contribution towards the deficit was the possibility of removing Part VI from the budget. If we now advocate such a removal ourselves without any compensation by the USSR, we will have removed one of the few elements we have to induce a Soviet contribution. It does not make sense to do this, particularly when any effort we might mount will surely be a losing one. ... [Read More]
Introduction
Controls on the press and public expression of political opinions continued in Kazakhstan, as the Government selectively prosecuted political opponents in trials with serious irregularities. The Government’s harassment of independent media included the conviction, with no due process, of two prominent independent journalists. In Turkmenistan, the Government completely controlled the media, censored all newspapers and access to the Internet, and never permitted independent criticism of government policy. In Kyrgyzstan, honor and dignity lawsuits filed by government officials against newspapers bankrupted two leading independent newspapers. ... [Read More]
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