position:negotiator

How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach - Brian Till - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/how-drug-companies-keep-medicine-out-of-reach/275853/?single_page=true

grosse enquête sur la manière dont les Etats-Unis tentent de faire dérailler le projet de #traité international sur la #recherche #pharmaceutique, avec, entre autres, un portrait de Jamie Love (défenseur du projet), un autre de Nils Daulaire (lobbyiste pour l’industrie), et la position pourrie de la fondation Gates...

In the current debate, documents submitted to WHO working groups attacking the idea were largely authored by individuals and groups that receive support from Gates.

The Gates Foundation was also the largest funder of Nils Daulaire’s Global Health Council. They donated more than $30 million.

Daulaire :
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/food/512px-Dr._Nils_Daulaire_at_May_17_Press_Conference_cropped.jpg

Jamie Love dans sa folle jeunesse :
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/food/jamiewithfish200.jpg

sur le traité lui-même on peut lire
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/04/VELASQUEZ/48967

REVUE DE LA PRESSE IRANIENNE PAR POMED

Iran Weekly Update - May 10, 2013
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8a185f96ecfeb10569f5120d0

 
 
Presidential Candidate Registration Begins:
The registration period for the upcoming presidential election began on Tuesday. According to Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, 243 individuals have submitted applications, including: former nuclear negotiator Hassan Rouhani; Mohammad-Reza Aref, Vice President under Mohammad Khatami and Expediency Council member; Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, a conservative former Health Minister; Ali Fallahian, a conservative member of the Assembly of Experts and former Minister of Intelligence; and Mostafa Kavakebian, a former reform-leaning MP. The registration period will end on Saturday evening.
 
Sources: 
Mohammad-Reza Aref Registers as Presidential Candidate BBC Persian [Persian], 5/10/2013
243 Register in 3 Days Fars News Agency [Persian], 5/9/2013 
Candidate Wanted by Interpol Registers for Iran Elections Iran-Pulse [English], 5/9/2013
Iran’s Presidential Race Gets Underway Uskowi on Iran [English], 5/7/2013
Iran’s Presidential Candidates Begin Registration Process Iran-Pulse [English], 5/7/2013

Speculation Surrounding Rafsanjani and Mashaei:
Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani made headlines Sunday after claiming that he intends to speak with Khamenei about his candidacy. Sadeq Zibakalam, a prominent political analyst, claims that Rafsanjani will eventually stand. On Friday, former President Khatami reiterated that, in his opinion, Rafsanjani is the best option. Other political experts believe there is a possibility that, in the absence of Rafsanjani’s candidacy, all three members of the 2+1 Coalition will register and run in the election, rather than choosing one unity candidate. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, a member of the 2+1 Coalition, seemed to confirm this option, saying, “…it is yet not clear when exactly we will announce the result [on the designated unity candidate],” but "the announcement will not take place” before the Guardian Council has completed the candidate vetting process. On Thursday, the conservative Coalition of Five became the first coalition to announce a unity candidate: former First Deputy-Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard. In an interview published on Thursday, Bahman Sharifzadeh, a Mashaei supporter, asserted that Mashaei would register on the last day of the registration period. 
 
Sources:
Coalition of Three to name candidate after vetting process Press TV [English], 5/10/2013
The Best Presidential Option: Rafsanjani BBC Persian [Persian], 5/10/2013
2+1 Unity Candidate May Be Determined after Registration Fars News Agency [Persian], 5/9/2013
Sharifzadeh: “Mashaei to Register on Saturday” Entekhab [Persian], 5/9/2013
Rafsanjani Says He Won’t Run Without Khamenei’s Consent Iran-Pulse [English], 5/6/2013

New Minister of Labor Approved; Head of Medical Association Blocked:
On Sunday, Parliament approved President Ahmadinejad’s Minister of Labor nominee, MP Asadollah Abbasi. On Wednesday, reports emerged that the writ of approval for Iran’s new Medical Association head was sent to the office of President for the third time, with Ahmadinejad again refusing to sign it. Ahmadinejad’s refusal to sign the approval may stem from his dissatisfaction with the vetting process and the denial of his favored candidates during the Medical Association elections in February. 

Sources:
Majlis approves Abbasi as Labor Minister Tehran Times [English], 5/5/2013
Abbasi becomes Minister of Labor Entekhab [Persian], 5/5/2013 

Kahrizak Trial Continues:
On Tuesday, the seventh session of the Kahrizak trial was held behind closed doors. During the session, Director General of Tehran’s Prisons Sohrab Soleimani testified that the now-closed Kahrizak facility was not a legal detention center. One of the defendants, former Deputy Prosecutor Ali Akbar Heidarifar, argued that the Ministry of Justice’s failure to nullify the detainees’ imprisonment orders was tantamount to granting its approval for them. 
 
Sources:
Iran holds 7th court session to hear Kahrizak case Press TV [English], 5/8/2013
Judicial Documents Published on Website Kalameh [Persian], 5/8/2013
Judge Positively Evaluates Kahrizak Case Alef [Persian], 5/7/2013
 
Intelligence Ministry Releases Details of Government Scandal:
Earlier this week, Minister of Intelligence and presidential hopeful Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi released a report concerning a 450 million Euro scandal involving the government’s alleged construction contract in the free trade area of Kish. Reports indicate that construction proceeded without the appropriate auctioning procedures. The government has denied the allegations.
 
Sources:
Details of Government Scandal Published Kalameh [Persian], 5/8/2013
Intelligence Ministry Publishes Details of Scandal Alef [Persian], 5/7/2013
Attorney General Condemns Revealing Scandal BBC Persian [Persian], 5/6/2013 ❞

Erekat: PLO not notified of settlement freeze | Maan News Agency
►http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=593212

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel has not notified the PLO of any changes to its settlement activity, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Tuesday, as Israeli media reported a new moratorium on settler homes in the West Bank.

“We have not been notified of any changes to Israel’s colonial plans, including ongoing construction in dozens of Israeli settlements in the Occupied State of Palestine, including in and around our occupied capital East Jerusalem,” Erekat said in a statement.

Israel’s army radio reported Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered a freeze on publishing tenders for new West Bank settler homes to avoid hampering US efforts to renew peace talks.

“What we need are actions and not words," Erekat said in response to the report. “We monitor Israeli activities on the ground on a daily basis.”

Neither Netanyahu’s office nor the housing ministry would comment on the army radio report, which said the premier had gone back on a pre-election pledge to push ahead with thousands of new settler homes if re-elected.

The radio said the tenders were related to construction in the major settlement blocs which are home to most of the 360,000 Israelis living in the West Bank.

Netanyahu’s decision to freeze the tenders was linked to efforts led by US Secretary of State John Kerry to relaunch peace talks with the Palestinians, according to the report.

Hagit Ofran of the Israeli group Peace Now, which opposes settlements, confirmed that the watchdog had seen no evidence of any new tenders published since the start of 2013.

“There have been no new tenders published for settlement construction in the West Bank since the start of the year, and tenders are normally issued every three months,” she told AFP.

“This is not a settlement freeze because construction in the settlements is continuing, but you could say it is a show of restraint by Benjamin Netanyahu who does not want to be accused by the Americans of being responsible for the failure of their efforts to restart negotiations with the Palestinians.”

Resignation of Hany Kadry, a veteran deputy finance minister, could deal a blow to Egypt’s aspirations of securing a loan from the International Monetary Fund

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/70339.aspx

#FMI

The Israeli negotiator who thinks the two-state solution is still possible | +972 Magazine
http://972mag.com/the-israeli-negotiator-who-thinks-the-two-state-solution-is-still-possible/68259

Veteran Israeli negotiator Shaul Arieli discusses the failure of the Oslo Accords, various Israeli prime ministers’ commitment (or lack thereof) to ending the occupation, and the only solution he believes both sides could live with, however unsatisfied they might be with it.

Bush Blocked Iran Nuke Deal
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/06/bush-blocked-iran-nuke-deal

France and Germany were prepared in spring 2005 to negotiate on an Iranian proposal to convert all of its enriched uranium to fuel rods, making it impossible to use it for nuclear weapons, but Britain vetoed the deal at the insistence of the United States, according to a new account by a former top Iranian nuclear negotiator.

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who had led Iran’s nuclear negotiating team in 2004 and 2005, makes it clear that the reason that offer was rejected was that the George W. Bush administration refused to countenance any Iranian enrichment capability, regardless of the circumstances. Mousavian reveals previously unknown details about that pivotal episode in the diplomacy surrounding the Iran nuclear issue in memoirs published Tuesday.

Senior Afghan negotiator shot dead in Kabul
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/senior-afghan-negotiator-shot-dead-kabul

A senior Afghan negotiator and close ally of President Hamid Karzai was shot dead in Kabul on Sunday, dealing a major blow to a government already rocked by ongoing instability.

Arsala Rahmani, a former minister in the Taliban regime, was a “key negotiator” in the High Peace Council (HPC) established by Karzai to hold talks with the Taliban.

“Shortly after leaving home he was hit by a single bullet from a passing car” as he was driving to work, Rahmani’s grandson Mohammad Waris said.

[…]

His death is the second major blow to Karzai’s US-backed peace efforts in less than a year. The former head of the council, ex-president Burhanuddin Rabbani, was killed last September by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban peace envoy.

Palestinian leaders weak – and increasingly desperate | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/palestine-papers-power-weakness-negotiations

Having listened to Sharon berate him for failing to crack down on the “terrorist infrastructure” of Hamas and Islamic jihad, Abbas was recorded as noting “with pleasure the fact that Sharon considered him a friend, and the fact that he too considered Sharon a friend”, adding that “every bullet that is aimed in the direction of Israel is a bullet aimed at the Palestinians as well”.

#Palestine_papers

#Iran : les États-Unis irrités par les efforts diplomatiques de la #Suisse. #cablegate

The Unwanted Iran Brokers : US Irked by Over-Eager Swiss Diplomats - Spiegel Online
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,734392,00.html

In 2006 and 2007 Swiss diplomats tried to usher the Americans and Iranians to the negotiating table. Recently published US diplomatic cables show how deeply the Swiss initiative irked Washington — and how Bern refused to give up despite repeated requests from the US.

That US diplomats posted in Bern were upset by the efforts of Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to intervene in the conflict surrounding Iran’s nuclear program in 2006 and 2007 and force themselves on the United States as an intermediary is well known. But just how upset has now become clear from the confidential diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

In February and March 2007, Calmy-Rey dispatched Michael Ambühl, a high-ranking Swiss diplomat, on several visits to Tehran in an attempt to persuade the Iranians and the US to engage in bilateral talks. As part of the same effort, she hosted Iran’s then chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, for talks in Bern. Washington had vehemently tried to dissuade Calmy-Rey from assuming such an active role; but that didn’t stop her.