Sunday, May 29, 2011

The G8 has 40 billion dollars for the "Arab spring"

In their final declaration, the leaders of G8 countries, meeting in Deauville on the Normandy coast, called for the resignation of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi called on the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, fades, and condemned the violence Syrian government against its people. "The historic changes currently occurring in North Africa and the Middle East could pave the way for similar changes to those occurring in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall," they write.

To encourage this evolution, they promise, through a new "partnership of Deauville", to provide long-term assistance to Tunisia and Egypt, and all those who follow the examples of these two country where street protests have come to the end of authoritarian regimes. According to the G8 communiqué, the multilateral development banks could provide some $ 20 billion, nearly 5 billion (3.5 billion euros) of the single European Investment Bank, Egypt and Tunisia the period 2011-2013 in order to support ongoing reforms.

G8 members say they can mobilize alongside a "substantial bilateral support" which in addition to the money and invite other countries, especially the Middle East to do the same. According to the Tunisian Minister of Finance, Jalloul Ayed, who was in Deauville, Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged assistance totaling $ 40 billion to strengthen the Arab spring.

The French president indicated that France would give 1 billion euros in aid to Egypt and Tunisia. Tunisia has already indicated that it needed $ 25 billion over five years, while Egypt has called for 10 to 12000000000 to take until mid-2012. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it was possible to release a sum of about $ 35 billion to stabilize the economies of these countries, but the rest should be made by the international community.

World Bank, for its part this week announced a new package of six billion to Tunisia and Egypt. Concerning Libya, the G8 countries, including Russia, have insisted in their statement that "those responsible for attacks against civilians accountable." "Mr Gaddafi and the Libyan government have failed in their responsibility to protect the Libyan people and have lost all legitimacy.

He has no future in a democratic and free Libya. He must go," they add. Speaking after a bilateral meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy, U.S. President, Barack Obama, expressed their common wish that the NATO intervention in Libya would continue until the settlement of the crisis. "We are determined to finish this job," he said.

As for Syria, the G8 said he was "appalled" by the death of "so many peaceful demonstrators," killed by security forces, and calls on Damascus to cease "immediately" the use of force against its people. But their statement did not mention the threat present in an earlier text, attachment of the Security Council of the UN if Syria does not comply.

Russia, which long maintained close relations with Syria, has repeatedly criticized the intensity of military operations against Libya, saying they went beyond the mandate given by the UN. In Deauville, it offered its services to negotiate a solution with the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The blocking of the Israeli-Palestinian has been extensively discussed at the dinner of Heads of State and Government on Thursday night, several participants hailing it as "important" the recent speech by Barack Obama, European diplomatic sources reported.

The final communiqué specifically mentions this speech but refrains from any reference to a future Palestinian state within 1967 borders, as was mentioned the American president on May 19, provoking the wrath of Israel, and at the express request Canada, they added.

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