Even God was nowhere to rescue “God”frey Majiwa from the claws of Anti-Corruption officials. Nairobians are in shock.

The man they have been worshiping – “His Worship the Mayor” Godfrey Majiwa of Baba Dogo Ward whose tremendous rise to power is now questionable is to lose his Mayoral position as he fights a corruption case connecting him to a purchase of a cemetery to bury the dead in Nairobi area.

The mayor will soon be suspended just like Ruto who was suspended as Education minister after he was arraigned in court. The Mayor is said to be having sleepless nights. It has come to his realisation that the well-respected Mayoral Chain will soon be removed from his neck, causing him to loose the prestigious title “His Worship”  which will now be handed over to someone else who has a clean record at the City Hall.

The days when a Mayor was a well-respected person is long gone. It was during the time of Margaret Kenyatta and the most looked up to Mayor Nathan Kahara that the Nairobians were proud of their mayor. During the time of Andrew Ngumba, corruption cases started to surface. But not until now has there been a public arrest like this of Majiwa.

He says he is not guilty. Well, the courts will decide that. His case will not be finished before the next election. So he may as well forget sitting on the Mayoral seat this period and time. Even if found not guilty and re-elected in future, his name is already so tainted that he will never wield the same power as he had before his arrest yesterday.

Imagine being dragged from his house, and placed in the cells for the night, away from the comfort of the parlour. The police who were on duty say the Mayor did not manage to sleep while being held in the cells. He kept complaining of headache and stomach-ache.

The Nairobians and Kenya as a whole are now waiting for the outcome of the case. He is out on a cash bond.

By Chief Editor Korir, African Press International.

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Oslo, the 26th, October 17.24PM: To avoid the problem of coming in conflict with the ICC pre-trial chambers that has given orders to Kenya to give answers by the 29th of October, Kenya’s president Kibaki should simply change the IGAD meeting venue to Juba in Sudan. Ocampo can then organise to capture Bashir is the South of the country, may be with the help of the Southerner’s President Salva Kiir.

The lead of ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo wants Kenya to arrest Omar Bashir if he attends the IGAD meeting that will take place on the 30th of this month. Yes, the arrest can be done if he lands in Kenya. But is ICC and Ocampo really thinking of Kenya’s welfare as a neighbor to Sudan?

Kenya made one big mistake when the country took upon herself to be the trial country for arrested pirates of Somali origin. The international community, countries like the US, France, Japan and others whose ships are taken by the Somali pirates simply arrest the pirates and hand them over to Kenya for trial. This has messed up Kenya owing to the fact that Kenya has a very large number of Somali population living in the country.

Recently, Al Shabaab has been doing the best it can to give the Kenya government a headache and it is not lost that this can be explained by the fact that Kenya is jailing Somali pirates even if those Somalis have not taken any Kenya ship. Kenya is being used by the international community to make enemies. Kenya has a Somali problem to deal with, unless it leaves the piracy trials to every individual country that looses their ship to the pirates.

Now when ICC’s Ocampo seeks and gets orders from the pre-trial chambers of the ICC to direct Kenya to arrest Bashir, then that is going too far. Kenya will suffer if the country arrests Bashir. Sudan will go together with the Somali group and destabilise Kenya and if the war erupts in Sudan, Kenya will have to shoulder influx of Sudanese refugees that will move into the country. Therefore Kenya should keep off and stop obeying international orders that does not give priority to the Kenyan people who love to live in harmony and enjoy the fruits of the new constitution.

ICC should use other methods to arrest Bashir and leave Kenya alone.

One other important issue to look into is whether the International community and the ICC are interested in peace for the Sudanese people. President Bashir wants to attend IGAD meeting to solve the pending problem of the referendum that is expected to take place in South Sudan in January 2011. With the absence of the country’s president Bashir during the meeting to discus the referendum in the South Sudan if threaten by arrest, how do we and all those who want peace expect the results to be. It will not be productive.

Let Bashir travel to Nairobi, attend IGAD meeting and resolve the disagreement on the South Sudanese referendum.

Another easy way for Kenya is to shift the Venue of the IGAD meeting. Let it take place in South Sudan capital, Juba. the place where the actual referendum will take place. This will not put Kenya in unnecessary conflict with the ICC and the South Sudanese will not arrest their National President when in the Southern capital.

By Chief editor Korir, African Press International.

KENYA: Communities forge their own peace in the Rift Valley

Photo: Rachel Kibui/IRIN

Residents of Kirima village often hold peace meetings near the well, which they say is now a source of peace

MAU NAROK, 26 October 2010 (IRIN) – A water well, serving two different ethnic groups in Kenya’s Rift Valley province, has done more to bring them together than government and civil society efforts, say locals.

“This well is an interaction point for the two communities, we always have a chance to meet as we fetch water for our households,” Ishmael Langat, a resident of Kirima village in Mau Narok, told IRIN.

Langat is a member of the Kalenjin community, which, in early 2008, was involved in violent clashes with members of other ethnic communities following disputed presidential elections.

The post-election violence killed more than 1,300 people and displaced half a million.

Three years later, communities such as Langat’s and their neighbours, the Kikuyu, are involved in initiatives aimed at ensuring lasting peace.

“We have almost given up on the government’s efforts to unite us; we have since discovered that it is us, not the top politicians, who incite us against each other, who lose when there is no peace,” Langat said.

Rift Valley, the most populous of Kenya’s eight provinces, is not only cosmopolitan but also rich in agriculture and considered the country’s bread-basket. Its voting population, estimated by the 2009 census at more than 10 million, makes the province a favourite for many politicians seeking election.

Ethnic clashes

The well in Kirima village was not always a focal point for peace; since 1992, when Kenya experienced its first tribal clashes with the introduction of multi-party politics, it has often witnessed violence.

Joseph Ndirangu, a resident of Deffo village, said: “I have lived in this area for the last 21 years and found this well still serving villagers, but every time war breaks out, it starts here when people are fetching water.”

Now the villagers have vowed to make the well a uniting factor and have put aside their political and ethnic differences to cultivate peace.

Langat said: “We now meet often near this well; this time to talk about peace rather than initiate violence. It is this well that has been the source of conflict and it shall now be a source of peace.”

Government initiatives

The government, through the provincial administration, has formed district-based peace committees whose officials, however, seem not to be reaching villages such as Kirima.

Where active, the peace committees involve village elders who, after being trained in conflict resolution, help transfer the knowledge to fellow villagers in a bid to create a lasting solution to violence.

Peter Waweru, a youth leader from Molo district, said: “But the elders [in the peace committees] were just picked by chiefs without the involvement of villagers; we do not know the criteria followed by the provincial administration.

“They just keep on attending meetings in big towns, maybe they are paid sitting allowances but they do not deliver the ‘peace education’ to their fellow villagers,” Waweru said. “Had they picked villagers’ choices, people would have come out openly to confess their deeds during the violence and this would have created relief and healing.”

An elderly man grazing his cows at the roadside near Deffo shopping centre, who declined to be named, said he was happy he could now take his cows to either side of the road without fear.

During the violence, the road – which connects Njoro and Narok towns, both within Rift Valley – marked the boundary between land owned by the Kikuyu and the Kalenjin. Each community had named their side of the road in their language, and could not shop on the other group’s side.

“But we have cultivated our own peace; I can comfortably visit elderly Kalenjin men and share stories of our past,” the old man said.

Agenda Four

People in the villages such as Deffo and Kirima, where violence was intense, do not understand the provisions in Agenda Four of the peace deal, which ushered in the coalition government. This item addresses measures needed to foster lasting peace.

One was a new constitution, which has since been put to a referendum and was promulgated on 27 October. However, Langat complained: “Seemingly, parliament is slow in implementing the new laws.”

Mwangi Muraya, a Njoro resident, said: “Nobody has bothered to tell the people on the ground what Agenda Four is all about; given a chance I am ready to attend meetings and mobilize other youths so that they understand this vital agenda.”

Another villager said he felt government officials were concentrating much more on power-sharing than on fulfilling the issues addressed in the agenda item.

“In my view, the government has now put aside the thoughts of Agenda Four since the country got a new constitution; it seems the core issues may never be addressed after all,” he said.

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By Shem Kosse

Kisumu-based business magnate of Asian descent has accused the ministry of lands for failure to curb rampant fraudulent land deals in the lakeside city of Kisumu.Not even the recent move by the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC) to widen its wings to Kisumu seems to help matters, he adds.

Flanked by fellow businessmen who have previously fallen prey to this conning cartel,Mr A.B Singh claimed that he was recently defrauded of his land parcel number 329 measuring approximately 0.1287 hectares, situated in Kisumu’s Tom Mboya estate.

Allocated to him in 1979 1st September by the government as the lessor for the lease period of 99 years and awarded certificate over the same, Singh said that the property had again been reallocated illegally to a new lessee a Mr. Henry Masilwa Asava by fraudsters going by the name Kostiony Kipruto Tinderet and Kiprotich Korir.

He says he was informed by neighbours while at work that there are strange faces in his compound with tools of work, inspecting it.

I rushed to the scene and found him (Asava) carrying new plan for construction. Alongside him were workers; said the stunned Singh while flapping the receipts indicating he has never defaulted to pay rates.

The duo fraudsters whose identities are still scanty to date acquired the property in 1st January 1997 and later disposed it off to the unsuspected buyer, Asava. Consequently, the title-deed was issued on 9th April 2010; this is according to the documents availed to this writer.

And what is baffling is that the swindling cartel did not pay the fees due to the government, council or any other relevant authorities but ended up bagging the title-deed purportedly signed by the land registrar a Mr. Nyaberi and with the district land officer a Mr. Obiero, issuing the consent. Aggrieved Singh has now moved and slapped a caution, on the land.

Kisumu city and its environ is currently awash with the phantom sale of lands with some lawyers who are either privy to or just feigning ignorance over this culture of impunity-since they are part and chief beneficiary of the syndicate. They preside over the transaction, by drafting the sale agreements of such properties which are neither here nor there.

And by the time of going to the press, other cases akin to this were reportedly being booked at the Kisumu central police station by widowed women and orphaned children, impeccably orchestrated by this merciless cartel.

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<By Bernard Gbayee Goah

32-Point reason for change:

1. The need for post-war justice is a step toward lasting peace, stability and prosperity for Liberia.

2. Liberia needs a war crimes tribunal or some credible legal forum that is capable of dealing with atrocities perpetrated against defenseless men, women and children during the country’s brutal war; without justice, peace shall remain elusive and investment in Liberia will not produce the intended results.

3. The presence of United Nations troops has afforded Liberians the opportunity to solidify the peace as well as find solutions to the ills plaguing this nation. Knowing full well these troops will not remain indefinitely; it is imperative Liberians lay the foundation for rule of law; because it offers the best remedy for corruption, rape, land dispute, armed robbery as well as other pressing issues. And there is no better way to stabilize the country than to utilize the legal process to hold accountable those responsible for atrocities perpetrated against the Liberian people during the war.

4. Utilizing the legal process to hold accountable those responsible for atrocities perpetrated against the Liberian people during the war can only be done through a government whose officials have nothing to do with Liberia’s 15 years of madness. Only those with clean hands can champion such a noble cause.

5. Those who bear the greatest responsibilities for the horrors in Liberia must be held accountable for the crimes committed. Holding accountable individuals responsible for the rape, torture, and the cold-blooded murder of more than 300,000 men, women and children including 5 (five) American citizens is critical to restoring normalcy.

6. Decades of injustice, intimidation and abuse have rendered the Liberian people powerless. Liberians must pray the US, the key economic and security ally of Liberia, to intervene in the interest of justice and peace to save the state. Liberians must desperately seek the direct intervention of the United States of America to rescue Liberia specially this time.

7. Liberia needs retributive justice irrespective of the headaches and ruckus that may come with it.

8. Madam Sirleaf has claimed consistently that she had no role in the war that maimed and killed innocent people and destroyed the country’s entire infrastructure. She must be presented an opportunity to exonerate herself in a Liberian war crime court. If Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is responsible, as the evidence indicates, regardless whether such crimes were committed in Liberia or in Sierra Leon, it would be a travesty of justice to have indicted former president Charles Taylor and removed him from office; but yet allow Ms. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to remain head of state even though she also is suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

9. The evidence shows Ms. Sirleaf played a central role in the planning, financing and directing of a war so brutal, so violent and so devastating that experts have labeled it one of the worst in modern History. Ordering the NPFL forces to attack the then overcrowded City of Monrovia shows the extent to which Ms. Sirleaf was willing to go in order to become president.

10. Truth Commission has recommended, based upon review of the evidence, that Madam Sirleaf not hold public office for a period of 30 years. This recommendation must be respected by the Liberian government as well as be embraced by Liberia’s international partners including the United States of America.

11. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her accomplices must account for their role in the 15-year carnage that claimed more than 300,000 lives and wrecked the county’s entire infrastructure. This is the right thing to do, even if it means carrying out citizens’ arrest. Retribution must be swift, proportional and just. After all, democracy is not an event to be observed only on
Election Day; rather it’s a way of life.

12. If the people of Liberia allow rape, torture and murder to go unpunished, soon there will be nothing left to protect. This is why it is important for the Civilize World (The United States of America) to break the cycle of poverty, ignorance, disease and untimely death by holding accountable those bearing the greatest responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity whether in Liberia or elsewhere on this planet. Surely the UN could help by standing with the victims as well.

13. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf must not be allowed to provide cover for persons who have committed unspeakable atrocities. Impunity must not trump accountability. This will make it difficult – if not impossible – to restore normalcy in post-war Liberia under the leadership of persons who are connected in any way to the senseless destruction of lives and properties in Liberia during the 15-year war.

14. The integrity of Liberia’s 2011 Presidential election will be seriously compromised with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the race while the TRC issue remains unresolved. Should this happen, fear is that the alternative is 100% obvious. Steps must be taken now to address this issue so confidence may be restored to Liberia’s electoral process. The present electoral system in
Liberia does not work. In fact it is alleged that the current Election Commission chair is a member of a former warring faction. Therefore, the National Elections Commission (NEC) must be reconstituted and must be independent. It must operate in conformity with UN standards, in order to ensure that the rights and interests of Liberians are guaranteed, and that elections are organized in a manner that is acceptable to all.

15. Reelecting Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to the Presidency would be an endorsement of the status quo and a return to business as usual in Liberia.

16. Ms. Sirleaf is incapable of preventing Liberia from again returning to violence; the call for interim government in Liberia should be seen by Liberians and the international community as a commitment to transform Liberia into a nation of laws as well as an effort to end the culture of impunity.

17. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf should see reasons to consider stepping aside until she clarifies her role in the 15-year carnage in Liberia. Such reasons which are not difficult to find because of abundance evidences already provided by the Truth commission of Liberia.

18. The suggestion of President Johnson-Sirleaf stepping aside is based on documented evidence that Ms. Sirleaf as well as former president Charles Taylor and others may have broken the law. They are suspected of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity – offenses so contemptible there is no statutory limitation or safe haven within the civilized world.

19. Because Liberia’s legal system currently is in total disarray, those who planned, financed and executed the 15-year carnage have not yet been brought to justice, and there is no plan to heal the nation. U.N. travel ban and assets freeze have yet to be enforced. Liberians should consider a new direction in Leadership. The presence of U.N. Troops gives a false sense of security with nothing being done to address these issues.

20. Because Liberia’s legal system currently is in total disarray, persons guilty of rape and tortures continue to elude justice; their victims have no redress. The legal system of Liberia must be reinvented so that victims have an opportunity for redress.

21. The population is mired in hopelessness and despair. Liberians and the international partners must not allow chaos and lawlessness to engulf Liberia; Corruption in government must be minimized as soon as possible. This can only happen under an interim government with clean hands.

22. The issue of land dispute presents a clear and present danger. This must be serious address as soon as possible.

23. A large percentage of the population survives exclusively on remittances from abroad specially so from the US. This is a clear indication that the economy of the country is in danger!!!!

24. Because of the lack of proper system to work with as such the lack of rule of law in Liberia, the entire governmental system should be reinvented to reflect current reality in the country. This can only be done under an interim government with clean hands.

25. Liberians must be aware at this time that corruption has engulfed Liberia as such government officials have begun singing bogus contracts that have the propensity to turn Liberia into a bankrupt nation .

26. It would be a wise idea for Liberians to consider recommending the setting up of an interim Government to oversee activities of a contractual nature since it is widely alleged that most top government officials in the current Liberian government have committed some forms of crimes against humanity.

27. That such proposed interim government must work in collaboration with Liberia’s international partners in carrying out the responsibility of ensuring that all public financial and budgetary commitments entered into by government are properly reviewed and proven to be transparent, non-monopolistic and in accordance with the laws of Liberia and internationally accepted norms of commercial practice.

28. That such proposed interim government is charged with the responsibility of ensuring that public officers will not use their positions to benefit from any contract financed from public funds.

29. That such interim government is charged with the responsibility of ensuring the formulation and effective implementation of sound macro-economic policies that will support sustainable development goals.

30. Collaborate with the international institutions to provide finance to Liberia in carrying out its functions.

31. That such Interim Government shall request the United Nations, the African Union, ECOWAS and other members of the International Community as appropriate specially the United States of America, to jointly conduct, monitor, and supervise the next elections in the country.

32. That education and registration programs be organized by the newly reconstituted NEC, in collaboration with other national and International organizations under the supervision of the United States, ECOWAS, and the United Nations.

Only a government with people who had no part to play in the 15 years carnage in Liberia can move the country forward.

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Good leadership is not measured by a person’s gender, race, or class, nor is it measured by a person’s ability to initiate a political campaign. A blood stained hand full with dishonesty that is targeted against the survival of innocent women and children is completely opposite to a good and ethical leadership.

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<By Bernard Gbayee Goah

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf continues to brag about the “improved” human rights record in Liberia under her administration. She recently boasted of her hard work in observing and improving human rights at the United Nations General Assembly.  I would argue that human rights in Liberia are not improved and are in fact not where they should be after 5 years under her administration.
There continues to be human rights abuses both in an effort to wrongfully protect offenders and wrongfully accuse the innocent.

Embarrassingly, the statement of President Johnson-Sirleaf is erroneous.
Since the 2003 signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended the 1989 civil war in Liberia, the UN Mission in Liberia (UNIMIL) and UN International Police (UNPOL) have shared the responsibility of maintaining security within Liberia with the Liberian National Police and the Armed Forces. According to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s 2009 country report on human rights practices in Liberia (published March 11, 2010), there were many instances in which government security forces acted in a manner that infringed upon the rights of civilians.  UNIMIL and UNPOL had no prior knowledge of these actions nor were they involved in carrying out these action.

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor also mentioned mob violence and land disputes which resulted in deaths and ritualistic killings. Some of the killings were allegedly carried out by top government officials. They also report police abuse, harassment, and intimidation of detainees and citizens.

President Johnson-Sirleaf claims that Liberia’s human rights record is up to international standards.  Yet the justice system, in its current state would prove otherwise.  Prison conditions remain harsh and arbitrary arrests and detention are cloaked in darkness occurring in the late hours when few can witness the offenses against their neighbors. Once those who are arrested are behind prison doors, due process is often withheld as are their basic human rights.  Instead of going to trial in a timely manner, justice is delayed.  Instead of being tried with constitutional protection there are reports of trial by ordeal, leaving no legal recourse for the allegedly accused.

Many times people are arrested on unfounded charges or for crimes against the state.  When in fact these people have done nothing wrong but to speak out against the current administration, which in turn takes personal offense and acts in retaliation.  This is exactly what happened when Charles Julu was arrested in 2008 for crimes he allegedly committed but without due process and put into prison for months without being formerly charged. At last when pressure groups in the United States and elsewhere demanded a free and fair trial, Julu was declared not guilty by a Liberian court. Charles Julu died months later from alleged treatments he received while in prison.
Up to now neither the government nor the United Nations has questioned the mysterious death of Charles Julu.

President Johnson-Sirleaf claims that Liberia’s human rights record is up to international standards.  Yet the police, those hired to uphold the law and protect civilians, wreak havoc and instill fear. Police continually abuse, harass, and intimidate civilians, in an effort to extort money and for personal means. Journalists, human rights advocates, as well as other pressure group such as the Widows of Ex-AFL soldiers continue to be harassed, and threatened on a daily basis by police.

One wonders what criterion the Liberian government is using to substantiate its claims of an improved human rights record.  The perceived improvement the outside world sees in Liberia is merely a mirage.  My guess is the claims made by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf are easily accepted, and of course she knows this, because when people think of Liberia they remember the war and assume that there could only be improvement.  Whereas it is true that people are not dying by the gun but instead rotting to death in prison on unfounded charges.  Women and children are no longer raped by soldiers and rebels, but instead by neighbors.  Banks and stores are no longer looted by rebels, but instead government officials.  Just as during the war, those committing crimes walk free.  What must be highlighted are the experiences of Liberians
today, not the memory of what happened during war.  If that were the case, the claim of an improved human rights record would not be accepted, but instead questioned.

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ASIA: How Typhoon Megi got its name

Photo: NASA

Satellite view of Typhoon Higos over Mariana Islands, Pacific Ocean

BANGKOK, 18 October 2010 (IRIN) – As one of the strongest typhoons in five years rips through the Philippines, some might be wondering why it is called Megi – the Korean word for catfish.

Disaster warnings – and storm names – have come a long way since meteorological organizations began naming storms after GPS coordinates. “If the name sounds more familiar, it’s good for warning information – it’s easier for people to know what is going on,” said Senaka Basnayakem, urban risk management specialist at the Bangkok-based Asia Disaster Preparedness Centre.

On 13 October 2010 a tropical depression with winds less than 63km per hour began to brew near Micronesia in the Western Pacific Ocean. The Tokyo-based Regional Specialized Meteorological Center (RSMC), part of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), assigned the storm, which fell into its jurisdiction, a four-digit identification number, 1013, to represent the 13th storm in 2010, said Yoshiro Tanaka, scientific officer in the forecast division of JMA.

Know your storms?
	Cyclone:Generic term for strong wind and storm system
	Tropical Storm: Storm with winds more than 63km/hour
	Typhoon: Storm with winds more than 118km/hour (same conditions as hurricane)
	Super Typhoon: Storm with winds more than 240km/hour
	Category 5: Winds that reach 250km/hour

After 12 hours, winds strengthened to more than 63km per hour and 1013 was upgraded to a tropical storm – at which point the RSMC consulted a pre-determined list of storm names prepared by the inter-governmental Typhoon Committee and came up with Megi.

Since 2000, the Typhoon Committee, part of the World Meteorological Organization/UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (WMO/ESCAP), has maintained a list of 140 names for storms originating in the Western North Pacific and South China Sea. The names tend to be gender neutral and are not assigned alphabetically, unlike their Western counterparts.

Juan is the local name for the storm given by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, which has its own naming system. Nevertheless, internationally, this storm is referred to as Megi.

Since being named Megi at 1200 GMT on 13 October, it has turned into a “super typhoon”, nearing Category 5 status, with winds of over 225km per hour, according to the latest report from the Philippines’ National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

WMO/ESCAP’s list of names was last reviewed at the Typhoon Committee’s annual meeting in Singapore in January 2010. “Chaba”, a submission from Thailand meaning tropical flower, is next on the list.

Apart from the WMO/ESCAP panel on tropical cyclones, there are three other regional bodies in Asia with tropical cyclone naming schemes.

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Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is hosting the second ministerial meeting of the Northern Dimension, a cooperation between the EU, Iceland, Russia and Norway focusing on partnerships in North West Russia, the Barents and Baltic Sea regions and the Arctic.

The foreign ministers from the Russian Federation, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Estonia will participate, as well as State Secretaries from Poland, Lithuania and Denmark. Participation from the EU is to be announced.

The meeting will focus on cross border cooperation. Partnerships are in place in the areas of environment and health. At the Oslo meeting, new partnerships on transportation and logistics and on culture will be entered into. Regional cooperation bodies and financial institutions will also be represented. These include the Barents Euro-Arctic Council, Arctic Council, Council of the Baltic Sea States and Nordic Council of Ministers, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Nordic Investment Bank and Nordic Environment Finance Corporation.

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