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Urgent press conference

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MEDIA ALERT:

URGENT PRESS CONFERENCE

In an unprecedented move, South African based NGO’s will announce a groundbreaking application to the National Prosecuting Authority and Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation for prosecution in South Africa of individuals responsible for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity committed in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

Included in the 3500-page supporting evidence are complaints that the crimes have been committed within the wider context of Israel’s continuing policies of colonialism and apartheid. 

Due to legal sensitivities, an embargo that had been placed on details up to this point will be lifted at the conference.

Professor John Dugard SC and Professor Max du Plessis, two of South Africa’s leading international lawyers, are the lead counsel for the complainants.

VENUE: CIVICUS HOUSE,

                  CNR GWIGWI MWEBE & QUINN STREETS, NEWTOWN

               [Close to Market Theatre – Take Carr St/ Newtown Off ramp]

DATE: Wednesday, 5th August 2009

TIME:  11am

Issued By:

 Dr. Firoz Osman                                              Nazim Adam

 Secretary General                                         Secretary General

 Media Review Network                                  Palestine Solidarity Alliance

 

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Us envoy in china for talks on nkorea nuclear deal

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US envoy Christopher Hill

Picture: (AFP/Frederic J. Brown)
US envoy Christopher Hill, seen here, held talks Saturday with his Chinese counterpart amid stepped up efforts to salvage a crumbling North Korean nuclear disarmament deal

 

A US embassy spokesman says US envoy Christopher Hill held talks today with his Chinese counterpart amid stepped up efforts to salvage a crumbling North Korean nuclear disarmament deal.

He says Hill briefed top nuclear negotiator Wu Dawei on the outcome of his discussions this week with North Korean officials on the faltering deal to halt the communist state’s nuclear ambitions.

The US diplomat Friday described as "very substantive" the talks during his visit to Pyongyang, but gave no further details, saying he
must first brief other parties to the six-nation agreement.

A dispute over inspections of the North’s nuclear facilities threatens to wreck last year’s agreement under which the North shut down its nuclear programme in return for fuel aid and its removal from a US terrorism blacklist.

The North now threatens an imminent restart of its plutonium reprocessing plant at Yongbyon, an issue which Hill called a "great concern

The State Department said Friday In an indication of the challenges facing Hill and the other envoys, the North was still moving to restart the plant despite the envoy’s Pyongyang visit.

The North announced last month it had halted work in protest at Washington’s refusal to drop it from the US blacklist of countries supporting terrorism, as promised under the deal.

SAPA-AFP

 

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