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DM ELENOVSKI TO ATTEND
NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL'S MEETING IN VILNIUS
Defense Minister Lazar Elenovski will attend the North Atlantic Council's
meeting on non-NATO ISAF contributors on February 7-8 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The meeting will address ongoing efforts towards establishing security and
democracy in Afghanistan.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will address the event.
Elenovski on his part will refer to Macedonia's contribution to the
international community efforts for Afghan stability. At the meeting's
sidelines, Elenovski will meet his Canadian counterpart Peter Gordon MacKay,
the Ministry of Defense said in a press release.
ROLLING STONES FILM
TO OPEN BERLINALE
The 58th Berlin Film Festival kicks off on Thursday with the world premiere
of Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert movie.
Scorsese along with Mick Jagger and the rest of the Stones will join a long
list of international stars on the red carpet at this year's festival which
will be a celebration of music and film.
This includes Madonna, Julia Roberts, Eric Bana, Penelope Cruz, Neil Young,
Ben Kingsley, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
Also expected in Berlin for the festival will be Scarlett Johansson and
Natalie Portman, with women both as directors and performers also playing a
prominent role at the Berlinale.
More than 20 movies have been selected for the Berlinale's main competition
with Greek-born director Constantin Costa-Gavras and his jury announcing the
winner of the festival's prestigious Golden Bear at a Hollywood-style gala
set down for February 16.
Included in the line up competing for the top awards are flicks from Iran,
Europe, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, the US and Asia.
Apart from Scorsese's Rolling Stones' documentary, Madonna is expected to
whip up a media storm in Berlin with her directing debut, Filth and Wisdom,
a comedy about the dreams of ordinary people and starring Richard E Grant.
This year's Berlinale will also mark a series of anniversaries, including
the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding and the 40th anniversary of the
anti-war movement in the US unleashed by the Vietnam conflict.
The Israeli anniversary also comes at a time of growing international
recognition of the country's movie makers, in particular at the world's
leading film festivals.
A year after Tuya's Marriage ( Tuya De Hunshi ) from China won the
Berlinale's coveted Golden Bear, the Berlinale will also once again showcase
new cinema from Asia
This year's lineup includes the world premiere of leading Chinese director
Wang Xiaoshuai's Zuo You (In Love We Trust), famed Hong Kong-born director
Johnnie To's (Man Jeuk ) Sparrow as well as South Korean director Hong
Sangsoo's Bam gua Nat (Night and Day).
Japanese director Yoji Yamada's Kabei ( Kabei - Our Mother), starring Sayuri
Yoshinaga , Mitsugoro Bando, Tadanobu Asano is also in the running for a
Golden Bear.
But as has been in the case with other leading festivals, the war in Iraq
again comes under the spotlight in Berlin with the world premiere of
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris' movie about the Abu Ghraib
prison scandal, S.O.P. Standard Operating Procedure.
Carrying the flag at the Berlinale for Central European cinema will be
veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda's Katyn , which delves into one of the
darkest moments in Poland's history - the massacre of thousands of Polish
war prisoners by the Soviet secret service in 1940. |
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US DENIED GIVING NEW PROPOSAL FOR THE NAME
The US Government denied the claims of the Greek press that will come up
with new proposal to solve name dispute between the Republic of Macedonia
and Greece.
- "There is no such proposal," US Department’s Bureau on European and
Eurasian Affairs Chase Bimmer stated for the Voice of America, commenting
the allegations of the Greek daily Kathimerini that the proposal – a
composite name for the Balkan country – is to be revealed to Greek Foreign
Minister Dora Bakoyannis by her US counterpart Condoleezza Rice during a
scheduled meeting in Washington on Feb.14. According to the US proposal, as
daily reads, FYROM could use this name in its dealings with Athens and
presence in international organizations while using its constitutional name
of Republic of Macedonia in its bilateral relations with other countries.
Bimmer said that the US position has not changed. - We support the process
of Nimetz and encourage both parties to find solution to the name dispute in
the frames of UN–led talks. We will support any compromise that the parties
will agree to.
He expected that the name dispute will not be an obstacle for possible NATO
invitation for Macedonia at the Bucharest Summit.
- We do not consider that these differences should prevent aspirations of
the Republic of Macedonia to be integrated in the Euro-Atlantic community.
However Bimmer did not want to comment how the US would react on possible
veto by Greece explaning that it is about hypothetical situation. |
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