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AMATEUR THEATRE FESTIVAL
"FACES WITHOUT MASKS" BEGINS
Performance "Romeo and Juliet", directed by Trajce Gjorgjiev, produced by
center of culture "Beli Mugri" from Kocani marks Tuesday the beginning of
amateur theatre festival "Faces without Masks" in Skopje-based Youth
Cultural Center.
"Story of the Soldier" of director Igor Trpcevski, produced by Prilep center
of culture "Marko Cepenkov" is also on Tuesday's program.
The audience will have the opportunity to see six other performances in the
next three days, selected by Igor Ivkovic. According to him, the task to
select eight plays was difficult, because despite scepticism, youth is
active on the scene.
The winning performance will be proclaimed on Friday, representing Macedonia
at international theatre festival of alternative and independent productions
"Faces without Masks" in April 2009.
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NEWS
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THE WASHINGTON POST: EUROPEANS MAY
TAKE GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
European countries will meet next month to discuss taking detainees from
Guantanamo Bay if the incoming Obama administration decides, as promised, to
close the prison, a German diplomat said Monday.
"We have always supported any policy that went toward closing Guantanamo,"
Ulrich A. Sante, the press counselor for the German Embassy in Washington,
told The Washington Times.
Portugal has already raised the issue in a recent letter from Foreign
Minister Luis Amado to his counterparts in the other 26 members of the
European Union.
Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Daniel Fried said Monday that he was
delighted by Mr. Amado's action.
"The letter by Amado was welcome and it reflects a European understanding
that to get past this problem, we all have to do our part," Mr. Fried said.
Mr. Sante said the EU Council of Foreign Ministers would meet in late
January to discuss accepting detainees from Guantanamo.
In the meantime, he said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has
asked the German Foreign Ministry's legal department to "clear all issues
regarding the detainees so we will be prepared" to respond to a U.S. request
to resettle some of the prisoners in Germany.
"The German government's opinion is that the closure [of Guantanamo] should
not be made impossible because of the question of inmates who are innocent
but cannot be reintegrated into their countries of origin," Mr. Sante said.
There are about 250 prisoners left at Guantanamo of whom about 60 have been
cleared for release by U.S. authorities.
A U.S. federal judge in October ordered 17 Chinese Uighurs to be released
for settlement in the United States. Host families were found for the 17 in
Virginia, but the prisoners have not yet been freed.
President-elect Barack Obama promised during the campaign to close
Guantanamo, which has undermined the U.S. reputation for providing due
process to detainees. Reports of poor treatment in Guantanamo have been
especially harmful to the U.S. image in Muslim nations, although Vice
President Cheney told The Times last week that the prison was a "first-rate
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