Sunday the 1st er February 2002

• With Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle in Galicia, more than 200.000 people expresses, showing incurie the governments national and regional, in their management of the ecological consequences of the shipwreck of the tanker Prestige. The following day, the king Juan Carlos goes on the coasts of Galicia to evaluate the damage.

Monday December 2nd 2002

• Meeting with London between Nicolas Sarkozy and her British counterpart David Blunkett, on the closing of the center of Sangatte (Pas-de-Calais) as of on December 30th, is three months before the date envisaged.
• the US government reaffirms that the result of the inspections of UNO is essential little and that only will count “the evidence” provided by the Iraqi Gouvernement on the projection of its disarmament.

Tuesday December 3rd 2002

• In France, some 150 Rumanian gypsies of three Shantytown S and a squatt of the the Valley-of-Marne are evacuated by the police force and are placed in administrative detention. 56 will be released December 5th and 6th for “defects of procedures”.
• Following the location of tablecloths of fuel coming from the oil Prestige, release of the Polmar plan on the Atlantic coast.

Wednesday December 4th 2002

• With the seat of NATO, with the return of a visit to Ankara where it obtained Turkey which it opens its air bases with the civil aviation allied from the point of view of an offensive against the Iraq, the American Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz, declares: “ We already gathered a powerful coalition… a great number of allies indicated that they would be with us, no matter what it arrives ”.
• In Argentinian, walk on the Plaza of Mayo to Buenos Aires to claim food for the poor children. According to the CTA, every 25 minutes a child dies because of poverty.
• With the Venezuela, the opposition, supported by employers' association “Fedecamaras”, certain trade unions and it quasi totality of the media, starts a general strike, which will paralyze the oil sector, and of many demonstrations to claim the resignation of the president Hugo Chávez.
• on December 10th, appearance of American flags in the demonstrations.
• the 14, one counts more than one million demonstrators in the streets.
• 29, several hundreds of thousands with Caracas.

Thursday December 5th 2002

• the president Jacques Chirac inaugurates with Paris the “national Memorial of the war of Algeria and the combat of Morocco and the Tunisia” in homage to the 23.000 French soldiers and harkis fallen year North Africa.
• Israeli the Prime Minister dictates his conditions for the creation of a “Palestinian State”:
• it would be tiny room to approximately 40% of the the West Bank and with the tois quarters of the Gaza Strip,
• it would be demilitarized, could control neither its borders, neither its airspace, nor its foreign politics,
• Yasser Arafat will have to be withdrawn.

Friday December 6th 2002

Saturday December 7th 2002

• the Iraqi Gouvernement gives to the inspectors of the United Nations and IAEA his report/ratio relating to stocks and programs of nonconventional armaments and ballistic missiles (12.000 pages and of the cédéroms). The United States expresses their skepticism.

Sunday December 8th 2002

• In France: in an partial legislative election of Yvelines, the candidate UMP Philippe Brillault for whom Alain Juppe had personally engaged, is largely outdistanced by the UDF Christian Blanc, which will be elected with the second turn.
• In Serbia, new presidential election, 56 days after the poll of October 12th, cancelled for insufficiency of rate of participation. The president Vojislav Koštunica obtains 58% of the voices in front of the nationalist candidate Vojislav Seselj (35%). However rate of participation being again lower than 50% the poll is again invalidated.
• Chadwick (Chad) A. Trujillo and Michael (Mike) E. Brown discover a satellite (S/2001 (47171) 1) with the asteroid transneptunien (47171) 1999 TC36.

Monday December 9th 2002

• In France: signature of a draft-agreement, under the aegis of the ministry for the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, between the National federation of the Moslems of France (FNMF), the Large mosque of Paris and the Union of the Islamic organizations of France (UOIF). in front of the protests of the other Muslim organizations, Nicolas Sarkozy decides the meeting of a “Consultation of the Islam of France” from December 18th to 20th, with the castle of Nainville-the-Rocks (the Essonne).
• the agreement is finally obtained the 20.
• After the discovery of a mass grave in the west of the Ivory Coast, the France request the opening of an international survey. Sending of new reinforcements and fixings with the rebels.
• Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt and Jan Kleyna discovers Aitné, Eurydomé, Hermippé, Calé and Spondé.

Tuesday December 10th 2002

• the National Assembly vote the private bill of the UMP Pierre Lellouche reinforcing the legislative arsenal antiracist and relating to the repression of the “ dispute of crimes against humanity ”.
• Whereas the US government multiplies the pressures on the European Union so that it engages of the negotiations on the entry of the Turkey, the president George W. Bush receives Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, chief of the islamist party Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) with the capacity.
• Of the Missiles Scud is discovered on board a cargo liner North-Korean travelling towards the Yemen and hailed in Mer of Oman by two Spanish warships. The Yemen having guaranteed final destination of these missiles, the boat is authorized to carry on its road.
• the American Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld visits some in Ethiopia, in Érythrée and to Djibouti, invites these three countries to join the the United States in their “ fight against terrorism ” and to accept a reinforcement of the American military presence in the area.
• Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt and Jan Kleyna repeats and discovers Autonoé.

Wednesday December 11th 2002

• With Kourou in French Guiana, the new version of the launcher ARIANE 5 knows a failure. After 3 minutes of flight, the rocket must be destroyed with its two satellites: “Hot Bird 7” and “Stentor”
• the White House makes public a document by which the US government reserves “ the right to answer with a crushing force, including by the use of all the options at their disposal, with the use of weapons of massive destruction against the United States, their forces abroad, their friends and their allies ”.
• Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt and Jan Kleyna repeats and discovers Euanthé, Euporie, Orthosie, Pasithée and Thyoné. Jupiter has from now on the 39 moons.

Thursday December 12th 2002

• president Jaqcues Chirac receives the report/ratio of the “commission of reflection on the penal statute of the president of the republic”, chaired by Pierre April. The text recommends:
• to register in the Constitution, the principle of the “inviolability” of the Head of the State, as well with penal as with the civilian.
• to found n the other hand, in the event of “failure with its duties”, a procedure of Dismissal by the Parliament, inspired by the Impeachment of the the United States.
• In the Business of the financing of RPR, a judge of Nanterre, Alain Philibeaux , engages of the continuations against X for “illegal catch of interest” and “concealment of illegal catch of interest”.
• Summit of the European Union, from December 12th to 13rd, with Copenhagen (Denmark). The widening of the Union with ten novel members, starting from May 1st, 2004, is ratified. Opening of negotiations on the integration of the Turkey is fixed at December 2004, and not since 2003 as Ankara and Washington wished it.
• In India, the regional elections in the Goujerat are gained by the Hindu nationalists of BJP, already with the capacity in this State.
• the Gouvernement North-Korean of Pyongyang announces the “immediate” resumption of its programme of production of Plutonium, in theory cold since 1994. The 22, the equipment installed on the site of Yongbyon by the IAEA, are dismantled, and the 27, the two inspectors of IAEA present on the site are expelled.

Friday December 13rd 2002

Saturday December 14th 2002

• the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy, at the time of her third Corsica visit in , meets about thirty elected officials with Bastia and announces to the extension of the statute of free zone until 2006.
• Spanish the Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar goes in Galicia, where it is accommodated by hostile demonstrators. He is sorry “” for the “made errors”.
• With London, from December 14th to 16th, congress of the Iraqi opposition, joining together some six hundreds delegated, under the aegis of the the United States.
• With Seoul in South Korea, demonstration joining together between two hundreds and three hundred and thousand people, to protest against the payment, on November 28th, two responsible American soldiers, in June, to have crushed two teenagers with their armoured tank.

Sunday December 15th 2002

Monday December 16th 2002

• With Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), arrest by the Direction of the monitoring of the territory of four islamist (three Algerian and a Morrocan) of which 3 had followed a training course in Chetchnia.
• the 21, a new arrest with the Franco-Spanish Border.
• 24, four new arrests with Romainville (Seine-Saint-Denis).
• the 27, the ministry for the interior indicates that the 9 islamist decrees prepared an attack against the embassy of Russia in Paris.
• permanent Closure of the center of Sangatte (Pas-de-Calais) while new illegal immigrants continue to flow.

Tuesday December 17th 2002

• the president George W. Bush orders the deployment in Alaska of a first shield anti-missile since 2004.

Wednesday December 18th 2002

• the president George W. Bush says “ worried by the omissions ” of the report submitted by the Iraqi Gouvernement to UNO and IAEA. 19, the American Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaks about “omissions”, and “ obvious violations ” of the resolution 1441 and indicates that if disarmament “ cannot be made peacefully, it will be by the force ”.
• Assassination in Turkey of Dr. Necip Hablemitoglu , professor of political sciences to the University of Ankara, burning defender of secularity. This crime awoke the fear of a new period of political instability. “ It is clearly a terrorist act, a political crime ”, declared the president Ahmet Necdet Sezer.

Thursday December 19th 2002

• In France, with three other leaders of the group, Christian Picart, founder of the chain of restaurants “Buffalo Grill” is continued for “manslaughters”. They are suspected fraudulently of having imported, between 1996 and 2000, of the British meat then under embargo because of the crisis of the mad cow.
• Arrest with Saint-Martin-with-Seignanx (Moors), of one of the presumed heads of the military branches of the ETA, Ibon Fernandez de Iradi, alias “susper”. In the night of the 21 to the 22, he escapes from the police station of Bayonne where he was as a police custody.
• the the European Parliament adopted a claiming text that Turkey definitively separates “civil and military competences” from the capacity, before the EU can enter into with it negociations of adhesion. The European deputies ask the European commission to present “ a list of concrete objectives ” bearing on the respect of the democracy, of the Rule of law and of the human rights, like on the respect of the minorities, such as they were defined by Europeans, in June 1993 in Copenhagen.
• presidential Election in South Korea gained by Roh Moo-hyun, in favor of the continuation of the co-operation with the North Korea and of a greater independence with respect to the United States.

Friday December 20th 2002

• the pope Jean-Paul II promulgates the decrees preparing for on October 19th, 2003, the beatification of Mère Teresa, deceased on September 5th, 1997.

Saturday December 21st 2002

• Death of the journalist Patrick Bourrat, international reporter to TF1, reversed by an American tank, at the time of a report in the desert of the Kuwait.

Sunday December 22nd 2002

• According to a revelation of old of the Algerian secret services, imprisoned since the year 2000 with Bangkok, the Algerian army would be narrowly implied in removal and the assassination of the seven French monks of Tibérine, in 1996.
• In answer to criticisms received on the report submitted to IAEA and UNO, the Iraqi Gouvernement known as not to have additional documents to provide, accepts the interrogations of the scientific community, and requires of the CIA to send agents “ to indicate to the experts disarmament of UNO the sites which would have to be inspected ”. The 23, end not-to receive US government.

Monday December 23rd 2002

Tuesday December 24th 2002

• Israel prevents for the second time, Yasser Arafat to attend the midnight mass to Bethlehem.

Wednesday December 25th 2002

Thursday December 26th 2002

• It responsible for the programme of cloning of the movement of the raéliens announces with Miami (Florida) the birth of the first human clone. Unanimous judgment and skepticism of the scientists.

Friday December 27th 2002

• presidential Election with the Kenya: the candidate of the opposition, Mwai Kibaki, carries it largely on that of the party in power, and puts an end to 24 years capacity of the president Daniel Arap Me.
• the Turkish National Assembly vote a series of constitutional amendments making possible the candidature of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, islamist chief of AKP, with an partial legislative election in February 2003.

Saturday December 28th 2002

• the police force stops French of Algerian origin, luggage handler with the Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle, with weapons and explosives in its car. Later it proves that it is a blow assembled by its ex-beautiful-family.

Sunday December 29th 2002

• the American Secretary of State Colin Powell estimates that the Iraqi crisis cannot “ last indefinitely” and that the the United States are on the point of retorting. On the other hand no “ preventive striking ” is envisaged against the North Korea.

Monday December 30th 2002

• an islamist attack a hospital missionary Baptist with the Yemen and keep silent three American doctors and wounds a fourth of it.

Tuesday December 31st 2002

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