December 2003

the éphéméride | All on December and 2003

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Monday the 1st er February 2003

  • Europe: Meeting, with Maastricht (Netherlands) of the interdepartmental council of SOEC (Organization for safety and the co-operation in Europe.
    • the Russian Minister for the Foreign affairs, Igor Ivanov warns the the United States and the European Union against any activism in the zones of traditional influences of the Russia, and announces that the Russian government refuses to close its military bases in Georgia and in Moldavie.
  • France: The plan Vigipirate is assembled towards the orange phase. 1st at December 5th, mud floods and flows occur in the south of France where 16 departments are classified in a state of natural disaster.
  • Swiss: Official launch of the Initiative of Geneva, an alternative peace plan, worked out by the Israeli Yossi Beilin and Palestinian the Yasser Abd Rabbo to give keys for the resolution of the israélo-Palestinian conflict. This action is supported by the American Secretary of State, Colin Powell.
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Tuesday December 2nd 2003

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Wednesday December 3rd 2003

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Thursday December 4th 2003

  • Iraq: In answer, with the agreement concluded the last November 26th, between France, Great Britain and Germany, for the creation of a European HQ of “ planning and control of military operations, independently of the Atlantic Alliance, the American Secretary of State, Colin Powell declare that the the United States “ cannot accept independent European structures which would make doubled bloom with existing capacities of NATO ”.

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Friday December 5th 2003

  • France: The Minister for Justice, Dominique Perben, moving back in front of the media outcry, announces the withdrawal of the Garraud amendment of which the goal was to create the involuntary offense of interruption of pregnancy, in particular in the cases of traffic accidents having resulted in the death of an expectant mother.
  • the Caucasus of North: Attack-suicide, in a suburban train, close to Essentouki: 42 died and 150 wounded.
  • Iraq; The president George W. Bush names the former Secretary of State (1989 - 1992, James Baker, special correspondent for the Iraqi debt.
  • Tunisia: from December 5th to 6th, with Tunis, Europe-Maghreb top, in the presence of the leaders of the 5 Maghreb countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria…) and of 5 European countries (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Malta).

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Saturday December 6th 2003

Sunday December 7th 2003

  • France: Referendum territorial on the question of my installation of a single territorial collectivity: 72,98% of “not” in Guadeloupe and 50,48% of “not” in Martinique. But yes leaves at the head to St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (95,51%) and to Saint Martin's day (76,17%).
  • Russia: legislative elections gained by the new party the plain Russia supporting the president Vladimir Poutine with 36,8% of the voices. Bored “democratic Liberal party” of Vladimir Jirinovski with 12% of voice (5,9% in 1999), and falls of the “Russian Communist party” with 12,7% of the voices (25,4% in 1999).
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Monday December 8th 2003

Tuesday December 9th 2003

  • Russia: attack tchetchene in front of the National hotel, with Moscow: 6 dead.
  • Iraq: The US government refuses with the countries, not having taken part in the coalition, the right to take part in the invitations to tender launched within the framework of the rebuilding of the country.
    • the Japanese government decides the sending, for one year, of troops “'not fighting ”.
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Wednesday December 10th 2003

  • the Nobel Prize of peace was decreed for the first time at a woman of Islamic religion, Shirin Ebadi.
  • Swiss: the federal Parliament elects as an federal adviser (minister), the president of the democratic Union of the center (Right main road), Christoph Blocher.
  • Iraq:
    • the IGC (the temporary Council of government) decides creation of a special court charged to judge the persons in charge of the old mode.
    • the New Zealander Ross Mountain becomes the new one representing UNO in Iraq.
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Thursday December 11th 2003

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Friday December 12th 2003

  • European Union: Meeting of the the Council of the heads of state and government widened to the future members, about the adoption of the project of European Constitution, but which leads to a failure because of obstruction of the Polish and Spanish governments.
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Saturday December 13rd 2003

  • Norway, with Oslo, died at the 27 years age of Keiko, the Orque high-speed motorboat of the film Save Willy continuations of a Pneumonie. The reacclimatation of the orc to the wild life had been a failure.
  • Iraq: The former Head of State Iraq IEN Saddam Hussein was stopped in a village with 15 kilometers of his stronghold of Tikrit at the time of an intervention of the American army and of a group of Kurdish soldiers Saturday December 13rd 2003 with 8:30 local time.
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Sunday December 14th 2003

  • Swiss: The new federal adviser (minister), Christoph Blocher, of the UDC (Right main road), is named at the federal minister of Justice and the Police force.
  • the news of the capture of the former Head of State Iraq IEN Saddam Hussein is announced according to a prepared media plan: confirmed by the American governor in Iraq Paul Bremer, British the Prime Minister Tony Blair, several members of the the Council of the Iraqi government and the Kurdish group having helped the American army in this intervention.
    • the advertisement of this capture caused scenes of joys in Baghdad (where shots were heard) and in everyone Arab thanks to the various television channels having relayed this information.
    • A few hours later, this new was also confirmed at the time of a press conference by the general Sanchez, consequently showing occasion of the images of the cellar where Saddam Hussein was dissimulated and deadened when it was stopped, and showing part of the medical examination undergone by Saddam Hussein after this arrest.
    • More than 600 American soldiers and Kurdish militiamans took part in the operation. The Iraqi ex-leader was in possession of an automatic pistol, 2 rifles Kalachnikov and 750  000 American dollars at the time of its arrest.
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Monday December 15th 2003

  • TPIY : In front of the court, the American Wesley Clark, old general ordering forces of NATO for the operation of war against the Serbia in 1999, showed the former president Slobodan Milošević, to have had “ an anticipated knowledge ” of the massacre of Srebrenica (Bosnia-Herzégovine) in July 1995.
    • the former general Wesley Clark is currently candidate with the democratic nomination for the next American presidential elections.
  • Iraq:
    • the president of the the temporary Council of the Iraqi government (IGC), Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, with the head of a delegation, is received with Paris, before leaving for Berlin and Rome.
    • the governments American, German and French, fell from agreement so that “ a substantial reduction of the Iraqi debt intervenes within the Club of Paris in 2004 ”.
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Tuesday December 16th 2003

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Wednesday December 17th 2003

  • France: following the Stasi report/ratio, the president Jacques Chirac announces a bill prohibiting the wearing of religious signs “ open ” in public education.

  • the United Kingdom: in the Business Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, the assassin of the little girls, Ian Huntley, is condemned to the life imprisonment, for the murder made in August 2002 with Soham (Comté of Cambridge).
  • the United States: in the Business Executive Life, the French government agrees to sign a final agreement, by which it urges the France to pay a fine record of 770 million US dollars, but the former president of LCL, Jean Peyrelevade is excluded from this agreement and will thus continue to be continued.
  • Iraq: after Paris and Berlin, the president of the the temporary Council of the Iraqi government (IGC), Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, with the head of a delegation, is received with Rome.
  • Iran: the Iranian government signs the additional protocol with the Traité nuclear non-proliferation by which it authorizes the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to carry out surprised inspections.
  • Aviation: at the time of the 100e birthday of the first flight of the Brothers Wright, the rocket SpaceShipOne, of manufacture deprived by the company Scaled Composites, reached the speed of 1,2 Mach and the altitude of 20,6 km. The objective is to gain the X-Price which will be decreed with the first machine which will be able to reach 100 km of altitude, to return on Earth and to start again in the 15 days. News on Space.com.
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Thursday December 18th 2003

  • France: the bill for the prohibition of the religious signs at the school is strongly criticized by the Secretary of State at interior Britannique Fiona Mactaggart and by John Hanford of the American State Department . This criticism is felt in France like a deep incomprehension between the French vision of the Laïcité and the principles of liberty nuns with Anglo-Saxon.
  • Israel-Palestine : Israeli the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, present his “ Plan separation ” unilateral in his broad outlines: removal of the isolated Jewish colonies, annexation of occupied sectors of the the West Bank, acceleration of the construction of the wall isolating Israel from the West Bank.
  • Sciences of the Universe: NASA publishes the first photographs of the infra-red first Space telescope Spitzer, a project of 670 million dollars.
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Friday December 19th 2003

  • the United States: The friends of Michael Jackson mobilize themselves to give to him their support within the framework of its committal for trial for sexual assault of a young boy (pedophilia).
  • Turkey: Adan Ersoz, the presumed head of the attacks of the November 15th and 20th, with Istanbul, is accused by the Cour of state security.
  • Data-processing: Version 2.6 of the core Linux is appeared.
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Saturday December 20th 2003

Sunday December 21st 2003

Monday December 22nd 2003

  • France: The new steamer Queen Mary 2 leaves the Shipyards of Saint-Nazaire to be delivered to Southampton (England).
  • Serbia: Opening to Belgrade of the lawsuit of 21 of 36 accused implied in the assassination of the former Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić the March 12th, 2003.
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Tuesday December 23rd 2003

Wednesday December 24th 2003

  • France: Six flights Paris - Los Angeles is cancelled in fear of a terrorist attack on Las Vegas. They were in fact misidentifyings passengers by FBI, according to the “Wall Street Journal”.
  • Spain: Terrorists of the ETA which wanted to place two bags of explosives in the Irun-Madrid train are stopped in red-handed.
  • Italy: The Italian group Parmalat Finanziaria, struck by an accounting scandal, files for bankruptcy its.
  • the United States: First official case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (ESB).
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Thursday December 25th 2003

  • Benign, air crash: A Boeing 727 is crushed on the takeoff of the airport of Cotonou, the assessment gives a report on 130 dead, 21 survivors and 10 missings.
  • Pakistan: After the attack of December 16th, the president of the Pakistani republic, Pervez Moucharraf escapes a new attack which makes 14 dead.
  • the probe Mars Express, of the European space agency is put into orbit around the planet Mars while the module Beagle 2 is posed. But the module did not answer after its landing.
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Friday December 26th 2003

  • Iran: Earthquake with Bam, in the south of the country. The last official results make state of more than 40.000 dead. The city was destroyed with 90  %. The international community is mobilized and it is the first time since 1979 which the country accepts the assistance of the the United States.
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Saturday December 27th 2003

Sunday December 28th 2003

Monday December 29th 2003

  • Portugal: In the Affaire of Put Pia, the public prosecutor of the Republic, Jose Souto Moura, formally showed ten eminent personages to have made “sexual violences on children and to exert the prostitution of minors”.
  • Burundi: The apostolic nuncio, Mgr Michael Courtney , of Irish nationality, is assassinated by balls.
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Tuesday December 30th 2003

  • a new case of SARS was officially confirmed in the area of Guangzhou (China).
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Wednesday December 31st 2003

  • France: Death of the actor Sophie Daumier at the 67 years age. She especially was known for her duets with Guy Bedos.
  • Iraq: The occupying forces count 155.000 men and come from 34 countries (of which no Arab or Moslem State).
  • Taiwan: The president Chen Shui-bian sign a law authorizing the referendums. The Popular republic of China condemned this law.
  • Burundi: The rebels Hutu S Burundian of the National liberation armies (FNL), last movement in war against the transition government of Burundi, launch an ultimatum against the president of the Episcopal conference, Mgr Simon Ntamwana, to which they give 30 days to leave the country, after this one showed them “to have carried out” the December 29th the Apostolic nuncio in Burundi, Mgr Michael Courtney.
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Simple: December 2003

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