June 2002

Saturday the 1st er June 2002

  • Death with Paris of Jacques Fauvet former director of the newspaper Le Monde of 1969 to 1982, at the 87 years age.
  • Of 1st with June 15th, beginning of the festivities of the gold jubilee (50 years) of the queen Elisabeth II of England.
  • President George W. Bush, at the time of the bicentenary of the Military academy of West Point pleads for a strategy of preventive striking “against terrorism”.

Sunday June 2nd 2002

  • Décès with Paris of the president of the Institut of the Arab World Camille Canted , at the 71 years age. He was minister and senator and directed the administrative services of the Town of Paris.
  • In Madagascar, combat in the province of Antsiranana in the North-East of the island, between the forces of the new president Marc Ravalomanana and those of the outgoing president Didier Ratsiraka.

Monday June 3rd 2002

  • In Israel, the 4 Ministers for the ultra-orthodoxe party Shass, is reinstated in the government of Ariel Sharon after to be dismissed the May 20th to have voted against the plan of austerity.
  • the June 3rd and 4th, visits of the director of the CIA Georges Tenet with Tel-Aviv then with Ramallah about the reform of the Palestinian security systems.

Tuesday June 4th 2002

  • from June 4th to 12th, lawsuit in front of the Court of Assizes of Paris, of François Besse which is one of the great figures of the organized crime of the years 1970. It had been stopped with the Morocco in 1994.
  • In Italy, the House of Commons votes the bill hardening the conditions of entry and stay of the immigrants. The 28, the Senate votes also the law.
  • the June 4th and 5th, the International Conference on regional safety, with Almaty with the Kazakhstan, joins together 16 country of which Russia, China, Pakistan and India. Rejection by the Pakistani government of Pervez Musharraf, the proposal of the Indian government of Atal Behari Vajpayee, to organize mixed patrols with the Cashmere.

Wednesday June 5th 2002

  • In France at four days of the legislative elections, the government accepts the revalorization of the consultations required by the doctors (30€ by consultation); in exchange, the doctors commit themselves to prescribe generic medicines and using the international non-proprietary name (DCI, chemical name of the molecule) instead of trade name, in order to decrease the expenditure of the Health insurance.
  • Attack-suicide with the car bomb, close to Haïfa, in the north of Israel: 18 dead.
  • From June 5th to 13rd, round of mediation enters the Pakistan and the India, of the American diplomat Richard Armitage then of the Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld.

Thursday June 6th 2002

Friday June 7th 2002

Saturday June 8th 2002

  • Amadou Toumani Touré becomes president of the Republic of the Mali
  • the June 8th and 9th, finales of the open of tennis of Roland Garros gained by American the Serena Williams over his sister Venus Williams for the women, and by Spanish Alberto Costa over its compatriot Juan Carlos Ferrero , for the men.

Sunday June 9th 2002

  • In France, first turn of the legislative elections: Abstention record 35,58%, UMP 33,37%, UDF + DVD 8,75%, FN 11,34%, PS 24,11%, PC + extreme left 7,61%.
  • From June 9th to 12th, Tsahal response with the attack of June 5th, by the head office of the HQ of the president of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat with Ramallah In the West Bank.
  • Rehandling of the government of the Palestinian authority.
  • With the Mali, Ahmed Mohamed Ag Hamani is appointed Prime Minister.

Monday June 10th 2002

Tuesday June 11th 2002

  • Arrest with Chicago with the the United States, of Porto Rican a Jose Padilla converted with Islam under the name of Abdullah Al-Moudjahir , member of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda and suspected of preparing an bomb attack radioactive.
  • In Afghanistan, from June 11th to 13rd, the large council of the chiefs of tribes, the Loya Jirga , plebiscite Hamid Karzai as Head of the State for 18 months.

Wednesday June 12th 2002

  • Close to Vancouver to the Canada, meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the group of the G8 devoted to the fight against terrorism.
  • In Italy, crashing to pieces resignation of Vittirio Sgarbi under-secretary's department of State to the cultural Goods.
  • With Salamanque (Spain), alternate of Javier Ricardo Sánchez San Jose known as “Javier Valverde”, Spanish Matador.

Thursday June 13rd 2002

  • With Luxembourg, meeting of the Ministers of Interior Department of the fifteen countries of the European Union on the control of the migratory flux.
  • the French navy hails with broad of the Senegal the cargo liner Winner , leaf Kampuchean house , and transporting Cocaïne. This operation was made following an international survey carried out by the France, the Spain, the Greece and the the United States. However, the crew succeeds in throwing part of the cargo over edge.
  • NASA announces the discovery of a Planetary system of about fifteen planets revolving around a star of the Constellation of Cancer.

Friday June 14th 2002

  • In France, death of the producer and stimulating Jacques Rouland at the 72 years age, one of the founders of the emission “the invisible camera” in 1964.
  • June 14th and 15th, legislative elections in Czech Republic: success of the social democrats of Vladimir Spidla with 30,2% of the voices and 70 seats out of 200.
  • Departure towards the France of the outgoing president of Madagascar Didier Ratsiraka on an aircraft chartered by the French government.
  • With the Pakistan, car bomb attack against the American consulate of Karachi asserted by the islamist organization Tarjuman Al-Qanoon : 11 died and forty casualties.
  • With the Peru, beginning of the riots against the privatizations implemented by the government of the president Alejandro Toledo. The state of emergency is issued on June 16th.

Saturday June 15th 2002

  • the Prix of the Visitors of the living room of the Of Alsace 2002 is decreed with Jean-Jacques Mourreau for “a Rhenish summer”.

Sunday June 16th 2002

  • In France, with the second turn of the legislative elections, the UMP gains the absolute majority at the Parliament: Abstention record 39,71%, UMP 355 seats, various UDF + right-hand side 44 seats, PS 140 seats, PC 21 seats, various left 17 seats.
  • the pope Jean-Paul II proceeds to the canonization of Padre Pio (1887-1968) in the presence of a half-million faithful.
  • In Israel, the government makes carry out starting construction of a very long “end of safety” aiming at completely insulating the country with the potential terrorist threats coming from the West Bank.

Monday June 17th 2002

Tuesday June 18th 2002

  • Palestinian Attack-suicide against a bus connecting the Israeli colony of Gilo to Jerusalem: 19 dead Israelis. Tsahal undertakes to re-occupy the autonomous main cities of the West Bank, operation “Sees firm”.

Wednesday June 19th 2002

  • Palestinian Attack-suicide with Jerusalem-Is: 7 dead Israelis.

Thursday June 20th 2002

  • the French government engages, before the opening of the Summit of Seville , to bring back its public finances to balance in 2004.
  • General strike in Spain against the reform of the system of allowance unemployment, adopted by Order in Council.
  • the British pass the responsibility for the command of the ISAF (International force of assistance and safety) to the Turks.

Friday June 21st 2002

  • From June 21st to 22nd, Summit of the European Union in Seville in Spain of the Heads of States and governments of the fifteen countries, devoted primarily to the control of the migratory flux:
    • the Spain and the Great Britain, mainly, present a project of which the goal is to impose economic sanctions on the countries providers of illegal immigration. The France and the Sweden ruin the project.
    • No agreement could be found on the creation of a common Police force of the borders.
  • Three attacks in Spain, allotted to the ETA:
    • Against a hotel of Fuengirola: 6 wounded.
    • In Saragossa: 3 wounded.
    • In Marbella: only property damages.

Saturday June 22nd 2002

  • the television channel qatarie Al-Jezira diffuses a sound recording of a spokesperson of Al-Qaeda Abou Ghaïth which affirms that Usama Bin Laden is in good health and that the the United States again will be struck.
  • Earthquake of magnitude 6,3 localized in the North-West of the Iran: at least 250 died and 12  000 homeless people.

Sunday June 23rd 2002

Monday June 24th 2002

  • In France, the Prix of the Union of the independent intellectuals is decreed with Jean Raspail for the whole of its work.
  • Significant drops with the Bourse de Paris on the title Vivendi Universal (- 23,3%).
  • the American company WorldCom acknowledges a countable fraud of 3,85 billion dollars and causes a stock exchange and political seism.
    • WorldCom is the 2nd larger American group of telephony long distance. It had repurchased MCI and has UUNet, which plays a crucial role in the sphere Internet. The WorldCom group is in serious financial problems. Revelations of important countable embezzlements were updated during an internal audit. The total debt of WorldCom is estimated at approximately 30 billion dollars. It is the result of the acquisition of 70 companies by the founder and mythical chairman of WorldCom , Bernie Ebbers .
    • the business WorldCom' should lead to series of proposition for a better control and a news Gouvernance of company of the large companies.
  • the general Nebojsa Pavkovic , chief of staff of the Yugoslav army, named in February 2000, by the president Slobodan Milošević, is dismissed.

Tuesday June 25th 2002

  • In France, Jean-Louis Debré is elected President of the National Assembly.
  • the Court of appeal confirms a jurisprudence of 2001 which refused with the Fœtus the statute of anybody alive.
  • socialist majority of the the Council of Paris vote a “wish”, emitted by the Green elected officials and asking the expulsion of the integrist catholic of the church Saint-Nicolas-of-Hanging-post.
  • the European Union ratified the protocol on the Biosécurité, also called Protocole of Carthagène.
    • the protocol aims at laying down international rules on the trade of the genetically modified organizations. It was already signed by 110 countries throughout the world, and has just been ratified by 20 of them. Fifty ratifications are however necessary for the coming into effect of the treaty.
    • the countries signatories are committed returning public all the relative informations to the risks being able to be generated in the circulation and the exchanges of GMO, in particular the risks relating to the human health and the environment (see biological Sûreté).
  • the European Union presents two proposals to the World Trade organization in order to improve protection of the Geographical ascriptions at the time of the Council of the aspects of the intellectual property rights (ADPIC) of OMC with Geneva.
    • the proposals aim to the establishment of multilateral agreements (limitation of the costs and the litigations by simultaneous inscription in several countries) and to provide a protection increased on a greater number of products, such as Indian saris, carpet Turkish, the of Darjeeling, Italian Parmesan, ham of Huelva, Limoges porcelain…
    • This initiative is proposed by the EU and 14 third country (the Bulgaria, Cuba, the Mauritius, the India, the Kenya, the Moldavie), the Nigeria, the Pakistan, the Romania, the Slovakia, the Slovenia, the Sri Lanka, the Swiss and the Thailand.
  • According to the president George W. Bush, the preliminary withdrawal of Yasser Arafat constitutes the precondition necessary to the establishment of a Palestinian State.

Wednesday June 26th 2002

  • the French group Alcatel announces 10  000 suppressions of employment in addition to the 34  500 others previously announced.
  • From June 26th to 27th, top of the Heads of States and governments of the G8 to Kananaskis with the Canada.
    • the Russia will accommodate the next top with Saint-Pétersbourg in April 2003, and will assume the chairmanship of the group in 2006.
    • the 27, the Heads of African States of the Algérie, of the Nigeria, the Senegal and of South Africa, join the top. Adoption of a “Action plan for Africa” of liberal inspiration.

Thursday June 27th 2002

  • In France, given official to the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin of the audit on public finances of the government Jospin : the deficits at the end of 2002 will reach 2,6% instead of the 1,8% envisaged.
  • has Las Vegas, died of John Entwistle (bass player of the Who) of an overdose of cocaine.

Friday June 28th 2002

Saturday June 29th 2002

  • the Gay Pride , renamed “Walk of the prides lesbians, gays, Bi and trans” attracts more than 100.000 participants. The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, claims a law repressing the “remarks homophobes”.
  • naval Affrontement enters of the sailors South Korean North-Koreans and , in a disputed fishing zone of the Yellow Mer: 53 sailors North-Koreans and South Korean wounded or killed.
  • Tsahal makes jump the HQ of the police force palestienne, with Hebron, in which fifteen resistant Palestinian are cut off.
  • the Israeli Minister for Defense, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, lance officially the construction of a “end of protection” to surround Jerusalem.

Sunday June 30th 2002

  • the US government puts its veto at the extension by six months of the mission of UNO in Bosnia-Herzégovine, as long as the Safety advice will not grant immunity to the American blue helmets, like with the personnel amenable to country not adhering to CPI (International penal court).
  • In Bolivia, the former liberal president (1993-1997) Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada arrives at the head of the presidential election, in front of the populist candidate Manfred Reyes Villa .
  • Tsahal kills with Nablus the chief of the Brigades Ezzedine Al-Qassam , armed wing of the Hamas and one of its assistants.
  • With Yokohama with the Japan, at the time of the finale of the Football world cup 2002, the team of the Brésil overrides the team of Germany, by 2-0, taking down its fifth world title.

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