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PanEuropa-France President Lallemant asks to widely Celebrate Helsinki Agreements' 40th Anniversary

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Written by ACM
Sunday, 05 July 2015

 

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*Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- in a Letter sent Today to the Press, including "EuroFora", the recently re-Elected new President of the "PanEuropa" Movement for France, Daniel Lallemant, (Comp. Lallemant's earlier Interview to "EuroFora", at : .....), Strongly Regrets the "Astonishing Silence of Political and Media Establishment" on the "40th Anniversary of the Helsinki Agreements" (1975-2015), which notoriously Marked the End of the "Cold War" and the Beginning of the "Detente" era, and "are the Great PanEuropean Event of the Secong Half of the 20th Century", as he points out.


- "All Europe, both Eastern and Western, had been actively Engaged in the Negotiations of 1973-1975", resulting to those Historic "Agreements which, since 40 Years now, Guarantee Borders, Mutual Respect of States' Sovereignity, National Minorities, Human Rights, wide Freedoms, Security and Peace, as well as Cooperation", throughout all the Euro-Atlantic area, making "a Wonderful Contribution to our EveryDay Life", particularly among European Citizens, President Lallemant reminds.


=> "That's why, it's both Natural and Timely (i.e., given, f.ex., the current Need to Ensure Peace in Ukraine, etc), for those Agreements to be (Officialy) Commemorated and Celebrated in France and throughout all Europe", PanEuropa - France's Head urges.


Therefore, "the PanEuropean Union of France launches a Vibrant Call to the Public Authorities for that Major Contribution to our Continent and to its Civilisation, to be Celebrated in Dignity", Daniel Lallemant's Letter concludes.


Today's move extends, therefore, into throughout a Wide Horizon, including, particularly, also European Citizens, as well as all EU/CoE's  Member States, and well Beyond.


Thus, President Lallemant's call extends much Further than a simple Meeting among Diplomats, that OSCE, the Euro-Atlantic Organisation which had been created on teh Basis of the Helsini Agreements, now Headquartered in Wien, (and Chaired this Year (2015) by Serbia, before Germany takes over its Rotating Chairmanship for 2016), has already Scheduled for later this same week, at Finland's capital, on Friday, July 10, 2015, as "EuroFora" was meanwhile informed by other sources.


Significantly, that appeal was made at the Eve of EU Parliament's full Plenary Session,this week in Strasbourg, without, however, to contain anything in particular on this matter, at its officialy anounced Agenda's main events....

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PanEuropa is one of the Oldest movements for a Union of European Countries, created at the First Quarter of the 20th Century by Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austro-Hungarian of partly Greek origin linked to the Byzantine Empire, (the Longest ever TransNational Grouping in Europe, founded by Constantine the Great around 330 AC at Constantinople and thriving until its Invasion and Occupation by the Ottoman-Turkish Military back on 1453), born by a Japanese Mother, initialy Citizen of Czechoslovakia and afterwards of France, a Political Thinker, Writer and Activist, who wrote extensively on the matter and cultivated personal relations with several European Political leaders, including, later-on, with French President Charles De Gaule. He reportedly cooperated  right from the start also with Archduke Otto von Habsburg, himself considered to have Family links with the last Byzantine Emperors, and succeeded by his Son, Karl von Habsburg, former MEP and current Head of the House of Habsburg, who is also engaged in the PanEuropa Movement, at a Meeting of which he Spoke recently in Strasbourg, last September 2015, on the sidelines of EU Parliamenr's September 2015 Plenary Session.

 . The "PanEuropa International" Organisation, currently headquartered in Strasbourg, has as long-time President the French Alain Terrenoire, former MEP and son of a De Gaulle's Minister. He was recently re-Elected on January 2015, at Paneuropa's Congress in EU Parliament in Strasbourg. Daniel Lallemant, a French Politician of Center-Right, former  Deputy Mayor, vice-Prefect, Researcher and Consultant in Economic Development and GeoPolitical Strategy, Educated at the prestigious Saint-Cyr Military Academy, speaking English and German, in addition to French, and married to a Professor of Literrature, including Latin and Ancient Greek, was initialy Chosen as President par Interim of Paneuropa's branch for France, before being re-Elected as President  at a National Congres last February 2015. He's conidered to be politicaly close to PanEuropa International's President Alain Terrenoire, (Comp. Supra).
 

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("NDLR": Fast Translation of the Original in French. +"DraftNews", as already sent to "EuroFora"s Subscribers/Donors, earlier. A more accurate, full Final Version, might be published asap).

 

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ECHR's President to "EuroFora" on Journalists Gongadze and Adali murders : Principles must apply to all States, without discrimination.


+ ECHR's Statistics on Freedom of Expression (See below).

 European Court of Human Rights' President, Jean-Paul Costa, questioned by "EuroFora" on Journalists' murders, as in Gongadze and Adali's cases etc., strongly stressed all CoE Member States' obligation to make efficient Investigations to find and punish those responsible, and underlined that ECHR's case-law's principles must apply to all without any discrimination.

His call was clearly supported by various Top MEPs who denounced a risk of "Double Standards" if some Journalists' murders are investigated, while others don't.

To avoid such risks, CoE's Parliamentary Assembly adopted a Resolution, on the occasion of Ukranian Journalist Gongadze's murder, "stressing", as a matter of general Principle, "the importance it attaches to the safety of Journalists and political activists, especially those linked to opposition groups, in ALL member states of the CoE". All "crimes against journalists and political activists must be investigated ... as a matter of priority, without political interference".

Costa was replying to "EuroFora"s question on the fact that, after CoE's Committee of Ministers, also CoE's Assembly had just adopted a Resolution on Gongadze murder case, based on an ECHR's judgement of 2005, asking a full Investigation from Ukraine, who has found and condemned  in 10 years of jail 2 executants, but not yet the instigators.

While nothing similar was yet done for dissident Turkish Cypriot Kutlu Adali's murder, with 5 bullets shot at his head out of his Family's home in the territories of Cyprus occupied by Ankara's army, despite another ECHR's judgement of the same year 2005, and despite Turkey's claim that nobody was found among those responsible for the murder, and that there was nothing more to do..

In order to be credible and efficient, CoE's mechanisms shouldn't find a way to at least ask for full investigations of all Journalists' murders anywhere they might be committed, without exceptions ?

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- "On the larger question that you raised, I'd like to say, since we are in a period of stock-taking on ECHR's 50 Years, that the Court's case-law developed certain concepts ....such as the Positive obligations of States, part of which are also the procedural obligations", started to reply ECHR's President.

 - "Whenever Journalists, Lawyers, Defenders of Human Rights, or even simple Citizens are murdered, the States are held responsible, not only if its their own security forces' agents who committed these murders, but also if they didn't make sufficiently substantial and efficient Investigations", he stressed.

- "I want to strongly underline that we (ECHR) have found in many cases numerous violations of Articles 2 and 3 against States, ....(about) murders or torture, ...because they didn't make enough Investigations in order to try to find and punish those responsible".

- "We (ECHR) do that vis-a-vis all 47 (CoE) Member States, without any discrimination".

"Naturally, the circumstances in each particular case may be differend, and we can't ommit to apply the rules of proof, or the rules of criminal procedure".

"But we try, by all means, to apply these principles of our case-law, to all States", he concluded.

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      Costa's call was strongly supported by several Top CoE MEPs, from various Political areas


- "To investigate the murder of one Journalist, and not of another, looks like Double Standards", denounced the President of EuroLeft Group in CoE's Assembly, Dutch MEP Tiny Cox.  

- "What is the reason ? Politics or specificity of a case ? Of course, if Cyprus and Turkey are involved, it's always a Political case"..

- "Murders of Journalists should always be fully investigated, because killing Journalists is not only killing persons, but also killing Free Press".  "We (CoE's Assembly) should do our outmost to help People who are working on Free Press and they are under threat or murdered".

Because for Free Politics, Free Press is a pre-requisitive : Parliamentarians  cannot  function without a Free Press. Not investigating, is not protecting ourselves".

So we should investigate all Journalists' murders : We are talking about Gongadze, about the Cypriot man (Adali), about the Journalist murdered in Moscow one week ago, etc", Cox concluded

- "CoE can' look at these cases differently. CoE can't wear Blinckers  !".
- "If the one is investigated, so has to be also the other. Why there wasn't full investigation ? Why's that ?", wondered British  Socialist MEP, Alan Meale.

- "A good idea" would be to "make a Motion for Resolution", and "join all Journalists' murders. Adali and Gongadze etc", said to "EuroFora" EU Parliament Political affairs Committee's President, Goran Lindbland, ChristianDemocrat MEP from Sweden.


(See also earlier News at "EuroFora" on similar issues).
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ECHR's Statistics on Freedom of Expression :

    Almost Half of condemnations by ECHR for violations of Freedom of Expression in 2008, concern Turkey : 20 out of a total of 48 for all CoE's Member States.

    Russia, Poland, France and Moldova were condemned only 3 times. Romania, Greece, Portugal, 2 times, and the other CoE Member States only 1 time, or none.
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    During the last Decade : 1998 - 2008, Turkey was condemned for violating Freedom of Expression in ..169 cases, while Austria only in 24.

    France and Moldova in 14 and 13, respectively, closely followed by Russia and Poland with 11 and 10, respectively. The rest of CoE Member States had less than ten condemnations.    
    

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