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bleucheese
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/29/germany.olympicgames2008
Merkel says she will not attend opening of Beijing Olympics
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, yesterday became the first world leader to decide not to attend the Olympics in Beijing.
As pressure built for concerted western prοtests to China over the crackdown in t¡bet, EU leaders prepared to discuss the crisis for the first time today, amid a rift over whether to boycott the Olympics.
The disclosure that Germany is to stay away from the games' opening ceremonies in August could encourage President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to join in a gesture of defiance and complicate Gordon Brown's determination to attend the Olympics.
Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, became the first EU head of government to announce a boycott on Thursday and he was promptly joined by President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic, who had previously promised to travel to Beijing.
"The presence of politicians at the inauguration of the Olympics seems inappropriate," Tusk said. "I do not intend to take part."
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, confirmed that Merkel was staying away. He added that neither he nor Wolfgang Schäuble, the interior minister responsible for sport, would attend the opening ceremony.
Hans-Gert Pöttering, the politician from Merkel's Christian Democratic party who chairs the European parliament, encouraged talk of an Olympic boycott this week and invited the da1a¡ 1ama to address the chamber in Strasbourg, while another senior German Christian Democrat, Ruprecht Polenz, said a boycott should remain on the table.
"I cannot imagine German politicians attending the opening or closing ceremonies [if the t¡betan crackdown continued]," he said. Merkel enraged the Chinese leadership a few months ago by receiving the da1a¡ 1ama in Berlin for private talks.
Brown is to meet the t¡betan spiritual leader when he visits Britain in May, but is determined to be in Beijing. "We are fully engaged in supporting the Olympics," said David Miliband, the foreign secretary. "We want to see it as a success, and I think it's right that the prime minister represents us."
While announcing that German leaders were staying away from Beijing, Steinmeier denied they were boycotting or staging a political prοtest against the Chinese military and police campaign in t¡bet and surrounding areas.
While expressing scepticism about a complete boycott, he did not rule one out. "This is not the right moment to talk about a boycott ... We should watch how the Chinese government deals with the situation in the next weeks and months."
If Merkel and others do not attend the opening ceremony, it is likely to reinforce a growing sense in China that the Olympics is being used to vilify the host.
China had hoped to use the games to highlight its economic development and growing openness. But it is increasingly proving an opportunity for critics to bash China's one-party political system, human rights abuses, treatment of minorities and tightly controlled media.
The t¡bet crisis has been pushed on to the agenda of a meeting of European foreign ministers in Slovenia, with the French, who will be presiding over the EU during the Olympics, calling for a team of European officials to be dispatched to China on a fact-finding mission.
British and US diplomats were among a group of outside officials allowed to travel yesterday to Lhasa, the t¡betan capital, for the first time since the crisis erupted a fortnight ago.
The EU foreign ministers are to discuss the China quandary at lunch in Slovenia today, with calls being made for a common European position.
"We don't support a boycott and don't intend to boycott the opening of the games," a British Foreign Office spokesman said. "None of the 27 [EU states] are calling for a boycott yet."
The French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, has described the boycott proposal as "interesting", while Sarkozy this week hedged his bets and said his attendance depended on China's conduct. |
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hc
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Mar 30, 2008 - 10:53 AM |
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Cambronne
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Mar 30, 2008 - 04:23 PM |
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Ah ah ah. You antisemite, you. |
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jacobbarnes
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Mar 30, 2008 - 06:23 PM |
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yeah funny how everyone else can see the difference between hc's offhand reference and your monmia.
It's not necessarily anti-semitic to chriticize Isreal, but you are an anti-semite conspiracy theorist nut job when you feel the need to tie everything to the internaitonal banking conspiracy as you so politely call it.
See the difference? Yeah I thought not. |
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Cambronne
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Mar 30, 2008 - 07:12 PM |
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Paris well-known "book exhibition" (salon du livre) was dedicated to Israel this year. It was boycotted by all Arab countries and a large number of association and individual readers, to prοtest against Israel's human rights abuses and occupation of Palestinian land. Immediately all the pap's and politicians were babbling about "antiseminitism". The Israel = Jews weapon was invented by the zionists themselves. |
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Andreas
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Mar 31, 2008 - 12:48 AM |
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At least one person who has the balls to call a spade a spade. While the rest kisses a$$ and collaborates. |
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timtop
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Mar 31, 2008 - 12:55 AM |
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From start to finish, the CCP and NK really understand capitalism now. germany will get screwed for this.
their greed is their undoing |
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hc
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Mar 31, 2008 - 01:09 AM |
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| At least one person who has the balls to call a spade a spade. While the rest kisses a$$ and collaborates. |
Well. Germany has been kissing the azz of Israel for quite a while, probably much more than what is due, dont you think so?
Now, if she is doing this to China, she should theoretically do the same to Israel, if we assume the WW2 thing is settled.
THAT I would say is balls.
Doing a cheap political statement through the olympics is fair from balls I'd say. |
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timtop
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Mar 31, 2008 - 01:49 AM |
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unless the kykes hold them in their underground meetings in vienna........ |
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ShanghaiUnderground
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Mar 31, 2008 - 05:28 AM |
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Many say that politics should stay out of the Olympics. Merkel's decision is a good first step. Let all the politicians stay home. |
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TheMasterofDisaster
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Mar 31, 2008 - 07:27 AM |
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^ and who wants to see fat krauats in leotards anyhow........... |
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ShanghaiUnderground
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Mar 31, 2008 - 10:21 AM |
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Not even the krauts want to see that.
The Eastern Euro babes doing their rhythmic gymnastics gets my gold medal. |
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Cambronne
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Mar 31, 2008 - 10:24 AM |
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Imagine the Chinese prime minister receiving German political dissidents for private talks.
What political dissidents you ask? |
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Cambronne
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Mar 31, 2008 - 10:26 AM |
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Ernst Zundel perhaps... |
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Cambronne
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Mar 31, 2008 - 10:29 AM |
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Johannes Lerle? |
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