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Labour Daycelebration in photos

Page 4

Electors victimised

by own government:

MolisaPage 2

Sia Raga hemi

mentenem lid long LFAklasmen

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Over 1000 people fock to

NDH to get treatmentPage 3

Osama Bin Laden: African

leaders hails killingPage 8

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Futuna in food crisisBy Jane JoshuaFutuna IslandInthe taFea

province is experiencing acute

food shortage in the after-

maths of inconsistent ship-

ping services and zero relief

supplies after Tafea was bat-

tered by cyclone Vania and in

particular for Futuna, cyclone

Atu.

Daily Post (DP) has found

out there are no available

funds from the government

to cater not only for cyclone

Atu vic tim s in Futuna but

also for cyclone Yasi victims

in Torba province.

The last ship to call in at

Futuna was in December

2010 and after the succeed-

ing number of cyclones in the

beginning of 2011 a food cri-

sis is affecting the people of

Futuna, whose staple diet is

manioc but when damaged

such as in cyclones, easily

rots.

And in the midst of this

Futunas Ihasia Secondary

school is likely to close its

doors before the two weeks

midterm break next week.We are appealing to the

government and relief agen-

cies to urgently consider our

plight. Our food rations for

the 100 plus students is very

low, said a Ihasia teach-

er in a telephone call to the

DP using the only telephone

working on the island a s of

Apri l, 2011 at Tarouma ra,

Herald Bay.

We have heard rumours

that Futunese communities

and chiefs in Port Vila were

fundraising to send relief

supplies over and we are still

waiting to see this.

The last ship to serviceour port was five months

ago. Usually when our food

rations are low we depend

on communities to beef up

our supplies before the next

ship comes but this is not the

case now.

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no govt funding available for victims of cyclones Atu and Yasi

the chIeFoF the World

Trade Organisation (WTO),

Pascal Lamy, hailed on Mon-

day the impending accession

of small Pacific island state

Vanuatu a s a sign of confi-

dence in the body at a time of

turbulence.

Lamy, who said last week

that the WTOs Doha round

of negotiations on a new glo-

bal trade pact was on the

edge of failure after 10 years,

was speaking after a work-

ing group approved terms forVanuatu to join.

Vanuatus accession to the

WTO is a sign of confidence

in the organisation and the

multilateral trading system at

a time of turbulence for the

trading round and the WTO,

Lamy told a ceremony mark-

ing the end of the entry talks.

Russia and Algeria are the

two main trade economies

outside the WTO, although a

session of Moscows 18-year-

old accession talks is due to

start on May 31.

When formalities including

ratification of the accession

terms by Vanuatus legisla-

ture have been completed, the

archipelago will become the

154th member of the WTO,

which sets the rules for global

trade and oversees their imple-mentation.

Vanuatu trade minister Sela

Molisa told the ceremony the

agreement negotiated with

many WTO members in the

special working group over the

last decade and a half offered

a high quality package for

his nations future trade rela-

tions.

The package, setting out

terms for goods and serv-

ices trade with other WTO

countries, would provide an

impetus for modernisation,

integration into the global

economy and rapid growth,

Molisa said.

Small countries general-

ly see the WTO and its rules

as providing a framework to

trade their way out of poverty,

allowing them to make devel-opment plans based on pre-

dictable income from abroad.

The Doha negotiations,

launched at the end of 2001,

wer e lon g des cri bed as a

development round aimed at

bringing poorer nations into

the mainstream of world com-

merce.

But the round has missed

several deadlines for comple-

tion, largely because of dis-

agreements between and

among major industrial pow-

ers such as the European

Union and United States and

advanced developing econ-

omies like India, Brazil and

China.

Trade diplomats and ana-

lysts say they cannot see

the round continuing much

beyond 2011, and Lamy, aformer EU trade commission-

er, voiced similar views last

week.

However, many also say

the WTO has a major role to

maintain in underpinning the

framework for world trade as

a whole. Reuters

WTO to gain new member Vanuatu amid turmoil

Labour DayLabour Day celebrations in Port Vila on 1st May 2011 was a major event. This is the frst time the day had been celebrated

by a parade through town, led by representatives o Government, workers and employers. The day also marked the ofcial

launch o the Tripartite Labour Advisory Council. In this photograph representatives o government, workers and employers

sign the Agreement to launch the Tripartite Labour Advisory Council on Labour Day 1st May 2011.

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[ 2 ]vanuatu Daily Post | Wednesday May 4, 2011

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By Thompson MarangoFormer Private Secretary

to Former Minister o Health in

the last government, Chie Dan-

iel Molisa, has expressed his

concerns over the huge amount

o public unds that have been

wasted as a result o continu-

ous motions o no condence

which lead to changes o gov-

ernment.

Chie Molisa whose positionin the last government was his

rst political post ever said the

amount they received ater Kli-

mans coalition was ousted

by current PM, Serge Vohors

group has cost the public dear-

ly.

The public or electors have

been victimised by their very

own government that they

themselves have elected, said

the outspoken chie.

He estimated that around

Vt1 00 mil lion o people smoney have been wasted to

payout the employees o the

ormer governments each time

a coalition is overthrown and

another government takes

over.

Mr Molisa strongly spoke

against the current system o

government which he said

openly entertains political

instability.

He said it is about time the

country reconsiders the system

and bring in required amend-ments to legislations and even

the constitution in order to shut

o political instability.

Since 1991 there has been

no road map, it is time to cre-

ate a government o national

unity to embark on either new

legislations or make amend-

ments to constitution, suggest-

ed chie Molisa.

To prevent continuous

crossing o loor by MPs to

stimulate instability a gov-

ernment o National Unityshould be allowed to govern

or 4 years to allow the peo-

ple to make better judgments

beore MPs could be allowed to

change sides.

In a government o Nation-

al Unity the number o polit-

ical parties should be limited

to 3 as a maximum because

too many independent candi-

dates is also a problem in the

current government system

because they are one o the

main ingredients o instabili-ty, he alleged.

Meanwhile chie Molisa is

rallying support to coordinate a

task orce o the civil society to

work towards the government

system o national unity.

People themselves have

to demand change. Enough is

enough, in lie there is a lim-

itation, he stressed. Govern-

ment o National Unity is the

only way orward.

He said only with a stable

government o national unitycould other national issues can

be addressed.

Electors victimised byown government: Molisa

WhengovernmentSrePreSS

their people and shield them-

selves rom scrutiny, press

reedom is among the most

powerul vehicles or expos-

ing misdeeds and upholding

public trust.When people ace discrim-

ination and marginalisation,

access to media can give them

voi ce and crea te a shar ed

awareness o their plight.

And in an era o pressing

global challenges, the ree

exchange o inormation and

ideas through the media can

connect people and coun-

tries in networks o common

cause.

World Press Freedom Day

has its roots in the Arican

journalists who, in the wake

o the all o the Berlin Wall

and the crumbling o media

restrictions in Eastern Europe,sought similar advances on

their continent. They worked

with UNESCO to organise the

1991 seminar in Namibia that

produced the landmark Wind-

hoek Declaration on ree and

independent media, which in

turn inspired the UN Gener-

al Assembly two years later to

proclaim this observance.

Today it is the peoples o

North Arica and the Middle

East mobilizing or their dem-

ocratic rights and reedoms --

and doing so with a heavy

and creative reliance on the

Internet and social media to

help spur change in their soci-eties.

The theme o this years

observance, New Frontiers,

New Barriers, highlights this

dramatically changed global

media landscape. New media

and tools such as cell phones

continue to empower individ-

uals, enrich news-gathering

and illuminate once-largely-

hidden workings o govern-

ment, business and industry.

Yet alongside these bene-

ts stand old challenges such

as the use o media to dis-

seminate hatred and incite

violence. There are also unde-

niable new barriers beingimposed by States, including

cyber-surveillance, digital har-

assment and censorship on the

Internet. According to the Com-

mittee to Protect Journalists, at

least six journalists who worked

primarily online were killed in

2010. And in 2008, or the rst

time, more online reporters,

were in jail than those working

in traditional media.

On World Press Freedom

Day, let us remember the

journalists, editors and other

media proessionals who

have been killed or their

reporting. And let us hon-

our their memory by pursu-ing justice. The impunity that

oten ollows such murders

suggests a disturbing lack o

oicial concern or the pro-

tection o journalists, and out-

right contempt or the vital role

they play. Many other journal-

ists languish in jail simply or

doing their jobs.

On this Day, as we mark

the 20th anniversary o the

Windhoek Declaration, let us

also pledge to bridge the dig-

ital divide, so that all people

can benet rom access to and

use o new media and com-

munication technologies.

Articl e 19 o the Un iver-sal Declaration o Human

Rights proclaims the right o

all people to seek, receive

and impart inormation and

ideas through any media and

regardless o rontiers. Let

us rearm our commitment

to this bedrock principle o

democracy, development and

peace.

UNDP

UN Secretary Generals Messageon World Press Freedom Day

WeStPac diSPlayed it S

support or International Wom-

ens Day, which celebrated its

100th anniversary on Tues-

day 8 March 2011, by selling

purple ribbons at its Port Vila

branch throughout March.

The ribbons were on sale

or 100 Vatu with all proceedsbeing donated to the Vanuatu

Womens Centre.

A total o 713 ribbons were

sold in the Westpac branch

throughout March. A cheque

or 71,300 Vatu was present-

ed to the Vanuatu Womens

Centre on Friday 29 April

2011. The presentation took

place at the Vanuatu Wom-

ens Centres oce.

At Westpac, we under-

stand that not all women

enjoy equal rights, opportu-

nities and privileges. Westpac

believes that it can support a

uture that is bright, equal,

sae and rewarding or all

women, ree rom violence

and discrimination, saidShane Smith, General Man-

ager, Westpac Vanuatu.

Thats why the Westpac

Group is delighted to be a

major supporter o Inter-

national Womens Day, a

global day celebrating the

economic, political and social

achievements o women past,

present and uture.

This is just one o the

activities we supported as

part o International Wom-

ens Day, added Shane

Smith. We also announced

the Westpac Womens Edu-

cation Grants which provides

ten girls with the opportuni-

ty to receive money toward

the cost o their educationhe concluded.

Westpac has operated in

Vanuatu since 1970. West-

pacs Pacic operations cover

the Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa,

Solomon Islands, Tonga,

Vanuatu and Papua New Guin-

ea. There are more than 50

Westpac branches and agen-

cies and 82 ATMs throughout

the Pacic.

Westpac presents cheque from InternationalWomens Day ribbon sales to VNCW


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vanuatu Daily Post | Wednesday May 4, 2011 [ 3 ]

thechieF executiveoFFicerS

o Vanuatu Post Ltd and Air

Vanuatu have announced a

new partnership in Lolow-

ai, building on their Memo-randum O Understanding

signed in July last year.

VPL CEO Wesley Rasu said

the new partnership in Lolow-

ai would see an improvement

in service delivery throughout

Ambae.

Our priority since sign-

ing the MOU has been to

improve services throughout

the outer islands by working

with Air Vanuatu to allow

access to postal and air-

line services in remote and

regional areas.

We qualied the partner-

ship in Sola late last year,

with Air Vanuatu sa les andticketing being represented

by VPL. It has proven to be a

great success, Mr. Rasu said.

Air Vanuatu CEO Joseph

Laloyer said the nation-

al carrier was committed to

improving services in the

outer islands and eedback

rom Sola had been positive.

Our partnership with VPL

in Sola has meant Air Vanuatu

services are no longer limited

to fight days.This has meant greater

access to services or the peo-

ple o the Banks, Mr Laloy-

er said.

Currently, many outer

island airports are opened to

receive and dispatch lights

only, meaning new book-

ings or fight changes are not

available or those custom-

ers living or visiting the outer

islands at other times.

The success o the Sola

trial has allowed us to expand

the partnership to include

Lolowai, starting rom 01

May, Laloyer said.

We are conident thepeople o Lolowai will be as

pleased with the new serv-

ice as those in Sola. We are

delighted with the partner-

ship with Vanuatu Post and

look orward to working

together in other areas o the

country in the uture.

Vanuatu Postand Air Vanuatu

expandservices in

Ambae

By Colson Warithe northern diStrict

Hospital(NDH) has been over-

crowded or the past two days

as over 1000 people turned

up to get treatment rom the

Pacic Partnership 2011 med-

ical team.

Daily Post witnessed a high

number o people arriving on

Monday this week to get den-

tal, surgery and medical treat-

ment and rom the visiting

specialist at the Northern Dis-

trict Hospital.

Joseph Mabe, the Northern

Health Care Director said he is

overwhelmed with works car-ried out so ar by the Paciic

Partnership 2011 and Vanuatu

team.

The participation in Pacic

Partnership has been amazing;

at the NDH alone we have had

over 1300 outpatient visits in

the rst three days and today

is the largest crowd yet to seek

care. At 9am this morning the

lines wrapped around the hos-

pital and the manager indi-

cated lines had been orming

since beore dawn, Mr Mabel

said.

The Vanuatu health pro-

essionals are very interested

and excited to work with and

exchange best practices with

the U.S., Australian, and New

Zealand health care proes-

sionals. We are proud o the

services being provided to the

community as part o Paciic

Partnership.

The country is responding

in a signiicant way and the

exchange o skills between the

Pacic Partnership physicians

and our local surgeons and

providers is tremendously

exciting and the exchange o

skills has been powerul.Members o the Pacic Part-

nership have also visited the

rural areas to provided treat-

ment.

The Paciic Partnership

teams 2011 have teamed up

well with their Vanuatu coun-

terparts ater 65 workers

rom Luganville and the rural

areas attended a training that

was organized by the health

authority in Luganville at the

Agriculture College last week.

The Paciic Partnership

team is participating in other

community service projects

with the painting o dormito-

ries at Matevulu College.

Reports obtained by the

media also states the team

played a ootball match with

the students over the week-

end.

They also put on a rock and

jazz music at Hog Harbour vil-

lage and at the Luganville Park

where over 1000 people were

in attendance.

A source close to the media

said the concert was awe-

some and the village was

totally celebrating and geared

up or the perormance.

We also had U.S. Navy

personnel there painting the

local Prenter school and play-

ing soccer with the kids. It

was a great day in Hog Har-

bor and un was had by all.

One o the main goals o Paci-

ic Partnership is to build sus-

tainable relationships and

projects and working side-

by-side at the Prenter School

was a highlight o the day or

the volunteers rom the USS

Cleveland, he said.

Over 1000 people fock

to NDH to get treatment

By Len Garaet h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l

Womens Group(IWG) has

donated a brand new 6-burn-

er gas stove to the Dorcas oOhlen Freshwind.

Minister Lolette Worwor,

Head Elder Wince Garae and

Head o Dorcas Alice Alwin

represented the 800-mem-

ber SDA Church to receive

the git.

In his welcome remarks

and words o gratitude, Elder

Garae thanked the Interna-

tional Womens Group or

their prompt response to the

request by the Dorcas. Hesaid the members arrival at

the church with the git is a

blessing or the Dorcas who

have prayed or such a con-

venience to he lp them cater

or church unctions as well

as to cook hot meals or their

Adventist men who give their

time or ree everyday to

complete the giant church

construction project that is

scheduled to be opened on

October 5 this year.He said quietly the Dorcas

have been making a positive

impact in the Port Vila com-

munity at large with their

catering skills and the stove

will be a real p lus towards

expanding the service they

provide.

The IWG is 20 years old

and their main undraiser is

the International Food Festi-

val which takes place every

year.All IWG members consist

o both local and expatriate

volu ntee rs and the mone y

they collect is well managed

and used to support hospi-

tals, schools and churches

with whatever equipment the

IWG approves.

IWG donates six-burner stove to Freshwind Dorcas

Head of IWG Regina hands over stove and shakes hands with Head of Dorcas Alice Alwin. Back row - Elder Garae and son,

Minister Lolette Worwor (half hidden), and IWG members Chintana, Jenny Ligo, Lucy Sandy, Beverly and Anita

Medical personal at work


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[4 ]vanuatu Daily Post| Wednesday May 4 , 2011

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terMurray McCullys oice

has deended his use o a

Deence Force plane to trav-

el to a day-long meeting in

Vanuatu, saying it was used

to erry other Paciic lead-

ers.

Labour MP David Shearer

accused Mr McCully today

o spending at least $75,000

on the February ministerial

contact group meeting in

Port Vila.

Using commercial fights,

travel there should only

have cost about $4000, Mr

Shearer said.

However, a spokesman or

Mr McCully said the light

also erried leaders and o-

cials rom Samoa and Tuva-

lu to the meeting, which was

held to discuss the political

situation in Fiji.

Using the Deence Force

was deemed to be the most

eicient way to get every-

one to the short meeting, he

said.

New Zealand had oered

to give other leaders a ride

to ensure a good turnout.

The spokesman disput-

ed the $75,000 gure, say-

ing the Deence Force had

not provided Mr McCullys

oce with a specic cost or

the fight.

Prime Minister John Key

said he accepted Mr McCul-

lys reasoning at the time or

using the Deence Force or

travel.

He also did not conirm

the $75,000 cost, saying the

actual cost o overseas trav-

el was oten considerably less

than the amount originally

approved.

Stuff.co.nz

Ministers short trip to Vanuatucost NZ taxpayers $75,000

dr Brady taS S i c k e rreturned to Vanuatu in March

to see emergency medicine

progressing slowly ater his

initial visit last year.

In November, Dr Tassicker

and emergency nurse Carol

Scott, rom the North West

Regional Hospital, joined

a team o medical proes-

sionals in the South Pacic

island to study existing serv-

ices at the Vila Central Hos-

pital.

Dr Tassicker said during

their two-week stay they cre-

ated an exhaustive report on

the hospital with a number

o recommendations or theVanuatu government.

At this time the Japanese

government oered to build

a new hospital and emergen-

cy department in Port Villa as

a oreign aid project.

The Japanese Government

notied Dr Tassicker that on

March 16 they would be inVanuatu to discuss t he new

hospitals uture.

Carol and I had two

weeks notice that the Japa-

nese Government would be

in Vanuatu and there was a

mad scramble to get time o

and unding, he said.

The earthquake had hit

Japan just days beore the

arrival in Vanuatu but the

Japanese government still

planned to built the hospi-

tal.

Dr Tassicker and Ms Scott

met with the Japanese design

team.

The (Japanese) govern-ment is not going to ollow

all o our suggestions, but

thats ne, he said.

The pair also used this

time to ollow up on other

recommendations at the hos-

pital and their progress.

The hospital has appoint-

ed a couple o doctors to trainin emergency medicine which

is really promising, Dr Tas-

sicker said.

A member o the nurs-

ing sta has signed up or

advanced qualiications in

emergency nursing.

Dr Tassicker said he looked

orward to bringing one o

Vanuatus doctors to NWRH

on sabbatical or several

weeks to experience a dier-

ent hospital.

Ms Scott said she was very

appreciative o the opportu-

nity to assist in the proposed

improvements at the Vila

Central Hospital.I would really like to con-

tinue with the improvements

proposed i possible, she

said.

Dr Tassicker is hoping to

gain unding rom AusAid to

continue this project.

Australian Coastal Times

Hospital duo lend a hand in Vanuatu

Labour Day celebrations in Port Vila on 1st May 2011

Govt Ministers, MPs, public servants, employers and workers join the parade

Employer's representative addressing the crowd at Saralana Park

Labour Day parade banners

Labour Day worker's representative addressing the crowd


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content of which is degrading notonly the Ni- Vans but the whole Van-

uatu as well. I would like to pointout that the email account was cre-

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sonating my wife. We only learned

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person is as Yahoo USA, for privacyprotection, does not provide any

member's information unless thereis a court order asking them to do

so. We are doing our best to find

clues and ways to pinpoint who theculprit is.

We have reasons to believe that

this identity thief will strike again todiscredit and humiliate my wife by

means of this email account. We

have no idea what triggers this actu-

ation as we are very private persons.As such we are requesting your

good office to please ignore anyemail messages coming from such

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that this impersonator is a hackerwho had successfully cracked my

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tion to this we then would like to

request that, should there be any

correspondence bearing the follow-ing names as sender, please contactme first to confirm whether it's real-

ly from us:

a. Christine Bongalon_ Existing email address: tinbon-

[email protected]. Gil Baltazar V. Bongalon

_ Existing email address: gbv

[email protected] and [email protected]

Sincerely yours,

Mr Gil Baltazar V. Bongalon

CPA

Email hacker

Dear Editor,

Thanks to Kevin Dick Abel's letterto the Editor published Saturday 30

April 2011. I would like to respondto the points raised accordingly.

Mr Abel, let me point out to you

that there is no need to dwell on theissue of my identity. I have my right

of whether to put my real name ornot, or whether I've been to Univer-

sity is not important for you to know.

By the way, I'm a Ni-Vanuatu and

proud of my custom name which Ihave used in my letters.

Anyway, the discussion here is

about Ministers' increased discretion

without heeded advice from theirDGs and Directors.

Maybe Mr Abel has missed thepoint, but certainly, diminishing the

control or discussions with the DGs

who were appointed on the basis oftheir education and merit only

serves to make the public more sus-

picious of Government intentions as

over the years it has been systemat-

ically abused.I guess Mr Abel must have con-

nections with Politicians and that iswhy he seemed to be defensive.

Let me point out to Mr Abel that

even though some systems of checkshave already been put in place

under the Public Service Act, somepoliticians have continued to delib-

erately act contrary to the guide-

lines.

What can Mr Abel say to one ofthe latest cases where a former Min-ister of Lands signed the Lease for

the whole of Lamap on Malekula as

reported in the media even thoughhis technical people in the Depart-

ment advised against his decision?I will continue to question the

politicians and ministers even if it's

a complete disgrace and disloyaltyas Mr Abel has put it.

Sad to say, but experience has

shown that once MPs are voted in,

they tend to forget about the whole

purpose of being there while theirfocus now would tend to be for their

own political survival and personalwealth.

I guess Mr Abel has never been to

the outer islands to see the deterio-rating road conditions, poor health

services, lack of market opportuni-ties for local farmers etc.

Funds that should have been used

to provide better services to the peo-

ple are used instead for increasingthe MP salaries, government legalcosts for wrong decisions, regular

overseas travelling expenses, and

unnecessary change of governmentthat cost millions of taxpayer's

money etc... Do we want to see thechoice of the people continue to run

havoc the country's financial

resources?Thank you.

Viregalato

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[ 6 ] vanuatu Daily Post| Wednesday May 04, 2011

Osama bin Laden is dead

Saudi-bornoSamabin Laden

had been on the US Feder-

al Bureau o Investigations

Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

list since 1999.

He became the most want-

ed man in the world in 2001

when he was iden tii ed as

the mastermind o the terror-

ist attacks in New York and

Washington that levelled the

World Trade Centres iconic

twin towers.

Bin Laden never admitted

responsibility or the attacks,

but he had called or a holy

war against the United Statesin 1998.

He managed to evade a

massive manhunt in Aghan-

istan and Pakistan by US-led

coalition and Pakistani orces

or years.

earLyLife

Bin Laden was born in

1957 in Saudi Arabia to a

Syrian mother and a wealthy

Yemeni const ruction indus-

trialist with ties to the Saudi

royal amily.

He studied management

and economics at King Abdul

Aziz University in the Saudi

city o Jedda, where his reli-

gious teachers also introduced

him to Islamic politics.

The 1979 invasion o

Aghanis tan by the Sov iet

Army is seen as a turning point

or Bin Laden. He became a

strong supporter o the Aghan

mujahideen resistance against

the USSR, with backing rom

the United States.

American support or the

resistance was also provid-

ed to Saudi Arabia and Paki-

stan or the setting up o

Islamic schools in Pakistan

or Aghan reugees. These

schools would later become

training centres or radical

Islamists.

A te r r eq ue nt ly vi si t-ing Aghanistan, Bin Laden

moved there in the mid-1980s

and established Maktab al-

Khidimat (MAK) - an organ-

isation which recruited

Muslim soldiers rom around

the world.

He also built camps or

Ar ab re si st an ce i gh te rs

inside Aghanistan, which he

dubbed al-Qaeda - the Ara-

bic phrase or the base.

betrayaL andradicaL-

iSation

Bin Laden returned to

Saudi Arabia ater the Sovi-

et withdrawal in 1989.

His Aghan mujahideensplit into actions, one o

whi ch was the undamen-

talist Taliban network. The

Taliban went on to take con-

trol o most o Aghanistan

by 1991.

Bin Laden was reported-

ly disappointed at the lack o

Saudi recognition or his accom-

plishments in Aghanistan, and

was incensed in 1990 when the

Saudi government turned down

his oer o a mujihideen army

to deend the country ater Iraq

invaded Kuwait.

The Saudi monarchy instead

invited American troops to be

stationed on its territory - a

move Bin Laden regarded as

an aront to Islam.

In 1991 his anti-govern-

ment activities led to him

being expelled rom SaudiArab ia. The Saud i gover n-

ment eventually roze his

assets and stripped him o

his citizenship.

He frst moved to Sudan,

and later - with the Suda-

nese government under

pressure rom Washington

to expel him - he returned

to Aghanistan, where in

1998 he called or a global

war aga inst A mericans and

the Jewish community.

WaragainStthe uS

Later the same year he

is believed to have ordered

twin bomb attacks on the

US embassies in Kenya andTanzania.

He was regarded as hav-

ing masterminded or being

involved in a s tr ing o

other attacks and attempt-

ed attacks on US targets,

including a bomb plot tar-

geting Los Angeles Airport

and the 2000 attack on the

USS Cole while it was sta-

tioned in the Yemeni port o

Aden.

In 2001, Al-Qaeda was

blamed or carrying out the

terrorist attacks on New

York a nd Washing ton , and

the US government immedi-

ately named Bin Laden and

Al-Qaeda as the prime sus-

pects.

Desp i te a r eward o

$US25 million oered or

inormation leading to hiscapture or death, he man-

aged to evade capture.

On 13 July 2007, this fg-

ure was doubled to $US50

million.

Since 2001, Bin Laden

released several video tapes

broadcast on Qatars Al

Jazeera network, the irst

o which praised the Sep-

tember 11 hijackers, but

stopped just short o claim-

ing responsibility or them.

In subsequent tapes, he

threatened more attacks

against the US, and warned

that America will not live in

peace.Announcing hi s death,

President Obama said Wash-

ington continues to expect

urther attacks, and that the

US will remain vigilant at

home and abroad.

Radio Australia

Osama bin Laden photographed in 1998. [Reuters]

The news of the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has come nearly 10 years after theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks United States President Barack Obama announced on national

television on May 1 that the terrorist leader had been killed in Abbottabad in Pakistan.

o From Front Page

Their supply is low and we

cannot rely on them. We are

struggling and i no assistancecomes beore the next school

term begins we will be orce to

extend the school holidays as

wait to see how we restock our

ood supplies. Ihasia has six

teachers, including the prin-

cipal. The School Board and

chies are having dialogue to

consider our options.

Futuna has six villages and

an estimated population o

over 300 people.

Meanwhile the National

Disaster Management Ofce

(NDMO) has clarifed its posi-

tion in the relie process that,

NDMO coordinates the relie

eorts but unding comesrom the government.

The NDMO coordina-

tor conirmed that ater the

cyclone impact assessments

on Futuna no relie assistance

has yet been send because

there are no available gov-

ernment unds.

NDMO has done its part in

reports and assessments but

the government has no avail-able unds, it is in the pipe-

line and a lengthy process or

the unds to be accessed. The

unds are allocated to each

individual cyclone respec-

tively and cannot be duplicat-

ed. Last time it was only or

cyclone Vania, he said.

But unds are yet to be

made available or victims

o cyclone Atu in Futuna and

cyclone Yasi victims in Torba.

The plight o the Futunese

islanders has also prompt-

ed the NDMO to call on all

Futunese leaders and commu-

nities in Vila to rally as soon

as possible and collect itemsto contribute to relie eorts

in Futuna because current-

ly NDMO can only meet the

costs or a ship to go down to

Futuna but not or ood and

other relie supplies.

Previously the NDMOs

estimated cost or cyclone

Vanias reli e assis tance o

logistical support and rice

in Taea was vt55,207,000,as approved by chairman

o the National Disaster

Committee George Bogiri.

Furthermore the Chinese gov-

ernment urther handed over

Vt4.5million towards the gov-

ernments emergency cyclone

relie eorts and assistance

by the New Zealand, Austral-

ia and French governments

and eorts by Taea MPs.

The Council o Ministers

also approved Vt63, 661,129

million to waive school ees

on Tanna and Taea outer

islands. So ar all islands

in the Taea grouping have

received cyclone relie assist-ance except Futuna.

As un din g or cyc lone

relie operations rom the

government is separate and

the process lengthy every

one needs to rally together

or immediate action.

Futuna in

food crisis


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vanuatu Daily Post| Wednesday May 04 , 2011 [ 7 ]

Today in

history May 4

1626

Peter Minuit landed inManhattan, which he laterbought or $24 worth ocloth and brass buttons.1886

The Haymarket Squareriot broke out as a resulto a labor demonstration.1932

Public Enemy NumberOne, Al Capone, was

jailed or tax evasion.1959

The frst Grammy Awardswere held.1961

Civil rights activists, calledreedom riders, letWashington, DC or NewOrleans.1970

Four Kent State Universitystudents were shotdown by NationalGuard members duringan anti-Vietnam Wardemonstration.1998

The Unabomber, TedKaczynski, was sentenced

to our lie terms plus 30years or his series obombings that killed threeand injured 23.

Solution to your Sudoku puzzle

Fiji

Tonga

PNG

Pacifc

Solomons

US aUthoritieShavegiven

researchers a $US25 million

dollar grant to study pre-vention o obesity in remote

Paciic Islands and parts o

Hawaii.

The ve year Department

o Agriculture grant will und

research to be headed by the

University o Hawaii, involv-

ing scientists rom American

Samoa, Guam, Micronesia

and the Northern Marianas.

Proessor Rachel Novotny

rom the University o Hawaiisays those communities show

high levels o obesity, leading

to cancer, heart disease and

diabetes.

Shes told Radio Australias

Pacbeat program the research

can make a dierence.

I we can nd some o the

most salient actors in each

community such as oods

that are being imported, and

maybe put some more sup-port towards some local pro-

duction, some o these sorts

o things - the eect could

be quite dramatic especially

in these island communities

with ewer inputs and out-

puts than some o the larger

places, she said.

Radio Australia

US donates $US25 millionto pacifc obesity study

the repUblicof cyprUS

irst High Commissioner

to Solomon Islands Yannis

Iacovou yesterday presentedhis letter o credence to care-

taker Governor General Sir

Allan Kemakeza.

In a statement His Excel-

lency said the Republic o

Cyprus was ready to strength-

en its bilateral relations with

the Solomon Islands or the

benet o both countries and

its people.

H i g h C o m m i s s i o n e r

Iacovou said the bilateral

interaction between the two

countries had been developed

and enhanced through the

participation and co-opera-

tion in international ronts

such as the Commonwealth

and UN.

He said Cyprus had been

a ull time member o the

EU since May 2004 with the

interest to support and devel-

op bilateral relations between

EU and the pacic region.

And it is my honour to

take this opportunity to

express the sincere apprecia-

tion o the Government and

people o Cyprus or the sup-

port o Solomon Islands to

the independence, he said.

The High Commissioner

added that the support was

refected also through Solo-

mon Islands adherence to the

Security Council Resolutions

on Cyprus or the agreed set-

tlement o Cyprus problems.

His Excellency airmed

his commitment to build on

the riendly ties that exist

between the two or the bet-

terment o the people.

Meanwhile, caretaker

Governor General Sir Allan

Kemakeza received and

accepted on behal o her

Majesty Queen Elizabeth ,

Queen o Solomon Islands

the letters o Credence pre-

sented by Cyprus High Com-

missioner.

As you the irst High

Commissioner o the Repub-

lic o Cyprus to the state o

Solomon Islands relects

you r Gov ernmen ts des ire

and commitment to urther

strengthen bilateral relations

with Solomon Islands, Sir

Allan said.

The caretaker GG assured

his Excellency that Solo-

mon Islands stood ready

to enhance the riendship

ounded on mutual relations.

Finally the caretaker Gov-

ernor General congratulated

Cyprus High Commissioner to

Solomon Islands.

Solomon Star

Cyprus high commissioner to Solomon Islands Yannis Iacovou and the Caretaker Governor

General, Speaker Sir Allen Kemakeza after the ceremony.

Cyprus High Com presents credentials

thecompanySaySgeothermal

energy will reduce Fijis reli-

ance on uel imports.

In a statement, the irm

says it believes the new acil-

ity will also be the key to

Fijis ability to transorm its

economy and greatly increase

the wealth o its people.

Geothermal Electrics chie

executive, Tim Daniel, has

told Radio Australias Pacic

Beat that the new plant may

also bring down the cost o

power or Fijiian residents.

We have an enormous

uel bill rom ossil uels and

the objective is to reduce that

and complement renewable

energy sources, he said.

The way to go now is

really renewable energy,

given the oil price will not

come down, it will continue

to increase. As it increases, it

puts a big dent in the nations

economy in terms o import-

ing oil into the country.

Radio Australia

Geothermal power station planned for Fiji

thepreSidentoftheaUtonomoUS

Papua New Guinea province

o Bougainville says he may

call on the United Nations to

send in peace keepers i vio-

lence and lawlessness con-

tinue in the Konnou region in

the south o the main island.

The President John Momis

says Bougainville wont be

able to hold a reerendum on

independence, as scheduledrom 2015, i the rule o law

is not ully observed or guns

remain in the community.

He says peace keepers

may be needed i a summit

hes called o the wider south

Bougainville community

doesnt come up with ways to

solve the problem internally.

I the internally devel-

oped strategy doesnt work,

to put an end to this problem,

then we might have to consid-

er the deployment o a kind

o oreign intervention orce

- not on a big scale like the

RAMSI style in the Solomons,

but having the presence o

peace keepers or peace moni-

tors in Bougainville to encour-age those with guns, many

o whom are at loggerheads

with one another, to dispose

o guns.

Bougainville president

John Momis.

RNZI

Bougainville considers calling

on UN to end lawlessness

francehaSagreedtolendFrench Polynesia 62 million US

dollars as the territory is short

o unds amid a prolonged eco-

nomic crisis.

The deal was announced in

Paris by the overseas territories

minister, Marie-Luce Penchard,

and the French Polynesianpresident, Oscar Temaru.

Mrs Penchard says 37 mil-

lion will be released beore

the end o the month i French

Polynesia meets the lending

criteria o the French Develop-

ment Agency.

Mr Temaru says the undswill be used to relaunch the

economy.

The loan was negotiated by

his predecessor, Gaston Tong

Sang, but he turned it down

ater rejecting its terms

RNZI

French Polynesia gets US$62m loan from France


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INFOCUSAfrica

Pacic

Indonesia says bin Ladens deathwont stop terror attacks

Indonesian authorities have warned the killing o

bin Laden wont stop local radicals rom trying tolaunch terrorist attacks. The head o Indonesias

counter-terrorism agency, Ansyad Mbai, says thedeath o bin Laden will have an eect on localjihadis, but he warns theyre committed to a violent

ideology, not just one man. Sidney Jones rom the

International Crisis Group says theres a risk orevenge attacks What you need is the impetus,

and thats what we might see coming out o thiskilling in Pakistan, he said. Several attacks this year

have been launched by small independent jihadist

groups.Radio Australia

Gadda supporters vow revengefor sons death

Pro-government supporters in Libya have vowed

revenge or the deaths o Moamar Gaddafs sonand three grandchildren in a NATO air strike. More

than a thousand mourners turned out or the uneralo 29-year-old Sai al Arab Gaddaf and threechildren who were killed when NATO missiles

struck the Gaddaf residential compound onSaturday. Colonel Gaddaf and his wie escaped

unscathed, even though they were reportedly in the

same building shortly beore. NATO has denied itdeliberately targeted any individual.

Radio Australia

Cambodia asks international courtto intervene in border dispute

The International Court o Justice (ICJ) saysCambodia has fled an application over a border

dispute with Thailand. Its asked the court to order

the Thai military to withdraw rom the area. Thefghting between Thailand and Cambodia has

become Southeast-Asias bloodiest border disputein years. The latest outburst caused several deaths

and orced more than 50,000 people on both sides

o the border to seek saety in evacuation centres.The ICJ, based in the Hague, Netherlands, ruled on

the dispute nearly 50 years ago, in 1962. It

awarded the Preah Vihear temple to Cambodia, butboth countries lay claim to a patch o land around

it.Radio Australia

Indian bashings not raciallymotivated

A court in the Australian south-eastern city o

Melbourne has given a suspended sentence to a

19-year-old man who was ound to have beeninvolved in a series o assaults o Indians last year.

A judge ound the bashings o seven Indian men in

Melbournes west last year were not raciallymotivated. Ricky Petrusic was sentenced to three

years in prison, wholly suspended, or his part in aseries o bashings across Melbournes western

suburbs last December. The Victorian CountyCourt heard Petrusic provided transport or the

attacks, in which he and six other teenagers drove

around looking or Indian targets, beore punchingthem or hitting them over the head with an iron bar.

They called it punji-hunting. Despite the label,County Court Judge Elizabeth Gaynor ound the

attacks were not racially motivated and had more to

do with Indian men being perceived as sot targets.She ordered Petrusic to undertake 150 hours o

community service and his car has beenconfscated. Dr Gurdip Aurora rom the Australia

India Society o Victoria says the sentence is

unacceptable. There has got to be a message

sent to such people that this sort o behaviour isnot accepted or is not acceptable, he said. I amo the opinion that there has got to be a mandatory

sentencing or these people. In general, I think the

streets o Melbourne, or generally Victoria, areunsae and I think the politicians need to take note

o that.Radio Australia

Osama Bin Laden: African leaders hail killing

A suburb in the new

Zealand city o Auckland has

been hit by a small tornado.

The national news agen-

cy NZPA says police have

received reports that one per-

son is dead.

The New Zealand Heraldreports a roo has collapsed

at a mall in Albany and the

building is being evacuated.

It says police confrm there

have been injuries and the fre

service has dispatched multi-

ple appliances to the area.

Radio Australia

NewZealand

city hit bytornado

the leAdersof AfricAn

countries where al-Qaeda has

staged attacks, such as Kenya,

Tanzania and Mali, have wel-

comed the killing by US orc-

es in Pakistan o Osama BinLaden.

Kenyan President Mwai

Kibaki said it brought justice

or al-Qaedas victims.

Some 224 people, most-

ly Kenyans, were killed in

the twin bombings o the US

embassies in Nairobi and in

Tanzanias main city Dar es

Salaam in 1998.

Kenyan security services

are now on high alert in case

o revenge attacks.

Francis Kimemia, a sen-

ior ofcial in Kenyas internal

security ministry, told the BBC

that the US should also target

al-Qaeda cells in East Arica.The al-Shabab militant

group, which controls much

o southern Somalia, has close

links to al-Qaeda and last year

carried out a suicide bombing

in Uganda.

In 2009 US orces killed

Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a top

al-Qaeda operative accused

o links to the 1998 embas-

sy bombings, in a raid in

Somalia.

Somali women cheer

Mr Maiga also said that

he hoped Bin Ladens death

would make negations cur-

rently going on to ree ive

western hostages held by al-

Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

easier, as some hostage-tak-

ers have previously reerred

mediators to Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden was killed

by US orces in a ground oper-

ation in outside the Pakistan

capital Islamabad, ater the

US received intelligence on

his whereabouts.

US Pres iden t Barack

Obama said US orces had

taken possession o his body.

Bin Laden was accused

o masterminding a number

o atrocities, including the

attacks on New York and

Washington on 11 September

2001.

He was top o the US

most wanted list.

The US has put its embas-

sies around the world on

alert, warning Americans

o the possibility o al-Qae-

da reprisal attacks or Bin

Ladens killing.

Kenyas prime minister

was among those hailing Bin

Ladens death.

Osamas death can only

be positive or Kenya, but we

need to have a stable gov-

ernment in Somalia, Raila

Odinga told Reuters news

agency.

The loss o its [al-Qae-

das] leader may irst upset

the movement but then it will

regroup and continue.

Al -S ha ba b sp ok es ma n

Mohamed Osman Arus

said the group would take

revenge or Bin Ladens

death with destructive

explosions, reports the AP

news agency.

But some Somali wom-

ens groups thanked the US

or killing Bin Laden, say-

ing he was responsible or

the deaths o thousands o

women and chi ldren in the

country, especially in the cap-

ital, Mogadishu, where al-

Shabab has been battling the

UN-backed government.

We have to be careul - par-

ticularly in the next three to

six months

Douglas Sidialo, chair-

man o Kenyas 1998 US

Embassy Bomb Victims

As socia tion , who lost his

sight in the attack, said Bin

Ladens death was a reason

or celebration.

However, he said he would

have preerred him to have

been captured alive and put

on trial to answer or his

crimes.

Tanzanias Prime Minister

Jakaya Kikwete said the news

was a relie but that the fght

to bring the perpetrators o

terror attacks to justice was

ar rom over.

Bin Laden lived in neigh-

bouring Sudan rom 1991-6

but authorities in Khartoum

have not yet commented.

The BBCs James Copnall,

in Khartoum, says Sudanese

author i t i e s a re caugh t

between trying to improve

relations with the US and a

domestic constituency which

has some support or Bin

Laden and even has ond

memories o him.

One less intermediary

An al-Qaeda-linked group

also operates in north and

west Ari ca, stag ing attacks

in Algeria, Niger and Mali.

Malis Foreign Minister

Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga

told the BBC that he wel-

comed Bin Ladens death

but said there is a risk o

retaliation.

We have to be careul -

particularly in the next three

to six months we have to be

extremely vigilant - because

we know that every time al-

Qaeda suers a blow like

this, its ollowed by attempts

at revenge, he said.

BBC

NZ

regionAl environments

groups in the Paciic have

called or stronger governmen-

tal eort in response to scien-

tifc warnings on reduced fsh

stocks.

A meet ing in Suva in Fiji

heard that Pacifc Island regions

need to work more closely with

scientifc bodies to address the

issue o over-fshing.

The workshop organised

by the World Wildlie Fund

brought together fsheries of-

cials rom Kiribati, Tuvalu,

Niue, the Federated States o

Micronesia, and Vanuatu.

Seremaia Tuquri rom theWWF in Fiji says one o the

problems is the inability o

Pacifc countries to enorce fsh-

ing regulations.

"An issue a lot o the Pacifc

Island governments have... is

capacity - in terms o capacity

on the ground, inrastructure

to be able to police the exclu-

sive economic zones," he said.

"Almost three quarters or

two thirds o the body o water

in the Pacifc is oceans - so that's

probably one o the important

areas that needs to be looked

at in order to saeguard the

resources o the Pacifc."

Radio Australia

Over-shing remains an issue in the Pacic

A meeting in Suva in Fiji heard that Pacic Island regions need to work more closely

with scientic bodies to address the issue of over-shing. [ABC]z

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vanuatu Daily Post| Wednesday May 4, 2011 [ 9 ]

Pakistan defends

against bin Ladensupport accusations

Pakistan

Pakistan'sPresidenthas

acknowledged for the first

time that his security forces

were left out of a US opera -

tion to kill Osama bin Laden.

Writing in the Washington

Post, president Asif Ali Zardari

defended his country against

accusations it did not do

enough to track down the Al

Qaeda leader.

"Although the events of

Sunday were not a joint oper-ation, a decade of cooperation

and partnership between the

United States and Pakistan

led up to the elimination of

Osama bin Laden as a con-

tinuing threat to the civi-

lised world," he wrote in

an opinion piece for the US

newspaper.

Underneath a headline

reading "Pakistan did its part,"

he added: "we in Pakistan

take some satisfaction that

our early assistance in iden-

tifying an Al Qaeda courier

ultimately led to this day."

The C IA i s now s i f t -

ing through what has been

described as a boatload of

intelligence, retrieved from

bin Laden's compound in

Abbottabad, a hillside retreat

popular with retired Pakistani

generals just a few hours

drive from Islamabad.

The discovery of the world's

most hunted terrorist so close

to the Pakistani capital seemsto vindicate suspicions that

Al Qaeda found sanctuary in

Pakistan, which has received

billions of dollars in exchange

for pursuing terrorists.

US counter- terror ism

chief John Brennan says it

is "inconceivable" bin Laden

could have lived in such a

conspicuous, sprawling com-

pound so close to Islamabad

without a suppor t network

inside the country.

"I am not going to specu-

late about what type of sup-

port he might have had on

an official basis inside of

Pakistan," he said.

"We are closely talking to

the Pakistanis right now and,

again, we are leaving open

opportunities to continue to

pursue whatever leads might

be out there."

Mr Brennan said US offi-

cials did not notify Pakistan

of the raid until its helicopters

exited Pakistani airspace withbin Laden's remains.

'Baseless speculation'

Mr Zardari provided no

detailed explanation on

how bin Laden managed to

live in Abbottabad for years

undetected.

But he criticised US press

coverage suggesting that

Pakistan "lacked vitality" in

pursuing terrorists.

"He was not anywhere we

had anticipated he would

be, but now he is gone," he

wrote.

"Some in the US press have

suggested that Pakistan lacked

vitality in its pursuit of te r-

rorism or, worse yet, that we

were disingenuous and actu-

ally protected the terrorists

we claimed to be pursuing.

"Such baseless specula-

tion may make exciting cable

news, but it doesn't reflect

fact. Pakistan had as much

reason to despise Al Qaeda as

any nation."The war on terrorism is as

much Pakistan's war as it is

America's. And though it may

have started with bin Laden,

the forces of modenity remain

under serious threat."

Former Pakistani leader

Pervez Musharraf also reject-

ed the notion of any collusion

between bin Laden and the

authorities.

"I would say it is certain-

ly ... an intelligence failure,"

he said.

"Since you are blaming

Pakistan, let me also blame

the United States, to an

extent. It is also a failure of

the CIA, may I say, who werevery much in total co-opera-

tion with Pakistan.

"But any aspersions that

the Pakistan military or the

intelligence knew about him

and that he was staying there

this is absolutely wrong."

Meanwhile, Pakistan is

bracing for a backlash, fearful

of a wave of revenge attacks.

Pakistan's main Taliban

faction reacted angrily to the

announced death of the Al

Qaeda number one, prom-

ising to "avenge his death

and launch attacks against

American and Pakistani gov-

ernments and their security

forces".Pakistan has beefed up

security across major cities,

diplomatic installations and

around the site of the killing

in Abbottabad.

More troops were deployed

in Islamabad to safeguard

government offices and the

city's diplomatic enclave,

while in Lahore and Karachi,

the two biggest cities, extra

road blocks and barbed wire

were laid aroun d se nsiti ve

buildings.

ABC/AFP/Reuters

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari. [Reuters]

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S p o r t s N e w s

Cricket Football

Football

Football

NewZealaNderwhostood

in 1992 ICC Cricket World

Cup inal retires ater our

years on panel

The International Crick-

et Counci l (ICC) today

announced the retirement

o Brian Aldridge as an ICC

Regional Reeree or the East

Asia-Pacic (EAP) region and

also as an Umpire Coordina-

tor or the region.

Having been an interna-

tional umpire rom 1986

to 1995, standing in 26

Test matches and 45 ODIs

including the 1992 ICC

Cricket World Cup 1992, MrAldridge joined the Regional

Reeree panel in 2007.

Christchurch-born Mr

Aldridge also worked as New

Zealand Crickets Umpire

Manager rom 1996 to 2009

whi le in 200 0 he bec ame

involved with the ICC EAP

umpire development pro-

gramme within the region

and was also used as a reeree

or tournaments within the

region rom 2004 onwards.

Mr Aldridge will remain

on the committee that selects

the ICC Associate and Ali-

ate Umpires which sits on an

annual basis.

Upon announcing his deci-

sion to step down rom his

role, Mr Aldridge said: I

have always held a great pas-

sion or cricket development

beyond the traditional cricket

playing countries.

It has been my privilege

to be involved in this devel-opment work as ICC Regional

Reeree and as an Umpire

Coordinator with the ICC

East Asia-Pacic region.

During this time I have

seen irst-hand the game o

cricket in the EAP region go

through a remarkable growth

and it has been very exciting

to look back on how the game

has improved in the way it

has been managed, played

and umpired.

I have had a very long

and enjoyable relationship

with the game o cri cke t,

and will leave with many

ond memories and antastic

riendships. With the recent

earthquake in Christchurch it

is now time that I ocus my

energy on being with amily

and helping the local commu-

nity in the recovery process,

said Mr Aldridge.

ICC Umpires and Reerees

manager Vince van der Bijlpaid tribute to Mr Aldridge:

Brian has been a tremen-

dous servant to the game as

a ormer umpire, administra-

tor and more recently with

his work in cricket develop-

ment.

Brians work has helped

laid the oundations or

umpiring to be able to four-

ish within the East Asia-

Paciic region. We are very

grateul or his contribution

and he receives our support

and well wishes or his work

to aid the recovery process

in his hometown o Christch-

urch.

Finally, ICC EAP region-

al development manager

Andrew Faichney added his

thanks to Mr Aldridge or all

his hard work and eorts in

the region.

Brian has had a huge

impact on the EAP region

over the last 10 years andour umpire community, and

the region as a whole, would

not be where it is today with-

out Brians involvement.

The administrators, players,

ocials and umpires are all

indebted to Brians service

and riendship, said Faich-

ney. ICC

Brian Aldridge steps down

as an ICC Regional Reeree

europeaN football s

governing body has rejected

the complaints lodged by

Real Madrid and Barcelona

ollowing their Champions

League semi-nal rst leg.

Uea said there was no

common strategy to pro-

voke by Barca ater Real

claimed the Catalan giants

were guilty o unsportsman-

like behaviour.

The decision to dismiss

Pepe was upheld while the

complaint about Real bossJose Mourinho was rejected.

But Uea will investigate

the charges it has brought

against both clubs.

A Uea statement read: FC

Barcelona have been reerred

to the proceedings already

brought against Mr Mour-

inho, which will be heard by

the control and disciplinary

body on Friday 6 May.

No new disciplinary pro-

ceedings are thereore to be

opened against Jose Mour-

inho on the basis o the com-

plaint lodged by Barcelona.

Real Madrid are in the

dock or the dismissals omidielder Pepe and Mour-

inho, the latters post-match

outburst and the behaviour

o their ans during last

Wednesdays 2-0 deeat at the

Bernabeu.

Barcelona have been

charged over the red card

shown to reserve goalkeeper

Jose Pinto at hal-time.

The already heightened

emotions surrounding the

match were urther infamed

by Mourinho ater the ull-

time whistle when he sug-

gested the Catalan club is

avourably treated by re-

erees.

Barcelona then said ater a

board meeting last Thursday

that they believed the ormer

Chelsea, Inter Milan and FC

Porto coach had crossed the

line with his comments.And Real responded by

complaining that Barcas

players consistently eigned

aggressions with the sole

purpose o misleading the

reeree o the match.

The decision to reject their

complaints was taken by

the vice-chairman o Ueas

disciplinary panel and can

be appealed against within

three days i the clubs wish

to do so.

But Real Madrid assistant

coach Aitor Karanka believes

Ueas decision will over-

shadow Tuesdays second leg

semi-nal at the Nou Camp.

We have been punished

but there are Barca players

who didnt respect the princi-

ples o air play or who made

racist insults, covering their

mouths, who will be on thepitch tomorrow, said Kara-

nka.

The Real assistant coachs

mention o racist insults

was a reere nce to an a lle-

gation that Barca midelder

Sergio Busquets had directed

a racist remark at Brazil-

ian ull-back Marcelo in last

Wednesdays game.

However, Barca coach Pep

Guardiola insisted that the

Catalan club instilled values

o sportsmanship in its play-

ers.

T h e y th i n k w e a r e

unsporting, but I think com-

pletely the opposite, said

Guardiola. Here we teach

our players manners rom a

young age.

Mourinho was at Bar-

celona or ve years and heknows our values: to win,

ight and earn respect by

respecting your rival.

Tomorrow it all inish-

es, added Guardiola. We

are playing or a place in

the inal, not to beat Real

Madrid.

Barca midelder Xavi also

talked about the negative

impact last weeks game had

generated.

From my point o view

everything that has been

happening is sad, said the

Barca playmaker. It would

be nice to talk about ootball

instead and not these ridicu-lous issues.

We will try not to let

any o this tension aect us,

which is negat ive or oot -

ball and sport in general. Its

impossible but we will try.

BBC

Real Madrid and Barcelona

protests dismissed by Uea

Muinh was sen ff n Wednesday and has been chaged by Uefa

freNch cupfiNalists paris

Saint-Germain FC have

extended coach Antoine

Kombouars contract or 12

months until 2013 as theylook to build on the momen-

tum o his rst two years.

Paris Saint-Germain FC

have extended the contract o

coach Antoine Kombouar or

12 months until June 2013.

With a desire or conti-

nuity and satisied with the

work alre ady unde rtak en,

the club has decided to take

the option o another year

in Antoine Kombouars

contract, said a statement

on the French Cup inalists

website.

Kombouar replaced Paul

Le Guen at PSG on a three-

year deal in 2009 and won

the French Cup less than 12months later. With victory

over his ormer team Valen-

ciennes FC on Saturday, the

New Caledonia-born coach

lited PSG level on points

wi th th ir d-pl aced Olym -

pique Lyonnais with ive

Ligue 1 games remaining.

On 14 May, PSG will deend

the French Cup in the inal

against league leaders LOSC

Lille Mtropole.

UEFA

Kombouar signsnew deal with PSG

a s i a N f o o t b a l l

Conederation president

Mohamed Bin Hammam has

expressed his conidence

ahead o the FIFA presi-

dential elections on 1 June

where he is hoping to unseat

incumbent Sepp Blatter.

Bin Hammam was speak-

ing at the congress o the

South American Football

Conederation (CONMEBOL)

on Sunday as the campaign

to become head o world

ootballs governing body

intensied.

I started rom zero and

I believe that as o today I

have the same chances as

Blatter, said the Qatari.

Now I am better known

and each day I get more

votes. It s all goin g w ell. I

believe I can win more than

50 percent o the votes.

Bin Hammam is posing

the rst challenge to current

wor ld ootbal l hea d Sepp

Blatter in nearly a decade.

Let there be a compe-

tition, let there be a deci-sion by the (FIFA) congress.

Things are on the table,

(lets) keep things dynam-

ic and keep the congress

always deciding where they

are going to go, Bin Ham-

mam told news agency Reu-

ters.

I think a new vision, a

new opening, new blood,

the competition in itsel is

what we a re r equir ing, not

change, added the 61-year-

old.

Despite his conidence

however, CONMEBOL, which

has staunchly supported

Blatter since he took oicein 1998, conirmed on Fri-

day that it would back him

again, in a move that was

warmly received by Blatter.

I would like to thank

you or the ait h y ou have

expressed in FIFA, said

Blatter in his address to the

congress.

I am very happy and hon-

oured with your decision

and I accept it gladly ... to

continue playing together on

the same pitch.

CONMEBOL holds 10 o

the 208 votes at the FIFA

congress.

Blatter believes he has

about 50 percent support

rom Arica and Asia and a

majority in the rest o the

world.

Bin Hammam says the

issue is not settled.

I have to (campaign),

rankly speaking, and Ive

said this beore, when we

rst decided to go ahead, we

knew where we are strong

and where we are weak, and

so ar I believe none o the

decisions has been taken let

or right, he said.

I will not say where my

strength is and where my

weaknesses are going to be

rom but I believe that or

the election I have time (to

garner more support).In an interview with Al

Jazeera in January, the

Qatari said it was time to

inject resh blood in FIFA

and criticised Blatters han-

dling o speculation that the

Qatar 2022 World Cup could

be held in winter.

Maybe now we got tired

o always deending same

opinions, same ideas, same

things, so maybe weve

reached the stage that our

president, who is supposed

to deend our organisation, is

deenceless - he cannot any-

more do it, he said.

In his bid to become onlythe ourth FIFA president

in hal a century, he said he

would support goal line tech-

nology i elected to the post.

He also promised more trans-

parency in the in the coned-

erations decision-making.

AP

Bin Hammambacks his chances


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Bees on bar hold up Brazilian footballgame

The discovery o a beehive on a crossbar held up play

or 20 minutes at a ootball match in Brazil on Sunday.The Goiania state championship match between Vila

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