January-February 2004

Sommary

EDITORIAL
Welcome 2004

KABILA, MAN OF THE YEAR
Architect of Peace in the CONGO

PAUL MARTIN
New Prime Minister of Canada: new ambitions

JACQUES CHIRAC
World's most popular political figure

LYBIA
A Change of heart


 

GUATEMALA
Oscar Berger, President 

GEORGIA
Mikhaïl Saakachvili, new President

CHINE-AFRICA ECONOMIC FORUM
Contrats of 460 million US dollars

UNITED STATES
US Growth Rate at 8.2%, by 3rd quarter

RUSSIA
Economic Boom 
Prime Minister of Russia Mikhaïl Kassianov, stated, during a press conference, that 2003 has been the best year of economic recovery in Russia, since the end of the USSR in 1991

COMMONWEALTH
Declaration of the Abuja Summit

NEW WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER
Brazil, India, Russia and China to dominate world economy within 50 years

SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS
Free Trade in the Americas for 2005

WORLD BANK
Fight against poverty and for peace, to reach  millinium objectives in 2004

DIPLOMATIC NEWS
      - US-IRAN : Powell evoke a lifting of the embargo
      - American Ambassador in  Kaboul
      - Meeting of Pakistan and Indian Prime Ministers
     - Afghanistan :  Accord on the new constitution by  Loya Jirga
     - Vatican Ambassador assassinated
     - Ivory Coast President receives new Chinese Ambassador  

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL NEWS
    - China: 840 billion dollars in Foreign Trade
    - Germany :  300 mesures of humanitarian aide in 2003
    - GOA : The prolongations
   -  International Monitary Fund Ratifies, prolongation

RUSIA
Vladimir Putin: Expand economic ties with APE members