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2007-04-12

Russia to launch four U.S. satellites in May - space agency [09:07:00]

MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket is scheduled to lift off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on May 20 to put four U.S. Globalstar satellites into orbit, the Russian space agency said Wednesday. Globalstar is a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite-based telecommunications system founded by U.S.-based Loral Corporation and Qualcomm Inc. It provides affordable, dependable high quality satellite voice and data services across North America and to over 120 countries worldwide. "Preparations for the launch of a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a Fregat booster, carrying four Globalstar telecommunications satellites started April 10 at the Baikonur space center," the Federal Space Agency said in a statement on its Web site. The current Globalstar orbital constellation comprises 48 LEO satellites, with an additional four satellites in orbit as spares. Each Globalstar satellite consists of an antenna, a trapezoidal body, two solar arrays and a magnetometer, and operates at an altitude of 1,414km (876 miles). The service life of a Globalstar satellite is over seven years. Commercial launches of the Soyuz carrier rockets are managed by Starsem, a European-Russian joint venture, which comprises EADS SPACE, Arianespace, the Russian Federal Space Agency, and the Samara-based Progress design and production center. Created in 1996, Starsem offers the Soyuz for a broad range of mission needs, including satellite telecommunications systems, scientific spacecraft, and Earth observation meteorological platforms.

UN administration could quit Kosovo in 120 days - UN mission [09:07:00]

BELGRADE, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - The UN administration could leave Kosovo in 120 days, once the UN Security Council adopts a resolution on the Serbian Province, the head of the UN mission said Wednesday. Joachim Rucker said in an interview with Kontakt Plus radio station in Pristina that UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari's plan, submitted March 26, set out a transition period during which the UN would handover a significant part of their function to a future Kosovo-run administration. He also said that he personally expected the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution on Kosovo this May. The problem surrounding the transition period in Kosovo will be discussed Thursday at a special conference in New York, organized by the Rockefeller Foundation and attended by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. The conference will take place in the so-called Kosovo embassy recently opened on the initiative of Albanian leaders without UN permission and which is in essence illegal. Martti Ahtisaari, a special envoy for talks on Kosovo, presented proposals on the future status of the breakaway Serbian province, including granting it internationally supervised sovereignty, but Serbian authorities strongly oppose the plan. Russia believes that a decision on Kosovo should satisfy both Kosovar and Serbian authorities, and that it must be reached through negotiations.

Early polls must be parliamentary, presidential - Ukraine PM [09:06:00]

KIEV, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - If early elections are held in Ukraine they should be both parliamentary and presidential, the Ukrainian prime minister said Wednesday. "If we hold early elections, they should be both parliamentary and presidential," Viktor Yanukovych said. "They must be conducted in the framework of the current Ukrainian legislation." The crisis in the former Soviet republic, a transit nation for Russian energy exports to Europe, reached its peak after President Viktor Yushchenko issued a decree to dissolve parliament, which is currently dominated by factions loyal to his long-time rival, Prime Minister Yanukovych. Lawmakers refused to obey pending a ruling by the Constitutional Court, and supporters of the rival factions have faced off on the streets of the capital, Kiev. "We should not allow anyone to threaten our Constitution and must build a law-governed state," the prime minister said. The 14-member Constitutional Court was due to begin examining lawmakers' complaint against the order Wednesday, but has withheld judgment on the constitutionality of the presidential decree until April 17. Yushchenko had originally set the date for early elections for May 27, but Vitaliy Haiduk, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said Wednesday that the president could suspend the implementation of his decree and postpone the elections if the opposing political forces reached a compromise. "The Constitution clearly states that early polls must be conducted within 60 days after the publication of a presidential decree, but there are other mechanisms that can be implemented if all political forces agree to participate in the elections," Haiduk said, adding that in these circumstances the president could temporarily suspend his order. Meanwhile, leader of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine party, Viacheslav Kyrylenko, said Wednesday that Yushchenko supporters will hold daily protest rallies in central Kiev until all power factions complied with orders under the presidential decree to dissolve parliament. The current crisis was triggered by the defection of 11 members of Our Ukraine and the opposition Yulia Tymoshenko factions, who joined the ruling coalition and moved it closer to a 300-seat majority with the power to override presidential vetoes and impeach the president. The Western-leaning Yushchenko and the more Moscow-friendly Yanukovych have so far failed to reach a compromise.

EC hopes talks with Russia start before Russia-EU summit [09:06:00]

MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - The European Commission hopes talks on a new cooperation agreement between Russia and the EU will start before a Russia-EU summit, an EC official said Wednesday. Last November, EU newcomer Poland vetoed talks on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between Moscow and Brussels replacing the current pact, which expires in late 2007, over a Russian ban on meat and other agricultural imports from Poland. Moscow cited health concerns, but Warsaw said the move was political. Ria Oomen-Ruijten told a news conference she hoped the talks would proceed quickly. In turn, Marc Franco, the head of the European Commission's mission in Moscow, said the talks could start before the Russia-EU summit. The PCA between Russia and the EU was signed June 24, 1994 in Corfu, Greece. The document entered into force December 1, 1997. It is valid for 10 years and will be extended further if the two sides deem it useful and necessary. Russia has repeatedly voiced the necessity to start talks. Oomen-Ruijten said a provision on energy should be included in the new agreement, saying the EU buys almost 70% of its energy from Russia. Speaking about the current situation around the talks, Oomen Ruijten said everything possible was being done to restart them. However, she did not name any specific measures the EU intends to make.

Russia says Georgia not fully complying with UN resolution [09:05:00]

MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is not fully complying with a UN Security Council resolution in the conflict with the breakaway Abkhazia province, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday. Vitaly Churkin told Vesti 24 television channel in an interview that under Resolution 1716, adopted in October 2006, Georgia should have scaled down its military presence in the Kodori Gorge, the de facto border with Abkhazia, which it has failed to do. Georgian authorities have also ignored provisions urging it to avoid military rhetoric, he said. Churkin, who attended Tuesday's discussion on the long-standing Georgian-Abkhaz conflict at the UN Security Council's headquarters in New York, admitted, however, that some progress had been made toward implementing the resolution. Specifically, UN and Russian peacekeepers have resumed regular monitoring of the conflict zone. The Russian envoy again criticized the U.S. for failing to issue a visa to Abkhazia's foreign minister, Sergei Shamba, so that he could present the Abkhaz position. Abkhazia broke away from Georgian government control in a bloody war in the early 1990s. Since coming to power on the back of the "rose" revolution in 2003, Georgia's pro-Western leader, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been seeking to bring the rebellious republic back under Tbilisi's control. He has repeatedly accused Russian peacekeepers, deployed in the conflict zone to monitor the 1992 Abkhaz-Georgian ceasefire, of siding with the separatists.

Russia urges Iran adopt intl. banking standards for Bushehr NPP [09:05:00]

MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has asked Iran to switch from national to international banking standards in funding the Bushehr nuclear power plant, the general contractor said Wednesday. The $1 billion project being built under a 1995 contract was put in jeopardy after Atomstroyexport said that Tehran had not made any payments for the NPP's construction since mid-January, and that by the fourth quarter of 2006 the project had only received 60% of the required funding. "Atomstroyexport has prepared cooperation proposals based on international banking law, especially since our Bushehr NPP project is also based on international law," a company spokesman said. He said international banking standards are crucial for the successful completion of the Russia-led project in the south of the country. Talks on completing the project, including funding, are ongoing in Tehran. On March 26, Atomstroyexport announced that Tehran had resumed financing of the Bushehr nuclear power plant and that it had received the first payment from Iran, but reiterated that Russia expected future payments on time to avoid further construction delays. Iran said only 8% of the work remains to be done on the Bushehr NPP and "this year its construction will be completed." The Bushehr project implemented under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog was originally to be commissioned at the end of 2006, but the date has been postponed five times. The project was originally started by Germany's Siemens in 1975, but work stopped following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran's nuclear research, namely its enrichment of uranium that can be used in nuclear weapons, has been at the center of international attention since early last year. Iran says it needs nuclear fuel to generate power. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday the Islamic Republic had launched industrial production of nuclear fuel at the Natanz center, about 1,000 miles from the Israeli border. The UN Security Council tightened sanctions against Iran March 24.

Gazprom to open underground gas storage in Austria [09:04:00]

ST. PETERSBURG, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazporm, Germany's RAJ AJ and Russian-German Wingas are planning to open an underground gas storage facility in Haidach, Austria. Sergei Khan, head of Gazprom's underground gas storage department, told a forum on Russia's fuel and energy sector in St. Petersburg Wednesday that each of the partners would have a 33% share in the new facility. Khan said: "We have [signed] gas storage contracts with a number of countries, including Germany, Austria and England, and we are now taking up ownership." Gazprom also plans to build an underground gas storage facility with a capacity of 0.5 billion cubic meters of gas in Belgium, and is considering launching underground gas storage projects in China, Pakistan, India, Iran, Romania and Italy. Gazprom has already established and will finalize the registration of a new subsidiary to handle underground gas storage, Gazprom-PHG, before the yearend as part of restructuring. "Before the yearend Gazprom's new subsidiary will go on stream," Khan said. Anatoly Sizonenko has been appointed director general of the new company. Khan said that ten independent companies had spun off from Gazprom's regional subsidiaries, which handle gas transportation. "By late this year Gazprom-PHG will take over these independent companies, and a unified body will be established," Khan said.

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