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Wizdom
02-11-03, 20:29
Throw Russia out of G8: Richard Perle

* Yukos directors support jailed Russian tycoon

MOSCOW: Senior Pentagon advisor Richard Perle said Russia “should be excluded” from the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations for its arrest at gunpoint of its top oil baron, in an interview published Thursday in the business daily Kommersant.

“Not one of the G8 countries would allow itself to behave in such a way with one of its leading businessmen,” the US Defence Department advisor said of the arrest last Saturday of the head of the Yukos oil giant Mikhail Khodorkovsky, warning that Russia was “heading in the wrong direction.”

The arrest has been widely seen in Moscow as politically motivated, with Khodorkovsky having financed opposition parties ahead of December 7th parliamentary elections.

As quoted by Kommersant, Perle said he hoped “the US administration will not allow Russian companies to return” to Iraq, noting that Washington had “liberated the Iraqis from the monstrous regime of Saddam Hussein with which Russian had fruitfully cooperated for a long time.”

A former Cold War hawk, Perle has on several occasions questioned the desirability of Russian companies resuming their activities in Iraq where a US-led stabilisation coalition is attempting to rebuild the country after a military campaign last April overthrew the Saddam Hussein regime.

Meanwhile, the directors of troubled Russian oil giant Yukos voiced full support on Thursday for its jailed executive chief Mikhail Khdorkovsky and said they were confident that an open trial would show fraud charges against him to be unfounded.

The board “believes that if open and public court hearings take place, all allegations against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his arrest will be declared invalid,” they said in a statement published on the company’s Internet site.

Directors said they believed the fraud probe into Yukos launched by the state prosecutor’s office last July, which many observers have seen as politically motivated, “will not have a material impact on the Company’s operational and financial activities.”

The company has “a strong management system and team in place,” they said, commending Khodorkovsky for his “significant contribution to the achievements of the company.”

The company “cooperates with investigative authorities in strict compliance with current legislation and will continue to do so,” they added.

Khodorkovsky was arrested at gunpoint by security forces while on a business trip in Siberia last Saturday and flown back to Moscow to be charged on seven counts of fraud and tax evasion, including one of embezzling the state out of one billion dollars.

Many analysts have seen the campaign against Khodorkovsky and other Yukos executives as a reprisal for the tycoon’s publicly expressed determination to create a liberal opposition in Russia and funding of opposition parties ahead of parliamentary elections in December.

Separately, the Yukos directors said they were recommending an interim dividend of 59.9 billion roubles (about two billion dollars) for the first nine months of 2003.

If approved at a shareholders’ meeting scheduled for November 28, this would be the largest single dividend ever paid out by a Russian company, they said in a statement published on the company’s Internet site. —AFP

an3sdej
02-11-03, 20:34
Putin wil weer terug naar een eenpartijstaat, en alleenheerschappij. Hij is stelselmatig politieke tegenstanders monddood te maken!

Wizdom
02-11-03, 20:39
Geplaatst door an3sdej
Putin wil weer terug naar een eenpartijstaat, en alleenheerschappij. Hij is stelselmatig politieke tegenstanders monddood te maken!

Putin zoekt steun bij OIC...?

an3sdej
02-11-03, 20:41
Ja, daar hebben ze verstand van dictaturen :melig2:

Wizdom
02-11-03, 20:50
Geplaatst door an3sdej
Ja, daar hebben ze verstand van dictaturen :melig2:

Bush is anders ook geen amateur op dictatuur tactieken hij omhult het met een fluwelen terroristen handschoentje.... :melig2:

Wat dacht je hiervan:

US comments on Yukos 'tactless'

Saturday 01 November 2003, 22:12 Makka Time, 19:12 GMT


Mikhail Khodorkovsky faces fraud and tax evasion charges





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Russia's fired a return salvo over US criticism of Moscow's handling of the Yukos affair.


Russian foreign ministry spokesman, Alexander Yakovenko labelled the US comments "a continuation of a notorious policy of double standards".

He told First Channel television on Saturday: "It is, at the very least, tactless and disrespectful towards Russia.

The United States had said Russia must allay widespread fears among investors and others that its prosecution of oil mogul Mikhail Khodorkovsky may be politically motivated.

Khodorkovsky, who heads oil giant Yukos, has been arrested on fraud and tax evasion charges.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said freezing Yukos assets belonging to Khodorkovsky and his allies "raised serious questions" about Russia's commitment to free markets and an independent judiciary.

He said the action "has raised serious questions about the rule of law in Russia".
GUANTANAMO BAY... rule of law...? wat een schertsvertoning :hihi:

"We've noted that it sparked concerns among domestic and international investors about respect for ownership rights in Russia," he said, noting that the asset freeze had caused "gyrations" in Russian markets.

Iraanse tegoeden, Pakistaanse tegoeden, Irakeze tegoeden, Islamitische tegoeden.... respect for ownership... wat een schertsvertoning :hihi:

AFP