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After the February and March meetings on the nuclear talks between Iran and the six world powers, namely France, Germany, UK, China, Russia and USA, and before the coming parties meeting which is supposed to be held again on April 7-9 2014, the head of the israeli occupation, the so-called “state of israel”, Shimon Peres, is suddenly visiting Vienna on 30 March to 1st April 2014.
After the February and March meetings on the nuclear talks between Iran and the six world powers, namely France, Germany, UK, China, Russia and USA, and before the coming parties meeting which is supposed to be held again on April 7-9 2014, the head of the israeli occupation, the so-called “state of israel”, Shimon Peres, is suddenly visiting Vienna on 30 March to 1st April 2014.
On 30 March 2014 Mr. Peres is supposed to meet UNOV Director-General Yury Fedotov and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano at the at the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV).
It is not usual that the director of the UNOV and the director of IAEA cut their weekend in order to hold secret meetings and, apparently, to connive with officials of any country to derail ongoing diplomatic negotiations. Journalists accredited to the UN were not invited to the urgent as surprising meeting.
On the Austrian side, Peres will also meet with Mr. Lamberto Zanier, the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and with Austrian President Heinz Fischer and Chancellor Werner Faymann.
It is suspected that Mr. Peres will discus with Mr. Amano and the body leading the nuclear talks with Iran how to impose obstacles on the nuclear negotiations in case Iran does not accept including its military missiles as part of the next round of negotiations scheduled for April.
On the sidelines of the 57th Session UN Convention on Narcotic Drugs at the UNOV, H.E.
She added: “For almost 20 years ago I founded Mentor Foundation – an international non-governmental organisation focused on the prevention of drug misuse with the mission to help vulnerable children- and through this work I have met many children growing up in societies affected by drug abuse and have seen the harm it causes. Mentor has actively sought to support the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime since decades ago.”
His Excellency Khaled Shamaa, Ambassador of Egypt before Austria and Permanent Representative before the international organizations in Vienna, was the President and chairperson of this year’s session. He opened the meeting by thanking the Member States of the UNODC for their trust and for choosing him to head the session. He welcomed Her Majesty the Queen in Sweden, the UN deputy Secretary-General, and he thanked the (UNODC) director and the attendants.
The executive director of (UNODC) Fedotov said: “I t was his hope that the debate would help Member States “find common ground and come up with a powerful message that will enable us to strengthen our cooperation, to address the world drug problem in a balanced, humane and effective way, based on the international conventions.”
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The journalists have been allocated a place for their work which is far away from where the negotiators are meeting, about seven kilometers away. Were they banned from reaching or being closer to the place of the negotiations? The journalists who came from all over the world to Vienna to cover the results of the negotiations have been compelled to stay away from the negotiations and the negotiators, as they are isolated from the true center of the events.