Monaco co-facilitating Durban III Conf Sept 2011

[MyAdia]

Monaco is co-facilitating, along with Cameroon, the Durban III conference on September 22, 2011, hosted by the Uinted Nations and being held in New York City. The Durban III is the third series of the initial World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001. I guess this is Albert's attempt to try to hang with the big boys on the world and I am assuming that Charlene will be there front and center with him. Based on this assumption, Albert feels that having his Durban-affiliated South African wife brings more credence to having Monaco facilitate this conference. I will say it now I have a sinking feeling that Albert is making a colossal mistake and this too will blow up in his face. Albert and Charlene really are not the best role models for racial intolerance. Also, Albert is taking a big chance featuring his pathological lying South African wife who comes from a grifiting family. Based on Albert and Charlene's track record of trying to seek attention, who knows what will be revealed by then.

I am only guessing that Albert an Charlene will be there front and center to try to add some substance to their cartoonish existence, but for sure the U.S., Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, Italy, and the Czech Republic will not be there. Hre is a quick background on he series of conference.

The initial 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa (now called Durban I) was supposed to be about fighting racism. Instead, it became a huge debate about anti-Semitic and Israel-bashing which then led to then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell ordering the U.S. delegation to walk out. In 2009, the UN followed up with another conference in Geneva, Switzerland (now called Durban II or the Durban Review) to fulfill the promises agreed upon in the 2001 declaration called Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. Although clearly not the UN's intentions, but the most memorable moment of this conference was Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech, which triggered a walkout by many of western delegates. the U.S. also boycotted this conference. here's the UN site for the 2009 Durban Review Conference

Questions: So, what does Monaco hope to accomplish with co-facilitating this conference? To actually and genuinely facilitate a discussions and solutions against worldwide racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance because these principles are dear to Monaco and Albert? Show what a good statesman and peacekeeper Albert can be? Show off Charlene's business wardrobe, speaking skills and posing skills?

[MyAdia]

Here is a good article about the conference and an appeal for Monaco to pull out. The author also questions why does Monaco wants to be associated with Cameroon.

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Durban III: The Monaco Factor
by Claudia Rosett
July 30, 2011

On Sept. 22, the United Nations will strike a blow for bigotry, by hosting Durban III — the third in what has become a series of UN gatherings dedicated in name to fighting racism, but devoted in practise to whipping up and institutionalizing anti-Semitism. The UN’s so-called “Durban process” singles out Israel for opprobrium. The UN’s first Durban conference, held in South Africa, in 2001, turned into such a mob attack on Israel that the U.S. delegation walked out. The UN’s second Durban “review” conference, held in Geneva, in 2009, had its preparatory committee chaired by Libya, and featured as a star speaker Iran’s Holocaust-denier-in-chief, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The U.S. boycotted that conference, and when Ahmadinejad began to speak, a parade of Western delegates walked out.

Undeterred, the UN General Assembly is now planning to hold Durban III at the UN’s headquarters in New York, timed to coincide with the annual pileup of heads of state who come every September to tie up midtown Manhattan traffic and speak at the UN General Assembly’s annual opening. Preparations are already well-advanced for providing the assembled worthies with a full day of opportunities to “commemorate” the bigotry of the original Durban conference, as Anne Bayefsky of EyeontheUN reports in her latest article on “U.N. Busy Deciding How to Slam Israel.”

The good news — such as there is — is that six countries have now announced they will not attend Durban III: Canada, the U.S., Israel, the Netherlands, Italy, and the Czech Republic all want no part of this Durban grotesquerie. The bad news is that with only half a dozen countries pulling out to date, that leaves 187 of the UN’s 193 member states (South Sudan was just enrolled by the UN as the 193rd member) either unwilling to take a stand for decency, or eager to go ahead with yet another UN festival of anti-Semitism.

What is to be done? Well, sometimes leverage can be found in strange places. So here’s something to ponder. Preparations for Durban III are being “co-facilitated” by two countries, and an odd coupling it is: Cameroon and Monaco.

There’s no point in expecting decency from the longtime dictatorship of Cameroon — which, while serving at the UN as a grandee of Durban III, has reportedly failed to end slavery on its own turf, and has fostered a system that human rights watchdog Freedom House describes as a sinkhole of cronyism, discrimination against women, and “a transit center for child trafficking.”

But what about Cameroon’s Durban III partner, Monaco? Yes, the Monaco of glamor, fashion, and oh-so-up-market Western civilization? The Monaco of the late Grace Kelly, of charity balls, of fancy royal photos and the recent wedding of Prince Albert. Monaco, with its tiny population of just under 36,000, enjoys a lovely rating by the U.S. State Department as a place where in 2010 there were no reports of anti-Semitic attacks or discrimination against any religion.

Surely, if Monaco carries on lending its name and reputation to Durban III, Monaco’s good name is due for quite a downgrade. This is a conference that the U.S., Canada, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic have all decided to spurn because, in the words of the U.S. government: “The Durban process included ugly displays of intolerance and anti-Semitism.” Does Monaco really want to make its mark at the UN as a high-end caterer to anti-Semites?

By the same token, little Monaco could do the world a big favor — by wising up and pulling out of Durban III. As “co-facilitator” of the General Assembly preparations to date, Monaco could punch well above its weight, should it decide even at this late hour to do a U-turn and boycott the conference. Unlike the quisling project of arranging the panel discussions and place settings for Durban III, backing away from the entire “commemoration” would be an act of genuine leadership, and — frankly — self-respect. Is anyone at the State Department making that case to the eminences of Monaco?

[Elektra]

A cry for business. Laundromat is open to everybody no matter how blood stained the laundry is.

[paca]

guess Monaco co-hosting this conference is about showing what Monacos government really is: A dictatorship similar to that of Tunisia, Egypt etc. And after all didn't the world just witness the sale of a woman to the highest bidder by her own family in order to secure their social rise and economic security? In what way is MC different to Cameroon? And discrimination? Heck Monaco law discriminates every non French European and other Nationality working in MC and residing in France the same social benefits as Monegasques and French. Women are still being discriminated when it comes to divorce. If you look at MC law, you will find that in many ways it is still stuck in the 50s. MC would not hold scrutiny if anyone of knowledge would ever investigate the state of affairs with regards to laws of employment, equality of women, discrimination...Heck, everyone who is not Monegasque and living in MC is considered inferior. the entire system is built on discrimination. Or is getting a job just because you are Monegasque not discrimination? A Monegasques does not even have to fulfill the qualifications for a job. If he wants a job, he will get it no matter how dumb he is.That's why companies hire people before officially offering the job, then hoping that no Monegasque will apply. That's why some companies have chosen to have their seat in MC, but actually have people working for them elsewhere so they can actually hire people fit for the job at hand. The law protects the Monegasques against people better qualified and instead of asking them to improve themselves and get better, or even help them to get better, they pamper them and keep them in mediocrity. that's not a country striving for excellence, that's a country going dumpster diving. ANd Albert is the best example for it. SO in many ways Albert, his wife and his inlaws are a reflection of everything that MC is today. only getting rid of them can change MC in a credible way. That's what the good people in MC ought to stand up for. People who like Allavena wanted to bring their country forward and lead it into the future.

[MyAdia]

Paca, the world doesn't know know all of this about Monaco because no one has cared enough to look deeper beyond the glitz and glamour. I can easily see people who are angry about this conference to actually to a closer look at Monaco and its own discriminatory practices. Watch - Albert again will do more harm than good for Monaco for he and his dumpster-dive bride quest for attention and fame. This will backfire on Albert like all of his other decisions.

Let's not forget, the world still believes that Princes Con artists was forced to marry Albert against her will. Albert and Charlene will continue to make Monaco a laughing stock.

[paca]

french serious press knows this. They are the only ones who are paying more attention to what is happening down here and which are the consequences to France and French interior politics. only the rest of the press regards MC as stock characters of the tabloids. There are some very well informed and linked journalist in France.

if Albert draws attention to everything thats wrong with MC then at least there is some positive side effect. I think if the world gets to see the really nasty face of MC and the Monegasques are confronted with it, then they are forced to look at themselves and admit how backwards their country is in so many ways and what price they are paying in return for a few extra Euros. Lucky for the Monegasques that Albert only has a few rusty canons at the palace. I wouldn't put it past him or his yucky wife and her lot to pull an Assad or Gaddafi and shoot their own people

[cm7007]

Oye vey!

[mrplowfan]

They get to pay for Charlene to be near her Durban families to be "seen" to still want to help them. It's all a PR angle.

[paca]

Here is a little tidbit about how MC is working when it comes to the press. It's from someone who actually worked there....


Malgré son entrée au Conseil de l'Europe, Monaco reste un faux-semblant démocratique. Durant douze mois, Didier Laurens a dirigé le principal hebdomadaire de la principauté. À ce titre, il a pu observer tous les rouages de ce mini-pays, un endroit où personne n'ose s'exprimer au téléphone par crainte d'être écouté, ni porter la moindre critique contre la maison princière de peur de tomber en disgrâce. Dans ce territoire de deux kilomètres carrés, les affairistes font la pluie et le beau temps sous les yeux d'un appareil d'Etat anachronique, sclérosé. Le pouvoir y est confisqué par un prince qui refuse toute évolution vers un régime parlementaire malgré les souhaits de Strasbourg. Démocratie d'opérette où les quelque huit mille Monégasques dits «de sang» imposent unilatéralement leur volonté au reste de la population vivant dans la principauté. Ils accaparent tous les droits, toutes les aides nationales.
Voici les coulisses d'une destination jet-set qui fait rêver toutes les midinettes de la planète, les secrets d'un monde où le cash coule à flot. Un conte de fées monégasque qui est en fait un miroir aux alouettes.

Né en 1956, Didier Laurens a notamment été grand reporter à La Tribune, rédacteur en chef adjoint de 60 millions de consommateurs, du Nouvel Economiste et rédacteur en chef de Investir Magazine. En 2006, il a dirigé Monaco Hebdo, le plus grand hebdomadaire de la principauté de Monaco.

Extrait du livre :
LES COULISSES DU PALAIS

À Monaco, pour un journaliste, la consécration, c'est d'interviewer le prince Albert II. Le service de presse du palais est assailli par des demandes en provenance du monde entier. Plusieurs dizaines par jour, preuve s'il en était besoin que les deux kilomètres carrés de la princi­pauté sont toujours un sujet people. Jusqu'en octobre 2006, date à laquelle il a été débarqué, ces demandes étaient filtrées par Jean-Luc Allavena, quarante-trois ans, ex-directeur du cabinet princier et ex-directeur général adjoint du groupe Lagardère Media où, d'après Le Nouvel Observateur, on le surnommait «couilles molles».
À Monaco, une interview du prince Albert II se mérite grâce à une prosopopée vertueuse. Bien que membre du Conseil de l'Europe depuis 2004, la principauté reste une démocratie attentive à ce que l'on publie sur elle. Les carabiniers du palais et les coursiers envoyés par le gouvernement passent dans les rédactions pour prendre des exemplaires des journaux vingt-quatre heures avant leur diffusion, officiellement, pour constituer une revue de presse diffusée aux happy few du régime. Mais aussi pour être certains que les journaux sonnent juste, avant leur mise en vente. Gare aux dérapages !
Ainsi, alors que ma demande d'interview suivait son cours, j'ai rédigé un édito qui commençait par la phrase suivante : «Que fait le prince ?» Cette introduction renvoyait simplement au fait que la nomination de Jean-Luc Allavena, annoncée par tout le monde et confirmée en «off» par le principal intéressé, tardait à s'officialiser. J'ai donc écrit «Que fait le prince ?» pour signifier mon impatience, de la même manière que j'aurais écrit «Que fait Chirac ?» en France. Erreur funeste ! Dès le lendemain, de nombreux coups de fil me signifiaient que l'expression était inconvenante. Sans m'en rendre compte, l'encre de ma carte de travail monégasque encore humide, j'avais franchi la ligne jaune, infraction préjudiciable dans un pays où la moindre invective contre un des personnages de la famille princière peut valoir des mois de prison. En effet, me confièrent des proches du régime, la question «Que fait le prince ?» est cavalière.

[paca]

I think this is what people need to seriously look at when they talk about MC. Then you do not see such a huge difference between Cameroon and MC. The only thing that people would actually see is that Europe allows a dictatorship in Europe. It is not in Africa, not in an Arabic country, no it is very white Christian and surrounded by France. MC is the best argument of dictators when western politicians want to tell them what to do.

[MyAdia]

Aug 2, 2011 5:56:34 GMT -5 paca said:

I think this is what people need to seriously look at when they talk about MC. Then you do not see such a huge difference between Cameroon and MC. The only thing that people would actually see is that Europe allows a dictatorship in Europe. It is not in Africa, not in an Arabic country, no it is very white Christian and surrounded by France. MC is the best argument of dictators when western politicians want to tell them what to do.

Well, if Albert plans to go through with his threat (as mentioned in his last week interview with Monaco Hebdo) of suing several more forums in September then Monaco will very much be in the fore front of the news. If he sue Eringer or any other American then if I were any of them, I would make sure that the American media hear about such a suit while he and his trashy boob-popping wife are New York at the United Nations at this conference.

Seriously, Albert will realize like marrying Charlene and all the other mistakes that he has made - co-facilitating this conference with Cameroon is a BIG MISTAKE! You should not facilitate a conference on discrimination when you are a violator.

[MyAdia]

Aug 2, 2011 5:50:15 GMT -5 paca said:

Here is a little tidbit about how MC is working when it comes to the press. It's from someone who actually worked there...

Thanks Paca, I would love to real this book! Below is a Google translation. When will Monaco understand that their country is suffering because Albert will not and cannot accept any criticism. Now this sucking-up treatment has extended to Monaco's boob-popping trashy looking Princess that they all have to pretend is Monaco's Savior - their new flagship. This will definitely be revealed to the entire world in September at this Durban III conference. I'll say it again - this is another one of Albert's attention/prestige getting publicity stunt (like his wedding) that will cost Monaco big time and again make it the laughing stock of the world!

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Despite joining the Council of Europe, Monaco is a sham democracy. For twelve months, Didier Laurens led the main weekly principality. As such, he observed all the workings of this mini-country, a place where nobody dares to speak on the phone for fear of being listened to, or bear the slightest criticism against the royal house of fear of falling disgrace. In this territory of two square kilometers, the cases are rain or shine in front of an anachronistic state apparatus, ossified. The power is seized by a prince who rejects any move towards a parliamentary system, despite the wishes of Strasbourg. Democracy operetta where some eight thousand Monaco so-called "blood" unilaterally impose their will on the rest of the population living in the principality. They monopolize all right, all national aid.

Here are the wings of a jet-set destination that dream all the working girls of the world, the secrets of a world where cash is flowing. A fairy tale of Monaco which is actually a decoy.

Born in 1956, Didier Laurens was notably reporter at The Tribune, deputy editor of 60 million consumers, the New economist and editor of Investing Magazine. In 2006, he led Monaco Hebdo, the biggest week of the Principality of Monaco.

From the book:
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE PALACE

In Monaco, a journalist, the consecration is to interview Prince Albert II. The press service of the palace is besieged by requests from around the world. Several dozen per day, proof if proof were needed that the two square miles of the principality are still a subject people. Until October 2006, when he was landed, the applications were screened by Jean-Luc Allavena, forty-three, former Chief of Staff and former princely Deputy Managing Director of Lagardère Media, where, according Le Nouvel Observateur, he was nicknamed "soft balls".

In Monaco, an interview with Prince Albert II wins by a personification of virtue. Although a member of the Council of Europe since 2004, the principality is a democracy attentive to what is published on it. The carabinieri and the palace messenger sent by the government spend in the newsroom to make copies of newspapers twenty-four hours before release, officially, to form a press happy few distributed to the plan. But to be sure that the papers ring true, before they are sold. Watch out for slippage!

So while my request for interview was ongoing, I wrote an editorial which began with the sentence: "What does the prince?" The introduction referred simply to the fact that the appointment of Jean-Luc Allavena, announced by everyone and confirmed in the "off" by the principal applicant, was slow to become official. So I wrote "What is the prince?" To signify my impatience, just as I would have written "What is Chirac?" In France. Fatal error! The next day, many phone calls meant to me that the term was inappropriate. Without realizing it, the ink of my work card Monaco still wet, I had crossed the yellow line, damaging offense in a country where any one of the characters invective against the royal family can be worth months in prison . Indeed, I confided in close to the regime, the question "What does the prince?" Is cavalier.

[paca]

Aug 2, 2011 7:25:32 GMT -5 MyAdia said:

Aug 2, 2011 5:50:15 GMT -5 paca said:

Here is a little tidbit about how MC is working when it comes to the press. It's from someone who actually worked there...

Thanks Paca, I would love to real this book! Below is a Google translation. When will Monaco understand that their country is suffering because Albert will not and cannot accept any criticism. Now this sucking-up treatment has extended to Monaco's boob-popping trashy looking Princess that they all have to pretend is Monaco's Savior - their new flagship. This will definitely be revealed to the entire world in September at this Durban III conference. I'll say it again - this is another one of Albert's attention/prestige getting publicity stunt (like his wedding) that will cost Monaco big time and again make it the laughing stock of the world!

yes it sounds like an interesting read. You can order it from the fnac site, which is where I got the excerpt. We need to remember that journalists tend to be linked and I would not be surprised if l'express would have asked him a few questions off the record too. YOu have to remember that journalists only write what can be safely published and what sells. A man who writes such a book about his experiences surely knows a lot more then he could publish. Plus he knows how they are working and can put things into perspective. There are a lot of things that people know in Monaco, but don't have actual proof of. That means that you can't publish it, but you know it to be true. And in every dictatorship people know whom they can trust to speak the truth. Of course there is a large number who just doesn't want to know what is going on, but those who do, will always get information. It was like that in Germany in both totalitarian systems and it is like that in Syria etc as well.

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[paca]

Aug 2, 2011 7:14:21 GMT -5 MyAdia said:

Aug 2, 2011 5:56:34 GMT -5 paca said:

I think this is what people need to seriously look at when they talk about MC. Then you do not see such a huge difference between Cameroon and MC. The only thing that people would actually see is that Europe allows a dictatorship in Europe. It is not in Africa, not in an Arabic country, no it is very white Christian and surrounded by France. MC is the best argument of dictators when western politicians want to tell them what to do.

Well, if Albert plans to go through with his threat (as mentioned in his last week interview with Monaco Hebdo) of suing several more forums in September then Monaco will very much be in the fore front of the news. If he sue Eringer or any other American then if I were any of them, I would make sure that the American media hear about such a suit while he and his trashy boob-popping wife are New York at the United Nations at this conference.

Seriously, Albert will realize like marrying Charlene and all the other mistakes that he has made - co-facilitating this conference with Cameroon is a BIG MISTAKE! You should not facilitate a conference on discrimination when you are a violator.

I wish he does go for it. And not only Eringer. The man is through Alberts action actually gaining credibility. And they actually do admit that he did work for Albert. They just don't give a date when it ended. So basically Eringers case is looking better by the minute. ANd as Eringer looks better Albert's situation at the homefront goes worse. Now Eringer really has the attention of ALL interested Monegasques. SO even those who did not hear about or read his blog, will now go there. And Eringer now get's more reliable info of what is going on in MC then he did when he was actually employed by Albert. So ALbert is really deconstructing himself.

[paca]

here is another link about MC and dictators. They claim that Ben Ali did not have property in MC, whereas shortly after the fall it was reported in MC matin that they own a building opposit the Grimaldi forum and that the wifes family spent years renting the first floor at the hotel de Paris. of course they don't want to be linked to them, as has been done on this board comparing trashys family to them and mentioning the Ben Ali family doing their thing in MC. MC matin had eyewitnesses for their presence in MC. So the info in this article is another PR spin

www.monacohebdo.mc/6519-ben-ali%E2%80%89-pas-de-fonds-a-monaco

I can pretty much imagine how they handled their investigation: someone got it on his desk, asked the palace what to do and got the response from Stahl that of course no such property ever existed in MC and they did not have accounts either.

Seeing that Albert has the right to take anyones property without giving reason, I guess we know how they reinvested the Tunisian money. It is not like Ben ALi could sue them. And the realestate quickly becomes state property with all papers cleaned.

[MyAdia]

Thanks Paca, I read the above article and I thought that I read before (in the Monaco Matin) that they had owned property in Monaco. These people are truly morons for thinking that they can just erase information such as this bu having a flunkie just write an article stating it never existed. All of this will come back to hanut Albert at this UN Durban III Conference on discrimination. several countries and many people are already mad that this conference is happening at all and more light will be shone on the Monaco and Cameroon. Of course, Albert and Conlene think this is all free positive publicity for them, but they will be disillusioned as they were about how the world viewed them and their wedding.

Everything that these two touched have been a big flop and this will also. If Albert cared so much about the issues raised at these conferences then he would address them in his own country first . Trust me, it will not go down to well in the U.S. the fact that someone could be imprisoned for insulting Albert and Charlene - most people do not know this.

[paca]

I just wonder who persuaded the flipflop that this would be a good thing. Of course Albert is desperately seeking to be taken seriously, but he just has no idea what he is doing. siding with Cameroon will also scare people from donating to causes like Amade. He is standing alongside a dictator for petes sake. Who will give to a charity in a country that cooperates with this kind of people?

[cm7007]

I always tended to give Albert the benefit of the doubt when it came to his basic intellect, but I felt he was emotionally screwed up. I'm now beginning to think he may be as - well almost as - dumb as Charlene. Maybe he really just doesn't have the gray matter upstairs to actually grasp much of anything - and this is why he runs away all the time. He just can not deal with any of it - intellectually OR emotionally. I really don't know of any man with any kind of a brain who would actually marry a woman as dumb as Charlene. They just wouldn't do it. Only a man who doesn't realized JUST HOW DUMB she is would (because he is also almost equally as dumb).

[suite583]

According to the astrological chart of Charlene she will only get success from sport venues not any others. That is why this will turn for her trashy. As Albert and Charlene is a couple that will also turn trashy.

[sandsla]

Aug 2, 2011 14:18:00 GMT -5 cm7007 said:

I always tended to give Albert the benefit of the doubt when it came to his basic intellect, but I felt he was emotionally screwed up. I'm now beginning to think he may be as - well almost as - dumb as Charlene. Maybe he really just doesn't have the gray matter upstairs to actually grasp much of anything - and this is why he runs away all the time. He just can not deal with any of it - intellectually OR emotionally. I really don't know of any man with any kind of a brain who would actually marry a woman as dumb as Charlene. They just wouldn't do it. Only a man who doesn't realized JUST HOW DUMB she is would (because he is also almost equally as dumb).

I know? I am not trying to apologize for this guy? I am just trying to figure out the mystery--why, even long before the wedding.....why Albert was so eager to want to marry his own image to this girls image, which has been nothing but disastrous for him since the very beginning--it's not like he didn't have the opportunity to see that Charlene was not only unable, but unwilling to step up to the plate....no matter what the phony deal was??. They really do not present themselves like a grown up couple--all the little winks and head patting makes Charlene appear to be more like a daughter to him, and she of course acts in kind, always the child. Albert and Charlene are really a strangely weird and disturbing Royal couple. I guess the thing that mystifies me the most is if Albert was just a selfish moron who actually thought he was crazy about this dumb girl, in spite of how the rest of the world thought about her, and was just stupid enough to be taken for a ride, that would at least make more sense, but why take the chance in sabotaging oneself when Albert gains absolutely nothing (except maybe a whole lot of trouble and ridicule) for all his money and effort (and ruined reputation)? It makes no sense for him to date or marry such an unpopular person and being someone in the public eye, when it doesn't even fulfill his own needs or desires? That is the mystery to me?