United Nations counter-terrorism experts will arrive Kenya 

Djibouti (HAN) May 8, 2005 -United Nations counter-terrorism experts are set to travel this week to
Kenya for the second in a series of country visits to take stock of the worldwide fight against the menace. 

Javier Rupérez, Executive Director of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee's Executive Directorate, will lead the group on its five-day visit to the East African country. A similar team went
in March to Morocco. 
The purpose of country visits is to establish direct contact with the various departments and officials in charge of counter-terrorism efforts to assess how Member States implement the obligations of Security
Council resolution 1373, which was adopted in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks against the United States. 
The text requires countries to implement a number of measures to enhance their legal and institutional capacity to be in a better position to counter terrorist activities nationally, regionally and globally. 

It calls on Member States to deny all forms of financial support for terrorist groups, suppress the provision of safe haven, sustenance or support for terrorists, share information with other governments on any
groups practising or planning terrorist acts, and cooperate with other governments in the investigation, detection, arrest and prosecution of those involved in such acts. 

It also enjoins them to criminalize active and passive assistance for terrorism in domestic laws and bring violators of these laws to justice, and to become party as soon as possible to the relevant international
conventions and protocols relating to terrorism.

Melez warns against Ethiopian destruction and civil war 

Addis Ababa, (WIC)-The Ethiopian people Revolutionary Front (EPRDF) has warned against the opposition parties Inter Hamwee move which it said would indulge the country in to destruction and
civil war. 

In a discussion he held with 3000 residents of Addis Ababa including Addis Ababa University today in the meeting hall of the prime Minister, EPRDF Chairman Meles Zenawi said EPRDF called the trend of Oppostion parties as Inter Hamwee because the end result of their move was bloodshed and destruction. 

Meles said that Inter Hamwee was a militia mobilization in Ruwanda where the leaders of the country agitated the majority Hutu ethnic groups to launch program on the minority Tutsi’s as a scape goat to the economic crisis with which the then Rwandan government was found itself. 

He said pointing towards a single society instead of identifying problems in the policy and strategies pursed by the government would serve no purspose, but would usher in bloodshed and civil war. 

He said the agitation of opposition parties in attributing the price hike to fertilizer to a certain nationality was by no means different from the propaganda of the Inter hamwee. 

Meles said the public should give the lesson to the opposition parties by depriving vote to since they don’t come up with healthy alternatives. He also said denying votes to the opposition would let the round for the
creation of a party with normal attitude and alternative, adding that such party would benefit both EPRDF and the general public in filling the gap in case of power vacuum left by EPRDF. 

He expressed his concern that the future of the country would be bleak in a state whereby EPRDF and Inter hamwee groups contested for election. 

Responding to the allegation that the opposition would stage riot in the wake of Election Day, Meles said that EPRDF sees no foreseeable danger as there was on objective situation on the ground to hold such riots. 

He however said the Opposition would try to rally behind them jobless and gangsters with frequent criminal records to incite disturbances to which the elected party would foil it through its preparation of crime prevention mechanism. 

Regarding the claim that the opposition parties would opt to change the constitution of the country,Meles responded that the constitution is liable for amendment if the people is convinced or find it laws with it
,adding that the changing the constitution should not be altering the pillars of the constitution. 

Regarding the campaign by the opposition parties to reduce and cancel fertilizer price and debt was only for election consumption serves no purpose. 

the prime minister has also responded questions related to condominium,education policy, women rights and other related issues. 

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