Denmark has appointed a special envoy to Benghazi
The Danish foreign ministry announced today that it has appointed a special envoy to Benghazi. Denmark does not have an ambassador in Tripoli.
Meanwhile, the British Ministry of Defence has said that RAF Tornados yesterday attacked targets around Misrata and Sirte, destroying six armoured fighting vehicles and six battle tanks. The alliance flew 137 missions on Monday, 186 on Tuesday, and had planned 198 for today, Wednesday.
And in Malta….
Wednesday, 6th April 2011 – 16:26CET, timesofmalta.com
Divorce Movement supports BA’s request
The Divorce Movement has told the Broadcasting Authority it agrees with the request for an increase
in television spots to be broadcast during the referendum campaign made by the anti-divorce movement.
However, it could not understand why this movement was seeking to reduce the number of debates and press
conferences suggested by the Broadcasting Authority.
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Off topic: In Malta, if a separated but still married woman has a child by her lover, can it have the lover’s surname? I have been told not.
[Daphne – Yes, of course. There is no rule that says parents have to be married to each other for the children to take the father’s surname. The father is the father, whether married to the mother or not. Problems arise only when the married woman is not legally separated – then the child automatically takes the husband’s surname and he must petition the courts to redress the situation.]
Thanks. Legal separation has multiple benefits then.
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Psaila G
WHEN ARE THE PARTY WHIPS GOING TO ACCEPT THE CNI PETITION SIGNED BY MORE THAN 30,000 MALTESE CITIZENS IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS WHO WANT TO GOVERNMENT TO STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO MALTA.
No need ta, the no vote won, remember.
What is he/she trying to tell us?
I did not sign the petition!
Some of the comments on timesofmalta.com are shocking beyond belief.
I cannot understand why they are uploaded. To show the world how many idiots live in Malta? Does the editor think that by allowing all those comments (by the usual suspects, might I add) the site is gaining something? Is this some sort of freedom of speech? Freedom of ignorance, more like.
The saddest thing about this is that these people are proud of what they are.
When I asked about this, I was told “you should see the ones that are NOT uploaded.”
Prime Minister Gonzi said his moment of clarity about Muammar Gaddafi came when he saw that Gaddafi took advantage of the distraction caused by the Japan disaster, to attack Misurata.
He was either irresponsibly uninformed, or he preferred to keep his head in the sand, so that he could square his Catholic conscience with doing deals for Malta with a murderer and tyrant:
http://www.arabtimes.com/Arab%20con/libya/doc32.html
Decent people in Malta should tell him that we would rather have had less to eat than take a bloody man’s shilling and be bought by him for four decades and counting.
Just imagine the comments/outrage in the near future should a new Libyan government blacklist Malta for being a Gaddafi lackey. The pressure is building up steadily for the Gaddafi clan to GO. I am curious to see the facial expressions when our top honchos from both sides of the house go visit the new government.
I don’t think in Denmark , Italy, France and Qatar life has stopped and concentrating only on Libya! Life has to go on here as well and somehow local papers need to fill it’s X number of pages daily. can’t be just stories from Libya
Those countries you mention, even Italy, are far less involved than we are, in negative terms that is.
The only way they are involved more is that, unlike us, they are doing something about it.
asp –
The little war across the sea happens to be on our doorstep. It affects us directly and is of more damned interest to us than the goings on of the BA.
None of those countries have Malta’s ‘special relationship’ with Gaddafi (not Libya), and our papers are full of stuff that has nothing to do with Libya.
Have a look at the great respect the butcher of Libya shows to his fellow citizens.