.Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

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Les vingt-six Kurdes. -.
de~'Bordeaux régularisés par l'Ofpra
L'ambiance était hier matin à la fete à Bordeaux,
dans le local paroissial où 26 Kurdes de
Turquie sans-papiers venaientde recevoirchaCWl
une lettre de l'Officefrançais de protectiondes réfugiéset
apatrides (Ofpra)lui annonçant qu'il bénéficiaitdu
droit d'asile politique.Ils vont pouvoir
désormais travailler légalement, car nombre
. d;entre eux étaient employésclandestinementsur
,_des chantiers en coUrs dans le centre de Bordeaux.
Pour la plupart déboutés une première foispar
l'Ofpra.ils avaientmené une grèvede la faimpendant
38 jours et n'avaient arrêté leur mouveqtent
que pour que la préfectureacceptede rouvrirleurs
dossiers. La grève de la faim, largementmédiatisée
en Turquie, constituaitselon'l'administration
un fait nouveau, autorisant une nouvelle procédure.
Trois agents de l'Ofpras'étaient doncrendus
à Bordeauxà la fin du mois de janvier pour auditionner
les demandeurs.
L'histoire se termine bien pour les Kurdes de
Bordeaux.mais ellea jeté le trouble parmi les associationslocales.Certainesétaient
en effetopposées
à la grève de la faimet à l'actioncollectivedes
Kurdes. Le 21 octobre,l'archevêché de Bordeaux
avait accepté d'accUeillirle groupe,à sa demande,
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mais s'était désolidarisé en,considérant que la
grève de la faim rompait l'engagement des
Kurdes. La Cimade a d'ailleurs préféré rester à
l'écart du dossier. La lutte collectivedes Kurdesa
payé. Elle devrait donner des idées aux sans-papiers
qui se heurtent ailleurs au principe du cas
par cas en matière de régularisationimposé par
NicolasSarkozy.
Divided over Iraq. By Thomas L. Friedman
Forge a trans-~t1antic compromise
. for unIty's sake
WASHINGToN
The tension that is now rising within the
Western alliance, NATO and the United Nations
over how to deal with Iraq is deeply
disturbing. It raises fears that the postwar
security system, which stabilized the world for SO
years, could come unglued if America intervenes
alone in Iraq. At the birth of this security system, Secretary
of State Dean Acheson wrote a memoir titled
"Present at the Creation." Can we deal with Iraq and
still ensure that Secretary of State Colin Powell's
memoir is not titled "Present at the Destruction"?
Yes, we can - if the Americans, the Russians, the
. Chinese and the French all take a deep breath, understand
our common interests and pursue them with a
little more coIîlmon sense and a little less bluster.
That means the Bush hawks need to realize they
cannot achieve their ultimate aim of disarming and _
transforming Iraq without maximum international
legitimacy. And the Euro-doves need to realize they
cannot achieve their aims of a peaceful solution in
Iraq and preserving the United Nations and the
whole multilateralorder without a credible threat of
force against Saddam Hussein.
Let's start with the Bush hawks. The first rule of
any Iraq invasion is the pottery store rule: You break
it, you own it. We break Iraq, we own Iraq - and we
own the primary responsibility for rebuilding a
country of 23 million people that has more in common
with Yugoslavia than with any other Arab nation.
I am among those who believe this is a job worth
doing, both for what it could do to liberate Iraqis from
a terrible tyranny and to stimulate reform elsewhere
in the Arab world. But it is worth doing only if we can
do it right. And the only way we can do it right is if we
çan see it through, which will take years. And the
only way America can see it through is if it has the
maximum number of allies and UN legitimacy.
The United States doesn't need a broad coalition to
break Iraq. America can do that on its own. But the
United States does need a broad coalition to rebuild
Iraq, so that the American taxpayer and army do not
have to bear that full burden or be exposed alone at
the heart of the Arab-Muslim world. U President
George W. Bush alienates the allies from going to war
- the part we can do alone - he will deprive himself
of allies for the peace - the part where America will
need all the friends it can get.
Saddam would never have M the UN inspectors
bacJ..tin had Bush not unilaterally threatened force.
But if Bush keeps conveying to China, France and
Russia that he really doesn't care what they think and
WilJgo to war anyway, their impulse will be to never
rome along and just remain free riders.
The allies also have a willful blind spot. There is
no way their preferred outcome, a peaceful solution.
can come about unless Saddam is faced with a credible,
unified threat of force. The French and others
know that, and therefore their refusal to present Saddam
with a threat only guarantees U.S.unilateralism
and undermines the very UN structure that is the
best vehicle for their managing U.S.power.
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