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I forrige uke var det toppmøte i BRICS, i den russiske byen Kazan. Brasil, Russland, India, Kina og Sør-Afrika ønsket fire nye land velkommen i kretsen: Etiopia, Egypt, Emiratene og Iran. Forrige toppmøte hadde også invitert Argentina, som under den nye høyrepopulistiske regjeringen ikke er interessert lenger, og Saudi-Arabia, som har stilt medlemskapet på vent. Til stede var også lederne for 27 andre land, de fleste med ønske om medlemskap, samt FNs generalsekretær. […]

Erklæringen fra toppmøtet gjentar de samme prinsippene og målsettingene som India står for: multilateralisme; internasjonal rett som nedfelt i FN-pakten; reform av FN og Pengefondet for å bringe dem i takt med maktforholdene; kamp mot de vestlige sanksjonsregimene og overgang til et finansielt system som er bra for mange og ikke bare for én (USA). Det indiske verdensbildet er multipolart, men India lar seg ikke innrullere i noen av sidene i den pågående maktkampen. BRICS passer derfor godt med Indias status og ambisjon som suveren og uavhengig stormakt. […]

Sist, men ikke minst, er oppslutning om FN-pakten – statlig suverenitet, territoriell integritet og ikke-innblanding i indre anliggender – en hjørnestein i BRICS-samarbeidet. Slik kan kineserne høyne sin status og styrke sitt lederskap i gruppen. Kina er nok mer komfortable i BRICS-verdenen enn i den bilaterale duellen med USA. Läs artikel

Norway and Russia have agreed to a fishery agreement for 2025 through digital negotiations. That was reported by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Fisheries on Thursday.

”It’s good that we have entered into a fisheries agreement with Russia despite finding ourselves in an extraordinary situation this year as well. The agreement forms the basis of long-term and sustainable ocean management in the High North and is crucial for protecting the cod stock and the other species in the Barents Sea,” says Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy, Marianne Sivertsen Næss (Labor).

The total quota for Northeast Arctic cod for 2025 is set to 340,000 tonnes. Norway’s part of the quota will be 163 436 tonnes.

The total 2025 quota for cod is thereby 25 percent lower than this year’s quota and will be the lowest since 1991.

”It portrays the severity of the situation. The quota was strongly decreased because we want to stop the negative stock development,” writes the ministry. Läs artikel

Up to 3,600 personnel members will participate in the drills in Finland, including 1,250 international troops.

Finland’s Army Academy will organise Nato’s Lightning Strike 24 artillery exercise next month in Finnish Lapland. The drills, taking place in areas around Rovajärvi and Rovaniemi between 4 and 28 November, are part of US-led (Dynamic Front 25) exercises in five European countries.

According to the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF), the effort will be the largest artillery drills that Nato has ever carried out in Europe. The objectives of the exercise is to show the alliance’s defence capabilities in the region, as well as to practise operational command, control and cooperations with the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, according to an FDF press release on Tuesday.” […]

Up to 3,600 personnel members will participate in the drills in Finland, including 1,250 international troops. Apart from Finland, countries taking part in the drills will include the US, UK, Sweden, Estonia, France, Czechia and others, the FDF said. Läs artikel

Finnish Lapland, by taking part in NATO’s Lightning Strike 24 artillery exercise, is getting ready for war with Russia, says Russian military expert Alexander Stepanov, program director of the Academy of Political Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to the Finnish Defense Forces, this is the largest NATO artillery exercise ever held in Europe. […]

”The US role in these maneuvers is significant. The Pentagon is tightening its grip on its European minions, as well as forming a single coherent strike contour, including through the integration of new long-range artillery and MLRS systems. Läs artikel

The members of the Security Council emphasized the vital role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees through essential education, health, relief and social services programmes and emergency assistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jordan, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab Republic.

The members of the Security Council underscored that UNRWA remains the backbone of all humanitarian response in Gaza, and affirmed that no organization can replace or substitute UNRWA’s capacity and mandate to serve Palestinian refugees and civilians in urgent need of life-saving humanitarian assistance.

The members of the Security Council strongly warned against any attempts to dismantle or diminish UNRWA’s operations and mandate, recognizing that any interruption or suspension of its work would have severe humanitarian consequences for millions of Palestinian refugees who depend on the Agency’s services and also implications for the region.

The members of the Security Council expressed their grave concern over legislation adopted by the Israeli Knesset.  In this regard, they urged the Israeli Government to abide by its international obligations, respect the privileges and immunities of UNRWA and live up to its responsibility to allow and facilitate full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian assistance in all its forms into and throughout the entire Gaza strip, including the provision of sorely needed basic services to the civilian population. Läs uttalandet

Ungerns premiärminister Viktor Orbán anklagar statsminister Ulf Kristersson för att springa USA:s ärenden efter statsministerns kritik mot Orbán.

Viktor Orbán svarade på torsdagen på Kristerssons kritik mot Ungern i ett inlägg på plattformen X där han anklagar statsministern för att säga det som USA har sagt att han ska säga.

Frågan handlar i grunden om att Ungerns syn på Ryssland och kriget i Ukraina går stick i stäv med i princip alla andra EU-länder, enligt statsministern. Läs artikel

Det kan handla om att lyssna av terrororganisationer och grova kriminella grupperingar, eller kartlägga militära hot och spioner som vill avslöja svenska hemligheter för främmande makt.

Myndigheten grundades 1942 och verksamheten är topphemlig.

– Vi diskuterar inte exakt hur vår inhämtning går till, säger Ola Billger, kommunikationschef på FRA.

Men nu gläntar en utredning på dörren och visar en del av signalspanarnas sätt att arbeta.

”Teknikutvecklingen har gjort att det är mer och mer väsentligt att man kan hämta information som ligger still, till exempel i en PC”, säger utredaren Johan Sjöö, som föreslår förändringar i signalspaningslagen. Läs artikel

NATO allies’ frustration with Hungary is reaching boiling point as the country continues to flirt with Russia.

The split widened on Wednesday as Hungarian officials snubbed an invitation to join a Budapest meeting of all ambassadors and military advisers from NATO countries stationed in Hungary. The aim was to discuss Budapest’s policy of encouraging ties with Russia and China.

“We appreciated the opportunity to discuss Hungary’s new policy with our allies. The fact that a discussion about an ally’s ‘neutrality’ policy was necessary speaks for itself,” the U.S. ambassador in Budapest, David Pressman, said in a statement after Wednesday’s meeting. Läs artikel

Förra vintern fick Försvarets materielverk, FMV, i uppdrag av Försvarsmakten att så snabbt som möjligt köpa nya skidor till armén. Skidorna tillverkas av KSF Sport Oy och planerad leverans till Försvarsmakten är under vintern 2024 – 2025. Totalt 5 000 par skidor med tillhörande utrustning köps in.

– Den här leveransen möter Försvarsmaktens behov här och nu, samtidigt som vi bygger ytterligare kunskap kring viktiga parametrar inom förmågan att verka i subarktiskt klimat, säger Elias Nyström, enhetschef soldatutrustning vid FMV:s verksamhetsområde logistik. Läs pressmeddelande