MEDITERRANEAN UNION UPDATE

REVELATION 13:1-3
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea,(IN THE BIBLE THE SEA IS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA) and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU IS THE ONE STARTED THIS TRADE BLOCK JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS HERE).
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

SARKOZY LEADS EUROPE
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SARKOS NEW MEDITERRANEAN UNION
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Key points of the Mediterranean summit declaration
13 July 2008, 23:25 CET

(PARIS) - Leaders from more than 40 nations launched Sunday a new Union of the Mediterranean, aimed at boosting cooperation between Europe, north Africa and the Middle East through a series of regional projects.The following are the main points of the final summit declaration giving birth to the Union for the Mediterranean.

STRATEGIC AMBITION

The partners, as equals, commit to build a future of peace, democracy, prosperity, and human, social and cultural understanding.

To achieve these common objectives participants agree to continue with renewed dynamism the quest for peace and cooperation, to explore their joint problems and transform these good intentions into actions in a renewed partnership for progress.

PROJECTS

Rather than try to achieve big political goals, the union will launch modest regional projects based around six sectors. They are: cleaning up pollution in the Mediterranean Sea, building highways and sea lanes, disaster response, developing solar energy, boosting education and research and an initiative to help small and medium-sized businesses.They will be funded by the budgets of the EU and participating countries, the private sector, partners and international financial institutions.

IMMIGRATION

The nations stress that promoting orderly managed legal migration in the interest of all parties concerned, fighting illegal immigration and fostering links between migration and development are issues of common interest which should be addressed through a comprehensive, balanced and integrated approach.

WORKING STRUCTURE

The leaders agree to hold a summit every two years, with the aim of drawing up a political declaration and a short list of concrete regional projects, as well as a two-year work programme. Foreign ministers will meet each year to review progress, prepare summits and approve projects.Summits will be chaired by a joint presidency -- an EU state changing every six months, and a Mediterranean chairman chosen by consensus for a two year period.A secretariat will be set up to follow and promote projects and search for international partners. Its composition, size and location will be decided by foreign ministers in November.Paris Summit for the Mediterranean.2008 AFP.2008 EUbusiness Ltd.

43 nations creating Mediterranean union By ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 13, 1:56 PM ET

PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged the disparate and conflicted countries around the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday to make peace as European rivals did in the 20th century, as he launched an unprecedented Union for the Mediterranean. Yet the summit did not mask all the divisions that crisscross the region: Syria's President Bashar Assad left the enormous table before Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave his speech to the more than 40 leaders seated around it, Israeli government officials said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.It was the first time the two men had sat at the same table.The European and the Mediterranean dreams are inseparable, Sarkozy told leaders from more than 40 nations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. We will succeed together; we will fail together.The union Sarkozy championed as a pillar of his presidency brought together around one table for the first time dignitaries such rival nations as Israel and Syria, Algeria and Morocco, Turkey and Greece.Coping with age-old enmities involving their peoples and others along the Mediterranean shores will be a central challenge to the new union encompassing some 800 million people.We will build peace in the Mediterranean together, like yesterday we built peace in Europe, Sarkozy said. He insisted the new body would not be north against south, not Europe against the rest ... but united.

Sarkozy went to special efforts to bring Syria into the international fold for the summit: Assad met Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, separately, both for the first time. And he met Sarkozy, after years of chill between their countries.Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, co-presiding the summit with Sarkozy, said: We are linked by a common destiny.He said the union has better chances of success than a previous cooperation process launched in Barcelona in 1995 because the new body focuses on practical projects parallel to efforts toward Mideast peace.Mubarak called on the new union to tackle reducing the wealth gap between north and south, and cited other southern Mediterranean challenges as education, food safety, health and social welfare.The success of the Union will depend on ... reforms and durable development, Mubarak said.A draft declaration obtained by The Associated Press shows that summit participants will announce objectives of achieving peace, stability and security in the region. The six firm measures it names include a region-wide solar energy project, a cross-Mediterranean student exchange program and a plan to clean up the polluted sea.The draft declaration says the Union for the Mediterranean is to be operational by the end of this year, and unlike any previous body, it will be jointly run by all its members. It will have a dual presidency, held jointly for rotating terms by one country within the European Union and one country on the Mediterranean shore.

The draft also speaks of democratic principles, human rights and fundamental freedoms — values Western critics have accused such union members as Syria of violating.Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he hoped the union would make it easier for North Africans to receive visas for Europe.Our common Sea should bring us closer together, not separate us, the president said in an interview with official Algerian news agency APS.He also questioned whether the union would have enough money to get things done and whether the EU really wants to contribute to bringing southern Mediterranean countries up to speed.Germany's Merkel said, though, that the project would have about US$20.6 billion that has not yet been spent by the Barcelona Process — the forerunner of the Mediterranean union. Merkel, who pushed to expand Sarkozy's idea to include all 27 EU nations, called Sunday's meeting a very good start and said it could help the Middle East conflict. The Union for the Mediterranean is Sarkozy's brainchild and was timed to coincide with the French presidency of the European Union. Paris holds the rotating post until the end of this year. But Sarkozy's ambitious plan overlapped with EU projects already in progress, and it was melded into EU efforts and expanded to include 27 members of the European Union, not just those on the Mediterranean coast.

Sunday's meeting was seen as more significant for the bodies gathered than for any immediate progress it is expected to achieve.

Israel's Olmert said: We are closer than ever to a possible (peace) agreement today with the Palestinians — and said he hoped for direct contacts soon with enemy Syria. Earlier Sunday, France's foreign minister urged the countries to unite to deal with global warming, growing migration and shrinking water and energy resources. To do nothing would be a risk. We are fragile. Our world is fragile. Latent tensions and growing disparities are too dangerous for this unstable epoch. We have everything to gain by reinforcing our ties, Bernard Kouchner said. On Sunday morning, Sarkozy met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had shown reticence about coming to the summit. The leadership of the mostly Muslim country fears that the Mediterranean grouping is designed to keep Turkey out of the full EU membership that it seeks. The Mediterranean gathering will be capped Monday with more than dozen leaders attending France's national Bastille Day military parade as special guests. The new union is to include at least 43 nations, nearly all of which sent a president or prime minister to the summit. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi objected to the whole idea and refused to come. Associated Press writers Alfred de Montesquiou, Elaine Ganley and Amy Teibel contributed to this report.

Mediterranean union wants to rid Mideast of WMDs By ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 13, 7:19 PM ET

PARIS - Forty-three nations, including Israel and Arab states, pledged Sunday to work for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction at the close of a summit to launch an unprecedented Union for the Mediterranean aimed at securing peace across the restive region. In a final declaration, Israel, Syria, the Palestinians along with countries across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa agreed to pursue a mutually and effectively verifiable Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction.

The countries committed to consider practical steps to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their delivery systems. It was unclear, however, how the signatories — who included Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Syrian President Bashar Assad — would enforce the pledge.Israel is widely believed to have a stockpile of nuclear weapons but neither confirms nor denies it has them — an ambiguity meant to scare potential enemies from considering an annihilating attack while denying them the rationale for developing their own nuclear deterrent.Recently, tensions between Israel and arch enemy Iran have risen over Tehran's nuclear program. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has often spoken of wiping Israel off the map. And Israel and ally the United States believe Tehran's nuclear program is aimed at producing nuclear weapons, despite Iran's insistence it is for producing nuclear energy.Syria, another Israeli foe, may also have nuclear ambitions. Last year, Israeli jets destroyed what U.S. intelligence officials said was believed to be a partially built nuclear reactor in Syria, though Syrian officials said it was part of a non-nuclear military program.

While trying to unify the region, the summit laid bare the deep divisions that still slice through it and highlighted how hard it will be to parlay the meeting's goodwill and words into real progress. Syria's president refused to shake the Israeli prime minister's hand, and Morocco's king snubbed the meeting attended by the president of rival Algeria.Still, summit host Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, reveled at having brought so many leaders to the same table for the first time.We dreamed about a Union for the Mediterranean, and now it is a reality, Sarkozy said in closing the summit in a palace abutting the River Seine. He called it an extremely moving, very important moment.The summit declaration also condemned terrorism in all its forms and announced six major projects, from a common university and easier travel visas for students to depolluting the Mediterranean sea and promoting solar power.It also spoke of democratic principles, human rights and fundamental freedoms — values Western critics have accused such union members as Syria of violating.Sarkozy went to special efforts to bring Syria into the international fold for the summit: Assad met Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, separately, both for the first time. And he met Sarkozy after years of chill between their countries.Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, co-presiding at the summit with Sarkozy, called on the new union to tackle reducing the wealth gap between north and south, and cited other southern Mediterranean challenges as education, food safety, health and social welfare.He said the union has better chances of success than a previous cooperation process launched in Barcelona in 1995 because the new body focuses on practical projects parallel to efforts toward Mideast peace.The Union for the Mediterranean is Sarkozy's brainchild and was timed to coincide with the French presidency of the European Union. Paris holds the rotating post until the end of this year.But Sarkozy's ambitious plan overlapped with EU projects already in progress, and it was melded into EU efforts and expanded to include 27 members of the EU, not just those on the Mediterranean coast.The new union is to include at least 43 nations, nearly all of which sent a president or prime minister to the summit. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi objected to the whole idea and refused to come.Associated Press writers Barbara Schaeder, Alfred de Montesquiou, Elaine Ganley and Amy Teibel contributed to this report.

Amnesty concerned rights absent from Mediterranean Union
11 July 2008, 21:06 CET

(BRUSSELS) - A leading rights watchdog expressed concern Friday that the EU's Mediterranean Union project does not make cooperation and dialogue with its southern neighbours dependent on progress on human rights.Amnesty International complained that the new union, to be launched at a summit in Paris Sunday, would condition better ties purely on commercial and financial terms.Has this proposal in part been created to bypass human rights obligations? The total absence of human rights provisions leaves this question open, the head of its EU office, Nicolas Beger, said in a statement.If this is the case, we are facing a dangerous precedent: it not only undermines core principles of the EU's relations with third countries but openly allows human rights to be sidelined for the sake of business, he said.In an open letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency, Amnesty underlined its serious concerns regarding the absence of any rights dimension in the project.This seriously undermines the core principles that govern the EU's external relations, and provides a dangerous precedent for the future by making existing human rights instruments obsolete, the letter said.It also worried that civil society would play no role in the project.Some 40 leaders -- from the 27 EU nations, north Africa and the Middle East, including Israel, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority -- meet in Paris Sunday to try to breathe life into Sarkozy's flagship project.Paris Summit for the Mediterranean
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