Jimmy Carter and other ex-leaders to travel to N. Korea

SEOUL - former President Jimmy Carter was in North Korea on Tuesday for talks to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula to get warring.

Remain the so-called six talks on the Denuclearization of North Korea in the balance, and Mr.. Carter said official dialogue with the North "appears at a standstill."

Mr. Carter and three former leaders from Europe arrived in Beijing on Sunday. Travel with Mr. Carter, the former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari were; Gro Harlem Brundtland, a past Secretary of State; and the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. The four are members of the elders, an independent group of world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela.

"It is clearly a great deal of distrust between North and South Korea," said Mr Ahtisaari. "But the use is too high to the standoff continue to permit."

The oldest group had hoped meetings with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, although Mr. Carter said Monday that such a meeting still had not established.

It was also unclear whether Mr.. Carter, an American man release by North Korea on unspecified charges since November in prison, would press North Korean officials.

On Thursday, following meetings in Pyongyang, is the oldest group in the South Korean capital Seoul travel.

Earlier this month, an American man said the North Korean Government already "his crime had allowed." Sources in the United States, which name it, said the man was a Korean American businessman in his sixties from Orange County, California young-Su Jun, the South Korean News Agency, Yonhap, citing.

Yonhap said Mr Jun had been taken into custody in connection with illegal religious activities in the North.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mark toner, confirmed that an American was kept from the North, but he and other officials United States declined to name the prisoner and offers no personal details, citing privacy rules. The United States urges North Korea to the Americans "for humanitarian reasons."

The State Department has said, Mr. Carter's trip was a private trip and he was not as a delegate for American Act.

But Mr.. Carter on liberation of jailed Americans in the past been successful. He made a private trip to Pyongyang in August last year after the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 31, of Boston, win, who was convicted of illegally in North Korea.

In April 2010 to eight years, Mr Gomes had been sentenced to forced labour and was fined $700,000. Mr Gomes said the Carter Center amnesty were been granted by the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

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Italy permit, migrants to France, Germany - Monster and Critics.com travel

Rome - Italy warned fellow members of the European Union on Friday that it could issue temporary residence permits to Tunisian would-be immigrants, so that they can travel in other EU countries.

 

"It's a way, to Europe to understand that in the light of his total lack of cooperation, legislative measures in place, are to enforce the principle of solidarity," said Interior Minster Roberto Maroni.

"We are not enforced, these (migrants) who want to keep France or Germany, in Italy," Maroni told a press conference in Rome.

Addressing the same press conference, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said his Government main aim was to repatriate most of the more than 18,000 Tunisians, who arrived in Italy since a January both are former Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali rebellion.

Berlusconi said he planned to discuss Tunis to visit on Monday, the return in meeting with Tunisia's interim authorities.

But the Prime Minister repeated Maroni's comments on so that some of the migrants to Italy with other EU Member States.

"He said, many of the migrants ' its intention to deal with family and friends, had manifested above all in France, but also in Germany."

"We then with temporary (Italian) residence permit gives them the opportunity, Europe travel could spend," Berlusconi said.

He was apparently referring to the Schengen Agreement, which allows travel without border controls in the 25 countries, are the signatories of the Treaty.

The Italian Government has committed the European Union for the other Member States, to share responsibility for the reception of migrants repeatedly criticized.

The EU has responded to this day, by funding, to support Italy.

The French and German Governments have rejected both Italian appeals, they take on some of the migrants.

In the meantime of rough seas on Friday Italian authorities forced suspension of the evacuation of about 3,800 migrants on Lampedusa - the 20-km2 Island i.e. Italy to the nearest point to North Africa.

Berlusconi, promised during a visit on Wednesday, the people of Lampedusa, that all the migrants ' within 60 hours.' would be cleared from their tiny island

Tensions between the indigenous and migrants, of which many were sleeping on beaches and rebuilt make-shift shelters, public buildings in increased the last few days.

Earlier this week after he started several ships some of the immigrants reception camps in Sicily and elsewhere in Italy.

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