After last year's ups and downs, in the first half of 2005, the world crude oil price has been fluctuating around $50 a barrel. On June 27th, the price of crude oil futures in new york market exceeded $60 per barrel for the first time. On July 29th, the futures price in new york market hit a record of $70 per barrel in Asian trading hours. Since then, although the oil price has gradually dropped, the futures price in new york market still fluctuated around $60 at the end of the year.
Second, the global bird flu epidemic is serious.
At the beginning of 2005, the bird flu epidemic began to wreak havoc in Asia, affecting more than ten Asian countries and regions, including Viet Nam, Indonesia, Thailand and China. Since then, bird flu has broken out in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Britain, Colombia and Turkey. There have been cases of human infection with avian influenza in some Asian countries, and some patients have died. The United Nations and other international organizations and some regional institutions held special meetings to discuss countermeasures, and unanimously agreed to strengthen cooperation to prevent the spread of avian influenza, especially to prevent the virus from spreading from person to person after mutation.
Third, the reform of the United Nations is fraught with difficulties.
On March 2 1, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan formally submitted a report on UN reform to the UN General Assembly. On June 7th, China published "China's Position Paper on UN Reform", which comprehensively and systematically expounded his views and positions on UN reform in various fields in the form of official documents for the first time. Japan, Germany, Brazil and India formed the "four-nation alliance" and Pakistan, Italy and South Korea formed the "Uniting for Understanding" movement. The United States has put forward different enlargement plans for the Security Council. The draft proposed by the "Four-Power Alliance" to increase the number of permanent members of the Security Council has not received sufficient support. In September, the UN summit failed to reach a consensus on the enlargement of the Security Council, and the draft "enlargement of the Security Council" was invalidated because it was not put to the vote.
Fourth, the world commemorates the 60th anniversary of the victory of the anti-fascist war.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war. On May 9, Russia held a grand celebration to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War, attended by leaders from more than 50 countries. On the same day, the 59th UN General Assembly held a special meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war. Many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as China and South Korea, also held various activities to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the world anti-fascist war.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) France and the Netherlands rejected the EU constitutional treaty.
On May 29th, the French referendum rejected the EU constitutional treaty with a negative vote of 54.87%. Two days later, the treaty was rejected in the Dutch referendum, which seriously hindered the ratification process of the EU constitution. Britain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Finland and other countries have expressed their delay in ratifying the Treaty. On June 16, the EU Summit unanimously decided to postpone the deadline for ratification of the Treaty.
6. The international counter-terrorism situation remains grim.
On July 7th, there were many explosions on subways and buses in London, the capital of England, killing 56 people and injuring more than 700 people. On 2 1, there were many explosions and attempted explosions on London subways and buses. Since then, terrorist bombings have occurred in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Bali, Indonesia, New Delhi, India and Amman, Jordan, causing heavy casualties. Global terrorist attacks continue, seriously undermining the stability of relevant countries and regions, and the international anti-terrorism situation remains grim.
7. Progress has been made in the six-party talks on the DPRK nuclear issue.
On July 26th, the fourth round of six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue was held. After two stages of arduous negotiations, the participants unanimously adopted the statement of the fourth round of six-party talks on September 6, 2009. In the statement, the six parties agreed to take coordinated steps to implement the six-party understanding by stages according to the principle of "commitment to commitment, action to action". In June 165438+ 10, the first phase of the fifth round of talks was held in Beijing, and a guiding presidential statement was finally reached. In the statement, all parties reiterated that they will fully implement the statement in accordance with established principles and realize the goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a verifiable manner at an early date.
Eight. Unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
/kloc-in August of 0/5, the Israeli government officially launched a unilateral action plan that has been brewing for nearly two years despite the strong opposition of domestic right-wing forces; In the following month, the evacuation of 265,438+0 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip was successfully completed, thus ending the 38-year occupation of Gaza. In addition, Israel has also evacuated four relatively isolated settlements in the northern West Bank. All parties concerned called for continuing to promote the implementation of the "road map" plan for peace in the Middle East.
Nine. Natural disasters occur frequently in the world.
On August 25th, Hurricane Katrina hit the United States, killing more than 1200 people, making it the worst hurricane in the United States since 1928. 6543810.8, a strong earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale occurred in Kashmir controlled by Pakistan, which killed 73,000 people in Pakistan, injured nearly/kloc-0.30 million people and left 2.8 million homeless. According to the data released by the World Meteorological Organization on June 5438+February 15, the extreme weather conditions such as global drought, flood and hurricane in 2005 were more serious than before.
Ten, serious riots in France.
10 year 10 On October 27th, three boys in Subvoi, clichy, a northern suburb of Paris, ran into a substation to avoid being chased by the police. Two boys were electrocuted, which triggered riots lasting more than ten days on the spot, affecting hundreds of towns in France. 1On October 8th, France was forced to declare a state of emergency. According to French police statistics, during the riots, more than 9,000 cars were destroyed and dozens of buildings were damaged.