non mi ricordo se se n'era parlato....ciao
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FW: FYI
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:37:11 +0100
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Subject: Re: FYI
Dear John,
Thank you very much for the info you kindly sent to all of us.
I find the decision of the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign
Assets Control deeply alarming and inserted in a generally difficult
and dangerous international situation.
Here I want to limit my comments to the prohibition of publishing of
scientific papers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, and Cuba, which I
consider a violation of non-written international rules and an
unprecedented limitation of scientists' freedom.
Even in the years of the cold war the international scientific
community has been a piece of open world, in which common scientific
interests and problems allowed Colleagues from different Countries and
different national cultures to cooperate, to exchange ideas, to
candidly confront on any scientific issue.
This habit has contributed to create cooperation, mutual confidence and
trust, not only among scientists, but also among the many different
Countries they lived in, thus giving a tiny contribution towards making
our world closer to the open world Niels Bohr called for.
I would very much appreciate if you could carefully check the
consistency of this information (an Italian Colleague of mine wrote me
that he is not aware of any problem for an American Journal which in
2003 published a paper of an Iranian group). If, as I am afraid of,
this information is confirmed, I would be grateful to you if you could
forward to this comments (hopefully reinforced and improved by the
other PaP Associate Editors) to your Government.
With sincere thanks for your kind attention and best regards
Yours
Francesco
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:20:54 -0500
From: Bern Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: controversial U.S. Treasury rulings
Dear Colleagues,
John's letter about the ruling by the US Treasury Department's Office
of Foreign Assets Control prohibiting publication of scientific papers
from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, and Cuba caught me off guard.
Apparently, I have fallen behind in my reading as there have been
several recent editorials and news reports in high-profile journals. I
have included some links below, which I found this morning. The leading
sentence in the article in Nature nicely highlights the folly of this
ruling: "A US government agency better known for seizing the assets of
dope smugglers has become an arbiter of scientific publishing."
In my view, the ruling is counter to democratic ideals and quite
possibly a human rights violation. However, I urge you to form your own
opinion, and I urge those of you in the U.S. to share your views with
the U.S. Administration and with your congressional representatives.
Best regards,
Bern Kohler
Science, Volume 302, Number 5643, Issue of 10 Oct 2003
"U.S. License Needed to Edit Iranian Papers" by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5643/210b
Nature, February 2004 Volume 10 Number 2 p 109
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v10/n2/full/nm0204-109a.html
C&E News editorial:
http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/82/i04/html/8204edit.html
Interpretive rulings by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S
Treasury Department
http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/eotffc/ofac/rulings/
This web site contains the controversial rulings.
An on-line petition:
http://www.antidiscrimination.org/petition5.htm
More background information
http://www.media52.net/archives/000130.html
http://www.siam.org/siamnews/04-02/dialog.htm
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2003/10/restrict/
http://robotics.stanford.edu/~latombe/IEEE.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1028-10.htm
http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/tccc/2003-October/001267.html
At 23.23 05/02/2004, you wrote:
It has come to my attention that the US Treasyru
Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control made a ruling last year
that effectively prohibits publication of scientific papers from Iran,
Iraq, Libya, Sudan, and Cuba in journal published within the United
States. The violatgion of this can result in a fine of up to $50,000
and imprisonment for up to 10 years. So we will be on the lookout for
such papers and I just want to let you know in case we don't catch
something in the Editorial Office. Welcome to the 21st century.....
John
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