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July 2009 Ürümqi riots. Chinese President Hu Jintao leaves the 35th G8 Summit and returns to Beijing to deal with the ongoing riots in Ürümqi. Turkey is to ask the United Nations Security Council to discuss ways to end the violence in Xinjiang.
July 2009 Ürümqi riots. Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan strengthens his rhetoric: "These incidents in China are as if they are genocide. We ask the Chinese government not to remain a spectator to these incidents." (Associated Press) [permanent dead link ] A curfew is reimposed in Ürümqi, days after it was lifted.
July 2009 events by continent (6 C) July 2009 crimes (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "July 2009 events" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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2009 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.
China's GDP grows 7.9% year by year in the second quarter of 2009, despite the global economic crisis. (China Daily) Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Vice President of Iran, resigns for unknown reasons. (Jerusalem Post)
Twelve European companies launch the €400 billion Desertec project to build solar thermal power stations in North Africa.; Burma announces it will release an unspecified number of political prisoners to allow them to take part in the 2010 general election.
The Garda Síochána and Metropolitan Police Service in London arrest and charge three men in connection with Ireland's largest cocaine seizure in West Cork in July 2007. Abdelkader Belliraj, accused of leading an Islamist militant group and committing six murders in Belgium, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Morocco.