... negotiation process on a new UN treaty on climate change. Multilateral efforts to address global warming have not always been successful in the past with a failed UN meeting in Copenhagen in 2009 being just one example. This year’s meeting in France provides yet another opportunity to agree on a global response to climate change.
The article provides an overview of what to expect from the UN summit on climate change taking place from 30 November to 11 December 2015 in Paris, France. The article ...
... Bourget in Paris with, among others, United States’ Barack Obama, China’s Xi Jinping, Britain’s David Cameron and India’s Narendra Modi. The attendance of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has recently been
announced
by France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and later
confirmed
by the Assistant to the President of Russia Yuri Ushakov. Hence, leaders of the four largest carbon-emitting states as well as leaders of the European Union, third largest emitter, will ...
This was written as the Paris attacks unfolded. I have preserved the unfolding nature of the original piece to connect the reader in a deeper sense to what I was feeling as I wrote this.
As this historic terrorist attack unfolds, France, Europe, the West, and the Middle East need to really think about what they've been doing and what they are about to do before doing it. This is a time to be smart, but it is also a time to marginalize unhelpful, myopic voices, be they ...
... President Igor Ivanov, Director General Andrey Kortunov, Presidium Chairman of Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Fyodor Lukyanov and President of RAS Institute for Oriental Studies Vitaly Naumkin were in Paris to participate in annual conference “France-Russia-Europe: Split or Reconciliation” sponsored by
L’Institut Jean Lecanuet
, le Groupe senatorial d’amitie France – Russie,
l’Institut de relations internationales et strategiques
and
l’Ovbservatoire franco-russe
...
... government also cannot avoid launching a major retribution. It might include more intensive attacks on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and a clearer and more coordinated allied strategy will certainly replace the rather haphazard attacks. Since France is unlikely to rally enough capabilities, even with the help of major European countries, for an effective response, Europe is likely to appeal to the United States, which has so far preferred to distance itself from the Middle East developments....
According to the information available, the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. Its goal is to push France out of the US-led coalition operating in Syria and Iraq.
Yes, it was a terrorist act. But a special one – a series of well-planned and coordinated attacks on several sites at once. Overall, they say, there were six or seven attacks, involving ...
Today we grieve and mourn with all those who have lost their loved ones in the horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris.
This is a moment when all people must come together and give each other comfort, peace and kindness and be the best human beings we can possibly be.
When our lament is over, we must join hands and do all we can to fight the scourge that has struck Paris and Moscow, New York and Mumbai, Jerusalem and Bali. November 13th has seen our failure, we owe it to the victims of this day not...
While Brazil's “strategic allies” --Germany and France-- are now turning away Syrians and other refugees Brazil has already provided asylum to 2,900 people presumed to be Syrian nationals fleeing the bloody civil war. The United States, which open sources indicate is spending billions of dollars to ...
On October 29, 2015, Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Moscow and met Vladimir Putin. He also visited MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) where he became Honorary Doctor.
After the first meeting comes dialogue
“This meeting made it possible to find some common ground and furthered the understanding of each other’s position,” declared the leader of the Republican Party in an
interview
he gave to one of the French television channels on the same evening in Moscow....
... RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, IMEMO Director Academician Alexander Dynkin and Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine Fyodor Lukyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, visited the Embassy of France to meet with Head of Continental Europe Department at French Foreign Ministry Florence Mangin for the discussion of Ukraine settlement, implementation progress of Minsk accords, Syria and initial results of the Vienna process on Syria, Moldova,...
