Just in time for recapping the polarized choices presented by President Obama and President Putin at The United Nations General Assembly. In Foreign Policy there is a struggle between two concepts which every nation must face. There is the idealist perspective which promotes what is right under societal values and norms (which differ per culture), and there ...
The United States is unlikely to introduce new sanctions against Moscow after Monday’s meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama in New York, Russian MP and political scientist Vyacheslav Nikonov has said.
"The main ...
As EU leaders find themselves hard-pressed to implement a quota system to resettle refugees flooding to the Union’s borders, the search for long-term sustainable solutions to the crisis continues. On September 14
th
, British Prime Minister David Cameron
visited a camp
run by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in eastern Lebanon just a stone’s throw ...
Relations between Russia and the United States were already bad two years ago. Even before the problems in Ukraine began, Moscow had granted temporary asylum to former NSA intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and disagreements were deepening between the two countries.
U.S. President Barack ...
... shifted her focus to strategizing for her campaign to win a second term as president and “BRICSA” became a dead letter.
Lula leaps in
Last week, while Dilma and her group of Workers' Party insiders was negotiating the survival of her unraveling coalition, Lula was on an uncharacteristically long (one week) political junket to Argentina and Paraguay, ostensibly to promote bilateral trade and strengthen economic ties among Mercosul nations, another problematic issue.
In Buenos Aires,...
The United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, during which the post-2015 development agenda is to be adopted, will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015 as part of the General Assembly’s 70th anniversary session. The document "
Transforming ...
Moving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding
Moving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding
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Question:
What do you think about the importance of the session devoted to the 70th anniversary of the UN, aside from it being an anniversary? What format will it have and what decisions are likely to come of it? What do you personally expect from this session?
Sergey Lavrov:
First of all, the United Nations’ legitimacy is unique. It is the only ...
It was announced recently that President Vladimir Putin will speak at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly and will also head the Russian delegation.
The upcoming anniversary session of the UN General Assembly later this month — taking place ...
With the 70th anniversary of the United Nations celebrated this fall, France has made a big splash by proposing limiting the right of veto exercised by the permanent members of the UN Security Council, i.e. by Russia, China, United Kingdom, the United States and France. But these ostensibly ...