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Good idea, bad timing? It's not clear whether the world's worst drought in over a century provided impetus for the agriculture ministers of the BRICS nations to gather in Brasilia in March and launch a manifesto designed to make the group a key player in the global food security regime. But they did. Now the world is waiting. From a moral and business ethics perspective the effort makes sense and can add value to the BRICS brand. But success ...
... representatives in Moscow. Mohammed Haddad, who represents Polisario’s cause through its Moscow mission, is a member of the movement’s leadership. He is in charge of the negotiation team, which started talks in 1986 with Morocco through the UN framework that led to the peace settlement of 1991. Mohammed Haddad has worked with consecutive personal envoys of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara - James Baker, Peter van Walsum and current Personal Envoy Christopher Ross. He also contributed ...
United Nations Alliance of Civilization was created immediately after 9/11 to give another look at the role of cultures and identities in international affairs. The alliance attempts to address culture as part of soft power and has a double mission: ...
... period of holidays to celebrate Christmas and New Year, how many people live in fear, sadness and hopelessness? I read about Ukraine and the human suffering caused by the coup, the incited civil war supported by “Friends” of the new regime running Ukraine. And I wondered. What all these leaders will be thinking of while they have their grandiose luncheons and dinner parties to celebrate Christmas and New Year? Will they be thinking of the plight of the thousands of refugees and homeless ...
Last year 9 million people contracted tuberculosis and 1.5 million died from the disease. That's bad news for the public health infrastructures of the BRICS, who account for nearly half the TB cases worldwide. At the same time, however, non government actors with global political agendas, including philanthropies, the pharmaceutical industry and speculators, seek to disrupt government funded “social net” ...
... an enormous sum for a developing economy. As the humanitarian agenda continues to gain momentum within the political discourse, the question remains: are we doing any better in response to such crises? A brief history of the humanitarian reform The United Nations is usually condemned for its inability to conduct comprehensive reforms, with this criticism chiefly directed at the UN Security Council. However, this is not the case, the UN is an organization that has a large number of bodies and other ...
In what is being branded as an effort to provide palliative assistance to reduce hunger and boost democracy building living standards Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank and Ban Ki Moon, secretary general of the United Nations, have launched a plan that expands the strategically significant “Horn of Africa” to encompass ...
The Security Council is rightfully considered the most powerful and influential body of the United Nations. The authority granted by Chapter VII of the UN Charter allows it to pronounce universally binding decisions and authorize all types of conflict-preventing missions,...
... Kaddafi has hurled Libya into the chaos of a three-years-long struggle between liberal forces supported by the army and Islamist parties propped up by former rebels . Five successive governments have fruitlessly been trying to establish control over a country that is de facto split into three parts (Cyrenaica in the east, Tripolitania in the west and Fezzan in the south), and with most of the territory still held by various Islamist groups. The situation has been exacerbated by the parliamentary elections ...
Inteview with Igor Makarov On September 23, 2014 New York hosted the UN Climate Summit, which was accompanied by massive demonstrations by environmentalists in the United States, Europe and Australia. Although the regulation of harmful carbon emissions and deforestation are central on the climate agenda, the establishment ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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