... of signing up to any unilateral commitments, such an accord will have to come in the form of a bilateral agreement on non-interference. This is not a simple task, but it is possible. Second, the sides could draw up some kind of framework document on Syria. This is particularly relevant as Trump is not especially interested in Syria and has been threatening to wrap up the U.S. operation in the country for a while now. Of course, it would be better to pull out of the reasonably inhospitable Syria in ...
... Libya, turned Libya into a black hole through which waves of migrants, illegal migrants, rushed to Europe. Now EU is cleaning the broken china for NATO.
Question:
You talk about NATO’s involvement in Libya, but then there is Russia’s involvement in Syria and that has also created millions of refugees.
S.Lavrov:
Yes, but I would challenge you that the Russian involvement in Syria on the basis of legitimate request from the legitimate government, recognized by all as the representative of Syria in ...
... anything but a last gasp for the half-century old nonproliferation regime, Presidents Trump and Putin will have to offer some hope that Washington and Moscow take their own responsibilities to reduce and disarm under the treaty seriously.
The wars in Syria and Ukraine have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and displaced millions of people across the Middle East, Europe and beyond. Washington and Moscow each control resources and levers of influence vital for managing and ultimately resolving these ...
...
methodology of JIM and OPCW. Just three weeks before, on October 24, Russia
vetoed
yet another
draft resolution proposed by the US which would have extended JIM’s mandate.
Why did Russia
use its veto power three times in one month, totaling 11, on the Syria issue?
It is well known that vetoing is used as the last resort, and the permanent
members of the Security Council are aware that every veto usually causes a
storm of criticism from those who are on the opposite side. This is true in the
case of ...
Although ISIS has been seriously weakened and lost control over territories and resources, it retains the ability to attack
Actually, neither the Syrian army, supported by Russia, nor the pro-American Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have managed to establish complete control over the territory near the Syria-Iraq border. Moreover, the SDF includes military groups of the Kurdish YPG self-defense ...
... new global role mainly in opposition to the West — both in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe. A policy of “compartmentalization” — i.e. to separate areas of agreement from those of disagreement — has reached its limits for instance in Syria. The new volatile and confusing strategic context in which both Germany and Russia operate is wider, bigger and fraught with far more intricacies and challenges.
In this new strategic context, Germany’s Russia policy has to take on responsibility ...
One day ahead of the“Supporting the future of Syria and the region” conference in Brussels, Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov gave EURACTIV a wide-ranging interview on his country’s ever more complicated relations with the West.
One day ahead of the“
Supporting the future of ...
On April 10, 2018, RIAC hosted a meeting for a group of Russian experts with Human Rights Watch (HRW) representatives on conditions and principles of post-conflict reconstruction in Syria.
On April 10, 2018, RIAC hosted a meeting for a group of Russian experts with Human Rights Watch (HRW) representatives on conditions and principles of post-conflict reconstruction in Syria.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Tatiana ...
How can Moscow respond to a possible US strike on Syria?
The aggravation of rivalry between Russia and the West in the past few months is raising the urgent question of a possible further escalation of tensions and its forms and consequences. Political relations between Moscow and Western capitals ...
On March 23, 2018, RIAC hosted a seminar on prospects for Russia-France cooperation in the Middle East. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and former French ambassador to Syria (2006–2009), Michel Duclos, advising Institut Montaigne, made opening speeches.
On March 23, 2018, RIAC hosted a seminar on prospects for Russia-France cooperation in the Middle East.
Andrey Kortunov
, RIAC Director General, and former French ...
