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Earlier this week several intelligence websites, among which Debkafile confirmed that Washington had Okayed the delivery of anti-tank missiles to Syria in a last attempt to militarily overpower President Bashar Al Assad’s armed forces, topple his regime and engineer the inception of a puppet government which will pledge allegiance to its western backers as well as recognise Saudi Arabia as ...
... illegitimate , and establish relations with the National Transitional Council . The same scenario was meant for Damascus, whose membership was suspended after the domestic conflict erupted . Saudi Arabia and Qatar became key sponsors of the armed Syrian opposition in order to detach Syria from Iran’s orbit. Hence, during phase one of the Arab Spring, the LAS served as the trumpeter of Riyadh and Doha’s interests in engaging the international community into toppling the Libyan and Syrian ...
Interview The world's eyes are riveted on the ups and downs of the Geneva 2 process, which is aimed at finding ways to achieve peace in Syria. We met with Andrey Vdovin , former Russian Foreign Ministry Envoy for Middle East Settlement, to discuss the key issues and their historical context. Geneva 2 is intended to bring the government and opposition forces to the negotiating table and ...
... world leading nations and key centres of power, even potentially involving the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The first one was the crisis around the Korean Peninsula, which reached its height between March and May 2013. The other one was Syria, where the active phase continued from early August until mid-September 2013. In both cases, the main escalating force behind the conflicts was the United States, which mobilized all of its informational, as well as political and military, resources ...
Interview In his interview with RIAC, Dmitry Trenin, Director of Carnegie Moscow Centre and RIAC member, offers his comments on the interim results of Geneva II and Russian-U.S. cooperation in assisting to resolve the conflict in Syria. The main mission of the Geneva II Conference was to bring together the government forces and the opposition in Syria to negotiate the end of the civil war. What do you think about the results of the conference so far? The main outcome of the conference ...
... particularly evident in the spring of 2013, when the Middle Eastern “Rubik’s Cube” suddenly twitched and its faces began to rotate with a clicking sound, like a Geiger counter reconfigured to detect chemical weapons. The events over Syria developed in breadth and began to overlap. Apparently, two unobviously but closely interlinked factors set the “cube” in motion – these were the Russian-U.S. initiative to convene a Geneva II Middle East peace conference and recent ...
Syria on Global Oil Market The mass protests that started in Syria in March 2011 have grown into an armed conflict, and the escalating violence was followed by the imposition of additional sanctions on Syria. In summer 2013 the situation worsened as ...
Only cooperation between Moscow and Washington can solve the Middle East's most vexing problems. On November 21, 2013, Foreign Policy published article "On Syria and Iran, U.S. and Russia Can Work Together" by RIAC President and former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, it is striking that ...
Interview with Fyodor Lukyanov Interview There has been a lot of talk lately about the UN General Assembly resolution on Syria being a harbinger of a new stage in world politics. We have met Fyodor Lukyanov , Editor-in-Chief of the Russia in Global Affairs journal and Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, to assess this opinion and discuss ...
Interview with Petr Stegniy Interview In the run-up to the Geneva-2 conference, Petr V. Stegniy , Russia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and a RIAC member, shares his views on the Syrian crisis and possible ways to resolve it. Mr. Ambassador, is there any room for compromise among world powers on the Syrian crisis and its resolution at Geneva-2? Geneva-2 seems to suit the leading world powers, the Syrian regime and the internal ...
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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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