... the relevant issues with RIAC President Igor Ivanov. In an interview with RIAC, Mr. Annan talked about the challenges facing the UN, ways to reform it, the implementation of the concept “Responsibility to Protect”, and the situation surrounding Syria.
The UN Reform
I set about reforming the United Nations Organization straight away upon being elected Secretary General. To begin with, we defined what we could do ourselves, in what fields to cooperate with other institutions, and what to shift ...
... encouragement to Russia’s opposition movement and democracy scholar Michael McFaul’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, the climate in U.S.-Russia relations started to deteriorate leading to USAID’s closure, open confrontation on the Syrian issue, and exchange of the punitive “Magnitsky” and “Yakovlev” bills. Whilst the Obama Administration has been struggling to resuscitate its relations with the Kremlin, the U.S. Congress has sought to do the opposite. U....
Syria as a British dilemma and ways to resolve it
The crisis in Syria, which has now been on the edge of civil war for two years, is at the center of the world’s attention, with the UK being one of the key stakeholders keen to achieve a peaceful ...
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Bloomberg
... threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." (MLK)
The international community strongly denounced the violence in Syria but so far it hasn’t been able to provide an effective framework to prevent and stop these atrocities. The responsibility to protect (R2P) doctrine - adopted in 2005 to embody the promises made by world leaders to prevent a future “Cambodia”,...
... Peninsula, and of course everything which relates to the so-called Arab Spring. It is really a situation which is creating more threats so far than positive incentives.
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Well I definitely want to talk also about your conversations with him regarding Syria. He's expressed a willingness and an interest in continuing to find a solution that Russia as well as the United States could put forward to the civil war. At the same time, he was just criticizing you in Saudi Arabia for continuing to sell arms ...
... including the recent US Army pullout from Iraq, is felt within the GCC (and in France, UK, Israel and Turkey too) as dangerous exposure to a neighboring (increasingly anticipated as assertive) Iran as well as to Russia and China behind it. Right now, Syria pays a proxy-war price for that: This multi-religious country of subtle ancient cultural layers may end up entirely combusted, thereby creating a dangerous security vacuum in the heart of MENA. Or to use the words of frustration of the senior French ...
Interview with Mark N. Katz, George Mason University professor and Middle East Policy Council senior fellow
Interview
Reports from Syria show no sign of improvement of the situation there. According to the United Nations over 70,000 people have perished, at least 2 million people have been displaced, about 1 million have fled to neighboring countries as a result of the conflict that ...
Unintended consequences of Iraq and Afghanistan
As international worries deepen over developments in Syria and Mali, the West must be cautious about leading the pack when it comes to saying what should be done. Because the events now playing out in Syria and Mali are, in no small part, the unintended consequences of American, British and French foreign ...
Interview of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia S.Lavrov for the documentary film on Syria by Hubert Seipel for the German channel ARD, on the air on February 13
Question: Russia sent a couple of planes to Beirut for evacuation of Russians from Syria. Is this the “beginning of the end” game?
Lavrov: No. We made a statement ...
