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The Syrian conflict, now almost two years old, has claimed over 60,000 lives, bringing destruction to the country and destabilizing the Middle East. Joint international action is needed, but deadlock at the United Nations Security Council has so far prevented ...
Russia needs Syria, with or without Assad, just as it needs other Arab countries The situation in and around Syria is becoming increasingly dramatic, and the UN estimates the number of casualties at over 60,000. Information on the warring parties’ military ...
Syria: a minefield At its fourth conference on December 12, 2012 in the picturesque Moroccan city of Marrakech, the Friends of Syria Group made no bones about changing the Bashar Assad regime, thus unveiling a new stage of the Syrian crisis. Although ...
... interpretations, but that at the same time remains the foundation for Western intervention motivated by the intervening parties’ geopolitical interests. The balance of forces in conflict regions portends further Eastward advances – from Syria through Iran towards Pakistan, and further to the Korean Peninsula and the broader Far East. The United States, NATO and the League of Arab States are known to have been ready for a humanitarian intervention in Syria in June-July 2012, when about ...
... non-interference contradict with the spirit of the norm of the responsibility to protect – stating that the international community should step up if endangered civilians are not protected by their own government. Russia and China’s veto on Syria places the UN Security Council in a deadlock, paralyzing any legitimate actions to that end, at a time when the world community should help cease the massive violence in Syria. The combined population of Russia and China constitute only 21% of the ...
... thus exceeded its mandate and the norm of the responsibility to protect was damaged in the eyes of some nations, including China and Russia. This is partly responsible for the failure on the part of the Security Council to take any decisive actions on Syria – Russia now suspects Western nations of pushing their own geopolitical agendas in Syria. Such excess of UN mandate as in Libya might have jeopardized the concept of the responsibility to protect and pushed more countries away from arriving ...
... where the UN Security Council condemned war crimes and crimes against humanity in that country and authorized all necessary measures to protect civilians. Even though the lessons from Rwanda are still fresh in memory and the number of victims in the Syrian civil war has already climbed to 30,000 (with the death toll soaring each month) with an additional 355,268 Syrian refugees having fled to neighboring countries, the UN continues to fail to take appropriate actions to stop crimes against humanity....
... means often comes at a cost of more victims and suffering. Thus we should assess upfront if peaceful means will have a chance of success in order to avoid wasting too much time stagnating on approaches that are unlikely to succeed. For example in Syria, for almost two years now the international community has tried unsuccessfully to rely upon peaceful means such as six-point Annan’s plan, the UN observer mission, a GA resolution, and presidential statements to condemn the violence, but these ...
... United States, are somewhat bewildered. They have sown the wind and they are reaping the whirlwind. We are doing everything to stop that whirlwind. For that what we need to do is not to egg on the opposition - for instance, not to encourage them in Syria to continue the armed struggle to a victorious end - until they get the head of Bashar Al-Asad - but to make everyone sit down and start peace negotiations. [Chernenko] How will the situation in Syria develop? [Lavrov] It is all very simple here....
... special interview for the Russian International Affairs Council Professor Michael Doyle analyses the practical dilemmas of humanitarian interventions in the examples of NATO’s military intervention in Libya and the international response to the Syrian civil war. He discusses the circumstances under which intervention is permissible; whether regional organizations have the right to authorize military intervention; and what should be done to improve the efficiency of UN peacekeeping to adequately ...
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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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