... seemingly resolved, but on so many other fronts
that's not the case. Are things resolvable going forward? Are we overstating the danger right now?
Sergey Lavrov:
No, I think we don't. I think we do not overstate the danger. And I don't think we yet fully understand the risks of further developments in the direction of more and more conflicts.
You mentioned Caucasus. The Americans and Europeans are trying also to drive a wedge between Russia and Central Asia. They would like to keep this chaos and the expectation that it would be manageable in the Middle East.
Question:
And that's ...
On April 29, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, hosted the second international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises
On April 29, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in ...
... role of the United Nations in conflict resolution, from its origins until the current crisis of confidence it experiences
On February 21, the Russian Council of International Affairs had the pleasure to welcome Robert H. Serry for a lecture on the UN and international conflicts resolution.
The event was attended by several experts and students who got the opportunity to hear about the former experiences of the Dutch diplomat in the sphere of conflict management on behalf of NATO, as UN Envoy on the Palestinian-Israeli ...
On March 19, 2019, representatives of the diplomatic corps in Moscow and Russian experts had a meeting with Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Assistant Administrator of UNDP, and Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, and Rastislav Vrbensky, Deputy Director
On March 19, 2019, representatives of the diplomatic corps in Moscow and Russian experts had a ...
Alexander Nikitin held a lecture and presented his report “International Intervention in Conflicts: UN, OSCE, EU, NATO, CSTO Peacekeeping Policies”
On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, Alexander Nikitin, Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Institute for International Research MGIMO and Head Research Associate of the Institute of World ...
... also a must for the decision-making mechanism. Currently, decisions are taken on a consensus basis, unanimously. But we need democratic and at the same time more effective tools for making decisions.
Interference and Conflicts
The Security Council’s function in interstate conflicts has become fundamentally different. Previously, UN forces were employed only after peace agreements governing interstate conflict had been signed. Now we are running into situations that require other decisions – Somalia, Rwanda, Yugoslavia....
