... being transferred to NATO as the leading, legitimate and most effective military-political alliance of the 21st century. He also called on the NATO countries to increase their defense spending to 5 percent of their respective GNPs and to reintroduce a universal draft in its member-states.
Russia and China refused to recognize NATO’s legitimacy as a peacekeeping organization, and even less so to take part in operations under its leadership. By September 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping established a bilateral ...
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total personnel serving with the UN, it is now the largest troop-contributor of all 5 UNSC permanent members. In 2015, the President of the PRC Xi Jinping
pledged
8,000 more Chinese troops to become part of the UN peacekeeping standby force. Through UNPK China pursues multiple objectives. Participating in peace operations helps improve a country’s international image as a responsible and peace-seeking member of the international community, field missions provide troops with real-world practice and ...
UN propagandists claim that the selection process to name the next secretary general, who will take office before the inauguration of the next U.S. president, will be the most transparent in the history of the organization, which was founded in 1945.
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... ratified COP-10 meet their voluntary goals of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by that time.
Back in 2012 when still at Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, the creator of the BRIC (now BRICS) model, predicted that the combined GDP of eight countries-- China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea and Indonesia-- will account for about a third of the world economy by 2020. The G7 countries – Germany, the United States, Japan, Great Britain, Canada, France and Italy – will account ...
... underfinanced.
Another matter is who should provide finance. Traditionally, industrialised countries listed in a special Annex to the Convention have been donors of international finance. However, since 1992 many other countries gained capacity to provide funds.
China recently pledged approximately 3 billion US
dollars for developing countries to help them address climate change. As for Russia, the country should also use an opportunity to provide climate finance in order to increase its soft power in poorer ...
... managing director of the International Monetary Fund has already pressed the BRICS New Development Bank to start generating loans in a tight money global economy ahead of its schedule. But there are no indications that the BRICS bank, still not fully funded and masking the lingering controversy over being headquartered in China, will open its loan window prior to the middle of next year.
The BRICS food security initiative, meanwhile, is providing job creation for “Sherpa-style” experts and bureaucrats who should be more agile than their American and European ...
... interventions in its former colonies; the Central African Republic, Mali and Niger all of which contain uranium deposits.
China has become the new player in the club and its presence is being felt along Africa’s Uranium Road, the meridian that ... ... where most of Africa’s major uranium producers are located. Sudan has been a long been a nation that has looked askance at unregulated uranium deals. Namibia and South Africa are also important producers but operate in a different sphere of geopolitical ...
... a regular basis, while Russia is a member of the Contact Group on Piracy and allocates its ships for patrolling the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Peacekeepers' Training
The BRICS states are devoting increasingly more attention to training peacekeepers. China runs several facilities to train civilian policemen for peacekeeping operations; while in 2010 Beijing launched a joint Chinese-African research program and hosted a conference on peace and development in Africa organized by the
Chinese Foreign Ministry ...
... new American counterpart, John Kerry, sat for a wide-ranging interview in March with
Foreign Policy
Editor in Chief Susan B. Glasser in Moscow, holding forth on everything from why Americans can no longer adopt Russian babies to how come Russia and China team up so much at the United Nations.
Susan Glasser,
Foreign Policy
editor in chief:
Minister Lavrov, thank you so much for taking the time. It's a pleasure to speak with you. We are doing a special issue of
Foreign Policy
magazine that will come out in May and dedicated ...
