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The Loss of Debaltseve
20 February 2015 The failure to declare an “immediate” cease-fire at the end of the last round of what one may call the “Minsk Process” was not a good sign. The fact that the “Package of Measures for the Implementation … Continue reading
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Tagged Debaltseve, Minsk Agreements, Poroshenko, Putin, Russia, Ukraine
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Minsk III
13 February 2015 At the end of meeting in the Belarusian capital, Presidents Putin, Poroshenko, Hollande and Chancellor Merkel issued the “Declaration of Minsk in Support of the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements”. They reiterated … Continue reading
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Tagged Hollande, Merkel, Minsk cease-fire, Poroshenko, Putin, Ukraine conflict
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Iran at Crossroads
12 February 2015 Iran is a country with an impressive historical and cultural heritage. It has rich natural resources, a strategic location and a population of 76 million. Following the ousting of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979, Iran’s principal concern … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Iran's nuclear program, Israel, Obama, P5+1- Iran talks, Turkey
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Western Response to Escalation in Ukraine
7 February 2015 A group of distinguished scholars and former practitioners from the Atlantic Council, the Brookings Institution, the Center for a New American Security, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs have recently published a report (*) which outlines … Continue reading
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Middle East Fratricide
7 February 2015 According to OIC’s official website, the Organization and its Secretary General issued twelve statements of condemnation during the past month. Five of these were related to developments in non-OIC countries such as the terrorist attack on Charlie … Continue reading
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Tagged OIC, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UN
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Quo Vadis Turkey?
3 February 2015 Turkey’s traditional foreign policy, bitterly criticized by the present Government for having betrayed Turkey’s potential, stood on pillars. Our relations with the United States and the European Union constituted the first two. A third one was our … Continue reading
President Obama and the Middle East
1 February 2015 Five speeches delivered by President Obama are important to understanding his approach to the Middle East. These are: • Remarks to the Turkish Parliament (6 April 2009), • Remarks at the Cairo University where he addressed Moslem … Continue reading
Breach of Protocol
30 January 2015 It would not be surprising that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to Washington should remain a cause for controversy up to and even beyond the Israeli elections scheduled for 17 March 2015. As a former diplomat I … Continue reading
Syriza’s Election Victory
28 January 2015 Over the last five years Greece has been on top of the EU’s economic crisis management agenda. Looking further back, one may say that leaders’ personalities and their able political reasoning probably played a larger part than … Continue reading
Breaking the Syrian Deadlock
26 January 2015 With ISIS controlling swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, terrorist attacks in Paris, turmoil in Libya and Yemen, Boko Haram’s massacres in Nigeria, public discourse of the West on Syria has started to change. References to … Continue reading
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Tagged ISIS, Kerry, Lakhdar Brahimi, Russia, Steffan de Mistura, Syria, US
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