Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
1st September, 2012
Amidst the old familiar platitudes, one ‘action point’ stood out in the NAM summit in Tehran that is about to conclude later today — initiative on Syria. The details are yet to be unveiled, but the content is immaterial since it is going to be robustly contested anyway and may not endure. The big powers have their own axe to grind.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
Kaveh Afrasiabi
1st September, 2012
Egypt and Iran this week took a giant step toward overcoming their diplomatic estrangement, brought together by the exigencies of a global movement and, even more so, a complex regional calculus that has a long history of being shaped by foreign powers.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
28th September, 2012
TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – Foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement issued a draft statement on Tuesday in which they stated the Syrian crisis must be resolved without foreign intervention and welcomed Lakhdar Brahimi as the representative of the UN secretary general for Syria, replacing Kofi Annan.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
1st September, 2012
The UN Security Council has no right to support a revolution or foreign intervention in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned. Any plan to withdraw government troops while fighting continues is untenable, and naïve at best, he added.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2012
30th August, 2012
Strongly pitching for coordinated global actions against international terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked the Non-Aligned Movement to take a lead in this and also take a stand based on “universally accepted principles” on Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2012
29th August, 2012
A senior Iranian commander has denounced as absurd the French president’s recent remarks that Paris would recognize a ‘potential provisional opposition government’ in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2012
29th August, 2012
Le président syrien Bachar Al-Assad, a réaffirmé en fin d’après-midi, hier, que son pays mène actuellement une bataille, à la fois régionale et mondiale mais que, ce problème récurent, trouvera bientôt une solution et sera résolu. Dans le même temps, le ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Andreï Lavrov, a estimé que ce sont ceux qui arment l’opposition tout en rejetant un dialogue syro-syrien, qui sont à blâmer dans ce dossier épineux, qui pouvait pourtant trouver une solution et compromet la stabilité de la Syrie. Que dire de plus ? Les autres sont dans une dynamique morbide, entre le bruit et la fureur, pensant que seule la force peut résoudre le problème.
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Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2012
27th August, 2012
All indications are that Egypt’s return to the forefront of the Non-Aligned Movement will be the big news this week from the summit meeting at Tehran. The summit’s focus can be expected on three main West Asian issues — Syrian crisis, Iran nuclear issue and the blossoming of the Egypt-Iran relationship.
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Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2012
26th August, 2012
NEARLY 200 elite SAS and SBS troops are in or around Syria hunting for Assad’s weapons of mass destruction, we can reveal.
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Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2012
27th August, 2012
Egypt’s Assistant Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy underlined the importance of Iran’s presidency over the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) given the sensitive situation of the region, and said Cairo is willing to establish the highest level of relations with Tehran, according to Fars news agency.
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