Posts Tagged ‘Russian diplomacy’
Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2014
“The West sees ahead a crucial juncture in post-Cold War era for countering what it perceives as Moscow’s strategm to pit Eurasian integration against European integration.
Moscow maintains that the two integration processes can co-habitate and can have overlapping geo-strategic space, but Europe rejects that notion, which it equates as acquiescence with Russian hegemony in Eurasia.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
25th January, 2014
Ukraine is on the boil. The anti-government protests have become confrontational and have drawn blood in the past few days. President Viktor Yanukovich has been so far insisting that a change of leadership is possible only through the presidential election scheduled for March 2015, but that stance has come under growing pressure.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Europe v.Eurasia, Russian diplomacy, the Eurasian Union, US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
13th January, 2014
The US president Barack Obama lost no time to greet the agreement reached yesterday between Iran and ‘P5+1′ opening the Iran nuclear program to “new and more frequent inspections”. Obama knows — and he knows we know — that, finally, slowly but surely, the historic legacy of this extraordinary statesman is taking shape in front of our eyes.
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Posted in Global peace process, Iran | Tagged: Obama agenda, obama revolution, Obama's realist turn, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 18, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
18th December, 2013
Russia may have made its most significant foreign-policy gain in the entire post-cold war era when the Kremlin decisively moved in on Tuesday to offer a rescue package for the beleagured Ukrainian economy and may have taken a leap forward in leading that country into the Eurasian Union, which Moscow is planning as the umbrella organization bringing together the former Soviet republics.
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: Chinese soft power, End of Nato, Russian diplomacy, the Eurasian Union | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 12, 2013
After its completely aberrant support for the “rebels” in Syria, Hamas is now coming back into the mainstream. Russian diplomacy is now central to a Middle East peace settlement.
Israel Hayom
12th December, 2013
First high-level conversation between Russia and Hamas in months takes place between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh • Lavrov calls for “quick lifting” of Gaza blockade to “relieve a difficult humanitarian situation.”
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Posted in Global peace process, Palestine | Tagged: Israel-Palestine accord, middle east peace settlement, Palestine, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
4th December, 2013
The Iranian Foreign Ministry statement on Tuesday advising Kabul not to proceed with the signing of the proposed status of forces agreement [SOFA] with Washington leading to the establishment of the American and NATO military bases in Afghanistan comes at a defining moment.
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Posted in Afghanistan | Tagged: End of empire, Iranian diplomacy, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2013
‘Don’t humiliate Ukraine’: President defiant over EU deal proposals
RT
27th November, 2013
Ukraine’s president voiced irritation at the European Union over its push to get his country sign a trade deal, calling the pressure ‘humiliating’. Kiev postponed the move citing vulnerability of its economy and triggering massive pro-EU protests.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Eurasian Economic Community, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 13, 2013
Voltairenet
12th November, 2013
Should Washington’s decision to interrupt it’s financial aid to Egypt, following General Al-Sissi’scoup d’état, be interpreted as the application of the law banning financial support to political regimes having ascended to power by violating the constitution, or as a consequences of it’s failing economy. This is the question that Thierry Messan had raised in our columns [1]. If the second hypothesis is correct, then the interruption of U.S. subsidies is comparable to the end of the USSR’s subsidies to its allies, which foreshadowed the fall of the Berlin wall, followed by the collapse of the USSR and the triumph of the United-States.
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Posted by seumasach on November 2, 2013
Russia wants India, Pakistan to be in Shanghai Cooperation Organization – Lavrov
Voice of Russia
2nd October, 2013
Russia believes the Shanghai Cooperation Organization should satisfy an application from India to join the SCO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, reports VoR’s Polina Chernitsa.
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Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2013
Europe’s role in a time of changes
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me pleasure to speak in one of the most renowned centers of political science in Europe as part of my visit to Brussels made on the invitation of my friend and colleague Didier Reynders. Ever since Belgium was founded it had special relationship with Russia. I have no doubt that Belgians are well familiar with the biography of their first King Leopold who was related to the Russian Royal Family and as a general of the Russian Army fought in battles which took place in Europe in the early 19th century. The archives of the Russian Foreign Ministry include a letter by Alexander I to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg with the expression of his “special benevolence.”
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Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
20th September, 2013
While Washington and Paris announced – without a mandate from the Security Council – that they were preparing to attack a sovereign state and member of the United Nations, Moscow chose first of all to open a diplomatic dialogue, and then to address the people of the United States directly. This unprecedented approach is the best way to avoid rising tension. So what were the Russian President’s arguments?
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Posted in Syria | Tagged: Russian diplomacy, US-Russia relations, US-Russia strategic partnership, Us-Russian convergence | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
Fall-out from the US-Russian entente over Syria will be coming thick and fast. Firstly, of course, from that unhappy band, the Syrian “rebels” now in despair over Obama’s “useless procrastination”.
Daily Star
10th September, 2013
BEIRUT: Syria’s main opposition group denounced as a “political manoeuvre” a Russian plan to head off threatened punitive US airstrikes on Syria by destroying the regime’s chemical weapons.
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Posted in Syria | Tagged: Obama's realist turn, Russian diplomacy, US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
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