Sergei Lavrov has criticised the model of international intervention used in Libya, saying it is not the way to deal with conflict in the region
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November 1, 2011
June 30, 2011
EU’s Largest New Member, Poland, Takes Over Presidency
BRUSSELS/WARSAW — After centuries as Europe’s stomping ground and years as its prickly gadfly, Poland is now poised to lead the continent. Poland, a member since 2004, takes over the European Union’s six-month rotating presidency amid high hopes. “Europe’s foundations are threatened” and strong leadership is needed, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said recently, in [...]
June 30, 2011
No place for emotions in Russia-Belarus relations
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that emotions should not interfere with Russia-Belarus relations. Lavrov was speaking as Belarus paid off its $21.16-million debt to Russian energy export monopoly Inter RAO, a day after Moscow cut electricity supplies to the country. “It is in our interests that any emotional outbursts should be removed from [...]
June 30, 2011
In Tit-for-Tat, Russia Wants to Blacklist Foreigners
With the United States considering sanctions on Russian officials implicated in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the Foreign Ministry has turned to the State Duma with a blacklist of its own. But instead of punishing other countries for human rights abuses against their own citizens, the ministry would blacklist foreigners deemed to have violated the rights of Russian citizens. Under a bill submitted to the Duma on Tuesday, blacklisted foreigners [...]
June 30, 2011
Russian FM to discuss rights protection with parliament deputies
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will on Thursday attend a meeting of the State Duma international committee to discuss protection of Russian nationals’ rights abroad, committee head Konstantin Kosachyov said. A bill banning entry to Russia for foreign officials who have violated the rights of Russian citizens was introduced to the lower house of parliament [...]
June 29, 2011
Washington: Russia Is ‘No Obstacle’ To U.S.-Armenian Military Ties
YEREVAN — A senior U.S. military official says close defense ties with Russia do not impede Armenia’s growing military cooperation with NATO and the United States in particular, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander called cooperation between Washington and Yerevan “very effective” as she ended a two-day visit [...]
June 29, 2011
Main news of June 28
WORLD * The Fatah and Hamas movements reached an agreement on the candidacy of the reconciliation government’s prime minister, Egyptian Al Ahram daily reported * Georgia sent a note expressing readiness for dialog to Russia on Tuesday via mediator Switzerland, in accordance with the recommendation of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a [...]
June 28, 2011
Hitherto we shall be the Kingdom of Sakartvelo!
This would be something I most likely would have wanted to hear as it would be more than logical. But, alas, it’s not to happen! One of Russia’s southern neighbors wants to “rename” itself so that the name of the country sounds the same in all languages: Georgia… Georgia in English is obviously Georgia; however, [...]
June 28, 2011
OIC top diplomats to discuss new name and emblem of organization
Participants of a session of foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states in Kazakhstan will discuss a new name and an emblem of the organization among the other issues. The top diplomats and other high-ranking officials are set to discuss policies and changes in the Middle East and Africa, the [...]
June 27, 2011
Russia’s Medvedev ‘Frustrated’ With Karabakh Impasse
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is frustrated with the failure of his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts to reach a framework agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh and could refrain from organizing more talks between them, one of his senior aides has reportedly said. “If Azerbaijan and Armenia fail to display soon a readiness to solve the accumulated problems, then [...]
June 27, 2011
June 26, 2011
Israel warns journalists against joining second Gaza flotilla
Israel on Sunday threatened to ban foreign journalists from the country for 10 years if they travel with an aid flotilla due to sail to the Gaza Strip next week. The 11 ships will try to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, which was tightened in 2007 after the Islamist movement Hamas took over the [...]
June 26, 2011
Kremlin-Led Karabakh Peace Talks Fail
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Azeri President Ilham Aliyev promised to boost army spending and gain control of Nagorno-Karabakh during the biggest military parade in Baku since the Soviet collapse on Sunday, two days after Kremlin-led talks to reach an agreement on the disputed territory failed. “I am completely sure that our territorial integrity will be resumed in any possible way,” Aliyev said on state television at the parade to celebrate armed [...]
June 26, 2011
Armenia And Azerbaijan Blame Each Other For Peace Talks Failure
Talks on June 24 in the Russian Volga River city of Kazan were billed as crucial for trying to resolve the decades-long conflict surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, the mountainous, mostly Armenian-populated region inside Azerbaijan. But Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Serzh Sarksyan failed to agree on a set of “basic principles” that could have marked the [...]