Hurdles And High Hopes On The Way To Kurdistan’s Historic Referendum
Hurdles And High Hopes On The Way To Kurdistan’s Historic Referendum.
Hurdles And High Hopes On The Way To Kurdistan’s Historic Referendum.
Moldova Stirs Up Hornets Nest With UN Transdniestria Request.
Geneva International Discussions The 40th round of the Geneva International Discussions (GID) was held on June 20-21 in Geneva. The GID is a multilateral mediation forum co-chaired by the EU, OSCE and UN. The GID format was designed after the Russo-Georgian War of 2008 to address security and humanitarian…
The International Court of Justice, or The Hague, ruled against Ukraine’s bid to force ’emergency measures’ on Moscow to prevent them from funding and supporting pro-Russian rebels in Donbass, or East Ukraine. The court ruled Ukraine “has not put before the court evidence which affords a sufficient basis” to show…
Ukraine has decided to take its case against Russia’s actions in the east to the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ), the international body’s top judicial venue. Although the case won’t change the facts on the ground, it could impact the propaganda and hybrid war in the frozen conflict. Kiev…
Russia used its veto to block a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syria for the seventh time, rejecting an effort by Western powers to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad’s government and military for its use of chemical weapons. In her first major action as U.S. ambassador to the UN,…
Vitaly Churkin, who served as Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations since 2006, “died suddenly” in New York, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced. Churkin would have turned 65 on Tuesday. The announcement “of the untimely passing away of Ambassador Vitaly Churkin this morning” was met with shock when it…