... world. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which includes 57 countries with mostly Muslim populations, has always supported the Palestinian cause. The Arab League has also repeatedly said it wants an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Many countries, in addition to the United Nations, have called for a solution that would create two states, based on the borders from before 1967. Trump's idea to take control of Gaza would go against these long-held views and isolate the U.S. in international ...
... just as they did with the Nord Stream pipelines. The United States and its allies have placed sanctions policies at the core of what they do on the international stage, including regarding Russia, but also in other respects. This demonstrates their refusal to engage in fair economic competition and their commitment to using unfair, aggressive practices for suppressing their opponents. They imposed a plethora of sanctions on China, too. As I have already said, they do not hesitate sanctioning their allies whenever there is even a slight threat that these allies can make something ...
... opportunities for multilateral diplomacy opened up. It could be understood as the joint actions of leading powers, regional centres of power and small countries in the field of resolving security issues and responding to common challenges. UN, as the only universal international organisation, was the key institutional structure for multilateral diplomacy. The end of the bloc confrontation between the USSR and the USA gave hope that multilateral diplomacy would not be hampered by the contradictions of the leading centres of power. Thirty years later, multilateral diplomacy is in crisis, and has yielded to “classical” balance of power diplomacy.
Andrey Kortunov: ...
... abandoned the “two states for two peoples” formula, which, in accordance with UN Security Council’s resolutions, underpinned the international effort in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement. Like the issue of Jewish settlements, the status of Jerusalem is by and large a
fait accompli
for the United States, since the president’s decision was made on the basis of the 1995 Congressional Jerusalem Embassy
Act 104
, which all of Trump’s predecessors did not have enough daring to enforce.
Jin Liangxiang:
The Palestine Issue Should Be Led Back ...
... place in the world will be rapid and dramatic - revisionism by its nature does not imply sudden movements. We see how cautious Russia and the United States are about the likelihood of an escalation of their differences in Eastern Europe. China and the United States are also showing serious restraint and skilfully resolve their differences without bringing them into direct conflict. The fact that thousands of human lives become the price for general revisionism is a huge tragedy. But in conditions when a major conflict is impossible and irrational, and the contradictions between many powers aimed at revising the international order are great, it ...
... of them avoid concentration on the implementation of resolutions of the Security Council to create a Palestinian state next to Israel, coexisting with Israel in peace and security. Borders were indicated as being the 1967 borders, capital is East Jerusalem. All this has never been cancelled by the United Nations.
Question:
Can I touch upon something you said there, the resolutions that were put forward by Russia twice as well, rejected, vetoed by the US. Do you think that was because Washington didn't agree what was in those resolutions, or was ...
For more than 30 years, Washington has failed to build a just order, which is why we are now experiencing unprecedented crises
The wars in Ukraine and in Gaza are very different; yet, they are definitely linked as two flashing indicators of how the change in the world order is proceeding. Regrettably but unsurprisingly, the relatively peaceful previous ...
... between Russia and the West, there is no constructive interaction on this issue, and the work of the WG is actually undermined. A similar situation is taking place within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – a specialized agency of the United Nations. Although ITU deals with purely technical issues, this organization has been crippled by politicization of its efforts and discrimination of the Russian side (refusal to appoint Russian representatives to leadership positions in various investigation commissions and advisory groups, revocation of entry visas, etc.). [
34
]. Thus, Russian diplomacy faces the problem of discrimination on important international ...
... of states in the global ICT environment, which were outlined in the
2018 UNGA
resolution. These include: non-use of force or threat of force in the ICT environment, respect for state sovereignty, peaceful resolution of disputes, inadmissibility of unproven accusations of cyberattacks, etc.
In the early 2000s, this topic, largely due to the efforts of Russian diplomats, entered the agenda of most global and regional forums, including the SCO, CSTO, BRICS and others. IIS is currently one of the key topics.
According ...
... controlled by Damascus). Russia has
supported
this in every possible way. In 2022, the UN was able to
increase
aid delivered across the front lines to the north-west of the country, providing Syrians with food, medical supplies and other supplies to thousands of those in need. The UN notes that the route of humanitarian aid deliveries, which runs through the line of contact, is quite dangerous, as it passes through areas in which hostilities continue.
According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, from July 2021, when
Resolution ...
