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Palestinians are the only people deprived of Security Council protection

23 January 2020
In the course of the past 19 years - from 29 September 2000 (A / 55/432-S / 2000/921) to 11 December 2019 (A / ES-10/831-S / 2019/937) - the Palestinian Authority lodged 678 complaints with the Security Council against further illegal acts perpetrated by the State of Israel.
Despite the remonstrations of the General Assembly, none of their complaints has been taken up by the Security Council.
The State of Israel is the only one in the world to benefit from such preferential treatment; the (...)

Iran’s drift towards US and Israeli behaviour

Damascus (Syria) | 21 January 2020
Beyond the showdown between Washington and Tehran, Thierry Meyssan highlights the profound change in Iran’s behaviour. This country, which used to be very observant of international law, now disregards it, joining the United States and Israel, which have never recognized it.

Multilateralism or International Law?

Damascus (Syria) | 11 December 2019
Contrary to popular belief, the multilateralism promoted by Europeans is not opposed to the bilateralism practiced today by the United States, but to international law. The "Paris Peace Forum", organised by President Emmanuel Macron, did not identify any method to prevent conflicts, just to try to save what remains of four centuries of European hegemony.

Interview of Bashar el-Assad with “Paris Match”

Damascus (Syria) | 28 November 2019
Régis Le Sommier with President Bachar el-Assad
After nine years of civil war, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, supported by Russia and Iran, is the only master on board. Here is the full interview given to Paris Match.
Paris Match. Our last interview was five years ago, almost to the day. It was November 2014, your government only controlled one third of the country. Today your armies are back at the Turkish border. Do you feel you have won the war?
Bashar al-Assad. I would like to be (...)

OPCW report was falsified

26 November 2019
Wikileaks has released an email originating from an OPCW inspector (attached document) in which he expresses his concern over the grave omissions and intentional bias of the organization’s report on the alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ghouta area of Damascus on 7 April 2018 .
The OPCW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.
This email was strongly criticized by the current Director-General of the OPCW, Ambassador Fernando Arias González of Spain, but received the approval of (...)

UK flouts UN General Assembly and High Court

24 November 2019
The British government has failed to heed the 22 May 2019 UN General Assembly resolution enjoining it to vacate the Chagos Islands, which it occupies illegally, and hand them back to Mauritius within a six-month deadline.
Approached by the General Assembly, the International Court of Justice confirmed, on 25 February 2019, the unlawful handling of the de-colonization process and the sovereignty of Mauritius over the Islands. With this motion the six-month deadline was pushed up (...)

Theory and Practice of Human Rights

Damascus (Syria) | 4 October 2019
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights sets out an ideal that any responsible person tries to put into practice. But not all evils can be fought at once. It therefore establishes a hierarchy between these rights so that we can make a real difference. In order to better hide their crimes, some powers accuse others of violating human rights. Sometimes the tree hides the forest.

Destabilization of the Caribbean Basin

New York (USA) | 20 September 2019
I have the honour to write to you to denounce several dangerous actions that threaten the peace and security of Venezuela and the Latin American and Caribbean region as a whole.
In a previous communication, a letter dated 6 August 2019 (S/2019/641), the Security Council was informed of the threats made by the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, to commit an act of war by imposing a naval blockade against Venezuela. We note with concern a new attempt to fabricate an (...)

How is Donald Trump handling the Israëlo-Palestinian question?

Damascus (Syria) | 16 July 2019
President Trump does nothing like his predecessors (except for his model, Andrew Jackson), thereby destabilising his partners. The « Deal of the Century » that he dreamed up for Palestine angered President Abbas, who interpreted it from the point of view of previous US propositions. Could he have been wrong?

Towards extradition of Julian Assange

Zurich (Switzerland) | 18 June 2019
VIPS: Extradition of Julian Assange threatens us all, Memorandum for the governments and people of the United Kingdom and the United States from Veteran Intelligence Professional for Sanity (VIPS) / What future for Brexit?, by Nicola Ferronato / The “good guys”, the “bad guys” and the war. A brief review of the EU parliamentary elections, by Karl Müller / How political culture suffers in Germany / Squaring the circle. Parliamentary commissions call for additional negotiations on Framework Agreement with EU, by Marianne Wüthrich / Border cantons demand reinforcement of Border Guard Corps / Switzerland has not become safer by Schengen, Interview with Barbara Keller-Inhelder / The Swiss militia system – a historical outline, by René Roca / ETH study – Neutrality at all-time high / Children and youth and direct democracy, by Rita Brügger / Power outage in Switzerland – big emergency exercise in Austria / A new reading book for family and school. Awaking joy of reading – With what and how?, by (...)

The Assange Affair

Zurich (Switzerland) | 5 June 2019
“Whistleblowers like Julian Assange are the heroes of our time” / “Unfortunately, it is my belief that Julian Assange will not see a fair trial”, Excerpts from an appeal by Mairead Maguire / UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy seriously concerned by Ecuador’s behaviour in Assange and Moreno cases / UN Special Rapporteur on Torture says “collective persecution” of Julian Assange must end now / UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention expresses concern about Assange proceedings / Not only agriculture ends with the destruction of the peasantry, by Heinrich Wohlmeyer / Sovereignty at the service of peoples. Samir Amin – Perspectives for Africa’s independent development / Tremendous effects of the EU internal market? Bertelsmann policy paper confirms: The gap between EU countries is becoming ever wider, by Marianne Wüthrich / Building a residence with processing room and farm shop. Closer to Queen and Bear, by Max Hugentobler / Young people in Berne are championing the mountain villages / Freedom of (...)

The Belgrade Peace Conference

Zurich (Switzerland) | 18 April 2019
“Stop confrontation, start dialogue!” Successful Belgrade Conference “Never forget – peace and prosperity instead of wars and poverty”, Interview with Živadin Jovanovi / Belgrade Declaration – Never to Forget: 1999 – 2019 (Excerpts) / Sanja – a greeting to the conference / “We need peace, so we should join forces, we should carry this in our hearts”. Voices from the Belgrade Conference, by Eva-Maria Föllmer-Müller / Uranium ammunition contaminates the world. A new book about a weapon that was a taboo issue over many years, by Gabriella Hunziker / Contemplating Germany. Listening and talking to each other, by Karl Müller / Johann Gottfried Herder. A fierce opponent of colonialism, cultural arrogance and racism, by Moritz Nestor / Brexit – Lessons to Switzerland. Great Britain and Switzerland are ready for free cooperation between sovereign states, by Marianne Wüthrich / “I am still grateful to Swiss Mountain Aid today”. Gstaad/BE: Construction of a new stable, recorded by Max Hugelshofer / Equal (...)

Statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the Kerch Strait

Moscow (Russia) | 16 April 2019
With regard to the information that Ukraine has set in motion dispute settlement procedures provided for by the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea regarding the November 2018 incident surrounding the provocation in the Kerch Strait in which three Ukrainian warships were involved, the Foreign Ministry states the following.
Ukraine is again acting in bad faith as it tries to use this situation, which has arisen as a result of illegal actions by Ukrainian ships, for internal political (...)

Russian Foreign Ministry statement on the 20th anniversary of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia

Moscow (Russia) | 23 March 2019
On March 24, 1999, NATO began the bombing of Yugoslavia, which lasted for 78 days. For the first time since World War II an aggression was committed against a sovereign European nation, an active participant in the anti-Hitler coalition, one of the founders of the United Nations and engineers of the post-war international security system. The Alliance had not secured the UN Security Council mandate and lacked any legitimate grounds for these actions. This act of aggression was a gross (...)

Syria denounces US attitude about occupied Golan

New York (USA) | 22 March 2019
On urgent instructions from my Government, I draw your attention to the following points in connection with the dangerous, ominous and irresponsible statements made on Thursday, 21 March 2019, by the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, which constitute a threat to the peace, stability and security of the Middle East and the world, and earlier statements by members of Congress and the views expressed by United States Administration officials regarding the status of the (...)