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US withdrawal opens the question of the Coalition’s war crimes

US withdrawal opens the question of the Coalition's war crimes

2 January 2019
Following the announcement that the US was withdrawing its troops from Northern Syria, Syrian and Russian experts have declared that at long last it would be possible to draw up an accurate evaluation of the war crimes perpetrated by the Coalition.
This alliance is formed of 74 States, and includes France and the United Kingdom among them. Notably, the Alliance has bombarded Raqqa under a carpet of bombs killing almost all the inhabitants of this city which was under Daesh occupation.
The (...)

Israel took two civil flights as hostage

Israel took two civil flights as hostage

2 January 2019
On Christmas Day, Tsahal has managed to strike a land target in Damascus. And how? By using two passenger planes flying over Lebanon as shields for their bombings. Both the Syrian and the Russian etats majors confirmed this at the same time.
Syria would not have been able to strike down the Israeli bomber planes without putting the lives of the passengers on the civil flights in danger. An analogous event occurred on 17 September 2018 with a Russian military observation plane.
In Beirut, (...)

Unesco presented with a complaint against France and Turkey

Unesco presented with a complaint against France and Turkey

14 December 2018
The Syrian Arab Republic has filed a complaint with UNESCO (the UN body dealing with Education, Science and Culture) against France and Turkey, charging them with looting cultural assets belonging to the Syrian people.
Specifically, the complaint alleges that the French and Turkish armies supervised searches on the territories that they occupied (Manbij, Afrin, Idlib, Hassaké and Raqqa). They looted archeological treasures that they then sent abroad.
Furthermore, at the beginning of the (...)

«Current Concerns», n°25, November 14, 2018

Can international agreements override the Constitution?

315. Can international agreements override the Constitution?

Zurich (Switzerland) | 14 December 2018
Self-determination – a human right, by Erika Vögeli / Accepting the self-determination initiative means strengthening direct democracy, by René Roca / Politics going over everybody’s head. With its hasty approval of the UN migration pact, the Bundesrat is losing its grip on reality / The UN Global Compact for Migration shows the urgency of the Self-determination Initiative / In the interest of all states: work for peace in Syria – now!, by Karl Müller / Joint Statement by the Presidents of the Republic of Turkey, the French Republic, the Russian Federation and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany / The Silk Road and Israel, by Thierry Meyssan / The NATO Wall, by Yvan Blot / Push for a direct democratic reform of the economy. The People’s Initiative of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland SPS of 1943 and further submittals, by Werner Wüthrich / A stage victory for pedagogical reason. Study by the University of Bonn shows the success of structured spelling didactics, by (...)

Who is violating Resolution 1701? Israel or Lebanon?

Who is violating Resolution 1701? Israel or Lebanon?

7 December 2018
This photo was taken on 4 December in Kfar Kila (Lebanon). To the right you’ll see several vehicles of the Blue Helmets of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFL). To the left, between the Palestine flags and the flags of Resistance, you see a placard that pays homage to a young Hezbollah combatant now a martyr, and the flags of the Lebanese Resistance and the Palestine. In this area, the road signs to the Israeli border do not mention “Israel”, but rather “Palestine”.
UNIFL is not (...)

«Current Concerns», n°24, November 5, 2018

Human Rights as a weapon

314. Human Rights as a weapon

Zurich (Switzerland) | 13 November 2018
When human rights become a weapon, by Alfred de Zayas / The people want to set the course themselves, by Werner Wüthrich / Direct democracy facing a practical test, by Marianne Wüthrich / Indispensable white gold – the well-established Swiss salt supply system, by Peter Aebersold and Eliane Perret / After the elections in Bavaria, by Karl Müller / Propaganda is marching, by Christian Fischer / The glut of money. Draghi has emulated in real life what Mephisto explained in advance as a fairy tale, by Eberhard Hamer / Do not rely on politics – turn active yourself. Civil rights activist Vera Lengsfeld on democracy in Germany / Impressions from Saxony, by Rita Brügger.

The ICJ: Will it be an option for the US?

The ICJ: Will it be an option for the US?

15 October 2018
Washington is not at all pleased that the International Court of Justice condemned some of its sanctions against Russia.
After Teheran argued that its position was based on the Bilateral Treaty on Friendship, Economic Relations and Consular Rights of 15 August 1955, Washington announced that it was denouncing that Treaty.
The Court is currently examining a set of pleadings from the Palestinian authority denouncing the illegal transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem. The basis for the (...)

Some US sanctions against Iran suspended by ICJ Pending Final Decision

Some US sanctions against Iran suspended by ICJ Pending Final Decision

3 October 2018
In a judgment delivered on 3 October 2018, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ) annulled, on an interim basis, several sanctions that the United States had unilaterally adopted against Iran.
The ICJ is the judicial arm of the UN. The Islamic Republic of Iran brought an action against the US on the grounds that the US sanctions imposed after the US withdrew from the JCPoA, contravened the Bilateral Treaty on Friendship, Economic Relations and Consular Rights that both countries (...)

International Court of Justice: forum for Palestine’s dispute with the United States

International Court of Justice: forum for Palestine's dispute with the United States

30 September 2018
On 28 September 2018, the State of Palestine filed a complaint against the United States before the International Court of Justice (the ICJ, the UN’s Court).
The State of Palestine is denouncing the US embassy’s recent relocation to Jerusalem. The brief filed by the State of Palestine is based on UNGA Res 181 on The Partition of Palestine, adopted in 1947 .
This partition plan provides that the city of Jerusalem, given its broadest definition, does not form part of the two Independent (...)

Iran brings an action against the United States before the International Court of Justice

Iran brings an action against the United States before the International Court of Justice

21 July 2018
On 16 July 2018, the Islamic Republic of Iran filed an action against the United States of America before the International Court of Justice.
This court is the internal judicial organ of the UN and is tasked with settling disputes between UN member states.
Teheran considers that the sanctions that Washington has taken against it after withdrawing from the 5+1 agreement (JCPoA) violate articles IV 1), VII 1), VIII 1), VIII 2), IX 2) and X 1) of the Bilateral Treaty on Friendship, Economic (...)

«Current Concerns», n°11-12, June 3rd, 2018

Sanctions, War, and Law

303. Sanctions, War, and Law

Zurich (Switzerland) | 4 June 2018
Korea and the power interests of geopolitics. Some fragments on the history of the Korean peninsula, by Erika Vögeli and Peter Hediger / Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula / Panmunjeom: From an icon of division to an icon of peace / Wars of aggression are criminal offenses. Persons who wage a war of aggression render themselves personally liable to prosecution / Swiss mission in Korea. Swiss army members for the two commissions NNRC and NNSC / Reminding the state and the citizens of the basic principles of the constitution. Germany’s perspectives in a world that has fallen apart, by Karl Müller / How the project Nord Stream 2 became a game of power poker, by Bruno Bandulet / Battlefield Nord Stream 2, by Prof Dr Eberhard Hamer / Between left-green hegemony and radical Pegida movement. Ulrich Greiner: A return to the foundations of our culture, by Winfried Pogorzelski / The postage stamp as cultural property and micro-artwork. For the (...)

Canada bans Venezuelans living on its territory from electing their president

Canada bans Venezuelans living on its territory from electing their president

20 May 2018
Canada has just notified Venezuela’s ambassador of the prohibition on organizing polling stations for the Venezuelan Presidential elections.
This decision contravenes the Vienna Treaty on Consular Relations. France and Germany mirrored this action in 2014: both these states violated the aforementioned treaty when they prohibited Syrian ambassadors from organizing polling stations when the Syrian Presidential election took place in June 2014 .
Canada, France and Germany are claiming to (...)

«Current Concerns», n°9, May 2nd, 2018

After the tripartite aggression of Syria

301. After the tripartite aggression of Syria

Zurich (Switzerland) | 6 May 2018
Backgrounds to the crisis in Venezuela, by Alfred de Zayas / “We have to stop wars”, Interview with David Beasley / “If we don’t want a war, there is no way around a policy of détente”, Interview with Gabriele Krone-Schmalz / USA – Declaration Against the Expansion of the Syrian War / France cannot be proud of bombing Syria. The French want a strong leadership, but an independent one, by Roland Hureaux / No reason to rise the all-clear signal, by Karl Müller / We must not let ourselves thoughtlessly being drifted into war. Prudent British voices on the crisis over Syria / The digital transformed and individualised school – an economistic concept without any pedagogical foundation, by Marianne Wüthrich / Natural law and popular sovereignty – important elements of democracy in Switzerland (part 2). Ignaz Paul Vital Troxlers conception of democracy, by René Roca / Nursing – an eternal profession, by Moritz Nestor / Even in medicine it depends on the concept of man. An important book: “Allergien (...)

Greece: a State of Rule of Law, Turkey: a Gangster State

by Savvas Kalèndéridès

Greece: a State of Rule of Law, Turkey: a Gangster State

Athens (Greece) | 6 May 2018
Arrest of Musa Alerik
On May 2, 2018, a Turkish citizen named Musa Alerik, a worker in the municipality of Adrianople, passed by mistake into the Greek territory, in the area of Kastanies, and so got arrested by the guard of the nearby outpost.
The impression immediately created was that Musa Alerik’s case was "ideal" for Greece to handle it on the basis of reciprocity and ensure the release of the two Greek soldiers arrested on Thursday, March 1, because they had entered by mistake into (...)

The fiasco of the bombing raid on Syria

by Thierry Meyssan

The fiasco of the bombing raid on Syria

Damascus (Syria) | 24 April 2018
The more time passes since the allied attack against Syria on 14 April 2018, the more the available information reveals the amplitude of the disaster. While the United States still mange to prevent leaks from their armies, those from France are irrevocable. Washington, Paris and London clearly demonstrated that they still intend to rule the world, but they also showed that they no longer have the means to do so.

The End of International Law?

by Thierry Meyssan

The End of International Law?

Damascus (Syria) | 10 April 2018
The war against the Greater Middle East should end with the withdrawal of US troops within the next six months. And yet nothing proves that peace will settle in each of the countries that were invaded. Today we are witnessing what seems to be a tentative to get rid of international law. Will this consolidate a division of the world into two parts, or will it open to a generalised conflict?

A bloody Good Friday in Palestine

by Julio Yao Villalaz

A bloody Good Friday in Palestine

Panama (Panama) | 3 April 2018
The use of snipers against the Palestinian demonstrators at the boundary line of the Gaza Strip: Tel Aviv presents this as a necessary and moderate security measure, that the mainstream press repeats. From Panama City, Julio Yao, an expert in international law reminds us that this is far from the first time that the Western mainstream media chooses to take sides and to hide the facts rather than expose them. The people from Panama have experienced this for themselves.

France is sending troops in Syria

France is sending troops in Syria

1 April 2018
On 29 March 2018, President Emmanuel Macron received a delegation of the Democratic Forces of Syria (DFS). According to Khaled Issa (“ambassador” of the “Rojava” to Paris), Macron announced that France was sending troops to the Manbij (Syria).
The DFS is a new front for the armed members of the PYD, the party of the pro-US Kurds resident in Syria. To respect form, the delegation was composed of equal numbers of Arabs and Kurds. However on the ground, the DFS are almost exclusively members of (...)

Sergei Lavrov’s response to the Salisbury incident

by Sergey Lavrov

Sergei Lavrov's response to the Salisbury incident

Moscow (Russia) | 14 March 2018
Question: You said recently that the Russian Foreign Ministry has not yet received an official request from London on the Sergey Skripal case. Has anything changed during the day? Moscow also drew attention to the need to conduct a joint investigation and presentation of samples of the toxic agent. Is there any progress in this case?
Sergey Lavrov: There is regress. We are not seeing any progress. We have not yet received any official inquiry from London on the poisoning of Skripal and his (...)

Venezuela, an impossible intervention

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Venezuela, an impossible intervention

Panama (Panama) | 3 March 2018
After violently criticizing the Venezuelan government and its president Nicolás Maduro, after making a further request for the presidential election to be brought forward, the Lima Group, which consists of 12 states, all of which are members of the Organization of American States (OAS), has now made a statement against the early presidential election that Caracas has just called for. This inconsistency on the part of the Lima Group is part of the US’s international campaign against the Bolivarian Republic. A psy-ops seeking to make us think that the country of Hugo Chávez is sinking; that a humanitarian crisis has erupted there on a scale that opens the door to the legitimacy of “humanitarian intervention”. A diplomat from Panama, Julio Yao presents a series of arguments to negate (...)

New crimes by the International Coalition in Syria

by Bashar Ja’afari

New crimes by the International Coalition in Syria

New York (USA) | 27 February 2018
We have sent you dozens of letters, the most recent of which were our identical letters of 21 February 2018 (S/2018/152), regarding the massacres of Syrians that the so-called international coalition has perpetrated. Further to those letters, I should like to inform you that, on Sunday, 25 February 2018, this coalition, which is led by the United States of America, perpetrated two more massacres of Syrian civilians when its warplanes bombed civilian homes in the villages of Sha‘fah and (...)

Destruction in self-defense of an Israeli F-16

by Bashar Ja’afari

Destruction in self-defense of an Israeli F-16

New York (USA) | 20 February 2018
107/5000 Israeli F-16 destroyed after he attacked Syria
On instructions from my Government, and in response to the letter dated 10 February 2018 from the representative of the occupying Israeli authorities (S/2018/111), I should like to convey to you the following information.
The Syrian Arab Republic has sent many letters to the Security Council, the most recent of which was the letter dated 7 February 2017 (S/2018/100), in response to ongoing Israeli aggressions against its (...)

France opposes the Sotchi Consensus

France opposes the Sotchi Consensus

8 February 2018
Interrogated by BFM TV, on 7 February 2018, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, accused “Turkey, the regime of Damascus, Iran and all those that attacked the East Ghouta and Idleb” of violating international law.
The expression “the regime of Damascus” refers to the Syrian Arab Republic - to a member state of the UN family. Eastern Ghouta provides a safe haven to combatants trained by the Muslim Brotherhood and the British Special Forces. Idleb is controlled by (...)

A Syria Plan That Breaks the Law

by Cory Booker, Oona A. Hathaway

A Syria Plan That Breaks the Law

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 23 January 2018
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently announced that American troops will remain in Syria even after the fight against the Islamic State has ended. If the administration carries through on this promise, it will commit the American people to an indefinite conflict that could bring our troops into direct confrontation with the armed forces of Syria and its closest allies, Iran and Russia. In the process, it will break just about every relevant law on the books.
As repulsive as the regime (...)

Syria denounces Israeli-jihadist coordination

by Mounzer Mounzer

Syria denounces Israeli-jihadist coordination

New York (USA) | 5 December 2017
For seven years, Israel has been supporting various jihadist groups, including Daesh, against the Syrian Arab Republic. This is the "Operation Good Neighbor" (sic).
On instructions from my Government, I should like to convey to you the following information:
In yet another heinous act of aggression, the occupying Israeli authorities launched missiles at the Syrian Arab Republic in two separate attacks. The first incident occurred at 00.30 hours on Saturday, 2 December 2017, when a (...)

Four successive vetos on the lies about Khan Shaykhun

At the UNO - US inability to admit reality

by Thierry Meyssan

At the UNO - US inability to admit reality

Cairo (Egypt) | 21 November 2017
While Presidents Putin and Trump continue to make progress on the question of Syria, the United States senior civil servants in service at the UNO have locked into a round of arm-wrestling with Russia. Refusing to investigate a crime that they have already tried a priori, they provoked not one, but four vetos at the Security Council. For Thierry Meyssan, the schizophrenic behaviour of the United States on the international stage is a demonstration of the divisions within the Trump administration and the decline of US imperialism.

Statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the Vetoed UN Security Council Resolution

Statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the Vetoed UN Security Council Resolution

Moscow (Russia) | 17 November 2017
As the future of the UN OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) was being discussed at the UN Security Council on November 16, the United States and its supporters blocked the text of the Russian-Chinese draft resolution on renewing and strengthening the mandate of this entity which was submitted by Bolivia. As a result of such irresponsible actions, this Mechanism, which was created over two years ago in the interest of identifying perpetrators of chemical crimes in Syria, ceases to exist (...)

Draft Resolution on the Joint UN-OPCW Survey Mechanism (Russian Veto)

Draft Resolution on the Joint UN-OPCW Survey Mechanism (Russian Veto)

New York (USA) | 16 November 2017
Olof Skoog (Sweden) and Nikky Haley (USA) © UN Photo/Evan Schneider
Draft resolution by: France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America.
The Security Council,
Recalling its Resolutions 2319 (2016), 2314 (2016) 2235 (2015), 2253 (2015), 2209 (2015), 2178 (2014), 2118 (2013), 1989 (2011), 1540 (2004) and 1267 (1999),
Expressing grave concern regarding the additional allegations of chemical weapons use in the (...)

Iran denounces Saudi accusation against it

by Gholamali Khoshroo

Iran denounces Saudi accusation against it

New York (USA) | 7 November 2017
Upon instructions from my Government, I would like to bring to your attention the following:
Pursuant to a reported launch of a missile on 4 November 2017 from Yemen to Riyadh, the authorities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including its Crown Prince and Minister for Foreign Affairs, accused the Islamic Republic of Iran of supplying missiles to Yemen for the purpose of attacking Saudi Arabia. Based on this unfounded assumption, they maintained that such measures are a “direct military (...)

Memorandum on Libya: Fabrications against the State, Leadership and Army

by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

Memorandum on Libya: Fabrications against the State, Leadership and Army

Tripoli (Libya) | 28 October 2017
This memorandum aimed to pinpoint some of facts that the Libyan people were subjected to during the past six years where the most horrendous crimes were committed against its people. These crimes were committed under the name of human intervention, protection of civilians, introducing democracy and prosperity where the NATO forces, with the help of some Arab countries and a few Libyans, attacked Libya with all weapons under its disposal. The justifications put forward were as false as the (...)

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