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By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, 22 May 2023 (IDN) — When leaders of the Group of 7 (G7) countries met in Hiroshima May 19-21, one of the issues on the agenda was nuclear disarmament.
The venue of the summit was symbolically stark because the US atomic bombings in 1945 killed over 226,000 people in the twin Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the heaviest toll in Hiroshima.
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, 21 May 2023 (IDN) — The Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) has made a new submission to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in advance of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Russian Federation.
Currently, the tentative schedule of the UPR Working Group, with Russia on its agenda, is 13 November, with the adoption of the final report on 17 November.
By Sergio Duarte
The writer is a former UN High Representative for Disarmament.
NEW YORK, 9 May 2023 (IDN) — Under the inspiration of the five powers that won World War II, the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945 with the objective of regulating international relations and preventing war. Its Preamble expresses “the determination of the peoples of the United Nations to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”.
By Ramesh Thakur*
This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission.
CANBERRA, Australia, 4 May 2023 (IDN) — For several years now many analysts have commented on the looming demise of the liberal international order constructed at the end of the Second World War under US leadership.
Analysis by Shastri Ramachandaran
The question is no longer whether China can broker peace in Ukraine. More pertinent would be to ask what will follow the Xi-Zelensky talk now that Xi has emerged at the top of the list of prospective peacemakers in Ukraine.
NEW DELHI, 28 April 2023 (IDN) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “long and meaningful” telephone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on 26 April has set the cat among the pigeons in the U.S.-led West that is fighting a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
By Vijay Prashad*
This article was produced by Globetrotter.
NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts | USA, 18 April 2023 (IDN) — In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its most important guidebook on international affairs. Japan’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, wrote the foreword, which begins: “The world is now at a turning point in history.”
Some are Shifting Closer to Russia
Dr José Caballero is a Senior Economist at IMD World Competitiveness Center, International Institute for Management Development (IMD).
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, 14 April 2023 (IDN) — After over a year of the Ukraine war, efforts at building a global consensus against Russia seem to have stalled, with many countries opting for neutrality. The number of countries condemning Russia has declined, according to some sources. Botswana has edged towards Russia from its original pro-Ukraine stance, South Africa is moving from neutral to Russia-leaning and Colombia from condemning Russia to a neutral stance. At the same time, a large number of countries have been reluctant to support Ukraine.
By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The writer is a former Indian diplomat. This article was published by Indian Punchline.
NEW DELHI, 9 April 2023 (IDN) — The national flag of Finland was raised for the first time at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Brussels on 4 April 2023, which also marked the 74th anniversary of the western alliance. It signifies for Finland a historic abandonment of its policy of neutrality.
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — As Russian nuclear threats keep escalating following the invasion of Ukraine 14 months ago, President Vladimir Putin issued a new warning on March 26: that he plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a close political, economic and military ally of Moscow.
“The United States has been doing this for decades,” Putin asserted, insisting that his plans were no different from the American practice of positioning nuclear weapons in allied countries.
By Norman Solomon*
SAN FRANCISCO, 28 March 2023 (IDN) — The announcement by Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of potentially cataclysmic tensions over the war in neighbouring Ukraine. As the Associated Press reported, “Putin said the move was triggered by Britain’s decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armour-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.”
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