In 2019 Italy joined the Belt and Road Initiative, but recent statements from top officials suggest that the agreement might not be renewed again. The Belt and Road Initiative by China, aimed at reviving trade along the historic Silk Road, remains uncertain in Rome. Italy, the only G7 member in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is contemplating an exit ...
The BRICS alliance is going to enlarge in 2024. With a population of more than 120 million the second most populated country in Africa, Ethiopia will be one of the new members. What are the country’s reasons for and expectations from a membership? We asked these questions to Awad Absulsebur, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ethiopian news agency, the country’s official ...
The United States is continuing its attempts to get a foot into the South Caucasus using Armenia and the ethnic Armenians, while pressuring Azerbaijan. On September 25, USAID Administrator Samantha Power has conveyed U.S. President Joe Biden’s letter to Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan. “I assure you the United States will continue to stand beside Armenia as you work ...
The former military attaché of Türkiye in Azerbaijan, General Yücel Karauz evaluated the latest developments in the South Caucasus to Azerbaijan’s state news agency Azertac. We translated the interview published in Russian into English for United World International readers. Armenia now does not represent a normal state entity in the usual sense of the word. Nikol Pashinyan does not fully ...
After Azerbaijan’s victory against separatism in the Nagorno Karabakh region, all eyes and discourses are directed on the so-called Zangezur Corridor between Azerbaijan and Nakhchevan, its enclave on the Turkish border. The corridor is part of Armenia today. In the background, the United States is accelerating its activities in the region by widening them on Armenian soil. We talked about ...
The Azerbaijani army launched an anti-terror operation in Khankendi in Karabakh, on September 19. After 24 hours of the operation, separatist Armenian forces in Khankendi surrendered all their ammunition to the Azerbaijani army, confirming a ceasefire mediated by Russian peacekeepers. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said the ceasefire would be implemented in coordination with Russian peacekeepers in the region. Uwidata author, ...
The title of this article refers to an extraordinary novel written by Emily Brontë in the mid-19th century and which, on many occasions, has been adapted for film and television. I saw the 1992 version directed by Peter Kosminsky. The title of the novel came to my mind when I decided to reflect on the result of a series of ...
Türkiye had a busy agenda last week. The meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin topped the agenda. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s meetings in Russia and Iran were widely discussed. The development that stirred Türkiye was the national women’s volleyball Team winning the European Championship. Constructive Meeting between Erdoğan and Putin President Erdoğan and Russian ...
By Abbas Juma, international journalist, political commentator, Middle East and Africa specialist Washington’s ‘human rights’ justification for withholding aid to Cairo is just a cover for the real strategic reason The United States has decided to punish Egypt for its alleged non-compliance with human rights norms. It should be noted that the subject of human rights is traditionally used by the ...
“The lack of government has caused the lives of thousands of people”, says Dr. Issa Tuwegiar in evaluation of the recent catastrophe in Libya’s eastern town of Derna. But still, argues the former Libyan Minister of Planification, has the catastrophe presented a “complete turnover” in Libyan politics towards unification. Here’s our interview with Dr. Issa Tuwegiar conducted by phone. How ...