By Işıkgün Akfırat German Defense Minister Lambrecht has resigned after being criticized for blocking aid to Ukraine. The resignation comes just before a summit of Western defense ministers to be held at the largest US military base in Europe. It is considered to have been forced in order to break the resistance of the Olaf Scholz government to sending tanks ...
It seems that difficult mediation roles are becoming attractive to the Gulf countries. Two months ago, Qatar succeeded in resolving the stalemate in relations between Türkiye and Egypt by arranging the impossible handshake between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi prior to the opening of the World Cup finals held on its soil. This constituted a ...
During the past year, the Venezuelan government developed strong international activity with the aim of continuing to break the overwhelming blockade designed by Washington. The United States had developed this blockade as part of its isolation strategy within the framework of its policy of overthrowing the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Breaking the intended exclusion that was applied to Venezuela ...
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters…” These words written by Antoino Gramsci almost a century ago, are still valid. The signs of the death of the old world have never been so strong and the birth labor of the new world is putting humanity into a controversial ...
By Tülin Uygur, Stockholm / Sweden The People and Defense (Folk och Försvar) conference, held in Sälen, a ski resort in northern Sweden on January 8-10, was marked by discussions on the country’s NATO application and Türkiye’s position. The ruling and main opposition parties and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attended the conference. Speaking at the conference about Sweden’s NATO ...
After the scandal with the expulsion of the French ambassador from Burkina Faso, Paris was seriously concerned about its situation on the continent. On January 3, the French Foreign Ministry said that in December they received a letter requesting the recall of their ambassador from the African country. The expulsion of Ambassador Luc Hallade came a few days after the ...
By Nahed al Huseini / Damascus, Syria Turkish-Syrian rapprochement is continuing in a fast speed. It is expected that a bilateral foreign minister meeting will take place very soon under Russian mediation. Both sides have stated that struggle against terrorism and the dealing with the challenge of migration constitute important topics, as well as efforts of regional autonomy in the ...
United World International welcomes a new expert: Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, whose articles UWI has been published irregularly, will contribute from now on regularly and weekly. Rodríguez Gelfenstein is a Venezuelan expert and advisor of international politics. He graduated from the Central University of Venezuela’s international relations department and received his doctoral degree in the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA). Rodríguez ...
NATO, the global control device of the USA, published a joint statement after the EU 5 years. Emphasizing that ‘the transatlantic link is more important than ever’, the statement noted that EU-NATO relations will be taken ‘to the next level’. The Financial Times commented that this move was a blow to Europe’s dreams of strategic autonomy. The European Union and ...
We are presenting the second part of our interview with Rafael Barajas Durán. The first part of the interview dealt with the issue of drug trafficking, and ended with Barajas saying that the Mexican government is “trying to rescue national sovereignty in regards to security”. The concept of ‘national sovereignty’ stands in the very center of the second part of ...