The United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC explored the challenges of providing much-needed humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza during an Apr 25 program featuring Sigrid Kaag, ...the United Nations senior humanitarian coordinator for Gaza. For Kaag, who has been visiting Gaza since 1988, the territory is unrecognizable. "Everything is gone or reduced to significant amounts of rubble," she said. "Where to start, how to keep going, how to maintain a measure of human dignity is a task for all of us."
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Sanctions: Ineffective Economic Warfare Pasquini, Elaine
The Washington report on Middle East affairs,
05/2024, Letnik:
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Pasquini reviews How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Ali Vaez.
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Preventing an Oil Disaster in Yemen Pasquini, Elaine
The Washington report on Middle East affairs,
01/2024, Letnik:
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Yemen, which is in its ninth year of civil war, recently experienced a bit of good news. Since the war began in 2014, the 45-year-old supertanker Safer, a 1,150- foot vessel used as a floating ...storage and offloading facility, had been anchored along Yemen's Red Sea coast, north of the port of Al-Hudaydah. Deteriorating significantly due to lack of maintenance and upkeep, it posed the probability of exploding, sinking, leaking or breaking apart. The result would have been a major oil spill four times that of the Exxon Valdez in 1989. On Oct 24, United States Institute of Peace president and CEO Lise Grande and US special envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking discussed how innovative diplomacy--including dialogue between enemies, the work of multiple international stakeholders and tens of thousands of environmentalists who crowdsourced enough funds to pay for this operation--resolved the Safer dilemma.
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On Oct 27, Masood Khan, Pakistan's ambassador to the US, addressed a gathering at the Embassy of Pakistan in WA, DC on the 76th observance of "Kashmir Black Day." The annual occasion honors the ...people of Kashmir and Jammu who lost their lives when Indian troops took over Srinagar, Kashmir's largest city, after India and Pakistan gained independence following nearly 90 years of British colonial occupation. "This was the day the liberty and freedoms of Kashmiris were taken away from them," the ambassador said. "India got freedom, Pakistan got freedom, but Kashmir did not." In recent years, "India has violated all international laws and conventions in illegal Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir," Khan charged. "They have violated the political, economic, social and cultural rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. They have violated the International Criminal Court statutes with impunity."
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Two years after the Taliban took over governance of Afghanistan, the Quincy Institute in Washington DC hosted a panel of experts on Aug 29 to discuss the path forward for the crisis-riddled country ...of 40 million people. Shkula Zadran, a former Afghan youth representative to the United Nations who now works with NGOs focusing on internally displaced persons and immigrants, noted the enduring trauma of the Taliban's takeover. She said August is always a reminder of the republic's collapse and also the collapse of an entire generation and their aspirations and dreams.
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Three years after the Beirut port explosion killed more than 200 people and displaced hundreds of thousands, no one has been held accountable and the country continues its economic and political ...spiral. To discuss this situation, Washington DC's Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) hosted a webinar on Aug 24. Moderator Maya Gebeily, the Reuters bureau chief for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, outlined the sense of impunity displayed by Lebanon's elite, even amid manifold crises of their own making. She said like many things in Lebanon, this is a war of attrition between the people and the political elite, and the political elite just hope everyone gets tired of what is happening and kind of gives up. Three years since the port explosion "the country's political elite are still far from being held to account," she lamented, "not those complicit in the deadly blast, nor those who have stolen billions of dollars from the Lebanese people."
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While politics is always a hot topic at Pakistani gatherings, discussions about mangos and sumptuous barbeque were preeminent at the Mango Festival hosted by Pakistan's Embassy in Washington, DC on ...July 20, 2023. Addressing guests, which included Pakistani-Americans, journalists, scholars, diplomats and US lawmakers, Ambassador Masood Khan emphasized the special 75-year relationship between the US and Pakistan. He described education, security, trade, investment and climate-related issues as strengths of the bilateral relationship. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said, "Through trade and economic investments in Pakistan, the two countries have become closer partners and brought peace to our nations."
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's July 2023 visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates generated interest not only within the region, but globally, as Ankara appears to be ...thawing relations with the Arab Gulf. Washington DC's Gulf International Forum hosted a webinar on Aug. 1, 2023 to review this evolving situation. Tarek Cherkaoui, manager of the Istanbul-based TRT World Research Center, said economic concerns are at the forefront of Turkiye's decision to ease relations with regional leaders. "The Gulf offers a lot of wealth and capital and can inject a lot of money into the Turkish economy," he noted. Gulf countries, meanwhile, are interested in greater diversification of their economies beyond oil.
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Washington, DC's Quincy Institute (QI) hosted a virtual program on Jun 2 to discuss US policy toward Syria in light of the Arab League's recent decision to re-admit the country into the organization. ...The US opposes the normalization of ties, and the House of Representatives recently introduced a bill to double-down on preventing American investment in Syria's rebuilding. QI senior research analyst Steven Simon moderated the panel, which included James Jeffrey, former US ambassador to Iraq, Turkey and Albania; Mara Revkin, associate professor at Duke University School of Law; William Roebuck, executive vice president at the Arab Gulf States Institute; and Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma.
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