Showing posts with label Hassan Barari. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hassan Barari. Show all posts

Monday, 4 April 2016

Discussing Syria’s future (Hassan Barari, Arab News)

The Kremlin said on Thursday that there was no agreement between Russia and the United States on the future of the Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Kremlin’s denial of such an agreement came in the wake of a leaked report about the latest meeting between Kerry and Lavrov in Moscow.

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Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Federalism or partition? (Hassan Barari, Arab News)

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Monday that his country would support a federal state if the Syrian negotiators saw fit. It seems that Russia does not rule out such an outcome given the inconclusiveness of its military adventures in Syria and the unsuitability of Assad for a genuine solution that could protect Russia’s interests.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/891866

Monday, 15 February 2016

A weak deal on Syria (Hassan Barari, Arab News)

A truce reached at the Munich Security Conference last week requires halting the fight in blood-soaked Syria within a week. We have yet to see whether or not the commitment to a political solution is genuine. The Russians have shown no sign of slowing down their lethal air campaign on Aleppo. Skeptics suspect that President Putin will not halt his military support for the Syrian regime and that President Obama will not do anything to turn things around.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/880721