Category: Middle East

The World’s Reaction to D. Trump’s Declaration on the Status of the Golan Heights

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Oleksiy Volovych On March 25, 2019, US President D. Trump signed the Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel. The position of Ukraine. March 26, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kateryna Zelenko, said that Ukraine was complying with the UN Security Council’s resolutions on the status of the Golan Heights, in particular Resolutions No. 242 of 1967, No. 465 of 1980, and also No. 497 of 1981, which states that “the Israeli decision to establish its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and…

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Afghanistan Is at the Cusp of Great Changes

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The History of Revolutions, Treachery, Civil War and Terror   Vadym Volokhov The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is located at a crossroads between the East and the West and since ancient times has been the center of trade and migration. The advantageous geopolitical location — between South and Central Asia, on the one hand, and the Middle East on the other, allows it to play an important role in economic, political and cultural relations of the countries of the region. Through the territory of Afghanistan there went ancient trade routes from the Mediterranean and Caspian seas and the countries of Central Asia to the Indian Ocean coast.…

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The Middle East and North Africa. Analytical Review 02/2019

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The Military-Political and Economic Situation in February 2019   Oleksiy Volovych In February 2019, the military-political situation in the Middle East and North Africa was traditionally tense. This time, we offer our readers an analytical review of different international political consultations on the Middle East issues that took place last month, as well as an overview of the events and processes in Syria, Turkey, Israel, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Algeria, although events and processes in other countries of the region were not less important. But then, the Great Middle East is immense, with almost 25 countries.   Political consultations on the Middle East February 13–14, an international…

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Visiting BINTEL — Oleh Bereziuk

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“Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman is interested more than anybody else in the objective investigation of the case of disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi”   Oleh Valeriyovych Bereziuk Social activist, lawyer, human rights activist. Graduated from the Law Faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Head of the NGO “Ukrainian Law Association”. Author of numerous publications on the theory of law, constitutional law. During the last two years Ukraine’s foreign policy activity in the countries of the Middle East has increased significantly. Within the relatively short period of time, President…

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Thoughts on Hybrid Flirtation and Hybrid Alliance

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Oleksiy Volovych The hybrid Russian-Israeli flirtation (or rather, the flirtation between Putin and Netanyahu) is perceived with great irritation in Damascus, Tehran and Ankara. Against this background, the coalition RF — TR — IRI looks hybrid, unstable, contradictory, and therefore — transient. It seems that in the political sense, for the Russian leadership, relations with Israel are more important than with Iran and Turkey.     The article is available in Ukrainian

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The Middle East and North Africa. Analytical Review 01/2019

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The Military-Political and Economic Situation in January 2019   Oleksiy Volovych In January 2019, the military-political situation in the Middle East and North Africa remained tense. The review focuses on the Middle Eastern tour of US Secretary of State M. Pompeo, as well as some of the most characteristic events and processes in ten countries, such as Syria, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. This time, we at last got to Arab countries such as Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, which had not been in our reviews because of their limited format and a large number of countries in the region — about…

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New Threats to Central Asia

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Vadym Volokhov In the spring of 2019, we should expect aggravation of the military-political situation on the Tajik-Afghan border, in Tajikistan and in the South-East of Uzbekistan. It is unlikely that the fighting of the ISIS and the Tajik opposition will become large-scale one, since both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are members of the “Shanghai Cooperation Organization” and of the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, and the charts of these organizations provide for “strengthening peace, international and regional security, collective defense of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states”. The potential of member countries is relatively higher than that…

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