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at a political resolution—an upcoming Friends of Syria meeting in Jordan the week of May 20th, followed by a proposed UN-sponsored "negotiation" in Geneva. But the situation on the ground continues to deteriorate at an exponential rate. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death to

to dominate the political landscape. It remains to be seen whether the July elections, presuming the current issues are resolved, will change this. Sudan and South Sudan: The signing of a peace agreement by Sudan and South Sudan on March 8th in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, removed some of the obstacles to t

e jointly made the eradication of polio an emergency priority and recognized that Pakistan is a key part of the problem. (AP http://yhoo.ittIgLzyUL) GENEVA (AP) - Some 21 nations in the Middle East and nearby regions have jointly made the eradication of polio an emergency priority and recognized that Pa

gency says includes Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The problem is particularly challenging in Pakistan, where a U.N.-backed eradication campaign

0 PERSPECTIVES Pax Polio Harry F. Hull The author is with the Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunization, World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Our dictionary defines millennium both as a period of a thousand years and as "a hoped for period of joy, peace, serenity, prosper

ed in 1995 and 1996, with polio vaccine passed across the front lines during the November 1995 assault on Jaffna. Cease-fires have been declared in Sudan for both polio and dracunculiasis eradication, expanding health truces beyond immunization. Days of tranquillity permit warring parties to disengag

"A crisis that has been going on for over a year is not going to be resolved in a day or a week," Annan's spokesman, Ahmad Fawzi, told reporters in Geneva. He pointed to U.N. efforts to triple the number of truce monitors in the country, from about 50 to 150 or even 300 in coming weeks, and noted that

pen gloom over options for ousting Assad Joby Warrick Article 4. NYT Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way Thomas L. Friedman Article 5. NYT In Sudan, Give War a Chance Gerard Prunier Article 6. The Washington Post An economic boom ahead? David Ignatius Anicic I. Al-Ahram Weekly Revolution

r opposition groups as proxies of regional and Western states participating in the plot against Syria. In his view, anything decided as part of the Geneva process or his own coalition-building efforts would also need to be confirmed by a national referendum run by the regime. Overall, Assad's account

the Central African Republic, but nobody expects the French-led fighting there or in al-Qaeda-plagued Mali to end soon. A bloody conflict in South Sudan is really just beginning. Libya is coming apart at its many seams. Egypt is, well, a very big question mark. In Latin America, Brazil once looked l

review of the WHO's handling of the coronavirus pandemic would not interfere with the agency's response to COVID-19. During an online briefing from Geneva, "Tedros said the decision to start the inquiry 'gives the responsibility actually to me, which is very important, so that we can have a balancing

e mayor of Warsaw, and neither candidate conceded the race. Sudan Moves To Ease Islamist Policies. The Washington Times (7/12, Meier, 492K) reports Sudan over the weekend "moved to strengthen women's rights and will ban the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) as well as allow non-Muslims to c

pared another list of Russian figures and institutions to sanction in the next few days if Moscow does not follow through on an agreement sealed in Geneva on Thursday to defuse the crisis, as Obama aides anticipate. But the president will not extend the punitive measures to whole sectors of the Russia

intervention in them by international organizations to prevent them turning into breeding grounds for terrorism as Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan did. Given Russia's domestic terror problems, amply publicized at the recent winter Olympics, it should be possible to deal with the Kremlin on thi

er. EFTA00684054 Here's the risk for Putin: If he doesn't move to de-escalate the crisis soon, by negotiating with the Ukrainians at a meeting in Geneva Thursday, he could begin to suffer significant long-term consequences. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will oppose Russia's use of force, and even

faction with the regime, but they also fueled an ugly chauvinism. EFTA00684070 In the aftermath of a 2009 match between Egypt and Algeria held in Sudan, the Egyptian state media claimed that Algerian fans had attacked some Egyptians. The Egyptian and Algerian media traded the vilest of insults, an

ndish ‘Zionist practices against Semitism’”—a deliberate move to confuse the real meaning of anti-Semitism. A second “Durban Conference” was held in Geneva in 2009. Although the U.S., Canada, Italy and several other countries boycotted what had by this time become clear would be another hate conference,

ism was racism? How would the situation in Darfur have changed if, during its 2006-2007 sessions, the General Assembly once condemned the genocide in Sudan instead of passing 22 resolutions condemning Israel? One might easily dismiss the UN’s obsession with Israel, if the body’s failure to stop sufferin