Учебное пособие по общественно-политическому переводу Издательство
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Long-awaited direct peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad failed to get under way as expected on Friday morning after Damascus insisted on ending "terrorism" before seeking a political solution to end nearly three years of war and misery. The UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi was meeting both sides separately in Geneva for the second consecutive day to iron out procedural and agenda issues before a first round of negotiations at the Palais des Nations. Face-to-face talks were due to follow on from where Wednesday's 40-nation international conference in nearby Montreux left off. Many predict that the Brahimi talks are doomed to fail as the Syrian protagonists will prove unable to agree on a transition – as stipulated in the Geneva I communique, "by mutual consent" – or to overcome their intense mutual loathing.
Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said Monday the Kenyan government and governing party have rejected his choice to lead mediation efforts in talks to end a deadly postelection crisis. Cyril Ramaphosa, a South African businessman who had played a leading role in talks in his own country to end apartheid, withdrew “in the face of reservations by the government and Party of National Unity,” and his withdrawal was accepted with regret, Annan said in a statement. “I thought I should withdraw and go back to South Africa so I don’t become a stumbling block myself,” Ramaphosa told reporters outside the Serena Hotel, the venue of the negotiations.
Park Geun-hye, president of South Korea, has heavily promoted her “trust-building” strategy with the North, but most analysts say dialogue will eventually founder on Seoul’s demand that Pyongyang surrender its nuclear weapons. Pyongyang has also made overtures to the US aimed at restarting multilateral talks but Washington says North Korea must first make steps towards denuclearisation, amid calls from conservative analysts for tighter sanctions that would exclude Pyongyang more fully from the global financial system.
With no military solution to the Syria crisis in the offing, there is little option but to push the two sides to talk Preparations for the so-called Geneva II negotiations have been distinguished by backpedalling, acrimony and cockup. With the talks already eight months behind schedule, the parties have been forced together only under great pressure from the United States and Russia. On Monday, the meeting was almost scuppered when the Syrian opposition threatened to withdraw unless the last-minute invitation of Iran by UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon was rescinded. It now has been, and barring another last-minute slip-up, the talks will begin on Wednesday.
The European Union has agreed to meet Iran to begin long-stalled talks on its controversial nuclear programme, EU officials have said. The EU has accepted the date of 5 December put forward by the Iranians earlier this week. But a venue has yet to be agreed. Officials said the EU suggested holding the talks in Austria or Switzerland instead of Iran’s proposal, Istanbul. If Iran agrees, they would be the first formal talks in more than a year. Western powers fear Iran is building capacity to produce a nuclear bomb. Iran denies the charges, saying that its civilian atomic program is designed to meet its energy needs. The EU’s foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton sent a letter proposing a date and venue for the talks in response to an offer from Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili. Lady Ashton – named EU foreign affairs chief last December – has been given a mandate by five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, to lead the negotiations with Iran. |
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