Archivo categoría «Cáucaso»
By Denis Corboy, former European Commission ambassador to Georgia and Armenia and director of the Caucasus Policy Institute at Kings College London; William Courtney, a former U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia and Kenneth Yalowitz, former U.S. ambassador to Belarus and Georgia and director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 03/09/10):
The Black Sea is a cradle of civilization, trade and cultures, but today it is also a region of unresolved conflicts, porous borders and rivalries.
Terrorism and insurgency are spreading across the North Caucasus, abetted by fighters from … Seguir leyendo
By John McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona (THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/08/10):
Though disagreements remain over how the conflict began, there is no denying that two years ago this weekend, Russian troops crossed an internationally recognized border and invaded Georgia. They attacked all of the country with strategic bombers, pushed deep into its sovereign territory, displaced nearly 127,000 ethnic Georgians from their homes, recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states, and established a military occupation that remains in effect.
Much has changed in the past two years — but not for the better. Russia not only occupies … Seguir leyendo
By Ronald D. Asmus, a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, executive director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. The views expressed here are his own (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/07/10):
After Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s recent visit, the Obama administration wants to prove it has a strategy to deepen ties with allies such as Poland while it pursues a reset with Russia, so it has sent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a whirlwind tour of Central and Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. The trip also … Seguir leyendo
By Charles King, a professor at Georgetown University and Rajan Menon, a professor at Lehigh University and at the City College of New York/City University of New York. A longer version of this article appears in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/06/10):
When Russian leaders speak of security threats, they tend to mention NATO expansion and the U.S. missile defense program in eastern Europe. But the unremitting violence in Russia’s North Caucasus region — a sliver of land sandwiched between the Black and Caspian seas and inhabited primarily by Muslims whose lands the … Seguir leyendo
By Anna Matveeva, a visiting fellow with the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics (THE GUARDIAN, 17/05/10):
Last week, 12 May, marked 16 years since Russia mediated a ceasefire agreement that ended the Armenian-Azerbaijani war over Nagorno-Karabakh and started a long period of “no war, no peace” stagnation. Presently, there is a sense that things might be changing.
The territory of Karabakh is essentially a backwater for both countries. It had certain significance for Soviet military planners because of its proximity to Turkey, but otherwise has no prize assets. It is agricultural land, now sparsely … Seguir leyendo
By Agnès Callamard, the executive director of ARTICLE 19 (THE GUARDIAN, 09/05/10):
On 16 April this year, citizens of Chechnya had a new national holiday to mark the one-year anniversary of the official end to Russia’s counter-terrorist operations in that country. There had been high hopes that an end to the decade-long “war on terror” would help to improve human rights there. In reality, as recent tragic events in Moscow demonstrate, conditions continue to deteriorate, not only in Chechnya, but across the entire North Caucasus region.
Far from being the “peaceful developing territory” that President Ramzan Kadyrov described recently, … Seguir leyendo
By Guénaël Mettraux, the author of The Law of Command Responsibility and represents defendants before international criminal tribunals (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/04/10):
While the U.S. House of Representatives might soon be considering a resolution that would recognize the crimes committed by Turks against Armenians in 1915 as genocide, the Serbian Parliament has just adopted a resolution that provides an apology of sorts for the killing of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica in July 1995 but eschews any reference to “genocide.”
Intense political pressure has been at play in both cases to prevent the adoption of the resolutions — or … Seguir leyendo
By Ali Karimli, chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan and co-founder of Azadlig (Freedom) Political Bloc of Opposition Parties (THE WASHINGTON POST, 02/04/10):
Many Americans may know my country, Azerbaijan, for its oil wealth or for its conflict with Armenia over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh. A March 5 article in The Post portrayed a nation whose ruling family appears to own $75 million worth of luxury villas in Dubai. Few of us in Azerbaijan were surprised by a report that President Ilham Aliyev’s family apparently invests assets abroad. What else should be expected from a leader … Seguir leyendo
Por Jesús López-Medel , abogado del Estado y ex presidente de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Democracia de la Asamblea de la OSCE. Es autor del libro La larga conquista de la libertad, 15 estados tras la URSS en busca de su identidad (EL MUNDO, 30/03/10):
Las víctimas. A ellas hay que dedicarle nuestro primer pensamiento tras un acto terrorista. Ellas, sus familias, el pueblo que lo sufre y el Estado que los representa. Vaya un afectuoso abrazo para Rusia y la solidaridad de un pueblo como el español, que ha padecido una larga historia de sufrimiento provocada por … Seguir leyendo
Par Jules Boyadjian, rédacteur en chef du journal Haïastan, Arménie (LE MONDE, 11/03/10):
Le 4 mars 2010, la commission des affaires étrangères de la Chambre des représentants des Etats-Unis a adopté par 23 voix contre 22 la résolution H.Res.252 portant reconnaissance du génocide arménien. Ce vote traduit incontestablement une volonté légitime des congressistes de condamner la politique négationniste conduite par Ankara et de restaurer l’une des pages les plus sombres de l’histoire de l’Humanité. Mais l’attitude du département d’Etat américain, incarnée par la secrétaire d’Etat, Hillary Clinton, dévoile la réelle signification des deux protocoles signés le 10 octobre 2009 … Seguir leyendo
By Norman Stone, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford and head of the Russian-Turkish Institute at Bilkent University, Ankara (THE TIMES, 08/03/10):
The best thing said about the Armenian tragedy was a sermon delivered in the main church in Constantinople in 1894, more than 20 years before it happened. Patriarch Ashikyan had this to say: “We have lived with the Turks for a thousand years, have greatly flourished, are nowhere in this empire in a majority of the population. If the nationalists go on like this [they had started a terrorist campaign] they will ruin … Seguir leyendo
By Henri J. Barkey, a professor of international relations at Lehigh University and a visiting senior scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where Thomas de Waal is a senior associate on the Caucasus (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 05/02/10):
For a while, it looked like the start of a great reconciliation. Armenia and Turkey have lived beneath the vast shadow of the mass murder of Armenians in eastern Turkey during World War I, and to this day they maintain no diplomatic ties. But in October, the Armenian and Turkish foreign ministers met in Switzerland and signed two protocols to … Seguir leyendo
Por Pedro Baños Bajo, Teniente coronel, profesor de Estrategia y Relaciones Internacionales de la Escuela Superior de las Fuerzas Armadas, CESEDEN (REAL INSTITITO ELCANO, 16/12/09):
Tema: Tras el anuncio de Moscú, en abril pasado, del cese de las operaciones antiterroristas en Chechenia, se ha experimentado un espectacular aumento de la violencia asociada al radicalismo islámico en el Norte del Cáucaso. Nada hace pensar en una remisión a corto plazo.
Resumen: Aunqueno acostumbre a ser titular de los periódicos europeos, la violencia islamista en el Norte del Cáucaso no ha dejado de incrementarse de modo significativo desde que el pasado … Seguir leyendo
By Svante Cornell, a research director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road studies programme (THE GUARDIAN, 13/10/09):
The release of a much anticipated EU-commissioned report into the causes of the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008 predictably spread the blame for the conflict around. Georgia got its share of the blame, but the text of the report is devastating to Russia’s narrative of the conflict.
Assisted by a small army of experts, Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini has spent close to a year investigating the origins of a small war that shocked Europe, but that was largely forgotten in … Seguir leyendo
Por Mariano Marzo Carpio, catedrático de Recursos Energéticos en la Facultad de Geología de la Universidad de Barcelona (EL PAÍS, 08/10/09):
La existencia de un “gran juego” estratégico en torno a los recursos de petróleo y gas de las repúblicas ex soviéticas de Asia Central y el sur del Cáucaso constituye una realidad geopolítica indiscutible. Esta pugna, inicialmente circunscrita a Rusia y Estados Unidos, se ha reforzado últimamente con la entrada en el juego de la Unión Europea y China. La relación de vecindad de Afganistán y su papel clave en el proyecto de construcción del gasoducto TAP (Turkmenistán-Afganistán-Pakistán), … Seguir leyendo