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The rest of Putin’s press conference was as cynical as this revealing witticism.
The annual press conference also provided Putin an opportunity to put Russia’s involvement in Syria in a positive light, and took pains to do so.
In remarks following the press conference, he praised Trump as “a very colorful, talented person” and the “absolute leader of the presidential race.”
That strategy faltered – partly owing to US intransigence under President George W. Bush – and was abandoned when the 2009 Copenhagen conference failed to produce a treaty to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol (which the US never signed).
Studies ahead of the Paris conference suggest that international cooperation could allow for rapid reduction of greenhouse gases.
This progress culminated in the breakthrough global agreement reached at last month’s United Nations climate conference in Paris.
As the Johns Hopkins University economist Olivier Jeanne pointed out at a recent IMF conference organized to spur such learning, the capital-flow measures that have become fashionable of late do not work very well.
To be sure, as with the recent gathering in Bonn, expectations for the November climate conference in Warsaw are so low that there is almost no room for failure.
Baker’s efforts eventually led to the Madrid peace conference in 1991, but that, too, failed to resolve the conflict.
No wonder its representatives discouraged any WTO action at a high-level conference organized by the EU last year.
So the world should take note when they do not – such as when US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, at a recent conference in Washington, DC, on Asian security, publicly scolded South Korea for its seemingly endless vilification of Japan.
China’s Not-So-New Not-So-NormalHONG KONG – I just spent a week in China, where I participated in the Boao Asia Forum, a conference similar to the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The goal of next week’s Vienna conference is to provide the public with new and updated evidence of the impact of using nuclear weapons.
Sanusi was attending a conference in Niger when his suspension was announced.
If he succeeds – Syria’s chemical weapons are destroyed, a peace conference ends the civil war, a transitional government takes power, and the US and Iran launch direct negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program and regional stability in the Middle East – he will truly deserve his Nobel Peace Prize.
Sure, the agreement would come into effect only in 2020 – which sounds oddly complacent when environmentalists and political leaders warned ahead of the Copenhagen conference that we had just six months or 50 days to solve the climate problem.
The day after the Durban conference, Canada officially withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, which Russia and Japan have already declined to extend, leaving only the EU’s member states and a few other countries committed to further reductions.
How to help Africa meet this challenge – including by learning from the lessons of past success – will be the goal of a major conference sponsored by the IMF and President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, to be held in Dar-es-Salaam this March.
At the conference in Tanzania, we look forward to feedback and ideas about how the Fund can do even more – and differently.
The Tanzania conference will allow us to assess what we have learned from past successes, as well as what needs to change in the future.
Indeed, as world financial leaders gather for the annual IMF/World Bank spring conference in Washington, DC, the rapid pace of technological change and rising inequality are fueling ever louder calls for root-and-branch revision of the entire system.
Managing Syria’s MeltdownDENVER – As Russian and American diplomats prepare for a Syrian peace conference, the Middle East is experiencing convulsions not seen since the Arab Spring two years ago.
With the stakes so high, the Russian-US initiative to organize a peace conference has not only been welcomed, but is seen as an indispensable initiative that must be planned with excruciating care.
But patience is essential, because, once the conference begins, it must end in success.
Similarly, America’s great suspicion concerning Iran’s role in this regional crisis should not be used to try to limit its participation at the conference.
The fate of the entire region may well depend on the outcome of the upcoming conference.
Coming close on the heels of the Annapolis conference, which brought together representatives from all Arab states – including Syria – and Israel, many observers regarded our meeting as a signal of the Bush administration’s refusal to normalize bilateral relations with Syria or strike any deals or bargains with its regime.
The Enemy in SyriaMADRID – The Geneva II Middle East peace conference, to be held on January 22, will take place against a backdrop of singularly appalling numbers: Syria’s brutal civil has left an estimated 130,000 dead, 2.3 million refugees registered in neighboring countries, and some four million more internally displaced.
The stakes at the conference are thus exceptionally high, both for Syria and for its neighbors, which are straining against severe destabilization.
The Geneva II conference offers an opportunity to address these dangers.
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