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Vestnik Kavkaza, Aug 24
Yesterday,
Russian President's Special Representative for the Middle East and African
countries, Deputy Foreign Minister Bogdanov received Israeli ambassador Heifetz
in Moscow at his request and after a couple of hours at the request of the
Israeli side, Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu. The topic of both conversations was the situation in the
Middle East. "It seems that our Western colleagues haven’t yet to realized
consequences of their military operations in the Middle East and Africa in
recent years,’’ Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said yesterday. They
intended to remove the regimes of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, bringing
democracy to Iraq and Libya. Instead of this, there is chaos, military
warehouses and military arsenals were plundered. All weapons, including
MANPADS. Hundreds of tons of ammunition disappeared. Now there are fratricidal
wars in these countries, the end is not expected in the near future."
In
this connection, Russia intends to raise the issue during the forthcoming
session of the UN General Assembly in respect of protection of Christians in
the Middle East. According to Commissioner for Human Rights, democracy and the
rule of law, Konstantin Dolgov, "the situation in the vast regions of the
Middle East and North Africa remains extremely difficult. The level of conflict
is high, violations of human rights are also extremely serious. This is a
direct result of the extremely short-sighted, illiterate, ignorant policies by
a series of Western countries, primarily the United States, aimed at removing
undesirable regimes, policies to ‘export’ its own faulty patterns of democracy.
All this was done without taking into account ethnic, religious, cultural
features, sometimes even without the knowledge of regional and country
realities. The disintegration of state structures in a series of
countries, uncontrolled fragmentation of the Middle East's political and social
space led to numerous tensions in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen. Certainly, the
zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict still remains a problem. In recent
years, it is also a direct consequence of the policy by the West due to which
terrorist threat has sharply increased. Actions of terrorists are far beyond
the Middle East and North Africa, but the objects of actions of terrorists and
extremists. The objects of their deliberate policy of destruction became
civilian population and world cultural heritage, which is alien to them. The
fate of the Christian population in the region causes particular
concerns."
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