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Jonathan Paris Discusses Syrian Crisis with France 24
Jonathan Paris, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, appeared on France 24 to discuss Russia's support for the Assad regime and what it means for a possible UN resolution against Syria.
Damon Wilson US Senate Testimony: Ukraine at a Crossroads
On February 1, Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson testified at a hearing of the US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on the topic: "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the US and Europe?"
Michele Dunne on US-Egypt Relations for NPR's Morning Edition
Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
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The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”
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EU Justice Mission in Kosovo Aims to be Operational in December
Peter Cassata | October 20, 2008The EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) could be operational by December, Deutsche Welle reported. The head of the police and justice mission, Yves de Kermabon, estimated that an agreement with Serbia on the deployment of EULEX would be reached in the near future but said that fierce opposition in the majority ethnic Serb northern part of Kosovo remained a major obstacle.
EULEX will replace the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), which has governed the territory since the end of the 1998-99 war. De Kermabon suggested that a transitional period of joint EULEX-UNMIK administration might be possible. He also pushed for agreement, stating, "EULEX will not be deployed by force. ... I hope that before the end of winter at the latest, EULEX will be fully deployed throughout Kosovo."
Serbian President Boris Tadic said that an accord over EULEX deployment in Kosovo between Serbia and the EU was possible, but stressed that this would only come after being approved by the UN Security Council. This seems unlikely given Russia's strong rejection of Kosovo's independence. Some 100,000 ethnic Serbs live in Kosovo, with around 250,000 having left since the war.
