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111933
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NEARLY A YEAR HAS ELAPSED since the beginning of the Arab Spring; time has come to assess the preliminary results of the massive landslide started on a December day in 2010 by Mohamed Bouazizi, street vendor, who set himself on fire in a Tunis suburb to protest against police harassment and unemployment. This small stone set events in motion.
One after another the seemingly unshakable political regimes on the "Arab continent" were wiped out: two political doyens - Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Qaddafi - lost their "thrones"; President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country. Muammar Qaddafi lost even more than the throne - he lost nearly all his children and was shot through the head. Today when I am writing this article President of Yemen Ali Abdallah Saleh has come to the brink of resignation; King of Bahrain Khalifa still rules under pressure; the same can be said of President of Syria Bashar Assad. Reforms in Jordan are barely dragging on
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137335
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The Ukrainian crisis eclipsed the Middle East and the Arab revolutions which, however, have not disappeared without trace. Seemingly identical and deceptively monochrome, they rolled across the Arab world revealing their specifics and bringing very different results ranging from a backtrack revolution in Egypt to chaos and instability in Libya, from the regime's firmer grip on power in Yemen, to what looks like chronic confrontation in Syria and a complete failure in Bahrain. The Middle East has come close to the threshold of modernization of social relations and the style of governance, even though there is a widely accepted opinion that in 2013 the revolutions exhausted their vigor.
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137319
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International Affairs: Mr. Ambassador, what is the status of the crisis settlement process in Syria?
Riad Haddad: The Syrian leadership has been calling for a political settlement of the crisis through a comprehensive national dialogue with the participation of all representatives of Syrian society. We are continuing to work in this direction. It may be recalled that in 2013 President Bashar Assad put forward a plan to settle the Syrian crisis and make a transition to a new Syria without outside interference.
We proclaimed the same approach at the Geneva Conference, and the Syrian delegation, the only representative of the Syrian people, was sincere and serious in the course of the negotiations. At the same time, the presentation by Secretary of State John Kerry at the opening of the Geneva-2 Conference was provocative and destabilizing. In response to that, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem stated that no one has the right to decide the fate of the Syrian people except the Syrians themselves, reminding Kerry and his allies about the UN Charter and the principles of international law prohibiting interference in the affairs of independent states.
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192433
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THE Turkmens, an ethno-confessional Turkic group that has been living on Syrian territory for centuries, are the third largest group in Syria after the Arabs and Kurds. It is believed that Turkmens migrated to the area from Central Asia before the historical Battle of Manzikert. Turkic migration to Syria can be divided into three waves.
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126863
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