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Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 5:26 pm
The UN’s top official in Yemen has warned of a
“dramatic” deterioration in the country’s ongoing
conflict, telling the Security Council on Tuesday that
fighting has expanded on several fronts amid the world’s
worst humanitarian crisis.
Special Envoy Martin
Griffiths
reported that “the war is back in full force”, with
Ansar Allah, commonly referred to as the Houthis, continuing
an offensive in Marib. The northern governorate had
previously been relatively unaffected in the fighting, now
in its seventh year, but the violence is putting civilians,
including more than one million displaced people, at
risk.
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There are one or two positive developments, such as the renewal of Obama’s New START Treaty with Russia and Secretary of State Blinken’s initiative for a UN-led peace process in Afghanistan, where the United States is finally turning to peace as a last resort, after 20 years lost in the graveyard of empires.
By and large though, Biden’s foreign policy already seems stuck in the militarist quagmire of the past twenty years, a far cry from his campaign promise to reinvigorate diplomacy as the primary tool of U.S. foreign policy.
In this respect, Biden is following in the footsteps of Obama and Trump, who both promised fresh approaches to foreign policy but for the most part delivered more endless war.
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March 12, 2021 | Washington, DC (STL.News) U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking returned from the Gulf and Jordan on March 10. Throughout his trip, the Special