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Contents of issue N°101 – 27 September 2024
EDITORIAL
• 1980 Is the proposed ceasefire in Lebanon US-French or Israeli?
AMERICAS
• 1981 Canada and the United States negotiate their Arctic border
• 1982 After saying otherwise, the United States supports Israel to crush Lebanon
• 1983 Dennis Ross produces a documentary series against Hezbollah
• 1984 Useless Quad meeting
• 1985 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounces Israel’s right to revenge
EUROPE
• 1986 Fernando Sampedro Marcos wants the EU to reach an agreement on Venezuela
• 1987 Pedro Sánchez denounces the increase in wars
• 1988 Sweden and Finland want to make EU funds conditional on respect for the rule of law
• 1989 The EU preemptively attacks China on dairy products at the WTO and prepares to impose tariffs on its electric vehicles
• 1990 The Hungarian EU Presidency agrees to put on the agenda a loan to Ukraine secured by the profits generated by blocked Russian assets.
• 1991 EU supports Ukraine
AFRICA
• 1992 Emmanuel Macron could acknowledge France’s responsibility in the death of Larbi Ben M’hidi
• 1993 Bassirou Diomaye Faye denounces the imposition of civilizational norms as universal standards
• 1994 Arrest of two members of the Wagner Group in Chad
• 1995 Burkina Faso denounces destabilization operations
• 1996 A member of the Wagner Group as special adviser to the Central African President
• 1997 Jean-Jacques Wondo sentenced to death in the DRC
• 1998 Cyril Ramaphosa denounces Israeli apartheid
ASIA
• 1999 Israel vs. Al-Jazeera
• 2000 Netanyahu government admits failure against Hamas
• 2001 Israel deploys Unit 98 to its northern border
• 2002 Yoav Gallant announces an operation against Lebanon
• 2003 Benjamin Netanyahu reiterates his allegations on the Philadelphia corridor
• 2004 Israel Katz accuses Hezbollah of playing into the hands of terrorists
• 2005 Israel attacks Lebanon
• 2006 Israel advises Lebanese civilians to flee
• 2007 Abdullah II condemns Israel’s systematic violations of Jerusalem’s holy sites
• 2008 Syria unites its tribes against Kurdish mercenaries
• 2009 Damascus retaliates against Katerji militia leaders who fled the country
• 2010 Israel attacks Tartus
• 2011 Some jihadists in Idlib oppose Turkish-Syrian normalization
• 2012 Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani condemns Israel’s genocidal intent
• 2013 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemns Israeli mass murders in Gaza and calls on the General Assembly to stop them by force
• 2014 The IRGC stop all digital contact
• 2015 Masoud Pezeshkian proposes to negotiate with the West
• 2016 Iran refuses to intervene in Lebanon
• 2017 Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the UN
• 2018 Mohamed Muizzu condemns Israel’s systematic killing of journalists
• 2019 Presidential election in Sri Lanka
OCEANIA
• 2020 Australia supports civilians in Gaza
INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
• 2021 UN Security Council discusses situation in Ukraine
• 2022 Volker Türk says Israel’s operation against Lebanese pagers and walkie-talkies is contrary to international humanitarian law
• 2023 G7 supports Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction