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Turkey and Israel need to work to restore strained relationship
Istanbul/Brussels - While suspicions in Western capitals about its relationship with Iran and tensions with Israel have dealt setbacks to its “zero-problem” foreign policy, Turkey shares many of the goals of its Western partners and should continue to play an important role in resolving Middle Eastern and other conflicts. (Full Story)
Palestinian Authority's Challenge: Bringing an end to occupation and reversing divisions
Ramallah/Jerusalem/Brussels - Security reform is one of the Palestinian Authority’s most notable successes, but recent attacks on West Bank settlers, coinciding with resumed Israeli-Palestinian talks, illustrate the difficulties in sustaining such progress as long as the occupation and internal Palestinian divisions persist. (Full Story)
Indonesia. An area that needs more attention: the regulation of the popular “airsoft” guns
Jakarta/Brussels - The Indonesian government could reduce the circulation of illegal firearms by improving procedures for guarding and monitoring police and military armouries, conducting regular audits of gun importers and enforcing controls over the “airsoft” industry. (Full Story)
Sudan. Expectations running high in advance of January 2011 referendum
Juba/Khartoum/Nairobi/Brussels - Sudan’s North and South must take political action to define their mutual boundary if they hope to avoid future complications, including a return to conflict. (Full Story)
Israeli-Lebanese border: Tensions are mounting
Beirut/Jerusalem/Damascus/Washington/Brussels : The Israeli-Lebanese border is exceptionally calm and uniquely dangerous, both for the same reason: fear that a new round of hostilities would be far more violent and could spill over regionally. (Full Story)
Indonesia. The jihadi project has failed
Brussels/Jakarta - Divisions and ideological debates generated by Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT), an organisation founded by Indonesia’s best-known radical cleric, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, show the weakness of Indonesia’s jihadi movement. (Full Story)
The Thai government should immediately lift the state of emergency
Bangkok/Brussels - The Thai government should immediately lift the state of emergency to create conditions for national reconciliation that would allow the building of a new political consensus and the holding of peaceful elections if the country is to return to stability. (Full Story)
Kyrgyzstan's Provisional Government should focus its full attention on security concerns
Bishkek/Brussels/Washington - Suggestions by Kyrgyzstan's Provisional Government yesterday that the situations in Osh and Jalalabad are stabilising, that foreign intervention is thus not needed, and that a referendum scheduled for 27 June can go ahead, are dangerously premature. (Full Story)
Flotilla Attack. Policy toward Gaza in need of urgent thorough re-examination
Brussels/Washington/Jerusalem - The International Crisis Group condemns Israel’s assault on a flotilla of humanitarian aid bound for Gaza, which resulted in a tragic loss of life. (Full Story)
Kosovo. International community must fight corruption
Pristina/Brussels - Kosovo must bolster its failing justice system and establish rule of law throughout the country if it is to achieve prosperity and greater international recognition. (Full Story)
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~Indonesia. An area that needs more attention: the regulation of the popular “airsoft” guns
~Turkey and Israel need to work to restore strained relationship
~Sudan. Expectations running high in advance of January 2011 referendum
~Palestinian Authority's Challenge: Bringing an end to occupation and reversing divisions
~Lebanon’s Elections. Foreign powers should recognise the Legitimacy of Results
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