U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived at the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan on Oct. 22, despite criticism from Ukraine, Voice of America reported.

The BRICS group, a bloc of countries that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates, is convening in Kazan for a three-day summit from Oct. 22-24. According to Moscow, 36 world leaders are participating in the conference.

Guterres is expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the event on Oct. 24, according to Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry criticized the U.N. secretary general’s visit.

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  • RubberDuckEnglish
    -1•2 hours ago

    Unfortunately the spoiler tags didn’t work, but I appreciate the attempt to keep it readable and split the wall of text.

    I admit it’s a shit show and the last decades have done nothing but further radicalize both sides. The unconditional support Israël seems to get is also bullshit… they need to be toned down.

    The settlements in the west bank will get no defense from me, even the Olso accords that made this possible are bullshit… Israel should not be there or at least have no civilians there. 3 zones… ppppffff…

    The Gaza Strip should have an open border with at least the sea, but if Gaza again sparks violence like in the 90s and October last year, they will be at war again. And bad faith proposals like the Oct 8th swap by Hamas can be ignored… with dire consequences.

    Hezbollah is just an Iranian vanity project to fuck with Israël and the US for minimal cost, same as the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Edit: the graph seems disingenuous. As a single attack with 62 missiles by Hezbollah is 1 attack, an f35 throwing a bomb on Hezbollah is 1 attack…

    And the Golan heights will never be returned as it’s too important a deterrence against Syria.

    • @KeeponstalinEnglish
      1•48 minutes ago

      It may be your app if the spoilers aren’t working, they are on Thunder.

      Iran did not create Hamas, Hezbollah, or Houthis. They all began as anti-colonialist resistance and have their own aims.

      GDF’s video on how Hezbollah began is well sourced and thoroughly layed out. The thumbnail is edgy clickbait I recommend to ignore, but the video is genuine.

      Yemen has been undergoing a US-Saudi backed genocide for years.

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      Guterres put the crisis in stark perspective, emphasizing the near complete lack of security for the Yemeni people. More than 22 million people out of a total population of 28 million are in need of humanitarian aid and protection. Eighteen million people lack reliable access to food; 8.4 million people “do not know how they will obtain their next meal.”

      Besides Saudi Arabia, the coalition attacking Yemen includes the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait and Bahrain. Qatar was part of the coalition but is no longer.

      Based on the information available to it using open sources, YDP reports that two-thirds of the coalition’s bombing attacks have been against non-military and unknown targets. The coalition isn’t accidentally attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure – it’s doing it deliberately.

      The air and naval blockade, in effect since March 2015, “is essentially using the threat of starvation as a bargaining tool and an instrument of war,” according to the UN panel of experts on Yemen.

      The coalition’s genocide in Yemen would not be possible without the complicity of the U.S. This has been a bipartisan presidential effort, covering both the Obama and Trump administrations.

      U.S. arms are being used to kill Yemenis and destroy their country. In 2016, well after the coalition began its genocidal assault on Yemen, four of the top five recipients of U.S. arms sales were members of the coalition.

      The U.S. has also provided the coalition with logistical support, including mid-air refueling, targeting advice and support, intelligence, expedited munitions resupply and maintenance.

      US complicity in the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen spans Obama, Trump administrations