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The Iran Nuclear Deal – A Missed Opportunity ?

Alejandro Zurita
World , Middle East , Peace & Security , Analysis
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28 May, 2024

After twenty months of multilateral negotiations, the Iran nuclear deal, formally called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015. The signatories were, on one side Iran, and on the other side the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, i.e. China, France, Russia, UK and US, together…

UN and peacemaking: It worked in the past. Why not now?

Fotini Zarogianni
UN , Peace & Security , Analysis
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20 May, 2024

Introduction: The UN, peace and security The quintessential goal of the United Nations, as clearly expressed in its constitutive document, the Charter of the United Nations, is the maintenance of international peace and security. The latter involves not only the management of conflicts, inter- or intra-state, and the absence of violence (negative peace), but also…