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8th February 2016 Geneva, Switzerland

by Julian Braithwaite

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva

Solving the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Last week’s conference in London did not solve the Syrian refugee crisis. That requires an end to the conflict.  The suspension of the peace talks in Geneva last week shows we’re not even at the end of the beginning of that process, as Churchill might have said. But London did some important things.  It raised […]

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7th September 2015 Geneva, Switzerland

by Julian Braithwaite

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva

The Tragedy and Reality of Europe’s Refugee and Migration Crisis

Who could fail to be moved by the photograph last week of the little Syrian boy on a Turkish beach?  We have long grown numb to the statistics of the Syrian conflict yet here was a picture that captured with blinding clarity the human tragedy.  Hundreds of little Aylans have drowned in the Mediterranean far […]

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