Now on bbc news, Stephen Sackur speaks to the former un envoy for syria Staffan De Mistura on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im Stephen Sackur. At the end of the second decade of the 21st century, does anybody still believe in the ability of the so called International Community to stop wars, disarm dictators and protect civilians . Look at the scale of suffering in syria, the renewed unrest across the middle east, the imminent american withdrawal from afghanistan. My my guest acro one has been a us envoy in all of those places over the past decade was up is it about time to acknowledge the irrelevance of the International Peacemakers . Staffa n d e of the International Peacemakers . Staffan de mistura, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. It is pretty much a year since you left your post as the un envoy in assyria. You have had a time for reflection. Syria. On reflection, do you think that mission was doomed from the moment you took it . I have been thinking exactly about that. When i was
Brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to our moderator. Tom is a distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Really thrilled he would join us. He spent a lot of time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units in other parts of the broader effort there that is now approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. , my copanelist, acting laura miller. She has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently, where she recently completed a 200 page study on in afghanistan Peace Agreement, written as a simulated or model agreement that parties themselves could consider because even though we are aware that america is not gonna write the ultimate peace deal, the parties could benefit from some provocation. Weve been talking about having a peace negotiation for a long time but its not clear how specific people have gotten in there overall concepts about how that would be. She is now with the International Crisis group. A remarkable or
Peace agreements. The Brookings Institute posted this discussion. Hosted this discussion. Hi, everyone and welcome to brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to our moderator. Tom is a distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Really thrilled he would join us. He spent a lot of time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units in other parts of the broader effort there that is now approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. , my copanelist, acting laura miller. She has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently, where she recently completed a 200 page study on in afghanistan Peace Agreement, written as a simulated or model agreement that parties themselves could consider because even though we are aware that america is not gonna write the ultimate peace deal, the parties could benefit from some provocation. Weve been talking about having a peace negotiation for a long time but its not clear how specific people have got
Turkish involvement in libya deepens as ankara moves to support the internationally recognized government militarily but will that intensify the conflict he says its and this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the show im sam hes a than turkey is considering all kinds of military backing for libya that includes ground marine and air support if necessary president raja to do and also said hes ready to deploy troops if the internationally recognized government of libya formally requests help the government of National Accord or g. N. A. T. Has been fighting an offensive by rebel forces to unseat Prime Minister face assad raj since april warlord Khalifa Haftar announced his final push to seize the capital earlier this month his forces extended to wednesday a deadline for progovernment forces to withdraw or the ones announcement came after have to forces seized a grenade or flagged ship with turkish crew offer that he and coast the vessel and crew have now been released though after us
Here cspan3, well stay live and take you to the Brookings Institution in washington. Foreign Affairs Senior fellow michael o hanlan moderating a discussion on afghanistan. It will be moderated by tom bowman. Just getting under way here live on cspan3. Many other parts of the world. Im a huge fan of her bravery and brilliance as she studies these kinds of phenomena so without further ado, tom, thanks for joining us and over to you. Michael, thank you. Its great to be here and thanks to everyone for coming out. Afghanistan is back in the news, thanks partly to the Washington Post and its series, afghan papers. So i hope you have many questions because were going to be start calling on you very quickly. And i want to start by asking michael how he sees things right know with the peace talks and also talk a little bit about your proposal to have 5,000 troops in afghanistan for the next five years. As some of you may know, theres talk about reducing the forces in afghanistan, now currently