| EAB Statement Europe`s chance to aid North Korea - US ties ! (Nagasaki Day - Long Version) Not unlikely that Pyongyang in secrecy wishes to draw even with`Confu- cian brothers` Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo when it comes to receiving US-/ EU-support to grow more prosperous. However, ongoing since 1992-93 and escalating timely towards 2017 UN General Assembly gatherings in New York in September, how could Europe contribute its rich east-west peace-unifying experience (Valery Giscard d`Estaing to Helmut Kohl) to help mitigate and transform DPRK-US nuclear stand-off ? As twenty-five years of UN-sanctions have failed to keep Pyongyang from building and testing a nuclear deterrence (since mid-2017, BBC reporting) leaving its leadership ever more isolated, mistrusted and hence dangerous behind, new methods need to be swiftly considered to cut the vicious cycle in an effort to finding long-term solutions. Worth discussing may be to revive the `Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe` (CSCE 1972 - 1994, since then OSCE) tailor-made applied (perhaps in China-initiated Silk Road context ?) onto the Korean peninsula and its beautiful cultural settings (Ban Ki-Moon, 2006). A rising `humanitarian power` (Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, 2017), the EU by tradition appears prepared to serve- up proactively to key important US-North Korean peace relations (para- mount for Beijing) the way it did by means of KEDO from 1996 to 2005 (Benita Ferrero-Waldner, 2005). Perhaps once tasting multilateral suc- cess replacing mutual militarist attitudes with smart east-west diplomacy in Far East, that might prompt the White House to go in for quid pro quo action in Ukraine, also a `Cold War left over frozen conflict` (paramount for Moscow : Russo-Sino Baltic naval drills, summer 2017) - Europe`s no less urgent Korea-style geostrategic challenge ... (EurAsiaBridge - 9 August 2017)
..... Astana Expo embraces Sustainable Future Amid Beijing`s forging geostrategic ties with central America`s Panama and Gulf region`s United Arab Emirates, which repercussions for Trump administration after quitting (Vatican lobbied) Paris Climate Accord ? As Opec-sponsored Anglo-American pre-2003 optimism is one-and-a-half- decades on ending up in national retreat and roll back confusion, Expo 2017 Astana (EU-supported) embraces a `new era` of renewable future energy schemes to help fuel tomorrow`s world economy while keeping dear human livelihoods. Hosting also in Astana Russia-sponsored talks for a Greater Middle East peace (towards a Russo-US "Sykes-Picot" ?), Kazakhstan has grown into key position of rising Silk Road community aiming to stabilize and develop trans-Eurasian spaces ..... and beyond. (EurAsiaBridge - 18 June 2017) ..... Allez hop, l` Europe ! Hit the road, Europe ! Provided that `continentalists´ prevail over `nationalists` in 2017 Euro- pean general elections, how could `rich in overseas territories` France convince `rich in private savings` Germany to invest more bravely into heartland leadership of `ever closer European Union` ? Disintegration and neighborhood instability pressing, Berlin`s matching strong sense for safety should be addressed. Paris would need to focus on shifting ´euro currency` towards common budget/ fair tr(aid)e with a (German) finance minister on top, and ´euro security` creating common military/ intelligence with a (French) defense minister supervising affairs. Such scenarios would need good support from European Union institutions. (EurAsiaBridge - 1 May 2017) * For more information, please contact us. |
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