Moustafa el-Feki, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina said that the world is currently witnessing rapid and unexpected changes, and the new conditions confirm that the world is moving towards reducing the number of people either through pandemics or wars, which foretells the absence of positive perceptions of contemporary international relations.
This came during a symposium on Tuesday on the Repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis on the Middle East, organized by the Library’s Center for Strategic Studies.
El-Feki added that the world is swarming with very disturbing currents, and its issues are intertwined and its effects will reach the ordinary citizen in the whole world.
The symposium discussed the repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, and whether the actions of the President Russian Vladimir Putin came to restore the glory of the Soviet Union or not.
He indicated that he senses the beginning of World War III, saying: "I was disturbed by the threat of the use of nuclear weapons after no one was close to mentioning them," stressing that Egypt's position on the crisis was balanced.
He referred to the criticism leveled at Egypt because of the "Negev" meeting, stressing that Egypt is the only force that grasps the Palestinian cause and will not abandon it, and is trying to talk the moderate path in this vital file.
He explained that China is not ready to pay the price of being at the forefront of the world scene, but it has expressed its view clearly, noting that the U.S position has been completely explicit, as it does not want to interfere or escalate the situation, because its history is full of military defeats, expecting the European-American alliance will not be as strong as before.
On his part, Ahmed Youssef Ahmed, Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University spoke about the "Russian-Ukrainian crisis.. towards a new era of international relations," stressing that the war is one of the defining incidents in international relations because we are facing a pole in the world that was considered the weakest in front of the United States, but has resorted to war to achieve its goals, which failed to be achieved through diplomatic means.
Youssef added that the model of the World War I, which ended with the humiliation of the defeated, was repeated in the wake of the Cold War, and although the international behaviors led by U.S. towards the Soviet Union were not humiliating, they harmed it by absorbing the disintegrated countries and including them, successively, into the NATO.
The symposium was attended by Nevin Massad, Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, and journalist Ahmed Maati, and it was moderated by Mai Muguib, supervisor of the Center for Strategic Studies.
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