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Arab Spring Not Over Yet – Russia

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The landmark events that swept the Arab world last year are far from at an end and the international community should maintain a policy of non-intervention in the Middle East and North Africa, Russia’s foreign minister said.

The landmark events that swept the Arab world last year are far from at an end and the international community should maintain a policy of non-intervention in the Middle East and North Africa, Russia’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.

“The changes in the region are far from being concluded and we are witness to what is merely the start of this transition,” Sergei Lavrov told journalists during an annual address in Moscow.

Lavrov also said that world powers should refrain from interfering in the politics of countries such as Egypt and Libya, both of which saw successful uprisings against long-established dictatorships in 2011.

“If we are in favor of the people of these countries determining for themselves their own futures, then we must accept their choices and not interfere in national dialogues or electoral campaigns,” he said.

Islamist parties dominated Egypt’s first parliamentary elections since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak last February, securing almost two-thirds of the vote between them.

But Lavrov said that the international community should seek to work with such “radical” movements and that the use of force as a means of influencing events in the region was unacceptable.

“It is important to be governed by the principles that govern doctors - ‘do no harm,’” Lavrov said.

 

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