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Syria solution not possible without Iran, top UN political official Feltman tells CNN's Amanpour
Russia's plan to have Syria destroy its chemical weapons has put diplomacy, and the United Nations, front and center.
So is a diplomatic solution possible?
Not without Iran's cooperation, Jeffrey Feltman, the top UN political official, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Click above to see Amanpour's full interview with Feltman.
Madeleine Albright explains diplomacy on Syria
“In my mind," Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, "there is no question that the threat of the use of force is what brought this diplomatic venue into place, and what made President Putin understand that this was something that should concern them in terms of getting his client, President Assad, to in fact give up his weapons, his chemical weapons.”
Click above to watch Amanpour's interview with Albright, and find out what insight she has into Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's negotiating strategies.
CNN’s eyewitness to Halabja chemical attack
By Mick Krever
The world may hardly have known of the chemical attack that occurred in Syria on August 21 were it not for the startling images that emerged in the immediate aftermath.
“The images from this massacre are sickening,” U.S. President Barack Obama said in his address on Syria this week. “Men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas; others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath; a father clutching his dead children.”
But in 1988, when Saddam Hussein gassed the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja, the only way for news organizations to get images of the massacre was to send their own cameramen to the scene.
Rich Brooks, one of CNN’s longest-serving photojournalists, travelled to the scene, and told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday what it was like.
“We weren't sure what we were going to see exactly,” he said. “But what I remember vividly was entering the village and just how still and silent it was. Initially, we saw birds on the ground and then we saw cattle and sheep. And then we turned a corner into a street that was just full of bodies. And you've seen it before and the smell was overwhelming.”
Christiane Amanpour interviews “The Bravest Girl in the World”
This October, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour will interview Malala Yousafzai, the girl who survived a Taliban assassination attempt.
CNN is holding an essay contest for a chance to meet Malala Yousafzai in New York. ENTER HERE
Tune in October 13th for a CNN Amanpour special: “The Bravest Girl in the World”
Malala Yousafzai’s education initiative, The Malala Fund, can be found here.
Syria can only be contained, not extinguished, top former U.S. diplomat Ryan Crocker tells CNN’s Amanpour
By Mick Krever, CNN
The United States has fundamentally misread the uprising and subsequent civil war in Syria, the former American ambassador to that country and one of American’s most experienced Foreign Service officers told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“I think we made a mistake right at the beginning in somehow thinking that Syria was like Egypt, like Tunisia, like Libya,” Ryan Crocker told Amanpour. “You and I know it's not.”
That misreading has lead Crocker to a stark conclusion.
“Assad isn't going anywhere outside of Syria anytime soon, if ever,” he said. “And maybe we're beginning to understand that.”
Crocker is a career diplomat who has served as ambassador to Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Russia to America’s rescue?
By Mick Krever
To many, Russia is taking the lead on resolving the standoff over Syria’s chemical weapons - but it doesn’t seem that way to Russia’s European Union ambassador, Vladimir Chizhov.
“It’s not an issue of claiming fatherhood,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour from Brussels. “Success has many fathers, but failure is always an orphan. So we would like to share the fatherhood with anybody who is interested, provided it is a success.”
The plan has upended President Obama’s push for military action; he now is cautiously endorsing the proposal to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control.
But what, exactly, that plan will entail is unclear. A Syrian cabinet minister told the AP on Wednesday that the weapons would not be physically moved, but would just be put under international supervision.
Chizhov disagreed with that assessment.
“It envisages placing the chemical weapons stockpile of Syria under international supervision,” he said, “and also addressing the issue of succession of the Syrian Arab Republic to the convention on banning chemical weapons.”
What was President Obama's message on Syria?
By Mick Krever, CNN
Mick Krever is the Digital Producer of “Amanpour”
If you watched President Obama’s speech on Syria last night and wondered “what was his message?” you’re not alone.
The original goal was to convince the American people, and the U.S. Congress, to authorize him to use military force against Syria in response to President Assad’s use of chemical weapons.
But what the world saw was not a full-throated endorsement of that goal, but rather a melange of mixed messages.
David Miliband tells Amanpour: Obama convinced Putin to shift policy because of military threat
By Mick Krever, CNN
Russia’s earthmoving proposal to secure chemical weapons was not the result of benevolence, but because of President Obama’s threat of force, David Miliband, the new head of the International Rescue Committee and former British Foreign Secretary told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“I think President Obama convinced President Putin … that he was carrying a very big stick,” Miliband said in an exclusive interview in New York. “I think the Russians have taken that seriously. It would be wrong to describe Syria purely as a client state of Russia, but Russia is clearly a very influential ally of President Assad. And I think they've realized that the game was up. And I think that basically explains the shift that you're seeing.”
Whatever the outcome of a potential diplomatic deal – or military airstrikes – the humanitarian crisis in Syria seems to have gone ignored.
As the head of an organization whose chief focus is people in desperate situations, it is this aspect that Miliband is desperately trying to get the world to focus on.
“The use of chemical weapons is the tip of the humanitarian iceberg in this Syrian crisis,” he told Amanpour. “One in three Syrians have been driven from their homes. Two million Syrians out of the country.”
Imagine a World: An assault on humanity in India
An Indian court has just convicted four men in the gang-rape and murder of a young woman on a New Delhi bus last December.
According to UNICEF, 50% of Indian men condone domestic violence.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour tells the story.
What 1998 strikes against Iraq can teach us about Syria
Appearing on AC360 Later with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour asked David Kay, former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, about the efficacy of air strikes against Iraq in 1998.
"I tell you, at the time of the strike I confess I was a skeptic," he said. "Blowing up empty buildings in the middle of the night didn't strike me as terribly effective."
But Kay said his mind was changed when he visited Iraq years later.
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