Victor Angelo

  Translation of today’s opinion piece I published in Diário de Notícias (Lisbon). 15 Aug. 2020 From Lebanon to the conflict freezer Vic...

75 years ago, visionary leaders have signed the UN Charter and initiated what they thought would be a world without major wars. Their dre...

A ministerial meeting of the International Coalition for the Sahel was held on Friday, 12 June 2020 and co-chaired by Mauritania, the EU ...

Politics is obviously about controlling the power of governance. And such power must be played with the aim of managing conflicts, findin...

The Iranian leadership has shown restraint. The attack against two military camps that accommodate deployed American service men was surg...

Regarding the killing of its star general, Iran might be envisaging an asymmetric response – meaning, through non-conventional means, mak...

For many opportunistic politicians, the truth is a MIA – missing in action. Values have been kicked aside, in today’s partisan disputes. ...

In politics, we tend to forget that to be principled is different from being dogmatic. A principled leader knows the goal posts, keep...

One of the most militarised borders in the world is the one between India and Pakistan. Men and the most sophisticated means of control s...

Today’s front-page news is about the meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-Un. And it can be summarised in two words: bol...

The United Nations is always required to be politically smart. That’s the way I saw it, when performing the responsibilities that had bee...

This weekend there was another massacre in Mali. This time, the victims were ethnic Dogon villagers living in the central region of the c...

Venezuela remains at the top of today’s international agenda. People on both sides of the conflict are convinced that the solution to the...

The outcome of the Hanoi meeting – no agreement, not even a joint final lunch, let alone a joint statement – should be seen as a reminder...

There are a few crisis situations in the world that must be seen as requiring urgent attention. Venezuela is certainly one of them. And, ...

Venezuela is again a huge headline in the international agenda. And this time, the situation is extremely delicate. The country is at the...

War without a concomitant, serious, persistent search for a political solution to the conflict is not morally justified. It´s unacceptable...

Acts of war and drawn-out conflicts are among the key factors that undermine the authority of UN Security Council. Actually, they have a m...

Ban Ki-moon has left the UN Secretariat building today, at the end of his second mandate. He spent the last ten years at the UN helm. ...

António Guterres´s swearing-in ceremony took place today. He is now ready to take over from Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2017. And he has clea...