Victor Angelo

  Geopolitical Realism: When Might Prevails Over International Law By Victor Ângelo I regret having to repeat myself, but criticising the th...

 Based on available information from his public commentary and his background as a former UN official, Victor Ângelo's opinion on diplom...

  1.         The UN System, under the leadership of the SG, is fast moving to be ready to implement SC res. 2720. This should be acknowledge...

  The sanctions the US has decided to impose on Ms Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), are an abuse of...

This is the wrong time to behave like a bully in the international arena. The Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, seems to know it. He app...

These are very strange times. The international scene has been deeply challenged since the beginning of the New Year. And we heard no men...

As I express my disagreement and concern regarding the decision to execute General Qassem Soleimani, I must also recognise that the regim...

Turkey’s military invasion of North-Eastern Syria is illegal, from the international law perspective. It is also a tremendous political m...

Yesterday, we got two pieces of news that reminded us that the respect for international norms is currently very low. States act as they ...

All the signs seem to indicate that there is a plan to deal with Maduro and the power struggle in Venezuela. That plan can only come from...

When I scrutinise the foreign policies of permanent members of the UN Security Council I find no real differences, when it comes to the p...

I went back to the notes I wrote at the beginning of last year and noticed I had pencilled that 2016 would be a year of political renewal....

Cyber attacks, when organised by an adversary State, must be taken very seriously and considered as a new type of armed aggression. Partic...

As I read that a well-known Chinese lawyer has been sentenced to 12 years – yes, 12 years – in jail because of some spurious accusation ab...

Today´s ruling against China by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a Hague-based UN-related institution, should be noted as a milestone. ...

When discussing terrorism, one should keep in mind a number of issues. One of them is the concept of self-defence. Basically the point is ...

The situation in Ukraine is deteriorating fast once again. I spent some time looking at the uniforms, the equipment and the logistics ...

I am not sure North Korea celebrates Human Rights Day, as we do today. And I am pleased that this year the day comes just after the pub...

Hamas is certainly an extremist group included in the Western list of terrorist organizations. It needs to be fought and its actions ought...

When the law of the war is not respect – and one should be reminded all the time that wars have their own body of international law that o...