Few things anger the Chinese government more than the perceived intervention of foreign countries in these matters.
The proposal for the large-scale intervention of foreign forces was the centerpiece of debates yesterday in the United Nations General Assembly and among delegates from the six nations that border Afghanistan, plus the United States and Russia.
Additionally, there may be a concern that the ICC appear to have a political agenda by timing the decision to open an investigation so closely to the intervention of foreign forces.
In the streets of Beirut, many residents seem to look at the latest confrontation as theater, managed by a political elite that reaches consensus only after months of deadlock, the eruption of violence or the decisive intervention of foreign powers.
In Geneva, the United Nations Human Rights Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Wednesday that calls for an immediate end to fighting around Qusayr and condemns the intervention of foreign combatants on the government's side — a reference to the Hezbollah fighters.
GENEVA — The United Nations Human Rights Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Wednesday that calls for an immediate end to fighting around Qusayr, a strategic Syrian town, and condemns the intervention of foreign combatants on the government's side in the Syrian civil war.
"They also have a single goal: "the destruction of civilization, giving rise to Islamophobia and creating a fertile ground for further intervention of foreign forces in our region," he said, insisting that its leaders were not followers of Islam and scolding the western media for repeatedly describing them so.
The non-binding text condemned "the intervention of foreign combatants fighting on behalf of the Syrian regime" in Qusair.
Some have even called for the intervention of foreign powers and the imposing of harsh economic sanctions on Iran.
It's time we allow the Afghans to select their own leader via another loya jirga of tribal elders with significant involvement of the Zahir Shah and Amanullah Khan families, and without the intervention of foreign interlopers.
