MESOP SHORT CUTS : NIKKI HALEY (US AMBASSADOR) IN DECLARES UNITED NATIONS AS “SO CORRUPT!”
| The U.S. secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, arrives in Turkey for difficult discussions on plans to attack Raqqa, the Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria, and ahead of his first NATO meeting in Brussels tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/europe/tillerson-turkey-erdogan-islamic-state-raqqa.html?emc=edit_mbe_20170330&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1 |
| The U.S. military appears to be deepening its involvement in the Middle East’s intertwined wars. The State Department is said to have decided to lift human rights conditions on arms sales to Bahrain. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/middleeast/us-war-footprint-grows-in-middle-east.html?emc=edit_mbe_20170330&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1 |
| Meanwhile, at the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, the U.S. ambassador, said her country was the world’s “moral conscience” and dismissed the U.N.’s Human Rights Council as “so corrupt.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/nikki-haley-un-human-rights-council-corrupt.html?emc=edit_mbe_20170330&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1&_r=0 |