When US and
Russian presidents met, especially after 30 years of destitute connections, they
brought with them high expectations. What motivated them was shared interests.
Being named the two nuclear powers is not to be taken for granted, rather to be
respected, if not feared.
اضافة اعلان
During the long-awaited
meeting, numerous topics where discussed and countless decisions were made, including
potential future areas of cooperation between their countries, the issue of
cybersecurity, as well as rebuilding security and establishing a military
balance.
The conflicts in
the Middle East were among the topics, particularly the Syrian conflict with a promise
to move towards a resolution. Altogether, it seems that the preliminary
result of the meeting seemed to have achieved the goals.
What interests you
and I — the normal people — about the Biden-Putin meeting are the future outcomes.
Every decision that was made will affect the lives of many worldwide, and the
tangled lives of those who see in such meeting a call of deliverance for a better
future.
It’s a rule of thumb
that when supreme powers meet, though in private, treaties are being prepared
and peace terms are being set, and people without voices will hopefully be
heard. So much hope in the future depends on the outcomes of this meeting.
The Middle East
has lived with high expectations since the announcement of the two powers’
meeting. Hopes that such a meeting would result in decisions that might save
our shaky and unstable area. A meeting that might result in answers to the many
questions we have on an everyday basis: why are things happening the way they
are happening? Why do we paint what is to many black and white, gray? What
causes us to degrade humanity and stretch it to the limit? What causes us to
speak of peace only to witness unjust acts? Why are our values messed up? And
many more other questions.
We have
witnessed and lived through unstoppable wars, destruction, and pains. I am sure
that each country around the world has its own struggle, but I am writing from
a personal perspective, a perspective of a journalist who wrote stories about, and
witnessed the struggle of displaced Iraqis and Syrians over the past 10 years,
as well as the struggles and pains of the Palestinians.
Thus, during the meeting, people hoped that somebody would perceive Middle Eastern
countries as humans with pulses and hearts, and with futures, rather than oil and
gas, or other material assets.
Words of intent matter to us: people
living in the area that has been painted with blood for a very long time. The
supreme powers’ meeting was a window of hope for a great mass of people living
in the Middle East, and hope is what keeps us going, hope
that things only worsen temporarily, before they get better.
In Jordan, we
pride ourselves on the fact that we have a good to excellent relationship with
all countries of the world, due to the leadership and wisdom of the
Hashemites. And relations with the two nuclear powers are
considered to have always been based on mutual respect and clarity of vision, especially
our long history of friendship and mutual cooperation with the US and strong
bilateral relations with Russia.
Thus, we look
forward to moving into a future that holds prosperity and peace, and to move
past theories and rhetoric, to actual practices implemented on the ground.
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