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West after resource management in Mideast, North Africa: Pundit

Wednesday, 11 January 2017 1:57 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 11 January 2017 1:57 PM ]

In this January 10, 2017 United Nations handout photo, Secretary General António Guterres addresses the Security Council on conflict prevention and sustaining peace. (Photo by AFP)

New Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres has promised to reorganize the world body and called on the Security Council to adopt a new approach in order to prevent conflicts and promote peace. Guterres, who succeeded Ban Ki-moon on January 1, has underlined the need for tackling international crises like the war in Syria.

Max Igan, a political commentator from Brisbane, said that the Western powers are using foreign mercenaries to destabilize states and pave the way for managing resources in the Middle East and North Africa.

Foreign factions infiltrated into Egypt, Libya and Syria and caused the so-called “popular uprisings” to pursue the West’s policy of “resource management” in the Middle East and North Africa, Igan told Press TV’s Top 5 on Wednesday.

The wars in MENA are being run as “a business” by “private contractors” and foreign factions in a bid to make profit of oil and gas resources in the region, he noted.

Foreign mercenaries have entered into some countries in the Middle East and North Africa and created “disturbances” and “instability” in order to pave the way for the West “to harvest the resources” of these regions, he added.

According to the political expert, “A lot of people that are speaking against these wars and speaking against these countries make enormous profits from keeping these wars going.”

He touched on the role of the United Nations in preventing wars, saying that the world body needs to do more to prevent wars but there is also a need for looking at what is the “cause of crises” especially in the Middle East region.

Most of “these wars are unnecessary and the United Nations needs to really look a little bit deeper at this to see where these wars are actually coming from,” he argued.

Also pointing to the hands behind the war in Syria, he said that the conflict has been instigated by foreign mercenaries funded by the West.

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