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Press TV
April 7, 2020
David Yaghoubian, CSUSB professor of history, was included in a segment to discuss Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron regarding the refusal of the U.S. to lift sanctions on Iran during the coronavirus pandemic, and the first use of a special trade mechanism known as INSTEX for the sale of medical goods, which Rouhani categorized as “positive but insufficient.”
Yaghoubian said he agreed with Rouhani’s assessment that the INSTEX mechanism was a good start, but “it is wholly unsatisfactory. The INSTEX mechanism was initially conceived of as a way for Iran to export its oil and gas in exchange for (European Union) purchases. … The question still remains, is the INSTEX mechanism going to remain largely a political and symbolic gesture, or will it become a true, functioning economic initiative?”
The segment can be viewed at "U.S. sanctions in violation of W.H.O regulations."
CSUSB professor emeritus discusses establishment of fund to combat COVID-19 in Ethiopia
Ethiosun
April 4, 2020
Alemayehu G. Mariam, CSUSB professor of political science, emeritus, and the chair of the Ethiopia Diaspora Trust Fund Advisory Council, was quoted in an article about the council establishing the EDTF Emergency COVID-19 Mitigation effort committing $1 million U.S. for a start-up fund to assist Ethiopia’s COVID-19 mitigation efforts.
Mariam said, “Ethiopia and indeed the human race today faces an existential threat as COVID-19 continues to spread like wildfire to all corners of the globe. There is no more critical and urgent health care need facing all Ethiopians today than the prevention, treatment and mitigation of COVID-19.”
Read the complete article at “Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Commits USD 1 million to support COVID-19 mitigation in Ethiopia.”
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