UN Archives - Page 14 of 26

16Aug

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Iran, Russia, UN, USA

Russia’s Proposal on UNSC Summit With Iran Remains on Table After Trump’s Refusal

The proposal by Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold an online conference of leaders of the UNSC states, Germany, and Iran to discuss the Persian Gulf and Iran remains on the table after US President Donald Trump’s refusal to support it, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov affirmed on Sunday. “Of course, yes”, Ryabkov said when asked whether the initiative is still on the table after Trump’s statement. Trump said on Saturday that he would unlikely support Putin’s initiative to hold the online summit on Iran adding that he would wait until [after] the election. On Friday, Putin suggested holding a remote videoconference around tensions in the Persian Gulf with the participation of the leaders of the UN Security Council members, Germany and Iran. He urged...

UN experts denounce 'Israeli' apartheid and call for sanctions

31Jul

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Campaigns, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, UN, ZIO-NAZI

UN experts denounce 'Israeli' apartheid and call for sanctions

ByPalestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) / A statement by tens of UN experts on Israel's planned annexation amplified Palestinian civil society's call Resist apartheid sign 6.16.2020.png The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society, commends tens of UN experts for their courage in speaking truths that States and international organizations representing them, including the UN and EU, have sought to evade and suppress. The UN experts said in a statement issued in Geneva today that the annexation of occupied Palestinian territory currently planned by Israel's right-wing government "would be the crystallisation of an already unjust reality: two peoples living in the same space, ruled by the same state, but with profoundly un...

26Jul

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Palestine Affairs, UN, ZIO-NAZI

Adalah's report to the UN detailing 'Israel’s' response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its negative impact on human rights

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahen,Sr In response to a call by the UN, Adalah submitted a report to inform experts’ upcoming thematic statements and reports to the UN Human Rights Council or the General Assembly on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights.Adalah’s report spans many subjects such as the Israeli government’s excessive use of Emergency Regulations; discrimination against Palestinians regarding access to medical services, education and economic financial support; the lack of available data on COVID-19 and Palestinian citizens of Israel and delayed, limited health-related information in Arabic; insufficient economic measures taken to help Palestinian citizen workers, households, businesses and the exploitation of West Bank Palestinian workers in Israel and more. • CL...

Gaza: One million Palestinians face food shortages

19Jul

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Gaza, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, UN, ZIO-NAZI

Gaza: One million Palestinians face food shortages

By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Gaza Strip has been under strict Nazi siege since mid-2007. Around one million Palestinian refugees in Gaza face food shortages due to Nazi continued blockade and slashed global funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, a welfare organisation said on Saturday. In a statement on the World Refugee Day, Jamal al Khoudary, chairman of the Popular Committee to End Gaza’s Seige, said “a genuine decline” in support from donors has had “serious repercussions on the Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and other Arab states.” He said the US’ decision to halt funds, estimated to be around $360 million annually, for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) two years ago had severely impacted...

15Jul

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Politics, UN

World Entering New Military ‘Drone Age’

The world is entering a military “second drone age” with uncontrolled proliferation and no standards governing their use, a United Nations expert told the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said the global community needed to take stock of how armed drones have evolved, and examine the challenges they posed to compliance with international law. “There are no robust standards governing drones’ development, proliferation, export, or capability for use of force. No transparency. No effective oversight. No accountability,” she said. “Drone strikes, it seems, are favoured by decision-makers and military alike for their relative efficiency, effectiveness, adaptability, acceptability, deniabi...

11Jul

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China, UN

China signs UN arms trade treaty

China signed a global pact Monday to regulate arms sales that has been rejected by the United States, the Asian power’s UN ambassador said. The Communist Party leadership’s top legislative body voted in late June to join the UN Arms Trade Treaty, designed to control the flow of weapons into conflict zones. The signing demonstrates China’s “resolve and sincerity in maintaining international arms control regime, supporting multilateralism, and forging a community with a shared future for mankind,” Zhang Jun, China’s ambassador to the UN, said in a statement. The statement added that Beijing allows arms exports only to sovereign states and not to non-state actors. China, the second-largest global arms producer, announced June 22 it would join the Arms Trade Treaty, which now has 1...

UN So-called Committee of Inquiry (COI) Casually Blames Bashar Al-Assad for US-Sponsored High Crimes Committed by Terrorist Proxies Against the People of Syria

6Jul

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Politics, Syria, UN, USA, ZIO-NAZI

UN So-called Committee of Inquiry (COI) Casually Blames Bashar Al-Assad for US-Sponsored High Crimes Committed by Terrorist Proxies Against the People of Syria

By Stephen Lendman Launched preemptively in March 2011 by the Obama regime, escalated by Trump, US direct and proxy aggression in Syria will likely continue indefinitely no matter which right wing of its war party is in charge ahead. Formed in September 2011, the so-called Committee of Inquiry on Syria (COI) is an instrument of pro-Western imperial propaganda. Its reports largely blame Syria’s Bashar al-Assad government for high crimes of war and against humanity committed by US and so-called coalition partners, as well as ISIS and other jihadists used as imperial proxies. Syria’s UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari earlier slammed its biased reports, saying the following: They deliberately “blow things out of proportion…fully disregarding or downplaying core issue...

24Jun

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Palestine Affairs, UN, ZIO-NAZI

UN Chief Urges the Nazi regime to Abandon Annexation Plan of West Bank

UN Chief Urges Israel to Abandon Annexation Plan of West Bank “This would be calamitous for Palestinians, Israelis and the region,” Guterres said. United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres urged Israel Tuesday to call off its plans to annex parts of the illegally Nazi occupied West Bank, declaring that such a move would be a “most serious violation of international law.” In a report to the U.N. Security Council, Guterres said an the Nazi annexation would be “devastating” for hopes of negotiations and an eventual two-state solution. The document was sent to the Council one day before the body’s meeting on the 'Israeli'-Palestinian conflict. “This would be calamitous for Palestinians, Israelis and the region,” Guterres said. Th Nazi regime of Naziyahu has planned to begin the annexati...

Canada’s UN Security Council Loss Shows Its “Foreign Policy Weaknesses”

23Jun

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Canada, UN

Canada’s UN Security Council Loss Shows Its “Foreign Policy Weaknesses”

Will it Embolden a Reform Movement? By: Nino Pagliccia India, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, and Kenya after a second round, won the June 17 elections at the 74th United Nations Assembly for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2021. The biggest loser was Canada in its competition with Ireland and Norway for two seats available. A total of 128 votes were needed to secure a two-thirds majority. Norway secured 130 votes while Ireland got 128. Canada received just 108 votes. All efforts of phone calls by the Canadian officials to countries ambassadors to the UN did not help. This is the second loss following the one in 2010 under a Conservative government. In the next few days we will read several analyses trying to ascertain why...

22Jun

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Health, Human Rights, Politics, UN, World

Global issues require united action and a reinvigorated UN

Graham Peebles writes: Whatever corner of the world one happens to live in, the most pressing issues of the day affect everyone. Pandemics/epidemics and the environmental emergency; war and terrorism; poverty and food insecurity; overpopulation and the displacement of persons – these affect us all. Such crises cannot be limited by borders or controlled by nation states; no government or corporate power can manage them. They are interconnected global issues and they require a coordinated global response. Drawn together by economic interest or shared geopolitical concerns various allied groupings and regional alliances exist in the world. While such assemblies present the possibility of nations unifying, self-interest, ideology and partisanship dominate the approach of many gove...