Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Marian Houk
A full contingent of 184 Qatari troops is now deployed with the UN Peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL.
As the UNIFIL press release says, the Qatari forces will be “assisting the Lebanese Army in securing stability in southern Lebanon as part of Security Council resolution 1701″.
With the arrival of the Qataris, UNIFIL now has a force [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Qatar, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council, United Nations
Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN News Centre has written, in an article about the UN’s Holocaust Remembrance day commemorations on 29 January, that: “Ceremonies were held in other UN outposts around the world. ‘The sheer dimensions of the organized murder of Jews and others, the very scale of the systematic attempt at destroying an entire people, make the [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Blogging, Iran, UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General
Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
DPI has taken the ball and run with it, after the 2005 UN General Assembly resolution “rejecting” Holocaust denial. After all, Shashi Tharoor, DPI’s Under-Secretary-General for “strategic” communications, was part of the engine that brought Holocaust-awareness to the UN, some 60 years after the end of World War two.
It is not completely irrelevant that [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General, US in UN
Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The continuing conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region is what the new UN Secretary-General BAN KI-MOON has said is his top priority at the moment, and he is in Addis Ababa to discuss this and other matters with African leaders meeting at the African Union Summit.
In a keynote address at the Summit meeting on Monday, BAN [...]
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Filed under: Sudan - Darfur, Sudan - Southern Sudan, UN Humanitarian Efforts, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
Posted on January 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN Compensation Commission in Geneva has paid out $391 MILLION on 25 January, with money from Iraqi Oil revenues. These claims concerned, it seems, environmental remediation.
In this round, Bosnia and Herzegovina received $10,000,000. Kuwait received $326,535,807 (some $272,000,000 went to the Government, and the rest to corporations). Russian Federation received nearly [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, UN Security Council
Posted on January 27th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN is going all-out to commemorate this International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, this year. Because the official date of the remembrance is 27 January, which falls on a Saturday, the commemorations will be at 16h30 on Monday afternoon in Geneva, simultaneously with UNHQ/NY, where it will be 10:30 [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Iran, UN General Assembly
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
In the interests of “transparency”, and UN “reform”, the new UNSG BAN KI-MOON has today authorized publication of his financial disclosure form on the UN website.
There are no figures given, no sums of money. [CORRECTION: Reuters has reported from UNHQ/NY that “New United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and his wife have assets [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, UN Administration, UN Secretary-General
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
26 January 2007
Secretary-General’s First Foreign Visit
“Ms. [Marie] Heuzé [Directrice of the UN Information Service in Geneva] said Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is on his first foreign trip and is presently on his way to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He will visit seven countries in nine days.”
http://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E/(httpNewsByYear_en)/9E44BE5E5791F466C125726F005E8B57?OpenDocument
Foreign [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Lebanon is a small county on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, with a population of 4 million souls and a debt of $41 billion dollars.
The French government, which has had a “special” relationship with Lebanon (especially with the Christians there) ever since France took over the administration of what became Lebanon [...]
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Filed under: Lebanon
Posted on January 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
But will it mainly go to service Lebanon’s enormous debt?
Can Lebanon be considered a good investment? Even if there are questions, apparently the major donors feel that it is politically very necessary to show support — for the present Lebanese government.
A night curfew was imposed in Beirut Thursday night, after four persons [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Lebanon, UN Secretary-General
