Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Do you believe Angelina Jolie wrote this? It’s simply not credible. One can only imagine how many UN people have drafted this, vetted it, passed it up and down the line, suggesting changes, urging greater caution. Anyway, Angeline Jolie is in Chad, on the border of Sudan; Mia Farrow was in [...]
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Filed under: International Tribunals, Sudan - Darfur
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
And, on the first day of the month, Thursday 1 March, the Security Council President for March, Ambassador Dumisani S. Kumalo of South Africa, will brief journalists on the Council’s Programme of Work for the month, a UN spokesperson announced at the Daily Noon Briefing at UNHQ/NY.
Also on Thursday, Eric Laroche, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Yes, the very same UN SG BAN who met last week in Vienna with former UN SG Kurt Waldheim, (who fell into disgrace when it was revealed that he had lied about his service to the NAZI war machine before and during the Second World War), met yesterday with the families of two Israeli soldiers [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Israel, Lebanon, Shebaa Farms, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
A UN spokesperson announced in the middle of Monday’s daily Noon Briefing at UNHQ/NY that: “[N]news just in, at 1:30 on Friday, the Mission of Lebanon has asked for a press conference for Marwan Hamadeh, Minister of Telecommunications, and Walid Jumblatt, Member of the Lebanese Parliament”
There was a question from a journalist:
“Question: Speaking of [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Lebanon, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Journalists got this information in an exchange with a UN spokesperson at the regular UN Noon Briefing on Monday:
“Question: Shashi Tharoor is scheduled to speak on 1 March at Duke University and it identifies him still as Under-Secretary-General of Information. When does the new head of DPI start?
Spokesperson: I can check the [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Well, at least someone realized that having Mia Farrow address the UN Security Council
on Darfur, via Chad and Central African Republic, would not have been very serious.
Farrow or her PR person told reporters, when she was in the Central African Republic,
that she would be addressing the UN SC on 27 February.
No actors or actresses have [...]
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Filed under: Sudan - Darfur, UN Security Council
Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Here are extended excerpts from a radio interview with a former Congressional aide who says he knew in 2003 about the offer made from Tehran, through the diplomatic channel of the Swiss Goverment, to the U.S. administration:
Transcript
Amy Goodman: Trita Parsi joins me now from Washington, D.C. He is president of the [...]
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Filed under: Iran, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, which is based in the Hague, announced earlier today that, after a 20-month investigation, he has sent evidence to judges in a Pre-Trial Chamber, asking for the issuance of summonses against two named individuals who bear the greatest responsibility for some of the most serious crimes committed in [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press is reporting that “Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix criticized the U.S. precondition on Monday as ‘humiliating’ for Iran. ‘This is in a way like telling a child, first you will behave and thereafter you will be given your rewards’, Blix said at a conference on international security in New [...]
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Filed under: Iran, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The International Criminal Court (ICC) — also based in the Hague — is preparing to reveal a list of names of persons of persons investigated for grave crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region. The Chief Prosecutor is to give a news conference in a few hours’ time.
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting [...]
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