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 Central African Republic 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 exact [...]
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Filed under: UN Administration
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 [...]
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Filed under: Sudan - Darfur, UN Security Council
