Posted on March 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Washington Post is reporting that U.S. Undersecretary of State R. Nicholas Burns said, after Saturday’s unanimous vote in the UN SC, imposing tighter sanctions on Iran: ” ‘We got more than we thought we were going to get’ in this resolution…He also said that it criminalizes Iran’s military support for extremists and exposes its [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Here are some excerpts from Associated Press news agency reports of UN SG BAN’s activities today in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) — all firsts for a UN leader: “UN. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, arriving for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said his trip, including a tour of a Palestinian refugee camp earlier Sunday, [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Here is a self explanatory statement by the P5+1 — the Foreign Ministers of the Five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America), plus Germany, with the Support of the High Representative of the European Union — on UN Security Council Resolution 1747: “The [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
So eager were they to pass a new resolution tightening sanctions against Iran, the members of the UN Security Council met even before the scheduled time, which was set for 3 pm. The U.S. spoke in the Council after the vote about needing to counter the “Iranian regime’s continuing pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability” [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Here is an excerpt from an article, “Wars of words“, written by Danny Rubinstein, and published in the current on-line edition of Haaretz, 23 March 2007: “The most rigorous language war in the history of the Arab-Israel conflict was waged by Israel’s governments, after the West Bank and Gaza Strip were occupied in 1967, against [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
On Friday, the U.S. Secretary of State met with the Algerian Foreign Minister to discuss a solution to the Question of the Western Sahara — for which the UN decided there should be a referendum of the Sahrawi population about whether they want integration with Morocco. Since then, there has been a huge amount of [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
South Africa’s Ambassdor to UNHQ/NY, Dumisani Kumalo, who is serving as this month’s President of the UN Security Council, said late Thursday night that “If the president is going to come, this is the time to start moving now,” Kumalo said, adding he was contacting Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, Reuters is reporting today. Reuters’ [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN has confirmed that the major conference on Iraq planned for next month will be held in Geneva: “The UN refugee agency says that invitations have now gone out to more than 190 governments, 65 international organizations and some 60 NGOs for next month’s international humanitarian conference on refugees and displaced persons in Iraq [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Iran, Iraq
Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
Two days ago, the UN Spokesperson [Michele Montas] at UNHQ/NY denied that SG BAN KI-MOON was going to Baghdad: “Question: Michèle, is the Secretary-General going to meet the President of Syria, al Assad? Spokesperson: I can check. I don’t know. I don’t know. Question: Okay, because a media source is telling me that he is [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Iraq, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process
Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
UN SG BAN KI-MOON flew into Baghdad without previous announcement, copying the style of U.S. President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and other security-minded high officials. The SG will have something to remember. The Associated Press is reporting that a “Rocket hits near U.N. chief in Baghdad” [...]
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