Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Akiva Eldar has reported in Haaretz that the new European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton of Upholland (who has replaced Javier Solana), said in an address to members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg that “she had spoken with Israelis, Palestinians and the U.S. Secretary of State about [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on October 12th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki asked diplomatic representatives in Ramallah on Monday for their government’s support to — at least — discuss the Goldstone report on last winter’s war on Gaza.
Al-Maliki has been a frequent flyer in the past ten days — he’s back in Ramallah for two days from trips between UN [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The U.S. did not “pressure” the Palestinian leadership to withdraw a resolution that was to have been submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week offering support for the conclusions contained in the Goldstone report on last winter’s war on Gaza. At least, this is what the US. State Department [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, USA, United Nations
Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Palestinian decision to “withdraw” support for a resolution they were pushing in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva remains unexplained — at least, to the Palestinian people — on Friday night.
The draft resolution would have called for support of the report submitted by South Africa’s Justice Richard Goldstone, who was appointed [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, International Tribunals, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, USA
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Nabil Amr, who was spokesman for the Fatah Sixth General Conference held in Bethlehem from 4-14 August (more or less),has just resigned his posts as Palestinian Ambassador to Egypt and to the Arab League whose headquarters in Cairo, and also as head of the Fatah satellite television channel, Filastina, that he started in recent months [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Egypt, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on July 1st, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that “The Cypriot Embassy in Tel Aviv issued a statement following the incident, saying ‘The Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Israel would like to inform that the “Spirit of Humanity” boat, sponsored by the Free Gaza Movement, that attempted in the early hours today to reach Gaza was [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Boundaries & Borders, Cyprus, Egypt, Gaza, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on July 1st, 2009 by Marian Houk
This is a story about an American diplomat in Algiers — apparently the CIA bureau chief, and surprisingly a convert to Islam (unusually tolerant for the CIA, no?) — whose name is Andrew Warren, who apparently had a very bad habit of putting rather common drugs (xanax and valium) into women’s drinks, that caused violent [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Blogging, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, USA
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Marian Houk
It was billed as a meeting with “Israel’s human rights community”. Then, a notice was sent by email that journalists would be allowed a brief Q + A period at the end. Then, it became a “public meeting” — former President Carter’s only public appearance in Israel.
Though the stars of the Israeli human [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has announced he will make a big speech this week [UPDATE: at the beginning of next week, Netanyahu's office confirmed this evening. FURTHER UPDATE: It will be delivered on Sunday at Bar-Ilan University, as Obama's speech was delivered at Cairo University. And, by the way, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal will [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Ambassadors and other diplomats, Boundaries & Borders, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 7th, 2009 by Marian Houk
As part of a ten-day mission to the region, the UN SG’s Special Representative for Sports for development and peace, Wilfried Lemke of Germany, will visit Gaza today and tomorrow, and will enter Gaza via Israel’s Erez crossing, or “Border Terminal”.
UPDATE AND CORRECTION: According to information in a UN press release prepared by an information [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, BAN Ki-Moon, Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Iran, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council
