Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Some interesting details on the Shebaa Farms issue from Nicholas Blanford in The National, an English-language paper published in Abu Dhabi : “Securing the liberation of the Shebaa Farms has been a cornerstone of Fouad Siniora’s diplomacy since 2005 when he headed his first government. Mr Siniora said he believes that an Israeli withdrawal from [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Shebaa Farms, Syria, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A guest post by Aletheia Kallos/MD: i see ban [UNSG BAN Ki-Moon] has cut out the indignation & bluster & is reduced to issuing warnings of the dangers of an improbable war & the uncertainty of the fate of unmee has been institutionalized & extended to fill out the present 6 month mandate ending in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The UN acting tough, I mean. In Kosovo today, the AP reported, “Danish military police said they exchanged fire with protesters as they helped evacuate wounded fellow officers … The town is divided between Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority and the Serb minority, which fiercely opposed the declaration of independence and is furious over Western support [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The UN spokesperson told journalists at Friday’s daily noon briefing that “On Eritrea, the regrouping of UN peacekeepers ahead of a temporary relocation out of Eritrea was again obstructed by Eritrean soldiers today in Senafe. The latest obstruction has left 102 peacekeepers stranded inside the Temporary Security Zone and 21 vehicles sent to collect them [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Alerted again by Aletheia Kallos, who said “my guess is it means an ongoing pink alert stall rather than red flag”, I’ve just checked out this Agence France Presse (AFP) article, here. This article states that “The Security Council took Eritrea to task Thursday for continuing to obstruct a planned evacuation of UN personnel caused [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The UN announced at today’s noon briefing at UNHQ/NY that “Due to the lack of cooperation by Eritrean Authorities in the Mission’s efforts to temporarily relocate into Ethiopia, the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has been instructed to regroup in Asmara all personnel and equipment in Eritrea. This move will facilitate further relocation [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It’s probably fair to say that fewer states have recognized Kosovo today, a day after its Declaration of Independence, than had been expected or hoped. Many are probably holding off until the results of an open UN Security Council meeting that is to start today. Today, Nick Burns took questions from journalists in various parts [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Russia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Aletheia Kallos has alerted me to the latest development in “Eritrea’s actually still ongoing farewell bash for UNMEE” (the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea) — Eritrea seems to be blocking the UN peacekeepers’ movement, and cutting off their food catering. The UN SG had his spokespeople issue a statement at today’s regular noon briefing [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The UN announced that the main body of the UN Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has begin a “temporary relocation”, due to Eritrea’s blocade of diesel fuel supplies which poses a danger to the functioning and possibly to the lives of the peacekeepers. This “temporary relocation”, the UN says, is to “designated relocation [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
… [as Aletheia Kallos put it to me in an exchange of emails overnight] will the United Nations in the form of UNMEE (UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea) which was created to monitor and guarantee the Temporary Security Zone which was itself created to insure the separation of forces pending the demarcation also to [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, International Tribunals, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
