Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board will be considering yet another resolution, on Monday, castigating Iran for questions about its past, present and future nuclear programs, as the Associated Press’s veteran writer in Vienna, George Jahn, reported in a dispatch filed earlier today.
Jahn writes that the growing pressure is aimed at wresting concessions from [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Journalism and Journalists, Nuclear technology and weapons, UN Security Council
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 july
from
http://www.maximsnews.com/news20080411unossgenglish10804110201.htm
ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: TERMINATING U.N. MISSION
COULD RESULT [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The AP reported today that “U.S. authorities have said a U.N. Security Council mandate allows them to retain custody of a detainee they believe is a security risk even if an Iraqi judicial body has ordered that prisoner freed. The U.N. mandate is due to expire this year” …
This report concerned Bilal Hussein, [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Journalism and Journalists, UN Security Council
Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
UNSG BAN Ki-Moon said to the UN Security Council monthly debate on the Middle East, today, that “This (peace) process is too important to be allowed to lose momentum through inaction or indifference, or to be overwhelmed by violence”, according to a report by the Agence France Presse.
He added: “I believe all of us must [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Only Indonesia abstained when the UNSC voted a third set of sanctions against Iran. Libya, which earlier indicated its opposition, meekly fell in line, as did South Africa.
This is the third set of increasingly tightened UNSC sanctions calling on Iran to suspend its program to enrich uranium.
Like the earlier UNSC resolutions in this series [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons, UN Security Council
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Israel’s YNet news website is reporting this morning that “The IDF reported some 70 fatalities in Gaza over the weekend, but the Palestinians are numbering them at 56 – either way, this was the highest number of casualties recorded over such a short period of time since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002″.
YNet addes that “Medical [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council
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 [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Russian Federation Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of the Russian Federation will assume the Council’s rotating presidency for the month of March, the UN Spokesperson told journalists on Friday.
This is interesting.
A vote that the U.S., Britain and France wanted to have either on Friday or on Saturday (in other words, before the Russian presidency in the Security [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons, Russia, UN Security Council
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press reported that “[UNSC] diplomats said Wednesday that the vote was likely to be delayed until next week to try to get four non-permanent members who have expressed concern about the resolution to back it. The five veto-wielding permanent council members — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France — have already [...]
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Filed under: Iran, UN Security Council
Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Well written, these phrases, from the NYTimes: “the feelings of anger, sorrow and betrayal over the loss of Kosovo cut across all segments of Serbian society. The world is waiting to see whether the riots on Thursday were the final spasm of anger in Serbia or the first tremor in a new Balkan earthquake. [...]
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