Posted on September 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The news this morning from CNN was that “international” diplomats — mostly European — were working to arrange some kind of face-saving deal whereby Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas would present an official request for full UN membership to the UN Security Council, but not ask for a vote. This story is reported here. It is [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, United Nations, US in UN
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in New York for what has looked like an eventful week that would culminate in a Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations. Abbas met the UN Secretary-General BAN Ki-Moon today — but did not submit the letter that has to be given to the UN Secretary-General [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, United Nations, US in UN
Posted on September 17th, 2011 by Marian Houk
In a briefing called Saturday morning for “Arabic” journalists [only] in Ramallah, Nabil Shaath reportedly said — according to a account in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, published here — that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “will apply for membership to the Security Council, which may take few days to bring it up for discussion and then [...]
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Filed under: Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, United Nations
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by Marian Houk
One week before he is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly in New York, Mahmoud Abbas — Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO], who is also serving beyond his term as President of the Palestinian Authority — finally addressed the Palestinian people this evening to explain what he is [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, United Nations
Posted on August 14th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Jamal Juma’, in an interview with Ida Audeh published on the Electronic Intifada [EI] website, said, about the announced intention of the Palestinian leadership to go to the UN in September, that: “We have been talking to the national forces and leftist and democratic forces and institutions, as well as to the Palestinian human rights [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by Marian Houk
This is a story that gets little reaction, despite more news coming in from time to time. This time, it’s from a report, presumably in Hebrew, published in an Israeli military magazine. The right-wing Israeli website, Arutz Sheva, is reporting here, that the latest edition of the Bemachaneh (On the Base) military magazine says that [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Landmines, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Syria, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
Posted on July 29th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The tone in Robert Serry’s voice conveyed an urgency greater than the mere words on paper. On Tuesday [26 July], during the now-regular monthly meeting of the UN Security Council on the Middle East, Serry — who is the new UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and also Personal Representative of the [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council, United Nations, US in UN
Posted on July 13th, 2011 by Marian Houk
PLO official Sa’eb Erekat confirmed in Ramallah today that the Palestinians are going to go to the UN Security Council to seek UN membership — even if they fail, at first. Erekat was speaking just before leaving on a trip with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Qatar, for Arab League meetings later this week. The paperwork [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
Posted on April 21st, 2011 by Marian Houk
In the horror that is happening in Libya, under the guise of UN Security Council-endorsed humanitarian intervention, there is no quick or easy end in sight. In the past few days, Britain, France, and Italy have just decided to send military advisers to work with the rebels, and the U.S. has authorized $25m [million] for [...]
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Filed under: Libya, UN Security Council, United Nations
Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The UN Security Council acted overnight to authorize — some say, belatedly — international action to protection of civilians and areas of civilian population that are under threat of attack in Libya, by adopting UNSC Resolution 1973. It began by calling for an immediate cease-fire. The text explicitly mentions Benghazi, which is was under imminent [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Libya, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
