Posts Tagged: UN Security Council
Israel Envoy Urges UN Action to Stop Fire from Syria
Times of Israel - Israel will not stand by while its citizens' lives are in danger, Israel's Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor...
U.S. Seeks Direct Meeting With Iran Over Nuclear Program
American officials have announced that they are seeking to meet directly with Iranian officials during next week's nuclear talks in Kazakhstan, the Wall Street Journal reported. U.S....
U.N. Secretary General: Iran Could Use UN Talks as Cover to Build Bomb
Iran could use UN talks as cover to build a nuclear bomb, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the Washington Post Thursday. Citing North Korea's...
Mahmoud Abbas and the UN General Assembly
Mahmoud Abbas's drive for unilateral Palestinian recognition at the United Nations is like a train running full steam ahead -- except this one is going...
Abbas Will not Apply for Palestinian Statehood Recognition at UN
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki said that PA President Mahmoud Abbas has decided not to formally apply for statehood recognition at the United Nations General Assembly session...
Controversial UN Official Pillay to Brief Security Council on Israel
The Obama administration approved a move by the UN to invite Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to brief the Security Council...
Iran: Staying In Power Trumps Nuclear Ambitions
The only way the clerical regime in Iran will meet the demands of the P5+1 to end its nuclear enrichment program and comply with...
Obama Turns His Back on Israel at the U.N.
Today, at the United Nations, the Obama administration is turning its back on Israel. For the very first time, the U.N. Security...
Victory: ICC Rules that Palestine is Still Not a State
In a massive defeat for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' campaign to delegitimize Israel, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled that Palestine is not...
Does Obama Have Israel’s Back or Just the UN’s?
 The UN's top human rights body ended its latest session in Geneva on Friday by dealing a body blow to one of President Obama's signature...
Netanyahu: Israel Situation Like Iraq 1981
Speaking to the Israeli parliament on Wednesday, the country's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he sees his current situation as similar to Manachem Begin's in...
Amateur Hour at the U.N.
Last week, Russia and China obstructed the Obama administration's Syria policy by vetoing an anti-Assad Security Council resolution backed by the Arab League,...
Russia, China Let Syrians Bleed
When U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice responded harshly at the Security Council to the Russian and Chinese vetoes against a draft...
Jimmy Carter Does It Again
When it comes to the Middle East, the former president never ceases to amaze. In an interview published in Time, he was asked: "What do you...
