President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority will not remain committed to agreements with Israel, referring to the Oslo Accords of 1993, while violations take place on a daily basis. Abbas told the General Assembly that Israel’s refusal to commit to past agreements[…]
The Palestinians will raise their flag at the United Nations on Wednesday in what president Mahmoud Abbas calls a beacon of hope at a time of growing despair of achieving an independent state. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Abbas will preside over the 15-minute ceremony in the rose garden, to[…]
President Jacob Zuma has called on the international community to transform the UN Security Council into a more representative and inclusive body. In his speech to the General Assembly, he said “almost no progress” has been achieved on the commitment undertaken by world leaders in 2005 to reform the UN[…]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani used a major United Nations speech on Saturday to demand an investigation into a crush that killed more than 700 people at the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The fact that Rouhani used a U.N. summit meeting on global development goals to reiterate Iran’s outrage[…]
The United Nations General Assembly voted late Thursday in favor of raising the Palestinian flag at its headquarters in New York by an overwhelming majority, in a symbolic diplomatic victory in the PLO’s campaign for statehood. A resolution was adopted by member states with 119 in favor, eight voting against[…]
It was Dag Hammarskjöld, the tragic third UN secretary general, who had it best. The United Nations, he said, “was created not to lead mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell”. The kind of hell Hammarskjöld had in mind was not hard to imagine in the wake of[…]
Africa loses more than R50bn every year as a result of the illicit flow of funds, former president Thabo Mbeki has said. “Africa faces the great challenge of large volumes of capital leaving the continent illicitly – money that our continent needs to address the challenges of development,” Mbeki told[…]
The United Nations humanitarian chief has condemned attacks against civilians in Syria, a day after more than 100 people were killed in what activists said were regime air raids on the rebel-held suburb of Douma, near Damascus. New UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien’s comments came as sources told Al Jazeera[…]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday raised alarm over a $100 million shortfall in funding for the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees and called for urgent donations. Ban said in a statement that the UNRWA relief agency was “a pillar of stability” for five million Palestinian refugees at[…]
At least 43 civilians were killed on Sunday in rebel bombing of Yemen’s second city of Aden, where Saudi-backed pro-government forces have advanced against Shia Houthi militia fighters, a health official said. More than 100 others were wounded in the bombing of the Dar Saad neighbourhood in the north of the[…]
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