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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The United Nations Security Council today extended for another year the European Union stabilization force (EUFOR) entrusted with ensuring continued compliance by all sides in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the ethnic war there. In a unanimous resolution adopted a day after a UN human rights expert reported that political disputes were still impeding the return...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
" In 1975, the General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring, “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Other organizations followed suit: The Conference of the International Women’s Year declared that international peace required the end of colonialism, occupation, apartheid and Zionism. The Organization of African Unity stated that South Africa, Rhodesia...
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Sabbah's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Bishop Donald Corder* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz 'Political will to comment horror was in effect its own brand of genius during the time of war,' paraphrasing Marlon Brando in his 1979 'Apocalypse Now' role as Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against [...] The Sun Tzu of Palestinian Resistance is a post...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Top UN envoy to DRC welcomed the arrest of 2 leaders of a rebel Rwandan militia.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Brasilia - Brazil on Thursday weighed in on the Middle East peace process, asking Israel to scrap new home building plans in occupied East Jerusalem just prior to a visit from Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In the statement, ...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Obama said Western allies will draft sanctions to show Iran "the importance of having consequences" for its failure to accept a U.N. nuclear deal.
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
As Americans prepare to leave, Iraq’s biggest neighbours vie for influence OF ALL the foreign officials an American general or ambassador would least want to be seen with, General Qassem Suleimani would—you may think—be high on the list. For he commands the Quds Force, an elite arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and thus runs the dirty war that Iran has been conducting for...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The UN Security Council extended on Wednesday for another year the European Union stabilization force (EUFOR) mandated to ensure continued compliance with the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995. Unanimously adopting resolution 1895, the council also welcomed the decision to maintain in the country a headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
&$ &$ THE IMPACT &$ &$ Most of the international community believes the plan to expand Gilo beyond its current limits is a breach of international law, said Daniel Seidemann, a Jewish lawyer in Jerusalem who works with organizations that defend Palestinian rights in the city. In August 1980, the UN Security Council approved resolution 478.Endorsed by 14-0 with the Americans abstaining,...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea appears to be taking elaborate measures to evade U.N. sanctions aimed at its nuclear and missile activities, arms trading and import of luxuries, U.N. experts say in a new report.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
New York - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday gave the European Union Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina a new 12-month mandate to pursue implementation of the peace agreement there. The EU force arrived in the Balkan nation in 2...
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What Really happened (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Palestinians will not unilaterally declare an independent state, but rather seek a UN Security Council resolution endorsing a two-state solution along the pre-1967 lines, Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. Israeli officials said Erekat was backtracking on earlier statements calling for a unilateral declaration of independence, even as he said that...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Uganda reminded us that the distinction between lawful and unlawful harm shouldn't give warring parties an excuse to walk away from civilian suffering.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In accordance with paragraph 26 of resolution 1844 (2008) on Somalia, the Security Council conducted a review of the measures set out in paragraphs 1, 3 and 7 of that resolution. The members of the Security Council have also received a briefing from Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia.
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konaxis.net | 01/08/2009
China's three-ship fleet of battle-ready warships set out Friday, December 26 from the port at Sanya, on Hainan Island, carrying a total crew of about 800, including 70 soldiers form the Navy's special force, on their way to join the multi-national patrolling of the Gulf of Aden and waters off the coast of Somalia. The fleet consists of the supply ship Weishanhu, and two destroyers - the DDG-169 Wuhan...
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