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Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen’s Briefing to the Security Council 20 December 2019

Al-Manar Website Correspondent at UN Office in Geneva, Ahmad Hajj Ali AS DELIVERED Geir O. Pedersen United Nations Special Envoy for Syria BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL 20 December 2019 Madame President, 1. One year ago, many believed that the Syrian conflict was winding down. Yet the past 12 months ...

December 20, 2019

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UN Extends Mandate for UNRWA Despite US opposition

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly renewed the mandate for a UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees for another three years despite US opposition. The mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was extended on Friday until June 30, 2023, with 169 votes in ...

December 14, 2019

World

Security Council Warns of ‘Risk of Dispersion’ of Syria Terrorists

The UN Security Council warned in a unanimously adopted statement Wednesday of a risk of dispersion of terrorist prisoners in Syria, but stopped short of calling for a halt to Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish forces there. “Members of the Security Council expressed deep concerns over the risks of dispersion of ...

October 16, 2019

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G77 and China: Unilateral Measures on Occupied Golan and Palestine Null, Should Be Cancelled

Foreign Ministers of the G77 states and China condemned resolutions and practices that aim to change the demographic structure in the occupied Syrian Golan and the Palestinian territories. In a ministerial statement by the 43rd annual meeting of G77 and China which was held Friday in New York on the ...

September 28, 2019

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Yemen, UN’s Food Agency Ink Deal to Resume Food Aid

Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and the United Nations (UN)’s food agency announced an agreement to resume the delivery of food aid, which has been suspended for the past six weeks in some areas of the Arab country. The agreement was signed between Ansarullah and the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Yemeni ...

August 4, 2019

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UN Backlists Saudi, Zionist Entity as Top Child Killers of 2018

The United Nations has for the third year put Saudi Arabia and its allies in their military campaign against Yemen on the world body’s blacklist of child killers. According to a report by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in 2018, the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed or injured 729 ...

July 27, 2019

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HRW Says Trump Emboldened ‘Israel’ to Target Country Chief

The head of Human Rights Watch has said ‘Israel’ would not be seeking to expel the organization’s country director without US President Donald Trump in power. ‘Israel’ has been trying to expel HRW’s American director for ‘Israel’ and Palestine, Omar Shakir, after accusing him of advocating a boycott of the ...

July 26, 2019

World

Washington Blocks UN Draft Statement Condemning Demolition of Palestinians’ Homes

The US has blocked a draft statement at the Security Council that condemns the demolition of Palestinians homes at Wadi al-Hummus in occupied Jerusalem by the Israeli occupation authorities. UN diplomats were quoted by Reuters Agency as saying that the US had informed other member states at the Security Council ...

July 25, 2019

World

IAEA to Hold Emergency Meeting on Iran on 10 July

The UN’s nuclear watchdog said Friday it will hold an emergency meeting on Iran’s nuclear program next week, days after Iran breached one of the limits in a 2015 deal with world powers. The meeting, which follows a US request, would be held “on 10 July at 14:30,” an International ...

July 5, 2019

World

NATO Says No Sign of Russia Backing down in Missile Crisis

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday that the chances of saving a landmark Cold War arms treaty were decreasing day by day after talks with Russian officials failed to yield any breakthrough. “We didn’t see any sign of Russia being willing to come back into compliance with the INF treaty,” ...

July 5, 2019