Zelensky at a meeting of the UN Security Council. photo – Getty Images Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine has evidence that Russia is planning to strike three nuclear power plants this winter. Source: Zelensky at a meeting of the UN Security Council, reports “Voice of America” Direct speech: “Now, with the approach of … Read more
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is worried that Lebanon will turn into “another Gaza” as the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalates. “What worries me is the possibility of Lebanon turning into another Gaza,” the UN chief said in a brief interview with CNN as the week of the UN General Assembly begins in New York. … Read more
International law “prohibits” the use of “trapped”, apparently “innocent” devices, insisted today, before the UN Security Council, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk. “It is a war crime to commit violent acts aimed at spreading terror among civilians,” he added, speaking at the meeting organized at the request of Algeria, following the simultaneous … Read more
The UN Security Council on Wednesday expressed concern over the escalation of tension in Libya over the country’s central bank, urging all actors in the country to avoid actions that could destabilize the situation or undermine confidence and further worsen institutional divisions and discord in the north African country. Members of the Security Council called … Read more
The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority announced this evening that the first confirmed case of polio in the city of Deir Al Ballach in the Gaza Strip. This is a 10-month-old infant, who had not been vaccinated. No cases of the disease had been recorded in the Gaza Strip for 25 years. In … Read more
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today urged all sides involved in the conflict in the Gaza Strip to provide concrete guarantees that they will proceed with humanitarian ceasefires to begin a polio vaccine campaign in the Palestinian enclave. Speaking to reporters at the United Nations, Guterres called for immediate assurances and warned that preventing and … Read more
The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turktoday strongly condemned the invasion of the representation of his Office in Sana’a by Houthi rebels. In a statement, Mr. Turk says that entering a UN office without permission and seizing documents and property by force is completely incompatible with the privileges and immunities of the United Nations. … Read more
«Yunder other circumstances, one would expect that Ankara would do something very provocative for the fifty years since the invasion” observed a government source in Nicosia in a discussion we had the other day regarding the assessments of the Greek Cypriot side on how – and if – there is progress in the Cyprus issue. … Read more
The participation of KEDE came about following an invite from the World Group of Native Authorities and Metropolitan Municipalities (UCLG) and as a member of the delegation of the International Job Power of Native and Regional Authorities. The Discussion board, organized yearly by the UN, introduced collectively round 2,500 elected and official actors. At this … Read more
Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over the escalation of tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, with the UN secretary-general stressing that the Group’s peacekeepers are working to calm the scenario and stop miscalculations. “A hasty transfer – a miscalculation – may trigger a catastrophe that goes far past the border space, and admittedly, past creativeness,” … Read more