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The defense team of the former president, who ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years, is expected to present its closing arguments later this week. An Egyptian woman who worked for the United Nations as a freelance consultant was fatally shot in the head...
Talks with Iran last sputtered out in January 2011 and haven’t involved any serious initiatives for addressing concerns about Iran’s nuclear program since October 2009. The talksinvolve Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security...
Bokhari said. "Everybody has an incentive to negotiate. The question is who is going to negotiate from a position of relative strength. The oil export ban comes at a time when United Nations nuclear inspectors are in the Persian Gulf country...
The life-threatening gamble has also drawn broader attention toward Israel's policy of "administrative detention," under which Palestinians can be held without charge for months, and even years, at a time. Both the European Union and the United Nations...
"If Western countries continue to fully support Syria's opposition, then in the end a large-scale civil war will erupt and there will be no way to thus avoid the possibility of foreign armed intervention," the commentary stated. The editorial further...
The Director of the Catholic charity Caritas Lebanon’s Migrant Center, Najla Chahda says more than 6,100 Syrians have crossed the border since the start of the uprising last year. That number reflects those who have officially registered with UNHCR,...
Helen Clark, the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and Valerie Amos, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, yesterday wrapped up a two-day joint visit to Niger by travelling to the...
Russia and Serbia finalise a controversial energy deal that will hand Moscow control of Serbia's oil distribution network, in return for building a gas pipeline that will take Russian gas through Serbia to southern European markets. 2009 March -...
Maryam Rajavi , who describes herself as the leader of the Iranian Resistance, said 400 members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran were called on to move from Camp Ashraf. "The United States welcomes the peaceful departure of the first 397 residents...
Guyana, Monday February 20, 2012 – The abolition of buggery and prostitution laws by 2015 is being considered by some Caribbean countries striving to achieve their Millennium Development Goals. This according to a senior United Nations (UN) official who...
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The date for the President of the UN Human Rights Council's meeting with NGOs ahead of the 19th session has been switched from 23 February to 22 February. Be the first to have your say! Do...
Hoagland was "told in clear terms that the move in the US Congress was contrary to the spirit of friendly relations and violative of the principles of the United Nations Charter, international law and recognized norms of inter-state conduct", the...
Foreign ministers at a G20 industrialized and emerging nations meeting in Mexico were increasingly worried about whether a peaceful solution could be found. "There is grave concern about the fact that existing structures of the United Nations have not...
The amazing aluminum and stainless steel art piece was created by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Measuring 20 meters high Floralis Generica is the city's first mobile sculpture and is controlled by a hydraulic system and photocells. Located at...
One is that China being one of the permanent five veto power countries in the UN Security Council. And there are several issues that are pending within the United Nations Security Council – be it the action on Syria, the Iran issue. They all come up to...
A Sudanese military spokesman did not immediately answer calls seeking comment about the reports. More than 20,000 refugees already have fled to a camp in Yida to escape the violence, and the United Nations worries that hundreds of thousands more could...
Designer Catherine Malandrino is the guest judge. I am deeply touched by the continually unbridled rallying for me. I just want you to know that it is returned in kind at every possible opportunity. I LOVE BPR!!! Its been so much fun for me to learn...
Wolves with veto power? Does the United Nations even matter? Nations that actually care about human rights must form a league of like-minded democracies that will protect those rights. We should stop wasting our time and money trying to persuade...
Even during that first Tea Party appearance, in Texas in 2007, Paul passed up a chance to reassure Republican voters. Skipping over the “United Nations” and “I.R.S.” He was seventy-two at the time, and surely relished the physical act as much as the...
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights and achieving world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries and to... Full Article
United Nations (UN) envoy Matthew Nimetz arrives for a meeting with Macedonia officials in Skopje February 20, 2012. The UN mediator will present ideas for a name dispute settlement to Macedonia's top state officials, which will be the focal point of the Athens meeting with Greek...
View Photo »Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and U.N. special envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler speaks at a news conference in Baghdad February 18, 2012. Iraq evacuated an initial batch of 400 Iranian dissidents on Saturday from a base founded under Saddam Hussein, a first...
View Photo »Helen Clark, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, meets malnutrish children, on February 17, 2012 as she visits western Niger, that has been hit by a months-long food crisis.
View Photo »Helen Clark (R), administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, meets people in a malnutrish treatment center for children, on February 17, 2012 in Sarakoira, as she visit western Niger, that has been hit by a months-long food crisis.
View Photo »Helen Clark (R), administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, speaks with UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, on February 17, 2012 in the village of Molia, as they visit western Niger, that has been hit by a months-long food crisis.
View Photo »Helen Clark (C), administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, visits an irrigated corn field, on February 17, 2012 as she visits western Niger, that has been hit by a months-long food crisis.
View Photo »Helen Clark (R), administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, visits a sheep breeding on February 17, 2012 in the village of Molia, as she visits western Niger, that has been hit by a months-long food crisis.
View Photo »United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses a speech during celebrations for the 15th anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) at the UN headquarters in Vienna February 17, 2012.
View Photo »United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, CTBTO, in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012.
View Photo »Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Head of the Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, CTBTO, Tibor Toth and Austrian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Wolfgang Waldner, from left, attend a ceremony to mark...
View Photo »Syria's ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari (R) gestures as he raises the country name plate while addressing the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York February 16, 2012. The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a non-binding...
View Photo »Syria's ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari (C) raises the country name plate as he addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York February 16, 2012.
View Photo »Syria's ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari (C) addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York February 16, 2012.
View Photo »U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, left, meets with residents of the Carradeux camp, a shelter for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday Feb. 16, 2012. Rice is part of a delegation representing the U.N. Security Council that arrived...
View Photo »U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice visits a cholera treatment center in Tabarre, in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday Feb. 16, 2012. Rice leads a delegation representing the U.N. Security Council that arrived for a four-day visit to meet with senior Haitian...
View Photo »The executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV) Yury Fedotov (L) speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on February 16, 2012 during a UN meeting on drugs in Afghanistan, with...
View Photo »Austria's Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yuri Fedotov and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L-R) brief the media during the Third Paris Pact Ministerial Conference on Drugs from Afghanistan in Vienna...
View Photo »Ambassadors listen to a speech by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his opening address to a ministerial meeting of the 'Paris Pact' initiative to fight drug trafficking in Afghanistan on February 16, 2012 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. Ban Ki-moon called for a wider...
View Photo »In this photo released by the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki moon, left, meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a drug conference in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Speaking in Vienna, the Secretary General demanded the Syrian regime stop using...
View Photo »Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Austria's Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and Afghan Minister of Counter-Narcotics...
View Photo »From left: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Yuri Fedotov, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, Afghan Counter Narcotics Minister Zarar...
View Photo »Austria's President Heinz Fischer, right, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, arrive for the traditional Opera Ball in front of the state opera in Vienna, Austria on Thursday Feb. 16, 2012.
View Photo »United Nations Secretary General , Ban Ki-moon, second from left, and his wife Yoo Soon-taek, left, Austria's President Heinz Fischer, and his wife Margit Fischer, right, pose at the traditional Opera Ball in the state opera in Vienna, Austria on Thursday Feb. 16, 2012.
View Photo »United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Austria's President Heinz Fischer, right, pose at the traditional Opera Ball in the state opera in Vienna, Austria on Thursday Feb. 16, 2012.
View Photo »US ambasador to the United Nations Susan Rice is welcomed by local dignitaries as she and members of the UN Security Council arrive in Cap-Haitien, north of Port-au-Prince, on February 15, 2012. A UN Security Council delegation arrived in Haiti on February 13 to meet with President...
View Photo »United Nations (UN) envoy Matthew Nimetz arrives for a meeting with Macedonia officials in Skopje February 20, 2012. The UN mediator will present ideas for a name dispute settlement to Macedonia's top state officials, which will be the focal point of the Athens meeting with Greek...
View Photo »We received the first delegations from the United Nations earlier today. Their main aim was to analyze the security of the town because they are planning to operate in Beledweyne
We have accepted sanctions which are made by the United Nations. Other sanctions do not apply to individual countries
Output growth has already slowed considerably during 2011, said a report released by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The problems stalking the global economy are multiple and interconnected
We have all kinds of ethnic groups; we have East Africans, you know we have Somalis, Ethiopians, Kenyans, we have Bosnians, we have Samoans, we have Mexicans, we have, we cover the gamut in here. We call ourselves the United Nations!
What the government has control over is local fisherman, so they put the control in place. What they have failed to do is to go to the United Nations or the international community to push for a stop to the overfishing that has taken place [in international waters]
It is important that the United Nations speaks and acts in a coherent manner
It is important that the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... speaks and acts in a coherent manner
The U.N. panel of experts on Iran has identified and informed the Security Council of several violations of the embargo on arms to or from Iran set up by... the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council
This Forum shall be dedicated for the launch of the initiative, execute its plans, identify required scientific and practical actions, and on-the-ground monitoring. A co-operation agreement has already been signed with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which alongside the Arab League...
As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and a responsible power, China will, along with the international community, enhance peace, stability and development in West Asia and North Africa
But the United Nations will not stand still and the international community will definitely interfere to save the Syrian people who have been getting killed for the past 10 months.
While the road to democracy is long and may not always be smooth, the United Nations remains committed to working with Tunisia and with all the nations undergoing democratic transitions to help consolidate these efforts towards meeting the legitimate aspirations of their people.
Malaak Shabazz, current co-chair of the United Nations Subcommittee on Racism, and her sister, Ilyasah Shabazz, a leading advocate of youth education and leadership development
The movement is stretching right across the globe. United Nations figures show that the 300 largest co-ops are worth $1.6 trillion USD... they are bigger than all corporates put together... they are part of a sustainable and hugely democratic future.
A great deal of work must still be done, in line with the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety. Key to this campaign is the critical pillars of safer roads, safer vehicles and safer road users.
There is a reason why the United Nations has declared this unique archipelago of volcanic islands and the 40 miles of water surrounding it a World Heritage Site ... In fact, many tourists are attracted to the Galapagos because there is simply nowhere else on this planet like it. The tourism industry is ...
Walking down the hallway in the Dairy Ashford meeting house is like visiting the United Nations
The UN panel of experts on Iran has identified and informed the Security Council of several violations of the embargo on arms to or from Iran set up by... the United Nations Security Council
In 20 years, hopefully I'll be working at the United Nations as a diplomat.
the US sanctions are not even in line with the content and sprit of the related resolutions on Iran, adopted by the United Nations Security Council.
In a situation where governments are in denial or indifferent to what has become a regular pattern of targeted killings of journalists, it is incumbent upon yourself and the United Nations to remind them of their responsibility to protect journalists.
There is no serious prospect certainly at the moment of the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... Security Council agreeing any resolution at the moment, let alone agreeing a resolution comparable to anything that happened in Libya.
The United Nations, with the full commitment of its membership, must act resolutely and decisively. Once again, the role of the G-77 is an important part of the global effort to mobilize political will to achieve sustainable development
In this context, we look forward to the United Nations being more just in its international resolutions and imposing their implementation.
Israel does not hesitate to breach or ignore international resolutions and norms, while violating solemnly the most basic human rights and principles ... In this context, we look forward to the United Nations issuing just international resolutions and ensuring their just implementation.
