Tag: U.N. General Assembly
Israel one of three countries to vote against UN resolution blasting US embargo on...
Israel, the United States and Brazil were the only three countries to vote against a U.N. General Assembly resolution on Thursday to condemn the U.S. embargo of Cuba for the 28th year.
The measure passed...
Report: Rouhani spurns Trump as Macron diplomacy plan fails
A behind-the-scenes diplomatic effort that would have culminated with a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and the resumption of negotiations, was scuttled when Rouhani backed out at the...
Meeting with Rouhani at UN unlikely, says Trump
As U.S. President Donald Trump left the White House on Sunday for the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, he expressed doubt that a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani would...
British premier attributes attack on Saudi oil to Iran
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that his country is “attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to Iran” for the Sept. 14 drone and cruise missile strike against the...
Trump: ‘I’d give visas to Iranian leaders to attend UN’
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would give visas to Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, and foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, to attend next week’s U.N. General Assembly in New York.
“If it...
Message to UN and Europe: Palestinian Terrorism Always Violates International Law
There can never be any greater form of power in world politics than power over death. Paradoxically, this pre-eminent form of power is almost entirely unrecognized by both scholars and policymakers. The principal result is that...
Israel votes in favor of UN resolution censuring Russian annexation of Crimea
Israel voted in favor of a U.N. General Assembly resolution on Monday condemning the Russian occupation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.
The resolution calls on Russia to withdraw armed forces from what the signers call “temporarily...
Brazil delivers on its promise to vote with Israel at UN
The symbolic victory against Hamas at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, in which 87 nations supported a draft resolution condemning Hamas, marked another milestone: Brazil took an unprecedented step by siding with Israel...