Tag: U.N. Security Council
Iran threatens ‘decisive’ action to US ‘miscalculation’ in Persian Gulf
Iran’s Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (NEDSA) said in a statement published on its affiliated Sepah News website on Sunday that its response to U.S. “error in calculation” in the Persian Gulf and...
Abbas: Trump’s vision of Palestinian state is ‘like Swiss cheese’
In a speech on Tuesday to the U.N. Security Council, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas expressed contempt towards the Trump administration’s peace plan, saying it is filled with holes and comparing it to “Swiss...
History will remember Abbas as peace rejectionist
Even before the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan was revealed earlier this month, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was planning his trip to New York City, where he plans to address the United...
Nikki Haley targets Venezuela, even Canada, while criticizing the UN for corruption, hypocrisy
In a scathing speech last week about corruption in the United Nations, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Canada of making a “deal with the devil” and called again for the removal...
Danon: European ‘automatic support’ for Palestinians is ‘a propaganda campaign’
The U.N. Security Council convened on Wednesday in the aftermath of the U.S. State Department’s policy change on Tuesday regarding the legal status of the Jewish communities in the West Bank.
“All settlements are illegal...
Members of Congress send bipartisan letter to UN, urging it to confront Hezbollah
A bipartisan group of 240 members of Congress have sent a letter to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, calling on the international community to confront the terrorist group Hezbollah.
More than 13 years ago, the...
Israel, US seek augmentation of UNIFIL to curb Hezbollah
As the U.N Security Council is set to vote Thursday on whether to extend the mandate of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Israel and the United States are pushing for the peacekeeping...
Mideast envoy Greenblatt blasts ‘baffling’ UN meeting on settlements after rockets
U.S. special envoy for Mideast peace negotiations Jason Greenblatt lambasted the U.N. Security Council on Thursday as members condemned Jewish settlements being built, instead of condemning the most recent rocket fire from Gaza towards...
Israel’s ambassador to UN goes biblical during meeting with Security Council
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said during a special session of the U.N. Security Council that the Bible does “prove the case for Jewish ownership of the Land of Israel.”
Danon, who...
Israel rejects official visit UN Security Council to assess lands for future Palestinian state
Israel has rejected a request by the U.N. Security Council to come to Israel and assess lands the Palestinians demand be given to them for a Palestinian state, according to a report by Ynet.
Equitorial Guinea’s...