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Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts

Friday 17 February 2017

Damascus Urges UN to Help Stop 'Turkish Violations against Syrian People'

The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Friday sent two letters to the UN secretary-general and the UN Security Council president calling on them to make Turkey stop its violations against Syria.

Saturday 14 January 2017

Russian MoD: Int'l Humanitarian Organizations Provide No Aid to Aleppo

The peaceful life in liberated Aleppo is restoring despite the fact that international humanitarian organizations have not provided assistance to the city since its liberation a month ago, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Wednesday 28 December 2016

Israel postpones settlement approval in bid to calm relations with U.S.

Israel postponed a vote Wednesday to authorize construction of additional Jewish settlement homes in East Jerusalem to avoid straining U.S.-Israeli relations, a local official said.

Saturday 24 December 2016

Israel recalls envoys from 2 states over UN resolution

Israel has summoned ambassadors from Senegal and New Zealand following their support for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlement building in the occupied territories.

Friday 23 December 2016

UN Security Council demands end to Israeli settlements after US abstains from vote

After the United States abstained from voting, the UN Security Council on Friday passed a resolution demanding Israel stop building settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, a reversal of the usual US practice of protecting Israel.

Thursday 22 December 2016

Egypt delays U.N. resolution aimed at Israeli settlements

Egypt on Thursday asked to delay a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at halting Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian land after President-elect Donald Trump called for the measure to be vetoed.

Friday 2 December 2016

Russian Defense Ministry: Aleppo eastern neighborhoods haven’t received any UN aid yet

The Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the areas in Aleppo eastern neighborhoods, which were regained by the Syrian Arab Army, haven’t received any UN aid yet.

Monday 21 November 2016

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Arab League urges political solution to Yemeni crisis as cease-fire declared

The Arab League on Wednesday urged a political solution to the Yemeni crisis and welcomed a U.S.-brokered truce between Yemen's Shiite Houthi group and the Saudi-led Arab military coalition, said a senior official with the pan-Arab body.

Thursday 10 November 2016

Russian Defense Ministry: Humanitarian pause in Aleppo is constructive when real assistance can be provided to civilians

The Russian Defense Ministry affirmed on Thursday that the humanitarian pause in Aleppo will be constructive when a real assistance can be provided to civilians and terrorists are prevented from exploiting it to regroup their forces.

Wednesday 26 October 2016

Mediterranean migrant deaths in 2016 reach record 3,800

The UN refugee agency said Wednesday that at least 3,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year in an attempt to reach Europe, making 2016 the deadliest year on record.

Wednesday 19 October 2016

UN Declares Russia's Truce Extension in Aleppo Inadequate

The United Nations says Russia's extension of a truce in the Syrian city of Aleppo is not enough time to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to besieged civilians.

Tuesday 18 October 2016

UN: No Large Displacement of Mosul Residents Yet

The United Nations said Tuesday that 36 hours into the Iraqi and Kurdish military offensive to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State group, it had not seen any immediate large outflows of residents from the city.

Monday 10 October 2016

Latest horrific incident in Yemen demands ‘a full inquiry,’ Ban says, urging probe into funeral bombing

Outraged by Saturday’s bombing of a funeral in Yemen, top United Nations officials are strengthening their calls for the establishment of an independent body to probe alleged violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws in the war-ravaged country.

Saturday 8 October 2016

Scores killed in Saudi-led airstrike on Yemen funeral

An airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition on Saturday targeted a funeral hall packed with mourners in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, killing at least 82 people and turning the site into a "lake of blood," according to a senior Health Ministry official.

Tuesday 20 September 2016

Neither Russian nor Syrian planes bombed an aid convoy in Syria's Aleppo

Neither Russian nor Syrian planes bombed an aid convoy in Syria's Aleppo, Moscow says, as outrage mounted over an attack the UN said could be a war crime.

Thursday 18 August 2016

Syrian warplanes hit Kurdish-held areas for first time

Syrian government warplanes on Thursday bombed Kurdish-controlled areas of the city of Hasaka in northeastern Syria for the first time in the five-year-old civil war, the spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and a monitoring group said.

Monday 8 August 2016

US urges Russia to halt Syria sieges; Russia slams humanitarian aid politicization

US urges Russia to halt Syria sieges; Russia slams humanitarian aid politicization
The United Nations Security Council must not allow civilians on both sides of the Syrian city of Aleppo to be cut off from humanitarian aid, the United States said Monday as Russia accused Washington of politicizing a humanitarian issue.

Saturday 6 August 2016

UN Suspends Yemen Peace Negotiations

The United Nations suspended peace talks Saturday between Yemen's Sunni government and Shi'ite Houthi rebels, after rebels moved forward with a unilateral plan to appoint a governing council in areas seized since fighting erupted in 2014.

Saturday 2 July 2016

UN chief condemns terrorist attack in Bangladesh

UN, 2 July 2016 – Senior United Nations officials have condemned the terrorist attack in a café in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka that reportedly killed 20 hostages over the weekend.

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