Sunday, 13 November 2022 — The Grayzone
Category: United Nations
FM Lavrov: Formal Transcript: 77th UNGA
Monday, 26 September 2022 — sakeris
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the General Debate of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, September 24, 2022
Madame President,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
We are meeting at a both challenging and dramatic moment. Crisis situations are growing, and the international security situation is deteriorating rapidly.
Ukraine Planned to Use UN-Appointed International Nuclear Experts as a Tool for Blackmail
Thursday, 8 September 2022 — Internationalist 360°
The IAEA report doesn’t name the perpetrators of attacks on Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, but the mission itself left Kiev frustrated.
If at first you don’t succeed, then try, try again. This seems to be the mantra of the Ukrainian government as it seeks to blackmail the international community into helping it evict Russia from the territory encompassing Europe’s largest Nuclear Power Plant.
Evidence of Ukrainian Shelling of Zaporozhye Provided to UN
Tuesday, 23 August 2022 — Internationalist 360°
Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing regarding the attacks of Ukrainian armed forces on the Zaporozhye NPP
Mr. President,
I thank Under-Secretary-General R.DiCarlo for her briefing. In the context of the briefing I would like to point out that we’ve heard her words that the electricity of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant belongs to Ukraine. I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have not heard such words from the representatives of the UN Secretariat regarding the frozen Russian financial assets or the Syrian oil, which were stolen by the US authorities, who illegally occupied part of the Syrian territory.
Ukraine: Why Inspectors Can’t Reach the Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant
Monday, 15 August 2022 — Internationalist 360°
The UN doesn’t want IAEA monitors to confirm Kiev was shelling the power plant, says local administration
Members of the UN are blocking a visit by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) so they can avoid confirming Kiev shelled the Russian-controlled facility, local official Vladimir Rogov told RT in an interview on Monday.
“Factual Chaos” at the WHO? Dr. Tedros: Monkeypox Outbreak Is “Among Men who have Sex with Men”
Monday, 1 August 2022 — Global Research
The Questionable 99% Estimate
Something weird is happening at WHO headquarters in Geneva. On Saturday July 23, 2022, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebressus held a press conference in which he declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) pertaining to the monkeypox virus.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov : Member countries of the African Union
Friday, July 29, 2022 — The Saker
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to the questions during a meeting with permanent representatives of the member countries of the African Union and the diplomatic corps, Addis Ababa, July 27, 2022
The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame’: Equating between the Israeli Perpetrator and the Palestinian Victim
Thursday, 21 July 2022 — MintPress News
Ahmad Manasra
“We regret we failed to protect you”. This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on July 14, urging the Israeli government to release Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Manasra. Only 14 years old at the time of his arrest and torture by Israeli forces, Manasra is now 20 years old. His case is a representation of Israel’s overall inhumane treatment of Palestinian children.
Migratory birds of mass destruction
Thursday, 21 April 2022 — Indian Punchline
Albatross, famous migratory bird, is also a love bird. It is known for being monogamous, forming long-term bond with one partner that is rarely broken. Mated pairs never split up until one bird dies.
The UN Security Council held an extraordinary event on April 6 under the rubric Arria Formula Meeting on Biological Security regarding the biological activities in countries including Ukraine. Predictably, the US and UK representatives didn’t show up at the event and the western media also blacked out the proceedings. But that does not detract from the profound significance of what transpired.
What do you think of us? Are we your slaves…
Monday, 7 March 2022 — The New Dark Age
The heads of 22 diplomatic missions, including those of European Union member states, released a joint letter urging Pakistan to support a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia’s operation against Ukraine.
Here is what Imran Khan said in response.
Ukraine makes strange bedfellows
Monday, 28 February 2022 — Indian Punchline
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discussed Ukraine developments on phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, February 27, 2022
The world community is aghast over the acute tensions between the United States and its NATO allies on one side and Russia on the other, which is poised critically on the brink of a military confrontation, the like of which the world didn’t see in the entire Cold War era.
Russia’s Security Council Recommends To Recognize The Donbas Republics
Monday, 21 February 2022 — Moon of Alabama
Updated (again) below
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The Russian National Security Council has been meeting today to discuss the recognition of the Donetzk People’s Republic (DNR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) as independent states.
The whole meeting was shown on public TV. RT-English provided a live translation. The purpose of the show was to present Russia’s arguments to an international public.
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WATCH: UN Security Council on Ukraine Crisis LIVE
Thursday, 17 February 2022 — Consortium News
Russia has called a U.N. Security Council meeting on the anniversary of the signing of the Minsk 2 accord. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is addressing the council. Watch it here live starting at 10 am EST.
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Russia wants to force the US to respect the UN Charter
4 January 2022 — Voltaire Network
by Thierry Meyssan
Russia and China have just written to the United States asking it to respect the United Nations Charter and the word it has given. This approach, devoid of any aggressiveness, calls into question not only the functioning of the UN, NATO and the European Union, but almost all the US advances since the dissolution of the USSR. It is obviously unacceptable to Washington. But the US hyper-power is not what it used to be. It will have to begin its withdrawal.
Protecting the Nazis: The Extraordinary Vote of Ukraine and the USA
21 December 2021 — Craig Murray
by craig
This is verbatim from the official report of the UN General Assembly plenary of 16 December 2021:
The Assembly next took up the report on “Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, containing two draft resolutions.
A Dirty Occupation: The UN’s Criminal Enterprise and Ecological Catastrophe in Haiti
18 November 2021 — Internationalist 360°
UN tanker truck offloading the raw sewage of MINUSTAH Peacekeepers at Morne Cabrit sewage treatment plant in January 2013. Photo: Isabeau Doucet
What are the environmental and ecological impacts of large-scale military occupations by the United Nations “peacekeeping” missions? The deadly cholera epidemic unleashed on the Haitian people by UN soldiers is an extension of a totality of violence – material, political, and ecological – enacted by a presumably humanitarian peacekeeping mission.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference to sum up the high-level meetings week at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly
25 September, 2021 — The Saker
Origin: https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/4867149
Question: Which opportunities and risk factors does the new Taliban’s Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan present? Does Russia fear that the presence of Taliban could somehow feed Islamic extremism in the region? If so, what can be done?
Likely Assassination of UN Chief by US, British and South African Intelligence Happened 60 Years Ago Today
18 September 2021 — Consortium News
New evidence over the past decade has led to a UN probe into the probable assassination of the second UN chief, but U.S., British and South African intelligence are rebuffing UN demands to declassify files to get at the truth.
Dag Hammarskjöld arrived in Katanga for talks with Katanga authorities and Belgian representatives about withdrawal of Belgian troops and the deployment of the UN Force. At Elisabethville airport prior to his return in Leopoldville. Aug. 14, 1960. (UN Photo)
Former President Harry Truman told reporters two days after Dag Hammarskjöld’s death on Sept. 18, 1961 that the U.N. secretary-general “was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him.’”
The U.S. Foreign Policy ‘Establishment’ Is Incredibly Dumb
3 September 2021 — Moon of Alabama
The U.S. foreign policy ‘establishment’ is incredibly dumb:
With Afghan Retreat, Biden Bucks Foreign Policy Elite, New York Times, Sep. 1 2021
“The foreign policy establishment did get it wrong in Iraq, where the U.S. overreached,” said Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “We got it wrong in Libya, we got it wrong in Vietnam. But over the last 75 years, the foreign policy establishment has gotten most things right.”
The world says no to the blockade of Cuba
23 June 2021 — Peoples Dispatch
In today’s historic UN General Assembly vote, 184 supported ending the US blockade of Cuba and only the United States and Israel voted against
Cuba won another diplomatic victory in the General Assembly of the United Nations this Wednesday against the government of the United States. The majority of countries (184) voted in favor of the resolution which calls for the lifting of the blockade against Cuba. The resolution has been brought to the UN every year since 1992, except in 2020 when the government of Havana was unable to present it due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This victory is a reminder of the Cuban people’s long wait for an act of justice that can rectify the worrying situation, which is a mix of the abuse of authority, the disproportionate use of violence, and the very specific intention to “destroy, totally or in part, a national, ethnic or racial group, in its totality,” the UN’s definition of genocide in its 1948 Convention.
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