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Re: United Nations
By: UN Date: September 17, 2023, 3:23 pm
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Joe Biden to call for UN Security Council expansion | John Kirby
Exclusive
[quote]US President Joe Biden is expected to call for the UN
Security council to expand its membership to become more
“comprehensive and inclusive” as world leaders gather in New
York this week.
In what would be a significant intervention to try and reduce
Russia and China’s influence across the globe, Mr Biden is
expected to show his “support for more members” of the group
charged with maintaining international peace and security.
Currently, the UN Security Council has five permanent members:
China, Russia, the US, UK and France. It also has 10
non-permanent members elected for two-year terms.
A diplomatic source told The Telegraph that Mr Biden is pushing
for “five or six” new permanent members, including India,
Brazil, Germany and Japan. Brazil and South Africa have been
mentioned as possible members representing Latin America and
Africa. It is not clear if they would have veto powers.[/quote]
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Re: United Nations
By: = Date: September 19, 2023, 6:08 pm
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HTML https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-nations-chief-declares-that-world-is-becoming-unhinged/article_6358b604-bf1b-56c7-9351-3b261c17c653.html
United Nations chief declares that world is becoming 'unhinged'
[quote]
The UN chief summons world leaders to action. But, he says,
they seem 'incapable of coming together'
Insisting that international cooperation is critical, the United
Nations chief delivered a dire warning to leaders from across
the world Tuesday, declaring that the planet is becoming
unhinged.
U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting, Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres ticked off a list of “existential threats” the
world is facing, from climate change to .
He said that the United Nations — and the ways that countries
cooperate — must evolve to meet the era.
“The world has changed. Our institutions have not,”
“We cannot effectively address problems as they are if
institutions don’t reflect the world as it is.
All this is taking place. Guterres said, as the world is making
a “chaotic transition” and rapidly moving from a brief period of
“unipolarity” – domination by a single power, the United States
– toward a multipolar world with many power centers. That is, he
said, positive in many ways.
the current institutions formed on the ashes of World War II,
including the United Nations and its powerful Security Council
and key global financial institutions, have not changed enough.
[/quote]
What some would call "unhinged", I see as the beginning of the
elevation to higher states of freedom.
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Re: United Nations
By: UN Date: September 21, 2023, 8:37 pm
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HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/behind-all-the-speechmaking-at-the-un-lies-a-basic-unspoken-question-is-the-world-governable-1.6571816
Behind all the speechmaking at the UN lies a basic, unspoken
question: Is the world governable?
[quote]
Work together. Go it alone. The apocalypse is at hand. But the
future can be bright. The squabbles never cease, yet here are
human beings from all across the world -- hashing out conflicts
with words and processes, convening under one roof, trying to
write the next chapter of a common dream.
At the United Nations, "multilateralism" is always the goal. Yet
so is the quest for a coherent storyline that unites all 193
member states and their ideas. Those two holy grails often find
themselves at odds when leaders gather each September at the
United Nations -- a construct whose very name can be a two-word
contradiction.
"The world," said Wavel Ramkalawan, president of the island
nation of Seychelles, "stands at the brink."
"We are going through a crisis -- possibly the most significant
one since the end of the Second World War," said Alain Berset,
the president of Switzerland.
-- "We no longer trust any narratives," said Nataša Pirc Musar,
the president of Slovenia.
-- "We believe that the world ... needs to be reborn," said El
Salvador President Nayib Bukele.
"Time is running out for all of us," said Panamanian President
Laurentino Cortizo.
"We are rapidly moving towards a multipolar world,"
"The idea of a single governing body able to understand and
address each country's needs and aspirations has proved to be an
illusion," Andrea Molle, a scholar in sociology and political
science at Chapman University in California
Before him sat scores of leaders and deputy leaders and
ministers and diplomats, who travelled a total of more than a
million miles to be on one patch of land in New York City to
talk, to hear others talk and to try to work it out. It's chaos,
but it's chaos sublimated.
"One can argue this question of governance has always plagued
the United Nations," Katie Laatikainen, a professor of political
science
Sometimes, like this week, we draw together with all our
contentiousness and all our ego, and we sit down and try to work
it out. Maybe that act of trying is the entire point.
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Re: United Nations
By: ScrutinyShield Date: September 26, 2023, 11:18 am
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Russia bids to rejoin UN’s Human Rights council – BBC News
[quote]Russia is seeking to rejoin the United Nations human
rights council in an election that will be seen as a key test of
its international standing.
It was expelled from the UN's pre-eminent human rights body last
April after its forces invaded Ukraine.
But now Russian diplomats are seeking to get their country
re-elected to the council for a fresh three-year term. [/quote]
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Re: United Nations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 27, 2023, 1:36 pm
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Continuing from:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/re-brexit-1566/msg22371/#msg22371
the UN responds correctly:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/un-rebukes-british-home-secretary-123921826.html
[quote]The UN Refugee Agency has rebuked UK Home Secretary
Suella Braverman over her claims that world leaders have failed
to reform the global refugee system due to fears of being
branded as “racist or illiberal” and that the asylum framework
is creating “huge incentives for illegal migration.”
The United Nations agency issued an unusual statement on Tuesday
responding to Braverman’s comments, defending the 1951 Refugee
Convention and criticizing the United Kingdom’s current asylum
backlog.
“The Refugee Convention is the cornerstone of the international
refugee protection regime and remains a life-saving instrument
that ensures millions of people fleeing conflict and persecution
each year can access safety and protection across borders,” the
UNHCR said.
...
The 1951 Refugee Convention, which was drawn up after World War
II, outlines the internationally recognized definition of a
refugee and outlines the legal protection, rights and assistance
a refugee is entitled to receive. The core principle is that a
refugee should not be returned to a country where they face
serious threats to their life or freedom.[/quote]
Including threats caused by climate. Hence:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/
Continuing:
[quote]the UN Refugee Agency said, “The need is not for reform,
or more restrictive interpretation, but for stronger and more
consistent application of the Convention and its underlying
principle of responsibility-sharing.”[/quote]
Yes!
[quote]“Standing up for our shared humanity is just as important
today as it ever was,” the Refugee Council added. “These
international frameworks exist to protect everyone.”
...
The UN emphasized in its statement that 70% of refugees remain
in countries neighboring their own and 76% are hosted in low-
and middle-income countries.[/quote]
Why is it that Third World countries with much less wealth do
not complain about hosting 76% of all refugees, yet First World
countries with much more wealth complain about hosting a mere
24%?
Based comment:
[quote]The UN is anti-western and hates the people of western
civilization.[/quote]
Is such hatred not well-deserved given the above?
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Re: United Nations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 2, 2023, 4:53 pm
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At least some people are still sane:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/un-migration-chief-voices-concern-114251504.html
[quote]GENEVA (Reuters) -The new head of the U.N. migration
agency on Monday voiced concern that deaths in the Mediterranean
were being "normalised" and vowed to work with governments to
provide options for economic migration to help address the
crisis.
...
"Our biggest concern is that the deaths in the Mediterranean
have been normalised and that people take for granted that this
is just a cost of human movement."
"If we're really going to stop people crossing the Mediterranean
on rickety boats and dying as they do so, we need to approach
the situation far more comprehensively," she said. She declined
to comment directly on Musk's remarks.
...
In her first press conference, she vowed to work with countries
that want to renew their labour forces like Spain.
"The evidence is fairly overwhelming that migration actually
benefits economies," she said, saying this was especially true
in wealthy countries with ageing populations and low birth
rates.
...
civil society groups say that it has become commonplace for
authorities to illegally force them back over the border they
entered from outside the bloc.
There were nearly 10,000 incidents of migrants been pushed back
forcibly over EU borders - either on land or on water - between
May-August[/quote]
Seeking asylum is legal. Pushbacks are illegal. But rightist
propgaganda inverts reality by calling asylum seekers "illegals"
and pushbacks "law enforcement", and are widely believed. Those
who do the pushbacks are thus never held accountable. If we want
to welcome refugees, we must first physically exterminate
rightists. I have been saying this since 2015.
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Re: United Nations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 3, 2023, 5:15 pm
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More refreshing sanity:
HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/un-migration-chief-says-private-110041275.html
[quote]GENEVA (AP) — The new head of the U.N.'s migration agency
said Monday that the private sector is “desperate” for their
countries to take in migrants to mop up labor shortages,
especially in the West — endeavoring to steer a narrative away
from reticence and suspicion about migrants in many parts of the
world.
Amy Pope, the first woman to head the International Organization
for Migration, sought to play up the economic benefits of
migration for rich nations with aging populations and declining
workforces — in the face of “build-the-wall” rhetoric in the
United States to block migrants from Latin America and
right-wing movements in Europe that want to keep foreigners out.
”We hear from ... the private sector globally, but especially in
Europe and in North America, that they are desperate for
migration in order to meet their own labor market needs and in
order to continue to fuel innovation within their own
companies,” Pope, who is American, told reporters.
...
Pope insisted that countries must ensure legal and proper
“pathways” to migration, a longstanding call by U.N.
institutions.
“The difference today is that 30 of the biggest economies have
experienced very significant labor shortages — and we are seeing
it everywhere,” she said, adding that agriculture, construction,
health care and hospitality were among the sectors affected.
Pope said her first trip abroad in the job will be to East
Africa, where drought and the impacts of climate change have
driven many to flee.
...
“Whether it’s climate change, whether it’s conflict, whether
it’s the inability to find a job or a future at home, or
violence within neighborhoods or communities, more and more
people are looking to find a better life somewhere else in the
world,” she said of a message gleaned from her talks last week
with migration experts in Asia.[/quote]
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Re: United Nations
By: SettlerColonialism Date: October 9, 2023, 11:21 am
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UN official calls out Israel’s ‘settler-colonial occupation’
[quote]‘The settler-colonial occupation that Israel maintains
entraps both people’. UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese
told Al Jazeera that she condemned the violence between Hamas
and Israel, adding that there was important context to
remember.[/quote]
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Re: United Nations
By: SolidarityWithPalestine Date: October 13, 2023, 12:45 pm
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U.N. calls Israel's evacuation order for Gaza "impossible"
[quote]The United Nations has said Israel's military told it
late Thursday night that everyone in northern Gaza should
evacuate to the south of the enclave within 24 hours, raising
expectations that an Israeli invasion was imminent. A U.N.
spokesperson said it's "impossible for such a movement to take
place without devastating humanitarian consequences." CBS News
foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports from Jerusalem.
#news #israel #gaza[/quote]
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Re: United Nations
By: Israel Date: October 24, 2023, 1:22 pm
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Israel calls on UN chief to resign
[quote]Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has called on
UN secretary-general, António Guterres, to resign after his
remarks earlier today saying the “appalling attacks” by Hamas
inside Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective
punishment of the Palestinian people”.
Things got pretty aggressive at the UN security council meeting
at the UN headquarters in New York a little earlier, after
Guterres called for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza and said that
the attacks by Hamas on southern Israel on 7 October didn’t
happen “in a vacuum” and followed “56 years of suffocating
occupation” for the Palestinian people by Israel.
Erdan posted angrily on X/Twitter, demanding that Guterres
resign immediately.
[quote] The @UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding
for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the
elderly, is not fit to lead the UN.
I call on him to resign immediately.
There is no justification or point in talking to those who
show compassion for the most…
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד
ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 24,
2023[/quote]
He further posted another furious condemnation of the secretary
general, calling him “completely disconnected from the reality
in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi
Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner”.
[quote] The shocking speech by the @UN Secretary-General at
the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at
all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the
Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in
our region and that he views the…
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד
ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 24,
2023[/quote]
Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, also became angry and
heated in the meeting – see next post.[/quote]
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/24/israel-hamas-war-live-news-conflict-biden-netanyahu-aid-gaza-hostages-latest-updates
The Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, has reaffirmed
Beirut’s commitment to a UN resolution that ended a 2006
conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, amid border tensions as
Israel fights Palestinian militants in Gaza, the AFP reports.
[quote]Mikati paid a surprise trip to southern Lebanon on
Tuesday, as Israel and the powerful Hezbollah group, a Hamas
ally, have been trading near-daily cross-border fire –
tit-for-tat attacks that have so far been relatively contained.
He emphasised Lebanon’s commitment to implementing UN Security
Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war and which also
called for the removal of weapons in southern Lebanon from the
hands of everyone except the Lebanese army and other state
security forces.
[quote] We came to the beloved south … to reaffirm
peace-loving Lebanon’s respect for all legitimate international
resolutions and its commitment to implementing” resolution 1701,
Mikati said, according to a statement.[/quote]
Mikati and Lebanon’s army commander Joseph Aoun visited troops
and the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeeping mission during the trip, the
statement from the premier’s media office said.
Since the end of the 2006 conflict, Hezbollah has not had a
visible military presence on Lebanon’s southern border, which is
patrolled by UNIFIL peacekeepers.
However, experts and reports say Iran-backed Hezbollah, which
enjoys broad popular support in the south of Lebanon, has
positions, hideouts and tunnels in the area.
[/quote]
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/24/israel-hamas-war-live-news-conflict-biden-netanyahu-aid-gaza-hostages-latest-updates
The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki, a
rival of Hamas, denounced inaction by the UN security council
during its meeting in New York earlier today, as the conflict
between Israel and Hamas continued to rage in blockaded Gaza.
[quote]While senior Israeli government officials raged against
UN secretary general António Guterres’s defence of the
Palestinian plight as he demanded a humanitarian ceasefire in
Gaza, the Palestinian senior leader also had his say at the UN
meeting.
[quote] The ongoing massacres being deliberately and
systematically and savagely perpetrated by Israel – the
occupying power against the Palestinian civilian population
under illegal occupation – must be stopped. It is our collective
human duty to stop them … Continued failure at this council is
inexcusable,” al-Maliki said.
[/quote]
The foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia also called for
a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war that blew up on 7 October
with Hamas attacks on southern Israel.
[quote]"Almost all those killed by Israel are civilians."
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki speaks at the
UN Security Council in New York.
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 24, 2023
[/quote]
Al-Maliki railed against the talking shop.
[quote] #WATCH | At the UN Security Council on the
Israel-Gaza conflict, Riyad al-Maliki, Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Palestine says "By the time representatives are done
delivering their speeches today, 150 Palestinians will have been
killed, including 60 children. In the last two…
pic.twitter.com/E3WYEIWXrj
— ANI (@ANI) October 24, 2023[/quote]
And this:
[quote]
“Continued failure at this Council is inexcusable,” said
Riyad al-Maliki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of
Palestine
“The fate of Palestinian people cannot continue to be
dispossession, displacement, denial of rights and death”
Our coverage:
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/>pic.twitter.com/yTuj8Qu38L
— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) October 24, 2023[/quote]
Palestine has had non-member observer status at the United
Nations since 2012, a decision opposed by the US and
Israel.[/quote]
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/24/israel-hamas-war-live-news-conflict-biden-netanyahu-aid-gaza-hostages-latest-updates
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