GENEVA / NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATES
The UN Security Council’s five permanent members today in Geneva say that North Korea and Iran pose “serious challenges” to the world’s most important pact on preventing the spread of nuclear arms. CH UNTV
The UN Security Council’s five permanent members today in Geneva say that North Korea and Iran pose “serious challenges” to the world’s most important pact on preventing the spread of nuclear arms. CH UNTV
Amnesty International launches its annual report on the death penalty. UNTV
French Ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters at the UN today that he had raised the issue of a UN peacekeeping operation in Mali in the Security Council, but that it would be “several weeks” before a decision could be taken based on an assessment of the security situation. UNTV
Success in tackling the ongoing crisis in Mali requires strong military action along with intense focus on the political challenges, while also addressing the dire humanitarian situation in the country, the top United Nations political affairs official stressed today. UNTV
The United Nations (UN) Security Council today (21 January) endorsed an approach to peacekeeping that focuses on laying the groundwork for lasting stability in conflict-plagued countries, in the midst of a day-long meeting opened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UNTV
The UN Security Council opened its doors last weekend for French director Bertrand Tavernier to shoot a scene on the diplomatic wrangling preceding the Iraq war for his upcoming feature film “Quai D’Orsay”, starring Thierry Lermitte as former French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin. UNTV
The Security Council has strongly condemned the latest wave of attacks by the 23 March Movement (M23) rebel group and demanded its immediate withdrawal from Goma, a provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that was overrun yesterday. UNTV
With a small but growing number of Syrian asylum seekers arriving in countries of the European Union, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) today (16 October) stressed to EU member states the importance of adhering to the principles of the Common European Asylum System. CH UNTV
French President François Hollande and other leaders today (26 September) called for a military intervention in the North of Mali. UNTV
In his first appearance before the United Nations as President of France, François Hollande urged the adoption of a financial transaction tax on the movement of capital to fund programs for development and the eradication of diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria and called for protection of the areas controlled by the Syrian opposition. UNTV [...]