UN / TZIPI LIVNI
Tizipi Livni, Israel's Minister of Justice meets Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UNTV
Tizipi Livni, Israel's Minister of Justice meets Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UNTV
The Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey D. Feltman, told the Security Council today that as the situation inside Syria continues to deteriorate, it was vital to preserve regional stability and said that "advancing the Middle East Peace Process remains central to ensuring that the region is not at a further risk of destabilization."
Robert Serry, the United Nations Special Envoy for the Middle East, said today that it was now time "to come together in concerted action and support a serious initiative including a revitalization of the Quartet" in dealing with the Israeli/Palestinian issue. UNTV
Israel must immediately and without preconditions stop all settlement expansion and begin withdrawing its settlers from the Palestinian territories, a UN expert group urged today (18 March). CH UNTV
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today (18 March) said serious violations of international law continue to be committed on a widespread scale in the occupied Palestinian territory. CH UNTV
Amid rising deaths among the Palestinian refugee population in Syria and funding shortfalls for humanitarian assistance in the war-torn country, a senior United Nations official today (11 March) urged international donors to step up their financial support for relief efforts in what he described as "a messy, violent and tragic war for the civilian population." UNTV
United Nations Political Affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman voiced his concern after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel, breaching the ceasefire reached last November, and called for urgently resuming negotiations aimed at breaking the impasse in theMiddle Eastpeace process. UNTV
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (14 January) said Israel's plans to building 3,000 housing units east of Jerusalem are illegal under international law, and the project should be dropped. UNTV
The World Food Programme (WFP) has provided emergency rations to 800 families in Gaza (about 4,800 people) whose houses were destroyed during the recent attacks. WFP
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Israel’s aerial attacks on the Gaza Strip as well as rockets fired by Hamas militants into southern Israel and called on both sides on Friday to step back from the brink. CH UNTV