"TRUST TERRITORIES"

Trusteeship Council elects President, Vice-President of Seventy-Second Session, adopts provisional agenda at 1716th meeting.

Palestinian Ambassador Riyad  Mansour  presented a letter to the President of the Security Council denouncing the recent incidents at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. UNIFEED - UNTV

Addressing the General Assembly  the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas noted that he had embarked on a recently launched round of negotiations in good faith and with an open mind, strongly determined to reach a peace accord within nine months. UNIFEED - UNTV

The UN Decolonization Committee approved another resolution calling on Britain and Argentina to negotiate a solution to their dispute over the Falkland Islands. UNIFEED-UNTV

Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, was the first to be elected in a fully representative, multiracial election in South Africa. UNTV

The UN General Assembly voted again overwhelmingly, for the 22nd year in a row to condemn the United States embargo against Cuba. UNTV

The Assistant Secretary-General for political affairs, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco told the Security Council that “despite an ever challenging regional environment” there has been a small but important opening in the form of direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. (UNTV

The Secretary-General met today (29 July) with the Justice Minister of the State of Israel and Chief Negotiator in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Tzipi Livni. UNTV

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, briefing the 15-member Council in the wake of the announcement last week by US Secretary of State John Kerry that the basis has been established to resume talks between Israelis and Palestinians, said "we do not underestimate the difficulty of developing a substantial initiative that should provide a credible horizon for achieving a two-state solution at long-last.” UNTV

Strong support from the international community is needed to ensure ‘positive momentum’ is sustained between Serbia and Kosovo, a United Nations envoy told the Security Council today, adding that progress cannot be taken for granted . UNTV