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The neutrality of the Belgian presidency of the Security Council in question

by Bashar Ja’afari

New York (USA) | 13 February 2020
On instructions from my Government, I transmit the present identical letters in order to raise an important issue, namely the lack of balance shown by the current President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Belgium, when chairing Security Council meetings on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic and on counter-terrorism.
We have noticed with some concern and suspicion that the current President of the Security Council has failed to show impartiality and (...)

UN suspends voting rights of 7 states

13 January 2020
In accordance with a rule adopted in October 2019 by the General Assembly, the United Nations has suspended the voting rights of seven of its members and is contemplating sanctions against three others:
Comoros (at the end of the UNGA 74th session)
Gambia (presently)
Lesotho (presently)
Lebanon (presently)
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (presently)
Central African Republic (presently)
Sao Tome and Principe (at the end of the UNGA 74th session)
Somalia (at the end of the (...)

The UN General Assembly will not be able to debate the INF Treaty

27 October 2018
On 25 October 2018, the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, tasked with disarmament and international security, rejected the Russian draft resolution on the INF Treaty (the Treaty on Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces).
25 Nato Member States voted against examining the Russian draft. This was because it had been filed on 18 October outside the prescribed time limit.
31 States voted in favour of examining the resolution. Such states reason that the Russian draft responds to the US (...)

UNO : birth of the post-Western world

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 2 October 2018
The administration of the UNO had been hoping for a clash between the pro- and anti-Trump factions during the General Assembly. What actually happened was very different. While several States, including France, denounced the methods of the resident of the White House, Russia undertook an analysis of the Western alliance. According to Moscow, most of our current problems are due to the desire of the old colonial powers to conserve their domination of the rest of the world - at whatever the cost. In order to overtake them, a formidable coalition has been born.

Introduction of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

by María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés

New York (USA) | 25 September 2018
Heads of State and Government,
Distinguished Ministers,
Excellencies,
Mr. Secretary-General,
Madam Deputy Secretary-General,
It is an honour to welcome you to the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly. I welcome you to the only place where a meeting such as this is possible. Only this Assembly, as the main deliberative and representative body of the United Nations, offers an opportunity to all the world’s peoples and leaders to listen and to be heard on an (...)

Opening of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

by António Guterres

New York (USA) | 25 September 2018
Your Excellency Madam President of the General Assembly,
Distinguished Heads of State and Government,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Our world is suffering from a bad case of “Trust Deficit Disorder”.
People are feeling troubled and insecure.
Trust is at a breaking point. Trust in national institutions. Trust among states. Trust in the rules-based global order.
Within countries, people are losing faith in political establishments, polarization is on the rise and populism is on (...)

How the administration of the UNO is organising the war

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 5 September 2018
The internal document of the United Nations that we have just published attests to the fact that the administration of the Organisation is working against the UN’s objectives. The gravity of this situation calls for an explanation by Secretary General António Guterres, as demanded by Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergueï Lavrov. Failing which, the member-States could call the United Nations into question.

Russia denounces the diarchy at the heart of the UNO and the USA

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 28 August 2018
The Western powers are moving inexorably towards Internet censorship, thereby facilitating the dissemination of propaganda and war indoctrination in their countries. In this context, an extremely violent tension is tearing apart the international scene. Aware of the increasing risk of general confrontation, Moscow is attempting to find credible interlocutors in the UNO and the United States. What is happening at the moment has seen no equivalent since 1938, and could degenerate in the same way.

As far as Lavrov is concerned, Guterres would be a straw man at the head of the UN

22 August 2018
Receiving the Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigrants, Gibran Bassil, his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, has again lifted the veil on the actual functioning of the United Nations .
According to the Charter, the purpose of the Organization is to peacefully settle differences between nations. However, since July 2012, the real power is no longer held by the Secretary General, but by his "number 2": the Director of Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman. Out of control, he (...)

Damages resulting from war against Syria total 388 billion dollars. Who must pay?

9 August 2018
The UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) considers that the damages, the aftermath of the war against Syria, reach at least 388 000 million dollars. This figure was the figure announced during a conference that took place in Beirut on 7 and 8 August 2018.
The ESCWA will shortly present its report entitled Syria, 7 years at war.
The US President, Donald Trump, considers that the conflict that took place in Syria is a war of aggression organized by transnational financial (...)

The Security Council meets in Sweden avoiding the public eye

23 April 2018
Sweden, a temporary member of the Security Council, has just organized a delocalized session of this UN organ.
Each year, the Security Council holds a delocalized session for a friendly debate. 15 ambassadors and the UN Secretary General have convened in a converted farm in Backåkra, in the South of Sweden, with a view to freely debating the war in Syria.
This summer house was the residence of the former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was assassinated in (...)

Parameters and Principles of UN assistance in Syria

by Jeffrey D. Feltman

New York (USA) | 15 October 2017
The existence of this document, written in October 2017 by UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, was revealed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on 20 August 2018. The Voltaire Network procured it and published it.
The following initial parameters and principles shall apply in all UN actors operating in Syria in order to ensure support and assistance is provided to those en need in all areas of Syria. Note that these parameters and principles are to (...)

Daesh continues to be supported by the United States and the United Nations

13 October 2017
The Russian Defence Minister denounced an attack on a humanitarian convoy of medicines and nutrition designated for a de-escalation zone.
About 300 Daesh fighters suddenly appeared from an area under US control, jumped on board the pick-up and seized the entire load.
In an identical manner, on 2 and 3 October, 600 armed fighters had left the UN Camp of Rukban (Jordan) to enter the governorate of Daraa, a de-escalation zone on Syrian (...)

Remarks by Donald Trump at the Reforming the United Nations Meeting

by Donald Trump

New York (USA) | 18 September 2017
© UN Photo/Mark Garten
Well, thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you.
I actually saw great potential right across the street, to be honest with you, and it was only for the reason that the United Nations was here that that turned out to be such a successful project.
So I want to thank you, Ambassador Haley, for your introduction and for your steadfast advocacy for American interests on the world stage.
On behalf of the co-host countries, I would like to also thank Secretary (...)

Beirut Declaration: “Faith for Rights”

Beirut (Lebanon) | 29 March 2017
We, faith-based and civil society actors working in the field of human rights and gathered in Beirut on 28-29 March 2017, express the deep conviction that our respective religions and beliefs share a common commitment to upholding the dignity and the equal worth of all human beings. Shared human values and equal dignity are therefore common roots of our cultures. Faith and rights should be mutually reinforcing spheres. Individual and communal expression of religions or beliefs thrive and (...)

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