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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights visits China

30 May 2022

A blow for Western diplomacy: the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chilean national Michele Bachelet, has just completed a six-day visit to China, looking in particular for evidence of the "Uyghur genocide”, but had to leave empty-handed. Going back 17 years, none of her predecessors has (...)

It won’t be possible to keep Russia out of UN Security Council

6 April 2022

In an interview with MSNBC’s The “ReidOut” on 5 April 2022, US Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield admitted that it would not be possible to exclude Russia from the Security Council.
Since day one of the Russian intervention in Ukraine, the United States has (...)

US and UK consider excluding Russia from UN Security Council

10 March 2022

British and American diplomats are probing allied states on the possible exclusion of Russia from the Security Council (article 23).
Legally, it would first require an extraordinary meeting of the General Assembly convened by nine members of the Security Council (Article 109). This (...)

Russia slams UNSG António Guterres’ bias

23 February 2022

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticized the partiality of United Nations Secretary General António Guterres at a protocol meeting in Moscow with his Special Envoy Geir Pedersen on 23 February 2022.
The Russian Minister underlined that Mr. Guterres’ statements were not consistent with (...)

NATO aggression against Russia and China at UNSC

2 February 2022

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe: UN Under-Secretary.General Rosemary DiCarlo (front) speaks with U.S. Permanent Representative Linda Thomas-Greenfield (profile) amid general confusion.
The United States and its allies called a meeting of the UN Security Council on 31 January 2022, to forestall the (...)

Rising tensions

Russia wants to force the US to respect the UN Charter

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 4 January 2022

Russia and China have just written to the United States asking it to respect the United Nations Charter and the word it has given. This approach, devoid of any aggressiveness, calls into question not only the functioning of the UN, NATO and the European Union, but almost all the US advances (...)

Russia vetoes resolution on climate change

16 December 2021

On 13 December 2021, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres promoted the adoption of a draft resolution on global warming presented by Niger, which holds the rotating Security Council presidency. However, to everyone’s surprise, Russia decided to veto this long-awaited text.
Russia (...)

Intervention by Benjamin Netanyahu the 75th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

by Benjamin Netanyahu

New York (USA) | 29 September 2020

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Middle East is not exactly renowned for producing good news, and few expected this year to be any different. You know, the pandemic is ravaging our part of the world like everywhere else.
But I am pleased to report to you that this year, I can tell you (...)

Intervention by Ilham Aliyev the 75th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

by Ilham Aliyev

New York (USA) | 24 September 2020

Mr. President,
Mr. Secretary-General,
Distinguished Heads of State and Government,
I congratulate the President of the 75th session of the General Assembly, Mr. Volkan Bozkir, on his election. We were delighted with the election of a representative of the brotherly Turkey to such a (...)

Intervention by Donald Trump the 75th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

by Donald Trump

New York (USA) | 22 September 2020

It is my profound honor to address the United Nations General Assembly.
Seventy-five years after the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations, we are once again engaged in a great global struggle. We have waged a fierce battle against the invisible enemy — the China virus — (...)

Intervention by Vladimir Putin before the 75th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

New York (USA) | 22 September 2020

Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
This year, the international community celebrates two, without exaggeration, historic anniversaries: the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and establishment of the United Nations.
The importance of these (...)

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 (...)

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)
– (...)

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. (...)

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 (...)

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