Tag: UN General Assembly

Iran faces a potentially crushing loss of oil exports when US sanctions return in November.

In 2015, South African MP Joseph Meshoe said: "There is a widespread allegation, really a slander, that Israel is an apartheid state. That notion is simply wrong. It is inaccurate and it is malicious."

Why haven't the PLO and Hamas permitted these three million or so people to turn their tent and shack cities into actual cities? Because if they do, it would mean they have given up the hope of returning to Israel.

President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi announced on Wednesday that Rouhani had received eight requests from President Donald Trump, for a meeting,...

Earlier, UN President of the General Assembly Miroslav Lajcak torpedoed a US amendment that suggested Hamas was also to blame in the violence alongside the Gaza border.

It should be noted that resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly have no binding power.

France may be next to recognize a Palestinian State following a meeting of Presidents Macron and Trump on April 22.

"This vote will make a difference on how Americans look at the UN and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the UN."

The resolution, "expressing in this regard its deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem... calls upon all States to refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem..."

“The United States will remember this day, when the U.S. is again asked to make the largest contribution to the UN. And the U.S. will remember when other countries come to the United States for help.”

On Tuesday, Israel joined the international community in marking United Nations Day, which was devoted to 'making known to the people of the world the aims and achievements of the UN and to gaining their support for its work.'

The Jordanian authorities earlier rejected an Israeli request to return the Israeli diplomatic mission to the embassy in Amman.

“In over 30 years in my experience with the UN, I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech."

"We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles..."

It appears that the path to influencing Israel's foreign policy goes through the US Jewish community's leadership forum.

"Most people would say there’s no chance whatsoever; I actually think with the capability of Bibi and frankly the other side I really think we have a chance. "

Former US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told Army Radio it would be very difficult for the US to alter the Iran deal at this stage.

The Israeli plan, formulated under American pressure, is to help the Trump administration put pressure on Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to moderate his speech at the UN General Assembly.

The Israeli initiative to change the Palestinians' 70-year-old refugee status takes advantage of a window of opportunity created by the current administration rigid and often hostile approach to the UN and its agencies.

"The real cause of terrorism in Palestinian society is the delegitimization of the other."

The forum, in case you were planning to participate, has been sold out. If you are a terror-supporting NGO and didn't receive an invitation, you'll have to watch the whole thing on web TV – or look for ticket scalpers.

Diplomats who voted for the establishment of Israel will take part in the event along with their colleagues from around the world.

According to a PLO senior official, cooperation with Israel to improve the lives of Arabs living under PA rule must be stopped, just in time for the water shortages of July and August.

Danon will begin in September and serve for one year.

A blatant example of the pot calling the kettle black.

Guterres said in video message that 'the Holocaust was the culmination of millennia of hatred, scapegoating and discrimination targeting the Jews, what we now call anti-Semitism.'

'Israel will not support bodies that are acting against it as a result of UN sponsorship.'

Loved the part about the resolutions 'undermining the organization’s integrity and impartiality.' Who says Israeli diplomats have no sense of humor?

Abbas was elected in January 2005 as President of the Palestinian National Authority until January 2009, but in December 2009 was voted into office indefinitely by the PLO Central Council.

Fifty years after that catastrophic Arab failure, in 1977, the UN declared an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, to be celebrated each year on November 29.