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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United States on Thursday spoiled a long-shot Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership, vetoing a Security Council measure despite growing international distress over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The move by Israel's key ally had been expected ahead of the vote, taking place more than six months into Israel's military offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory, in retaliation for the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel. Twelve countries voted in favor of the draft resolution recommending full Palestinian me...
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A resolution in favour of the full membership of a Palestinian state in the United Nations has failed in the UN Security Council due to a veto by the United States. Twelve member states voted in favour of the resolution in New York on Thursday, with Switzerland and Britain abstaining. The veto by the US, which is a permanent member of the most powerful UN body, meant that the draft resolution failed to be adopted. In early April, Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour wrote a letter to UN chief António Guterres asking for the motion, which had already been tabled in 2011 but failed to be adop...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United Nations Security Council will vote Thursday on the Palestinians' application to become a full UN member state, several diplomatic sources have told AFP. Amid Israel's military offensive in Gaza, the Palestinians in early April revived a membership application first made to the world body in 2011, though the veto-wielding United States has repeatedly expressed opposition to the proposal. The General Assembly can admit a new member state with a two-thirds majority vote, but only after the Security Council gives its recommendation. Regional bloc t...
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Some $610 million were collected at a donor conference in Geneva for millions of Ethiopians suffering from the ill effects of climate change and conflict, the Geneva-based UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said late on Tuesday. The UN has earmarked a total of $3.24 billion to support 15.5 million people there this year, however less than 5% of that sum had been raised ahead of Tuesday's high-level pledging event on the humanitarian response in Ethiopia. In addition to conflicts that repeatedly displace people, Ethiopia also suffers from droughts and floods. Around 4...
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German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke plans to travel to Ottawa on Saturday for UN talks on a global plastic pollution treaty, her ministry announced in Berlin on Tuesday. On Sunday, Lemke is to hold talks with her Canadian counterpart Steven Guilbeault ahead of the fourth session of the UN's intergovernmental negotiating committee on the issue. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to open the conference on Monday. The UN talks are aimed at a fresh attempt at a legally binding international treaty on reducing plastic waste, including in the marine environment, to be agreed by the end o...
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German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke plans to travel to Ottawa on Saturday for UN talks on a global plastic pollution treaty, her ministry announced in Berlin on Tuesday. On Sunday, Lemke is to hold talks with her Canadian counterpart Steven Guilbeault ahead of the fourth session of the UN's intergovernmental negotiating committee on the issue. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to open the conference on Monday. The UN talks are aimed at a fresh attempt at a legally binding international treaty on reducing plastic waste, including in the marine environment, to be agreed by the end o...
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German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke plans to travel to Ottawa on Saturday for UN talks on a global plastic pollution treaty, her ministry announced in Berlin on Tuesday. On Sunday, Lemke is to hold talks with her Canadian counterpart Steven Guilbeault ahead of the fourth session of the UN's intergovernmental negotiating committee on the issue. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to open the conference on Monday. The UN talks are aimed at a fresh attempt at a legally binding international treaty on reducing plastic waste, including in the marine environment, to be agreed by the end o...
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The UN Security Council on Monday expressed its concern about the smouldering border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana. Council members called on the conflicting parties to exercise the greatest possible restraint in their dispute over the Essequibo region in South America, according to a spokesman. The most powerful body of the United Nations called for differences to be resolved by peaceful means and for all obligations under international law and the United Nations Charter to be honoured. Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro recently passed a law declaring the border region...
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Israel has requested that the UN Security Council hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to condemn Iran's attack on Israel and designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization. Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan sent an urgent letter to the president of the Security Council, Vanessa Frazier, calling for the meeting. "The Iranian attack is a serious threat to global peace and security and I expect the Council to use every means to take concrete action against Iran," he posted on X, formerly Twitter. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles targeting Israel in re...
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Israel has requested that the UN Security Council hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to condemn Iran's attack on Israel and designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization. Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan sent an urgent letter to the president of the Security Council, Vanessa Frazier, calling for the meeting. "The Iranian attack is a serious threat to global peace and security and I expect the Council to use every means to take concrete action against Iran," he posted on X, formerly Twitter. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles targeting Israel in re...
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