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Norway Launches Bid for UNSC Seat, Speaking on Darfur While Jokingly Deflecting on World Cup Absence

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United Nations, New York, USA, June 22, 2018 – Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and Ine Eriksen Soreide Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs During the launch of Norways campaign for an elected seat in the Security Council, term 2021-2022 today at the UN Headquarters Rose Garden in New York. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire By Kurt Wheelock When Norway’s Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide appeared in the Rose Garden of UN Headquarters on June 22 to officially launch her country’s bid to be elected to a UN Security Council seat for 2021-22, the campaigning had already in essence begun. Norway has already [Read More]

Ambassador Haley Calls for UN Security Council Meeting on Iran

Jan 4, 2018 News, Security Council, United Nations , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Comments are off

United Nations, New York, USA, January 02 2018 – Nikki R. Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN, speaks to journalists about developments on the Korean Peninsula and in Iran today at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Photo: Cia Pak/EuropaNewswire   The U.S. Mission has requested a UN Security Council briefing on ongoing developments in Iran for 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. “Tomorrow the UN Security Council will discuss the troubling and dangerous situation in Iran. The world has witnessed the horrors that have taken place in Syria, that began with a murderous regime denying its people’s [Read More]

SRSG Zerrougui statement on Protecting Education from Attack

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Photos by: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire Geneva, Switzerland, June 24 2015 The full spectrum of parties-to-conflict puts schools and universities to use for a multitude of self-serving purposes, including as barracks, or training grounds – even as weapons stores or defensive positions. While some claim there is a military logic to using schools, Governments and military commanders must also be cognizant of the grave repercussions such commandeering has on children’s right to education. At worst, it can turn the school into an immediate target, thereby endangering the lives of any children in the vicinity, and risking structural damage from weapons fire that [Read More]

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