Special to WorldTribune.com Republican senators on March 17 introduced legislation aimed at requiring the Obama administration to impose stricter sanctions on Iran for continuous defiance of international sanctions on its ballistic missile program. The bill, introduced by Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, is the GOP’s response to what it says has been President Barack […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Untied Nations on Dec. 17 adopted a resolution aimed at cutting “the flow of funds” to Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). “While we are making progress to financially isolate ISIL, if we are to succeed we all must intensify our efforts, on our own and together at the international […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The United Nations Security Council on Aug. 17 backed a plan put forward by Russia to end the four-year civil war in Syria. The proposal adopted by Moscow, one of Bashar Assad’s few remaining allies, and 14 other UN member states, calls for a new push for peace talks, a “political transition” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A growing global wave of criticism, concern and consternation continues as both the UN General Assembly and now the Security Council have firmly condemned North Korea’s communist regime for human rights abuses to its own population. The moves come amid widening, and overdue, international attention […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In its annual round of diplomatic musical chairs, the General Assembly chose five new members for the coveted seats on the Security Council, the UN’s most prestigious body. The new members, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela begin their two year terms starting in […]
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Speaking in the somber shadow of the September 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America in 2001, President Barack Obama sought to stake out an ambitious military and political strategy to degrade and defeat the new surge of Middle Eastern terrorism now sweeping Iraq and Syria. Yet […]
By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The United Nations as a force for peace has never lived up to the hopes implicit in the name. You can’t blame a succession of secretary-generals for the failures of the UN The current secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, may seem bland and ineffective, but there’s not much he can do when each […]
UNITED NATIONS — Truth is often stranger than fiction. The horrific events over eastern Ukraine, that of a civilian airliner being shot out of the skies by a high altitude Sam 11 missile, seem almost the improbable grist of a thriller novel or a pilot episode of the TV series 24. Add the fact the […]
UNITED NATIONS — Reflecting the importance of the ongoing efforts to prevent nuclear non-proliferation, the Security Council has reaffirmed its tough stance against the development and transfer of technical components among “non-state actors,” namely terrorist groups, to produce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. South Korea, who holds the monthly presidency of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Iran and Iraq have signed their first weapons deal since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Western diplomatic sources said Iran would supply a range of mortars and artillery for Iraq’s security forces. They said the deal would violate the United Nations embargo on Iranian weapons sales. “Nothing prevents […]