RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - The Palestinians and Arabs will shortly bring a draft resolution before the UN Security Council calling on Israel to halt Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories and Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday.
"We will go before the Security Council in the coming days to stop the Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territorie [...]
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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN investigators have overwhelming proof that Hezbollah militants carried out the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, Canadian broadcaster CBC said Monday.
The United Nations expressed concern that leaks of the special tribunal on Lebanon's inquiries could influence its work on the 2005 bomb blast.
CBC said evidence gathered by Lebanese detectiv [...]
TANGIERS, Morocco (AFP) - Negotiator Saeb Erakat said Friday the Palestinians would be forced to demand that the United States recognise their 1967 borders if it fails to persuade Israel to end Jewish settlements.
"If the United States does not manage to impose on Israel an end to the settlements this month, the next step for us would be to demand from the United States recognition of the s [...]
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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Iran failed to secure a seat on a key board running the new UN super agency to improve women's rights as fierce lobbying by western nations and rights groups swayed an election Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia, whose candidacy was also criticised, got an automatic seat and rights groups said they will now seek to put the spotlight on the kingdom's record.
Iran was beaten to an As [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Wednesday for the UN Security Council to urgently debate Israeli settlement building, which has deadlocked peace talks, his spokesman said.
Nabil Abu Rudeinah said Abbas had "instructed the Palestinian representative to the United Nations to request an urgent session of the Security Council to discuss t [...]
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Catholic bishops in the Middle East urged the United Nations Saturday to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands at the end of a meeting chaired by Pope Benedict XVI.
In a final statement of their two-week synod, the bishops and patriarchs of the region's Catholic churches said the citizens of the Middle East "call upon the international community, particularly the U [...]
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Catholic bishops in the Middle East urged the United Nations Saturday to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands at the end of a meeting chaired by Pope Benedict XVI.
In a final statement of their two-week synod, the bishops and patriarchs of the region's Catholic churches said the citizens of the Middle East "call upon the international community, particularly the United [...]
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - The United Nations' envoy to Iraq, Ad Melkert, escaped unhurt in a bomb attack on Tuesday that targeted a convoy of vehicles south of Baghdad, UN and police officials said.
"Mr Melkert is okay," UN spokeswoman Randa Jamal told AFP.
The Dutch diplomat had been meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest-ranking Shiite cleric in Iraq, and "was going to th [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the option of the UN Security Council creating a Palestinian state cannot be ruled out, in an interview published Sunday.
Kouchner told the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam that France preferred a two-state solution to be negotiated with Israel, but said appealing to the Security Council to resolve the conflict remained a possibility [...]
GENEVA (AFP) - The UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday agreed to back a report which found "clear evidence" for legal action against Israel over its attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
The resolution, which was tabled by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, was approved with 30 votes in favour, one against and 15 abstentions.
It "endorses the conclusions [...]
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