Monthly Archives: March 2012
Security Council; DRC; Pakistan; India; and more
On Monday the UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan will brief Council members in consultations by videoconference on his mediation efforts. Council members are likely to be interested in Annan’s recent visits to Moscow and Beijing and his plans to visit Tehran and Riyadh in the near future, according to Security Council Report.
In Praise of ECOWAS
We don’t know how the Mali coup will end. But because of ECOWAS, I predict it will end badly for the putschists.
Top of the Morning: ECOWAS Puts the Squeeze on Mali; Forget the World Bank, BRICS Will Start Their Own Own
Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service–DAWNS Digest.
Syria; Arab League Summit; Yemen; Libya; and more
Syria’s president embraced Kofi Annan’s peacemaking effort today, saying his government will “put every effort to ensure the success of the mission.”Assad gave the assurance in a letter to the BRICS summit, the meeting in New Delhi of the world’s top emerging economies, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.
A Dangerous Turn Toward Ethnic Cleansing in Syria
New York Times reporter Anne Barnard spends some time with recent Syrian refugees in Lebanon. They tell her that the fighting is increasingly taking on a sectarian bent with neighbor fighting neighbor.
Why We Need to Defeat Cholera
Access to safe water and basic sanitation has been on the U.N.’s books as a fundamental right since 2010, but there are more tangible reasons that inadequate access to sanitation is an issue.
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The SC; HRC; DPRK; South Sudan
The SC: The Security Council today held its last consultations under the Council Presidency of ROK. Tomorrow, Russia will take over the rotating Presidency of the Security Council for March under Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
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The SG; Mali; Middle East; Palestine
The SG: At the Fifth Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna, Austria today, the SG emphasized the role of youth in ensuring a “prosperous, equitable and peaceful future.”
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The SG; DRC; HRC; Palestinian Prisoner
The SG: In Ethiopia over the weekend, the SG is now in the United Arab Emirates. Today he met with Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, where the two discussed developments in the region, including Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, and in the Middle East Peace Process.
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