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>>Uganda - Yesterday, Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the LRA, balked at signing a final peace deal with the Ugandan government once again, and he fired his top negotiator as well (some sources say he quit). Kony is reportedly skiddish about how Uganda's courts would dole out the justice that Kony insisted not be carried out by the ICC; these specifics were worked out by his top negotiator.

>>North Korea - North Korea and the United States appear to have worked out a deal under which North Korea would acknowledge U.S. concerns and evidence about its nuclear program, as well as disclose its plutonium enrichment program, in lieu of the full report that the nation has delayed producing. In return the U.S. would drop two key economic sanctions.

>>Olympics - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will not attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, due to "scheduling issues." His spokesman said that he is planning a "substantive visit" instead. Gordon Brown and Angela Merkel will also not attend.

>>Gaza - Israel has cut off the fuel supply to Gaza a day after Palestinian militants attacked Gaza's sole fuel distribution center (located in Israel) and killed two civilians. Gaza is already under a blockade that denies the area all but humanitarian essentials.

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August 26, 2008


In support of UN Peacekeeping Missions
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by Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

This post was originally published on UN Dispatch on July 9, 2007. Joe Biden was selected as Barack Obama's running mate on August 23.

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Ten years ago, I stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate to introduce a bill, which eventually became known as the "Helms-Biden law", to authorize the payment of nearly $1 billion in back dues to the United Nations. Securing its passage was a hard-fought, but worthwhile, initiative.

Unfortunately, we are again in arrears to the UN. For over a year, we have not been paying our full contribution for its peacekeeping operations -- missions in places like Lebanon, Sudan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kosovo -- that advance our national interests while sharing the human, political and financial costs of peacekeeping with other nations.

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