Summary of United States' June Presidency of the Security Council
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Emily Ross, an intern at the New York office of the United Nations Foundation, sent us the following summary of the United States presidency of the Security Council during the month of June.

As President, the United States had the ability to chart the Council's course, determining which issues to highlight and shaping policy formulation. Perhaps most significant was its decision to bring peripheral security issues to the forefront. The highlight of the month was undoubtedly the open debate on "Women and peace and security," chaired by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, which drew international attention to the plight of women in conflict. Several Foreign Ministers spoke out against sexual abuse and explicitly drew the link between gender-based violence and international security. This landmark affirmation was bolstered by substantial legal weight with the passage of Resolution 1820 declaring rape a war crime.

Consistent with a mostly African-facing agenda, the Council issued a Presidential Statement on Sudan. Following a briefing by the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Louis Moreno-Ocampo, the Council presented a document requesting the Government of Sudan "cooperate fully with the Court...in order to put an end to impunity for the crimes committed in Darfur." Although watered down due to apprehension from Libya, this statement put into question the United States government's traditional anti-ICC stance, possibly indicating a warming toward the court.

In addition to the month's highlights, the United States led the Council as it discussed Iraq, condemned the political violence in Zimbabwe, was briefed on the peace process in Darfur and extended the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Cyprus, among other activities. It used its position to put less publicized security matters in the spotlight; The passage of Resolution 1820 and statement to Sudan on the ICC chief among them.

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Attention The United Nations Security Council

Ref: Mugabe Regime

As a Zimbabwean living outside Zimbabwe for quite some time due to the situation within, please help Zimbabweans out of this evil, alqaeda government of Mugabe.

Look here;
1. Zimbabwe has the highest inflation ever in world.
2. Zimbabwe has the highest number of people living outside its borders as political or economical refugees.
3. Neighboring South Africa alone is estimated to have more than 4million Zimbabweans. But remember the population of Zimbabwe is about only 12 million. So 1 more than 1 person out of every 4 Zimbabweans has fled the country.
4. There is gross lawlessness from government side. Many people are being killed, some kidnapped to secret prisons, some beaten up and some threatened with death.
5. There is no food in Zimbabwe and people survive by miracle.
6. If you listen to South African President Thabo Mbeki, he talks of an impossible thing, government of national unity. He still believes Magabe is useful to Zimbabwe. He long back failed.

Based on these please.
1. How long do you want the people of Zimbabwe to suffer?
2. How many Zimbabweans do you want to leave Zimbabwe? Because the young and middle age have left and the old who remained were the ones axed, beaten and killed by Mugabe?
3. What value of inflation do you want to be achieved to prove that Zimbabwe needs external solution?
4. How many people do you want killed by Mugabe before you interfere?
5. How many people must die of hunger and starvation before the UN interferes in Zimbabwe?
6. How many people must die from drowning in the Limpopo, eaten by lions in the Kruger National park on their way from Zimbabwe illegally before UN interferes?
7. How many people must be killed in South Africa and many other countries worldwide because they are Zimbabwean economic or political refugees, before UN interferes?

If you are useful board and not like the League of Nations, please help Zimbabweans out of the hands of Mugabe.
I suggest
1. Deployment of peace-keeping forces
2. UN monitored elections for both presidential and parliament.
3. Demilitarization of Mugabe and ZANU pf Militias.
4. Charges on Mugabe and his counterparts for the atrocities caused on Zimbabweans since 1979.
5. Reconstruction of Zimbabwe.
6. Rehabilitation of all Zimbabweans affected by Mugabe rule since 1979.
7. Repatriation of Zimbabweans from all corners of the globe where Mugabe has caused them to be.

Do Not

1. Do not listen to Mbeki and his other colleagues, they are just supporters of Mugabe and even if Zimbabweans are being killed in his own country because of being too many for South Africa, he does not care.
2. Do not listen to some African leaders who say the issue of Zimbabwe is an African problem. They think of Mugabe as a old hero, but now the don?t know that the former hero is now a killer. Also they are afraid of that if now Mugabe is toppled who is next, themselves.
3. Do not listen to people talking about land issue. It?s mere; poor governance. The land that is still being taken is given to poor, uneducated and unskilled people.


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What are the Root Causes of Conflict?
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Long before Susan Rice was Obama's pick for UN Ambassador, she contributed this piece to UN Dispatch. Originally published May 31, 2007.

by Susan Rice, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

seemacrpf.jpgWhen Americans see televised images of bone-thin African or Asian kids with distended bellies, what do we think? We think of helping. For all the right reasons, our humanitarian instincts tend to take over. But when we look at UNICEF footage or a Save the Children solicitation, does it also occur to us that we are seeing a symptom of a threat that could destroy our way of life? Rarely. In fact, global poverty is far more than solely a humanitarian concern. In real ways, over the long term, it can threaten U.S. national security.

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