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Ok, well at first it really does seem funny (LOL at people calling the man “Lil’ Kim”), but then you start thinking: You can’t just fire rockets into wherever you wish, they must have known there were risks, it could have hurt anyone. I wonder how many people got in trouble for that one in DPRK already. I am looking forward to hearing about the Security Council meeting at 10.00 am EST where this incident is on the agenda. It seems it was mere luck that it remained only threat to the peace (UN Charter Article 39) and didn’t cause any bigger…
Rwanda, Syria and the Responsibility to Protect Interesting piece on R2P. Very good too.
Today is the International Day of Human Space Flight 12 April 1961 was the date of the first human space flight, carried out by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen.
little more than an hour to go (9.30 CET), who else is watching? united-nations: We’re making last-minute preparations for today’s Google Plus hangout with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon! Above is a sneak peek of the set! More information: Google blog post Watch live on YouTube at 3:30 pm EST! Related video United Nations on Google+ Six young people will join from the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America, and have the opportunity to ask questions on the issues that matter to them.
One thing to add to that: Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History by Kati Marton is a great read about this topic. 🙂 thenewrepublic: Is Michelle Obama the most animated First Lady this country has ever had? “When Jackie Kennedy led a television crew through the White House in February 1962, millions of Americans were riveted to the screen. This Wednesday, when Michelle Obama appears on The Colbert Report, it will be a much less exciting, and more commonplace event. It’s starting to seem like the First Lady has been everywhere on our televisions lately, celebrating her “Joining Forces”…
Let’s all hang out with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday 10th April, 3:30 pm EST on Google+! Check out http://www.un.org/social for more! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
: Thousands of red chairs are standing empty along Sarajevo’s main avenue on Friday as Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorates the 20th anniversary since the start of the country’s war. A classical orchestra will play a concert for the 11,541 empty seats, one for each civilian killed during a near-four-year siege of the city by Bosnian Serb forces, which became a symbol of the 1992-1995 conflict.
Bosnia Marks 20 Years of the Beginning of Its War – ABC News Exactly 11,541 red chairs have been lined up in rows along Sarajevo’s main street — one for every man, woman and child killed in the siege that ended up being the longest in modern history.
Christiane Amanpour: Bosnia’s lesson for Syrian slaughter Amanpour: Bosnia was where I learned objectivity does not mean drawing a false moral equivalence
U.S. Department of State: U.S. Takes the Reins of the UN Security Council Presidency statedept: About the Author: Alex McPhillips serves as Press Officer and Associate Director for Digital Media at the U.S. Mission to the UN in New York. When Ambassador Susan Rice assumed the rotating monthly Presidency of the UN Security Council from the United Kingdom this week, she began by
