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un-library: The UN Security Council met this morning at its 6760th meeting on Threats to international peace and security, Securing borders against illicit flows. The letter dated 5 April 2012 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (S/2012/195) was discussed. UN Resources: Previous meetings Resolutions Reports of the Secretary-General
Rising Syria deaths question UN monitoring mission A sharp rise in the number of deaths in the Syrian uprising is casting fresh doubt on the success of a UN peace plan, and testing a ceasefire deal.
UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: Security Council – The Situation in the Middle East: Syria un-library: Saturday 21 April 2012 The UN Security Council met at 6755th meeting to discuss the Situation in Syria.The Security Council discussed the letter dated 19 April 2012 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2012/238) At this meeting, the Security Council adopted Resolution 2043 (2012) unanimously; Observers to Be Deployed Expeditiously, Subject to Assessment of Relevant Developments on the Ground.
allaboutthewebplace: Eighteen months after thousands of volunteer filmmakers in every country on the planet shot 3,000 hours of footage in one day, _One Day on Earth_… http://dlvr.it/1Syp5V
united-nations: This weekend, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined other diplomats at DiploMatch, a soccer match organized by Play31, which aimed to use the unifying power of football to bring together people who have been torn apart by war. Play31’s vision is a world in which all children are free to play, as stipulated in Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The goal of the DiploMatch was to raise enough money to finance a community tournament in Sierra Leone. Photos credit: UNDP and Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
And on this Earth Day the UN invites you to join the global conversation: what future you want?
U.N. chief calls for hundreds more monitors in Syria Hundreds more observers should be sent to Syria to ensure it follows an internationally brokered peace plan, which has yet to halt the bloodshed, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
crisisgroup: CNN | Analysis: U.N. mission does nothing to change endgame in Syria The beginning of the U.N. observer mission to Syria heralds a new phase in more than a year of upheaval across the country. Success, however unlikely, could open the door to some form of dialogue between the regime and its opponents. But such is the polarization in Syria that most analysts see the mission as the least worst option before violence sets the agenda again. It’s not as though any “cessation of violence” has yet taken hold. The ceasefire was meant to begin last Thursday, but in…
Sudan warplanes bomb UN camp in S Sudan
Syrian Violence Continues as U.N. Team Prepares Arrival United Nations cease-fire monitors were due to arrive in Syria on Sunday even as activists described violence erupting in Homs and an area near the Turkish border.
