Tag: UN
Syria: Security Council authorizes deployment of advance military observer team
UN Secretary General’s statement regarding the North Korean launch failure Despite its failure, the launch is in direct violation of Security Council Resolution 1874 and threatens regional stability.
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…
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.
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/)
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
Court Rejects Palestinians in Their Bid for a Tribunal For the Palestinian Authority, which had sought an investigation of an Israeli military offensive, the ruling was a setback to its effort to gain international recognition as a state. Maybe it is just interesting for me, since I am planning to write a study about the ICC. But yet it’s interesting.
UN discusses Gross National Happiness indicator as successor to Gross Domestic Product UNITED NATIONS — Should happiness figure in a nation’s bottom line? And should the concept of Gross National Product be replaced by Gross National Happiness? I like the idea more and more every day… 🙂
The Negotiation Process In this video Mungo Woodifield, of the UK Mission to the UN, discusses the negotiation process leading to the adoption of a resolution extending the mandate of the UN Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) at a Security Council meeting chaired by the Foreign Secretary William Hague on 12 March 2012
The U.N. Happiness Project The Dragon King of the House of Wangchuck in Bhutan is about to realize his ambition: to use G.N.H. (Gross National Happpiness) as an alternative to G.N.P. Yep, he’s about to take it to the UN General Assembly. And it’s a good plan too. I mean what’s all the wealth worths if people are unhappy? So now, the goal is: let’s all be happy! 🙂
