UNITED NATIONS, March 22 (Xinhua) - A Chinese envoy said Friday that by setting preconditions for a ceasefire in Gaza, a U.S. draft resolution essentially green-lights continued killing, which is "unacceptable." During his explanatory statement following the Security Council's vote on the Palest...
"If we talk about a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, then, of course, it will have an external outline," Grushko said an interview with Izvestia that was translated by Google. "We will demand that cast-iron security guarantees become part of this agreement," he said. "Beca...
The council's only Arab member, Algeria, also signaled it was not ready to back the text, diplomats said. A resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the U.S., France, Britain, China or Russia to pass. Biden laid out a three-phase ceasefire plan...
The UNSC “demands all parties to the conflict and other armed actors to immediately end the fighting throughout South Sudan and engage in political dialogue,” the resolution read. The text, which called for an end to violence against civilians and voiced concern over the use of barrel bombs,...
"It's very clear that this administration, up until now, has made the resolution of the Russian war on Ukraine its top foreign policy priority. "It has clearly spent a whole lot of time." He said JD Vance "has guaranteed that he's going to be engaged in...
Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood told the council that the draft resolution was a rushed, imbalanced text “that was divorced from reality, that would not move the needle forward on the ground in any concrete way.” He declared that halting military action would allow Hamas to...
He also stressed his full commitment to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701. “The state and all its institutions are committed to implementing the Resolution” on the “entire Lebanese territories,” Aoun said. On the possible adoption of a defense strategy, Aoun insisted that even if ...
Central to the deal is a United Nations Security Council resolution, numbered 1701, that was first passed back in 2006, at the end of the last large-scale conflict between the two. A key challenge remains the weakened and at times precarious nature of the Lebanese state, though the ...