Addressing the UN General Assembly meeting debating the use of veto power in the Security Council, Dai Bing, the charge d'affaires of China's permanent mission to the United Nations, explained why China, together with Algeria and Russia, firmly opposed on March 22 a U.S.-proposed draft reso...
"If Iran's case is sent to the UN Security Council, the deal will be ruined ... and will not be alive anymore," he explained. Last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced his country's withdrawal from complying with the restrictions set by the nuke accord, officially known as th...
"We cannot imagine how the vote today, as well as the council's failure to respond to the Gaza conflict over the past 13 months, can escape the harsh judgment of history," he said. The Security Council adopted its first cease-fire resolution in June, endorsing a three-phase deal proposed...
Security Council agenda at the request of the United States and Albania after they submitted a note on Tuesday with the support of dozens of countries - double what they received last year. The move is likely to anger Pyongyang, which has repeatedly rejected accusations of abuses...
Further still, the heightened power of the UN Security Council members gives participating states the possibility of abusing the veto power. From COVER STORY, BEIJING REVIEW, No. 40
A new report from Amnesty International has found that weapons and military hardware from Russia, China, Turkey and the UAE are being imported in large quantities into Sudan and diverted to Darfur despite a mandatory United Nations Security Council (UNSC) arms embargo from 2004. ...
One week ago, the 15-nation Security Council failed to pass an agreement calling for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire because of a veto from the United States. Several council members repeated their call for a ceas...
She was speaking at a one day debate at the UN Security Council titled “Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace: Transitional Justice in conflict and post-conflict situations,” held recently. She added that when seeking mechanisms of transitional justice, related simple theories ...
Yet behind this fig leave, there is a cunning plan that was concocted by our Western colleagues," he told the council before the vote. Nebenzia explained that the ban on the placement of WMDs in outer space has already been enshrined in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. The United States...
Members of the United Nations Security Council vote on a Gaza resolution at the UN headquarters in New York City on Monday. This resolution, which calls for an immediate cease-fire during the month of Ramadan, was passed with 14 out of 15 votes. The US abstained, permitting its approval. ...