Representatives vote on a draft resolution during a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York, on Dec. 1, 2023. The Security Council on Friday adopted two separate resolutions to renew the sanctions regime on Somalia-based Al-Shabaab and to lift the arms embargo on the Somali go...
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council on Thursday once again postponed the long-delayed vote on a critical resolution for desperately needed aid to Gaza, due to disagreements from the United States. This is the fourth time within a week that the voting has been postpo...
A UN Security Council vote on a resolution to increase much-needed aid deliveries to Gaza has been delayed as talks continue to avoid a third US veto over a halt in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. The 15-member council was initially going to vote on the resolution ...
With London holding the rotating presidency of the council, British foreign minister David Lammy is due to chair a vote on a UK/Sierra Leone-proposed draft resolution, which also calls for the protection of civilians. ALSO READ:UN Security Council considers action on Sudan war ...
‘The resolution does not fall under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter and does not allow any automatic enforcement of coercive measures,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the Security Council vote. The UN Security Council resolution on chemical weapons in Syria will have to be obse...
In an explanation of the vote, Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, pointed out that the Security Council's sanctions on the DRC are designed to curb the violent activities of armed groups. "Regretfully, 18 years after its initial implementation, armed groups in ...
“What we need now is concrete action by the full international community to hold these warring parties accountable,” Haley said in impassioned remarks before the vote. Critics of the resolution argued that the measure came at a sensitive time in peace talks led by the Intergovernmental Authority...
The resolution is up for a vote at the U.N. Security Council on Monday evening, but it does not appear to be the"strongest possible" sanctions that the Trump administration had hoped forfrom the global body. Thenew draft, obtained by CBS News, revises the draft circulated by U.S. Amba...
Any negative vote, known as veto, from the council's five permanent members means a failed resolution.■ The United Nations Security Council votes on a draft resolution on Ukraine at the UN headquarters in New York, on Feb. 25, 2022.(Xinhua/Xie E) ...
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