The General Assembly will review an audit it called for regarding the governance of the UN’s Pension Board, which rejected many of the study’s recommendations. Here, the General Assembly Hall, Dec. 24, 2017. EVAN SCHNEIDER/UN PHOTO
Iceland was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to fill the vacant seat, above, left in the Human Rights Council by the United States, after it resigned the Geneva-based body on June 19, 2018. JEAN-MARC FERRE/UN PHOTO
In the middle of last week, when the Trump administration was still unable to say how it “lost” more than 2,500 children torn from their asylum-seeking parents at the border with Mexico, Nikki Haley, the United States envoy to the United Nations, was telling a different story to a sympathetic group in Washington, D.C.
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On Tuesday, the third committee of the UN General Assembly passed three non-binding resolutions condemning alleged human rights violations and free speech restrictions in specific countries – Iran, Syria and North Korea. Though non-binding resolutions cannot become law and technically carry no legal weight, they are seen as expressing the UN’s approval or disapproval regarding a specific situation.
North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho has arrived in New York where he will attended the United Nations General Assembly.
He briefly addressed reporters who asked about Donald Trump’s threat to destroy the country.
The Foreign Minister responded,
“If he was thinking he could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, that’s really a dog dream”.
When asked about Trump referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un as “rocket man”, Ri Yong-ho replied,
“I feel sorry for his (Trump’s) aides”.
Yesterday, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the United Nations in a speech that served as a kind of appendix to Donald Trump’s controversial, bellicose declaration that was delivered hours earlier.
Both speeches predictably focused on Iran and both leaders told a great deal of untruths and half-truths about the situation.
Here are some of the most glaring untruths, followed by a factual explanation of the situation.
1. Iran is “devouring nations”.
The full quote from Netanyahu is as follows:
World leaders are beginning to gather in New York where they will attend the opening of this year’s session of the UN General Assembly. This year is particularly significant as it will be Donald Trump’s first address to the UN General Assembly since becoming President of the United States in January of this year. However, Trump may well be overshadowed by other events and consequently, by other nations.
Here are the things to look out for.
Israel has yet again fired on Syrian troops near al-Quneitra in the Golan Heights. This comes as for over a week, Israel has been consistently hitting Syrian targets in the region where the Syrian Arab Army is engaged in fierce fighting with al-Qaeda/al-Nusra terrorists.
Due to the consistency of these attacks from Israel, it is necessary for the United Nations to condemn Israel’s atrocities.
Here are the reasons Israel should be condemned by the UN.
1. Israel is acting without legal justification.
