The UN Security Council has just unanimously passed a Russian drafted resolution which affirms the terms of the ceasefire agreement for Syria, originally composed by Russia and Turkey.
Strictly speaking, the agreement did not need Security Council ratification, but it is significant that Russia decided to have the UNSC effectively certify the document by passing it as a binding resolution.
In this photo provided by the United Nations, members of the United Nations Security council vote at the United Nations headquarters on Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, in favor of condemning Israel for its practice of establishing settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. In a striking rupture with past practice, the U.S. allowed the vote, not exercising its veto. (Manuel Elias/The United Nations via AP)
South Africa’s collaboration in BRICS is aimed at contributing in a positive manner to the formation of global solutions to global challenges, says Nkoana-Mashabane [XInhua]
The BRICS Post (TBP) editor-in-chief Zeenat Saberin recently interviewed South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane about the challenges of violence the continent faces, and the prospects of regional and global cooperation.
May 31, 2016
By Stephen Gowans
On, March 2, 2016 the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on North Korea, citing the DPRK’s:
• Nuclear test of January 6, 2016;
• Its satellite launch of February 7, 2016, which the Security Council said relied on ballistic missile technology which could be used as a nuclear weapons delivery system. (Is it possible to launch a satellite without ballistic missile technology?)
“What the U.S. really wants is not the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula but the Americanization of the Korean peninsula.” [1]
March 7, 2016
By Stephen Gowans
Press TV – February 11, 2014
Russia has lashed out at the UN Security Council over a draft resolution that would impose more sanctions on Syria unless the government gives unrestricted access to aid delivery.
In Latin America, opposition to military intervention in Syria reflects the wariness of a region long beset with U.S. interventions of its own
By W. Alex Sanchez | Foreign Policy In Focus | October 4, 2013
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner with Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa. (Presidencia de la República del Ecuador / Flickr)
By Alison Depsky | The Argentina Independent | August 6, 2013
President Fernández speaking before the UN Security Council
(photo:Presidencia/Télam/e)
By David Swanson | War Is A Crime | May 7, 2013
Some human rights groups, especially Amnesty International, seem to have forgotten an important human right: peace. A petition has been launched to remind them.
