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  • UN getting closer to agreeing on Security Council reform, says UNGA President

    UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has said that the Security Council reform process has made headway in the past year and "we are getting closer to agreeing" on what it should be like. Emphasising the need for a reform, he told reporters on Thursday that the inability of the Security Council to unite and act overshadows the positive work of the UN and the entire system "gets criticised harshly".
    Therefore, the importance of the reform process "goes well beyond the role of the Security Council", he said. Lajcak said that he had tried to ensure that the reform process was a credible one "and I think we succeeded on that".
    https://www.financialexpress.com/wor...ajcak/1313026/

    Reminder- the US is the president of the Security Council right now. Which means Pres. Trump will be presiding at the U.N. Security Council, a rotating role that falls to the United States this month.

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    UN Secretary-General: American Power Is in Decline, the World Is 'in Pieces'

    This is happening at the same time as the world itself is "in pieces," moving since the end of the Cold War from an American-led order to an order led by multiple powers that has yet to be defined, he told me. "It's inevitable that mono-state leadership of the international order will be more and more put into question," said Guterres, who had just returned from a marker of this transitional period: a summit in Beijing on China's deepening ties with Africa. "Both the United States and the rest of the world need to be able to adapt to this new situation," he said.
    "The fact that the world [is moving to] a multipolar situation"—with several preeminent powers organizing the international system—"is probably good," he added. "But it would be an illusion to think that multipolarity is a solution of peace and security problems. We can never forget that Europe before the First World War was multipolar, but in the absence of multilateral governance mechanisms" the continent plunged into war.
    "With a Security Council [as] divided as this one, it's difficult to adopt sanctions or to adopt tough measures against whatever regime in the world, even if [those sanctions and tough measures] are fully justified," Guterres admitted.
    https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...ations/570130/
    Last edited by SAT; 09-19-2018, 11:30 AM.

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    • #3
      Bring the United Nations closer to the people, urges Assembly President in her inaugural speech

      The new session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on Wednesday with its President pledging to use her year in office to bring the world body closer to the people and strengthen their sense of ownership and support for the UN.
      "Let us proceed together, building a world more equal and free, more sustainable and respectful of nature, and more inclusive and supportive," she said.
      https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/09/1019712

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      • #4
        Abbas bluster at UN isn't what should worry Israel
        On Thursday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will give a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York that several of his associates have promised will be "extraordinary." Others have predicted a dramatic, even historic, announcement.
        https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-...-worry-israel/

        They have done this before and it turned out to be a false claim. The difference this time could be cnav's post



        Abbas in Paris/gives Macron note for Trump, ready for confidential/public peace talks

        https://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/f...ic-peace-talks

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        • #5
          Another Macron/Abbas article SAT

          Abbas: France increasingly studying possibility of recognizing Palestinian state



          https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-...stinian-state/
          Last edited by cnav; 09-22-2018, 06:14 PM.

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          • #6
            Wow cnav. Now add your post re Spain and things are suddenly moving. All at a time the Trump deal has moved into "pre launch" mode.

            This week should be very interesting.

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            • #7
              From link at post #5
              Palestinians are prepared to participate in any *secret* or *publicly known* peace negotiations on the condition that the Middle East Quartet and *other states* mediate them.

              The Quartet compromises the US, Russia, EU and United Nations.

              The PA president explained that in addition to the Quartet, the Palestinians would *welcome any European or Arab state* to mediate talks between them and the Israelis.
              Back to the area from which the AC will emerge...
              Eu or Arab state

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              • #8
                JOINT COMMUNIQUE between the European Union and the United Nations: A renewed partnership in development

                http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release...18-5927_en.htm

                EU Endorses Initiative to Reform United Nations, Changes 'Badly Needed' - Tusk

                https://sputniknews.com/europe/20180...-un-eu-reform/


                BRICS Countries Urge UN Reform, Cooperation on Terrorism
                https://www.voanews.com/a/brics-coun...m/4014146.html

                side note

                Third African Union-European Union-United Nations Trilateral Meeting: Joint Communique

                http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release...18-5882_en.htm

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