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Diego Arria formula to be used to mediate in the Syrian conflict Someways similar to Syria today, war crimes were being committed against the citizens ofBosnia & Herzegovina in 1992 as newly independent country was under horrific assault bySlobodan Milosevic’s and Ratko Mladic’s Serbian forces. Similar to...
Stopping Genocide: the Responsibility to Protect Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings? During World War II, German cleric Dietrich Bonhoeffer actively conspired against Hitler to resist the persecution of Europe's ...
UNESCO grants full membership status to Palestine FoxNews: "United Nations cultural agency UNESCO, in test vote of recognition, grants full membership to Palestinians over threat of defunding by U.S." Link...
Hugo Chávez Defends Syria Assad Regime President Hugo Chávez Frías said that the real reason for military intervention in Libya this year was to take over its wealth, and that the same imperialist tactics are being exercised in Syria. Although not able to personally attend and speak, Preside...
In 2010 Barack Obama advocated for membership of Palestine in the UN, today he is against The Express Tribune: "Exactly a year ago, President Barack Obama used the opening session of the UN General Assembly to express his hope that “when we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the UN — an ind...
North Korea imports McDonald’s burgers while the country starves to death This is some really outrageous stuff. The Strait Times reported that within the last 12 months North Korea imported food for its starving population for the amount of $46 million of U.S. dollars. But at the same time, Kim Jong Il, ordered imports of luxur...
America to reject United Nations as the new global Antichrist? US House of Representatives Republican led Committee wants to cut US “foreign aid” including contributions to the UN and UN peacekeeping and the Organization of American States (OAS). The measure is not yet binding upon the US President, and is not li...
ICC Prosecutor: Gaddafi provided Libyan troops with Viagra to encourage rape The Belfast Telegraph: "The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said yesterday that he is investigating claims that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi provided Viagra to Libyan soldiers to promote the rape of women during the current conflict...
ICC issues international arrest warrant for Gaddafi (finally) "The International Criminal Court prosecutor has asked judges to issue arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, one of his sons and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity." Read more here...
International Criminal Court moving closer toward indicting Gaddafi for war crimes Indictments could lead to the top of Libya’s leadership, particularly Colonel Gaddafi. Orders to attack and kill civilians are evidenced to have come from the highest levels of Libya’s current regime. As importantly, they continue. ICC (internation...
Mohamed ElBaradei: investigate Bush team for war crimes AP: "Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq." Read more here...
Money,Weapons & Legitimacy of Gaddafi The “Contact Group on Libya” is concluding its meeting in Doha addressing probably 2 of the 3 most critical considerations important for the ultimate triumph of the Libyan opposition. Money and weapons of self-defense are 2 critical considerations. So...
Reaction: Taliban mob kills UN workers in Afghanistan Diplomatically Incorrect reacts to the recent killings of 10 UN workers in Afghanistan: The killing of UN workers in northern Afghanistan by a mob purportedly infiltrated by Taliban insurgents regardless of any provocation is inexcusable and inexplica...
UN's Ban Ki-Moon says the attack on Libya may produce 250,000 refugees The New York Times has a story according to which the military intervention in Libya may produce over 250,000 refugees. Ban Ki-Moon said that he was worried “about the protection of civilians, abuses of human rights and violations of international human...
Diego Arria: The Conscience of United Nations Do personalities make a difference in foreign policies? Are the fates of nations and countries dependent on skills, passion and leadership of a few people only? We ask this question today when the world is watching military intervention in Libya, authoriz...
Obama supports Brazil's aspirations to become a permanent UN Security Council member Travelling for his Latin America trip, Barack Obama acknowledged Brazil's aspirations to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Read more here...
UN declares War on Gaddafi The no-fly zone element of the UN Security Council Resolution (1973) has garnered most attention but “all necessary measures” (to protect civilians in Libya) terminology is the key enabling language that translates this into effectively a declaration ...
UN to authorize military intervention in Libya within hours The Guardian reported that the United Nations will likely authorize military action against Gaddafi's regime within hours. The new resolution finally has backing from UK, France and the United States. The Guardian says that accoring to its "source at UN h...
International Criminal Court Game Changer Saturday night – the UN Security Council, the Libyan people won the night but the International Criminal Court (ICC) captured the moment. More than just this instant, when the Security Council referred LIBYA-Gaddafi to the ICC, it was unprecedented in r...
UN draft resolution refers Gaddafi to International Criminal Court Referring Colonel Gaddafi’s and his forces to International Criminal Court and travel/financial sanctions is for now main tool for global community to confront the despot. The Resolution apparently drafted by the European Union representatives at the UN...
Diego Arria: Advocating for the Victims of War We found an interesting article in The Los Angeles Times describing how Ambassador Diego Arria advocated for the victims of genocide during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 90’s. In that time Mr. Arria served as the Venezuelan Ambassador to the ...
South Sudan Surges toward Secession: Has Darfur been Forgotten? Despite long committed activism by notables, George Clooney, Mia Farrow, Don Cheadie, and many others, is Bashir hoping and opting for strategy to get globe to forget or at least demote priority of Darfur human rights presumably in favor of focus on South...
Actor Michael Douglas disarming UN diplomats "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein As someone who has covered the diplomats of the United Nations for over two decades I find Goodwill Ambassador Michael...
Bosnia assumes presidency of UN Security Council Tumultuous and Bosnia & Herzegovina (“BiH”) at the United Nations Security Council seem to be a frequent theme over the last two decades. This time though Ivory Coast, Haiti, Sudan, the Koreas, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, and Somalia face the crisis as (Bi...
Sacirbey: Shutting Down War Crimes Tribunal Prematurely? Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey, the former foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, shares his views on UN’s decision to close down the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. Driven by desire to move off the agenda Mladic's and Belgra...
WikiLeaks: Will fear prevail? Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey comments on the WikiLeaks situation and the recent statements by the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Navi Pillay, who expressed concerns about governmental actions targeting WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange....
Richard Holbrooke dies at 69 It has just been reported that Amb. Richard Holbrooke -- special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and one of FP's earliest editors, has passed away after emergency surgery for a torn aorta. He was 69. Link...
Sacirbey: Ratko Mladic is in Serbia The Hague Tribunal Prosecutor, (ICTY), reported to the UN Security Council that indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic is still enjoying effective protection from arrest in Serbia. Mr. Serge Brammertz, the ICTY Prosecutor, has on several previous occasions re...
Does US threaten to expose gay affair? “Spying” or Intimidation/Blackmail? - Does US threaten to expose gay affair? What is More Effective in end for national interest? Intelligence gathering at the UN of course is part of the job description of most diplomats. It is understood by the p...
United Nations: It’s Okay to Kill a Gay Thor Halvorssen, the President of the Human Rights Foundation, submits an article on United Nations Assembly's vote to deprive sexual minorities of some of international law protection. Last week, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Asse...
Diego Arria and Mo Sacirbey discuss human rights Our editor, Diego Arria, who served in the 90’s as the Chairman of the UN Security Council met with our contributor, Muhamed Sacirbey, the former Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to discuss their experiences at the United Nations, internation...
A singing UN Summit Check out this video posted at AOL by BarelyPolitical.com. It is the weekend so it’s time to have some fun and relax a bit. The video features a singing Hugo Chavez, UK’s former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama. Enjoy. ...
Interview with Diego Arria Diego Arria, one of our editors, gave an interview to the “Cambridge Student” gazette, a student body’s newspaper at Cambridge University. Mr. Arria discussed his diplomatic experience at the United Nations and the idea behind the creation of a moda...
Leadership in genocide times: Saving even one life was important Before the upcoming 15th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords we did an interview with Muhamed Sacirbey, the former Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina and also its Ambassador to the United Nations during the war time of the 90’s. Mr. Sacirbey...
Diego Arria's leadership We proudly present a link to the Los Angeles Times’ article from 1993 about Diego Arria’s exceptional leadership at the United Nations during the Bosnian genocide. The beginning of the 90’s saw emergence of many diplomatic leaders who worked around ...
United Nations: UN expert urges Venezuela to cancel arrest warrant against TV executive A United Nations independent human rights expert today urged authorities in Venezuela to withdraw arrest warrants against a television executive and his son, saying the orders were an attempt by the Government to silence its critics and a sign of deterior...
Foreign Policy magazine on Diego Arria Diego Arria was featured in an op-ed by Colum Lynch in the Foreign Policy magazine. Lynch writes that “Colin Keating said the council began exploring ways to hold informal meetings outside the council chamber in the early 1990s, at the height of the Bos...
Diego Arria on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva The Editor of our Latin American section, Mr. Diego Arria, former Venezuelan Ambassador to the UN and presently one of the opposition leaders in Venezuela, commented for the Miami Herald on Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's prospects of be...
Bosnia: Between election as Security Council member and Dayton Accords Bosnia & Herzegovina, (BiH), is favored to win election to the United Nations Security Council this October 15 for a two-year term as non-permanent member. Bosnia & Herzegovina’s tumultuous history, recent and distant, provides the global body w...
United Nations Fight Against Nuclear Terrorism War on terror has many front lines. Besides numerous intelligence agencies and military forces actively taking action to eliminate terrorist threat around the world, there are many other groups of people and organizations willing to contribute to this gre...