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unreal, for real?
Michael Young
Article 5.
The Stimson Center
Syria And Iran: The U.N. Proves Its Worth To
The U.S.
Ellen Laipson
NYT
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EFTA01955461 ... Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his skepticism
public in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly two
weeks ago, when he argued that the way to deal with ... else sees the region the way
they do—Israel. When Netanyahu announced in his U.N. speech
that if Israel has to stand alone to prevent a nuclear Iran, "we
will
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Iran
Editorial
Article 2
Wall Street Journal
Iran Doesn't Belong in the U.N. or IMF
John Bolton, Mark Wallace and Kristen Silverberg
Article 3.
Foreign Policy
Why Did Egypt ... Wall Street Journal
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Iran Doesn't Belong in the U.N. or
IMF
John Bolton, Mark Wallace and Kristen Silverberg
August 13, 2012 -- The Iranian nuclear crisis ... dragged on for
some 20 years, despite multiple U.N. Security Council
resolutions and a phalanx of national sanctions. Many believe
that only military force will stop Iran, but even
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statehood
"legitimate." And on Wednesday the executive board of UNESCO,
the U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, voted
overwhelmingly to put the question of Palestinian membership ... Clinton was that it was
"inexplicably" putting the cart before the horse: Let the U.N. act first,
she told reporters.
"If she means what she says I would agree with ... expansion.
The Palestinians not only dismissed strong American objections
about the move at the U.N., but have now followed this up with a
request for recognition at UNESCO. This request
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devolving into a struggle
over continued U.S. funding for the only significant U.N.
organization headquartered in Paris: the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). In recent weeks,
while ... pressed forward with a bid for full
membership in Unesco, both French diplomats and U.N. officials
have been quietly back-pedaling on the issue. Like so many
maneuvers ... U.N., this reversal appears to be less about grand
matters of principle than about money. According to American law
since the 1990s, the U.S. is prohibited from giving funds
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budgetary
support to the PA should the Palestinians go ahead with the U.N.
vote. Compared with all the loony bills, says Jeremy Ben-Ami, head
of J Street, the liberal ... about these consequences. "I
worry," she said, "about the Palestinian Authority going to the U.N."
She wasn't thinking about the consequences; that was the
Palestinians' job. At moments like ... delivered a speech rejecting the
diplomatic bid and vowing to seek statehood at the U.N. Security
Council.
Lowey and her colleagues are threatening the Palestinians with doom
for refusing
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Continue Protecting Lebanon
An-Nahar
Friday 22 Aprile
Hizbullah on Thursday hit back at U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon over statements contained in his annual report on the
implementation ... U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559.
"It is not something new for the U.N. secretary general to take unjust and unfair stances in his analysis of the
situation in Lebanon, especially ... country, which are off-limits to the Lebanese army, are also
armed.
"The U.N. secretary general's latest stance clearly shows that he is blatantly on the side
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opinion."
When the British gave up and ceded Palestine's future to the U.N. in the
winter of 1947, Truman and Secretary of State George Marshall initially
attempted to take ... pressure put on the White
House," Truman wrote in a letter. But after the U.N. passed the proposal in
November 1947 and the Arabs took up arms, as the State ... Truman's tacit support for abandoning partition and reviving the idea of a
U.N. trusteeship. But when America's U.N. representative introduced the
proposal, the Zionist movement reacted sharply
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memoir by
Kofi Annan, its former secretary-general.
The latest failure of the U.N. dream was Annan's
mediating mission to Syria. For months, he tried to
cajole President Bashar ... would
avert civil war. To which he received the standard
answer to well-meaning U.N. missions: Go away. You
are powerless to stop me.
Annan finally did walk away last ... prevent conflict. Another failure is
probably ahead with Iran, where six years of
escalating U.N. sanctions have not curbed Tehran's
nuclear program and unilateral military intervention is
increasingly likely
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September, the Obama administration intervened to
prevent voting on the Palestinian application for U.N.
membership. This involved President Barack Obama
writing to the Bosnian Presidential Council to
encourage a vote ... member, by withdrawing $60 million in
funding to the organization.
Ultimately, for the Palestinians, U.N. recognition is a
strategic option, regardless of how long the process
may take to achieve ... same reality that
other governments have faced in the past after
unsuccessfully blocking U.N. recognition of
independent states.
In particular, the U.S. should learn from the
experience of the former
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evaporated, as new assessments raise fresh doubts about
the prospects for the U.N.-brokered accord and the chances for removing
the country's repressive leadership in the near term, diplomats ... intelligence officials say.
Even as U.N. officials tout a declining death toll and increased numbers of
international monitors in the country, reports from inside Syria point to a
determined ... show scant progress by Assad toward
implementing any of the six steps of the U.N. peace plan he nominally
accepted in March. Under the accord, the Syrian government
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Torture. For a full legal analysis ofthe this convention, see CRS Report RL32276,
The U.N. Convention Against Torture: Overview ofU.S. ImplementationPolicy Concerning
the Removal ofAliens, by Michael John Garcia.
EFTA ... party to the 1967 United Nations Protocol
Relating to the Status of Refugees (hereafter, U.N. Refugee Protocol)! The U.N.
Refugee Protocol does not require that a signatory accept refugees ... meet the
definition of refugee. At the time the United States signed the U.N. Refugee
Protocol, Congress and the Administration assumed that there was no need to amend
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even some supporters did not
believe he would follow through. His speech at the U.N. resolved
their doubts, however, and raised the ceiling of the Palestinian
position.
Abbas' speech derived ... president refused to
compromise by making a request for non-member status at the U.N.
General Assembly — either within the package presented by French
President Nicholas Sarkozy ... charges of weakness that have dogged him, particularly after his
decision to postpone the U.N. Goldstone report that accused Israel of
war crimes in Gaza. One cannot explain Abbas' position
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memoir by Kofi Annan,
its former secretary-general.
The latest failure of the U.N. dream was Annan's mediating mission to
Syria. For months, he tried to cajole President Bashar ... would avert civil
war. To which he received the standard answer to well-meaning U.N.
missions: Go away. You are powerless to stop me.
Annan finally did walk away last ... prevent conflict. Another failure is probably ahead with Iran,
where six years of escalating U.N. sanctions have not curbed Tehran's
nuclear program and unilateral military intervention is increasingly likely
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memoir by
Kofi Annan, its former secretary-general.
The latest failure of the U.N. dream was Annan's
mediating mission to Syria. For months, he tried to
cajole President Bashar ... would
avert civil war. To which he received the standard
answer to well-meaning U.N. missions: Go away. You
are powerless to stop me.
Annan finally did walk away last ... prevent conflict. Another failure is
probably ahead with Iran, where six years of
escalating U.N. sanctions have not curbed Tehran's
nuclear program and unilateral military intervention is
increasingly likely
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