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Topic: UN Security Council

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December 29, 2012
8:50 pm

Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Arab League chief says Palestinians to embark on new statehood bid at UN Security Council

Nabil Elaraby says two decades of talks with Israel have been ‘a waste of time’

December 21, 2012
8:47 am

The chamber of the UN Security Council in New York (photo credit: CC BY-SA Gruban, Flickr)

UN blacklists 2 Iranian companies suspected of smuggling weapons to Syria

American ambassador calls on all states to ‘redouble their efforts to detect, prevent, inspect, and seize any Iranian arms shipments’

December 20, 2012
11:24 pm

UN peacekeepers monitor the Syrian side of the Golan Heights in July 2012 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israeli ambassador urges UN to disarm ‘powder keg’ Hezbollah

Syrian chemical weapons could fall into the hands of Lebanese group, Ron Prosor warns

By Adiv Sterman

December 20, 2012
3:35 pm

Lipkin-Shahak as a young captain in the 1960s (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Office)

Lipkin-Shahak remembered and construction dismembered

The press looks at the UN bashing of Israeli building in the West Bank, and says farewell to a chief of staff

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 20, 2012
1:30 am

The UN Security Council chamber (photo credit: CC BY-SA Gruban, Flickr)

Security Council members step up pressure on Israel over settlements

US blocks vote on resolution against Israel and joint presidential statement condemning move

By AP and Times of Israel staff

December 18, 2012
9:27 pm

A construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, December 2012 (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

US denounces Israeli plans to build in East Jerusalem and settlements; Europe set to follow suit

State Department accuses Israel of engaging in a ‘pattern of provocative action’

December 18, 2012
5:42 pm

UN peacekeepers monitor the Syrian side of the Israeli-Syrian border from an army post at Mount Bental in the Golan Heights last July (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

UN peacekeeping force on the Golan may collapse, French ambassador warns

‘If this happens, Israel will have to urgently find alternatives,’ says former Israeli senior diplomat

By Elhanan Miller

December 18, 2012
7:29 am

The UN observer force on the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights (photo credit: CC BY FreedomHouse/Flickr/File)

UN sees risk of escalation in Syrian-Israeli tensions in Golan

From the web Reuters: Draft Security Council resolution warns that civil war may jeopardize 1973 ceasefire, calls to extend UN peacekeeping mission

December 18, 2012
6:34 am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, in July (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Farewell, for now, to the foreign minister who ‘burned many more bridges than he built’

Avigdor Liberman’s supporters hail the overseas visits he made and consulates he opened; his detractors say the ‘no more Mr. Nice Guy’ top diplomat was a disaster, and hope he won’t be back

By Raphael Ahren

December 14, 2012
11:21 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, stands next to Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Dawoud Rajha, right, and Chief of Staff Gen. Fahed al-Jasem el-Freij, left, during a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war, in Damascus, Syria, last year (photo credit: AP Photo/SANA)

As Syrian rebels close in, Assad still has cards to play

Slow-moving diplomatic process, sectarian loyalty, superior firepower, regional turmoil and chemical weapons help keep dictator in power

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy

December 14, 2012
4:25 pm

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow in April 2012 (photo credit: AP)

Russia backtracks on statement about Assad’s looming fall

Moscow claims official was merely characterizing the opinion of the Syrian opposition

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

December 6, 2012
12:33 am

A Palestinian boy riding a donkey near the E1 settlement corridor, with Ma'aleh Adumim in the background, on Wednesday. (photo credit: (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Palestinians to call on Security Council to stop settlement building

Move will put Washington in bind, but US still likely to veto anti-Israel resolution

December 3, 2012
8:43 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin (photo credit: AP/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin heads to Turkey amid differences over Syria

In Istanbul, Russia’s president likely to come under fire for his continued support of Bashar Assad