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Peter James Spielmann
April 15, 2014, 4:01 pm
Security Council to review images of Syrian dead
In push to send Assad to ICC, UN body to see photos of victims of war that has claimed more than 150,000 lives
By Peter James Spielmann
Rima Khalaf (YouTube Screen Shot)
April 15, 2014, 4:49 am
Israeli UN envoy pans diplomat for Nazi comparison
Prosor denounces Jordanian-born agency head for tacitly comparing Israel to genocidal 20th-century regimes
By Peter James Spielmann
A soldier rests atop a Russian armored personnel carrier with a road sign reading "Sevastopol - 32 kilometers, Yalta - 70 kilometers", near the town of Bakhchisarai, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ivan Sekretarev)
February 28, 2014, 11:48 pm
Ukraine appeals to UNSC over Russian invasion
UN envoy says military helicopters and transport planes are entering his country, have seized major airports in Crimea
By Peter James Spielmann
Egyptian protesters wave their hands as the chant anti-police and military slogans during a march towards the Egyptian Cabinet to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the 2011 Cabinet clashes, on Kasr el-Nile bridge in Cairo, Egypt. December 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
January 23, 2014, 5:36 pm
Democracy watchdog group paints bleak annual outlook
Report on civil rights and liberties around the world warns of negative trends in Egypt, Turkey
By Peter James Spielmann
A Syrian man mourns as he sits in the rubble of buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)
January 9, 2014, 3:46 am
Russia blocks UN statement on Aleppo strikes
Moscow waters down language of UK security council proposal which sought to condemn Assad regime for civilian deaths
By Peter James Spielmann
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, deliver statements on the situation in Syria, from Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)
January 7, 2014, 2:47 am
Iran not among first invitees to Syria conference
US and Russian top diplomats to discuss the Islamic Republic’s inclusion at a meeting next week
By Peter James Spielmann
The United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution (illustrative photo: AP/Craig Ruttle)
November 21, 2013, 10:28 pm
Jordan set to join UN Security Council
Israel’s neighbor expected to replace Saudis, who turned down seat to protest body’s inability to resolve Syrian conflict
By Peter James Spielmann
The aftermath of a car bomb attack on a market in the Syrian town of Darkoush, in Idlib province, last month (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network)
November 20, 2013, 6:06 am
UN to Syria: Stop blocking aid convoys
Russia and China vote against resolution calling on Assad regime to stop hampering distribution of humanitarian assistance
By Peter James Spielmann
Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour (photo credit: United Nations Media Center/File)
November 19, 2013, 1:54 am
‘State’ of Palestine casts its first UN ballot
Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour hails vote as a symbolic step toward full membership in world body
By Peter James Spielmann
The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (CC BY-US Mission Geneva/Flickr/File)
November 12, 2013, 4:02 am
China, Russia up for UN human rights panel seats
Advocacy group says five of the candidates running unopposed refuse to let the UN investigate their own human rights abuses
By Peter James Spielmann
Syrian children wait in line for food at a refugee camp near the Turkish border, in Azaz, Syria, last December (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)
October 1, 2013, 2:46 am
UN Security Council demanding aid access in Syria
Draft statement calls for delivering humanitarian assistance across conflict lines and demilitarizing hospitals and schools
By Peter James Spielmann
UN inspectors are escorted by Syrian rebels in Damascus in August, 2013 (photo credit: AP/United media office of Arbeen)
September 7, 2013, 11:55 pm
‘UN team could submit Syria report next week’
German paper says interim report on alleged chemical weapons attack may be given to secretary-general before Security Council
By Frank Jordans and Peter James Spielmann
President Barack Obama listens as Samantha Power speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)
September 6, 2013, 1:00 am
Washington: Russia holding Security Council ‘hostage’
Putin will not support a resolution authorizing military force against Syria, American UN ambassador Power says
By Peter James Spielmann
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, last December (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)
September 3, 2013, 10:59 pm
Ban: Any Syria strike must get Security Council OK
Secretary general says attack on sovereign nation may only be initiated as act of self-defense
By Peter James Spielmann
A vehicle with UN experts on board in a convoy following their investigation in Syria after they crossed into Lebanon on their way to Beirut international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
August 31, 2013, 10:17 pm
UN: Possible timing of Syria attack ‘grotesque’
Spokesman Martin Nesirky says about 1,000 international staff-persons remain in the country
By Peter James Spielmann
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