• President Donald Trump is adding the director of the CIA back to the National Security Council. (politico.com)
  • The government has not implemented the findings of the Winograd committee regarding the National Security Council, Army Radio quoted former IDF chief Lt.-Gen. (res. (jpost.com)
  • In practice the National Security Council is non-existent today, and I don't see it [changing] either," he said. (jpost.com)
  • Among other recommendations of the Winograd Report was 'substantial improvement in the functioning of the National Security Council. (jpost.com)
  • The National Security Council will convene Wednesday in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, APA reports quoting Anadolu Agency. (apa.az)
  • Our government is in an important preparation and hopefully we will convene the National Security Council on Wednesday," he told a crowd gathered outside his Istanbul residence in the Kisikli neighborhood. (apa.az)
  • Within the last year, NIOSH was part of a federal Interagency Working Group coordinated by the White House National Security Council to develop Fentanyl Safety Recommendations for First Responders . (cdc.gov)
  • The Secretary-General also has a mandate to convene peace talks under Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which call for Israeli withdrawal from territories it occupied in the 1967 war. (csmonitor.com)
  • They also urged all states, in accordance with their obligations under international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, to cooperate actively with the government of India and all other relevant authorities in this regard. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Mansour said this was being done "for the direct purpose of altering the demographic composition, character and legal status of its Palestinian inhabitants through forced evictions, home demolitions, revocation of residency rights, and other measures in flagrant violations of international and the past Security Council resolutions. (truthout.org)
  • The scene in the Security Council chamber is somewhat different, where over the years, the U.S. has repeatedly blocked resolutions that were either in support of the Palestinians or against Israel. (truthout.org)
  • The Security Council welcomes the appointment of Joint Special Envoy for the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Kofi Annan, following the General Assembly resolution A/RES/66/253 of 16 February 2012 and relevant resolutions of the League of Arab States. (voltairenet.org)
  • Earlier this year, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson asked the advisory council to create a subcommittee to investigate Immigration and Customs Enforcement's use of private prisons to determine if the practice should be stopped. (scrippsnews.com)
  • WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, October 18, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will deliver remarks at the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) Plenary. (dhs.gov)
  • On August 7, 2015, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2235, establishing the JIM to "identify to the greatest extent feasible individuals, entities, groups, or governments who were perpetrators, organisers, sponsors or otherwise involved in the use of chemicals as weapons. (hrw.org)
  • In a statement approved unanimously, the 15-nation Security Council asked Somalis to "resume their dialogue urgently and work together, in the interests of the people of Somalia. (ibtimes.com)
  • The council unanimously voted on and passed the sanctions package, which crafted by the United States. (c-span.org)
  • Since the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2165 in 2014, UN agencies have used the Bab-al-Hawa crossing from Turkey to deliver life-saving assistance into northwest Syria. (who.int)
  • The members of the Council reiterated their serious concern over the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the country, and expressed deep concern at the increased terrorist threat in the north due to the presence among the rebels of members of the terrorist group Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and extremist elements. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Security Council expresses its gravest concern at the deteriorating situation in Syria which has resulted in a serious human rights crisis and a deplorable humanitarian situation. (voltairenet.org)
  • A U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine again pitted Russia's ambassador against the United States and its allies on the council. (consortiumnews.com)
  • New York) - The United Nations Security Council should urgently act to address the dire human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, Human Rights Watch said today. (hrw.org)
  • New York) - The United Nations Security Council should urgently impose sanctions on the Syrian government for chemical weapon attacks in Syria and refer the situation to the International Criminal Court. (hrw.org)
  • Human Rights Watch has repeatedly called on the Security Council to urgently give the ICC a mandate as a crucial first step toward accountability. (hrw.org)
  • The representation of Asia, Africa and Latin America on the UN Security Council (UNSC) should be expanded so that the key international conflict-solving body can meet modern geopolitical needs, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. (rt.com)
  • The Russian presidency in the UNSC [U.N. Security Council] is a stark reminder that something is wrong with the way international security architecture is functioning," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said ahead of the Monday handover. (cbsnews.com)
  • Since the start of the conflict in November 2020, the Security Council has issued a single media statement on Tigray's human rights and humanitarian crisis. (hrw.org)
  • Under U.N. procedure, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia was to bang the gavel as his country assumed control of the council, which has primary responsibility under the U.N. Charter "for the maintenance of international peace and security. (cbsnews.com)
  • Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, left, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confer in the United Nations Security Council, in a Jan. 18, 2018 file photo. (cbsnews.com)
  • Chp2 Part of this act established the formation of the State Security Council under the control of the cabinet and established it as the government's national centre for operational security. (wikipedia.org)
  • And this underlines the importance which I know you have discussed many times of putting the climate emergency front and centre on Security Council agenda. (unhcr.org)
  • The National Cyber Security Centre have put together a cyber security training package for school staff to help improve their school's cyber resilience. (suffolk.gov.uk)
  • The State Security Council (SSC) was formed in South Africa in 1972 to advise the government on the country's national policy and strategy concerning security, its implementation and determining security priorities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chp2 The Commission to Inquire into Certain Intelligence Aspects of State Security, known better as the Potgieter Commission would investigate the clashes between the two organisations over who had primary responsibility for intelligence gathering in South Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • 191 Foreign Affairs and the Department of Information argued over foreign policy in South Africa and abroad while BOSS and the military argued over the direction of security policy for the country. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the meeting will be held under the agenda item, "peace and security in Africa," which does not ensure any sustained attention to Tigray afterward. (hrw.org)
  • In addition, the Council reaffirmed its support to the efforts made by ECOWAS and its mediator, the President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, as well as by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, Said Djinnit, and by the African Union, to initiate concrete steps to restore peace and security and protect the sovereignty of Mali. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In a 2013 resolution approved after a Sarin chemical attack in the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus killed hundreds of civilians, the Security Council agreed to impose measures under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter if chemical weapons were used in Syria. (hrw.org)
  • At least 208 people, including members of the security forces and civilians, were martyred in Istanbul and Ankara and nearly 1,500 others wounded as they protested against Friday's attempted coup in which helicopter gunships and jet fighters targeted public institutions and anti-putsch protesters. (apa.az)
  • United Nations - Ukraine and the U.S. have warned that handing Russia the gavel to chair the United Nations Security Council will provide President Vladimir Putin's regime a platform to spread disinformation at a pivotal moment in his grinding war against civilians in Ukraine. (cbsnews.com)
  • The Security Council should renew and expand the inquiry's mandate to ensure continued investigations into the use of chemical weapons in Syria with a view to identifying all those responsible and deterring any further use. (hrw.org)
  • In May 2014, Russia and China blocked a UN Security Council resolution that would have referred the situation in Syria to the ICC. (hrw.org)
  • The Russian and Chinese governments have no plausible basis to oppose Security Council actions to ensure impartial accountability in Syria, Human Rights Watch said. (hrw.org)
  • The Security Council statement called on Syria to "immediately cease the use of heavy weapons in population centers and immediately pull back its troops and its heavy weapons from in and around population centers and return them to their barracks. (latimes.com)
  • In an address to the Council by video-link from Geneva, Guterres said 400,000 refugees had fled Syria in the last seven weeks, bringing the population of Syrians registered as refugees or waiting to be registered to 1,367,413. (unhcr.org)
  • The Security Council expresses its profound regret at the death of many thousands of people in Syria. (voltairenet.org)
  • The Security Council reaffirms its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria, and to the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. (voltairenet.org)
  • 11 July 2021 - WHO welcomes the extension of UN Security Council Resolution 2165 for cross-border aid into northwest Syria for an additional 6 months, with the proposed extension of a further 6 months subject to the Secretary General's report. (who.int)
  • The crisis in Tigray warrants sustained public scrutiny by the UN Security Council, the main UN body tasked with monitoring and acting on threats to international peace and security. (hrw.org)
  • A state that systemically ruins international peace and security will be presiding over the body tasked with maintaining them. (cbsnews.com)
  • On Thursday, an advisory council subcommittee told the Department of Homeland Security it should continue to use for-profit prisons to detain people accused of immigration violations. (scrippsnews.com)
  • But just hours later, after an unusual debate, the advisory council rejected the recommendation. (scrippsnews.com)
  • But when the advisory council received a draft of the report, more than two-thirds of its members disagreed with that conclusion. (scrippsnews.com)
  • The Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis has prepared this report to provide a national standard by which policymakers, TB control program managers, and others evaluating TB programs can assess individual TB control programs. (cdc.gov)
  • At the request of Ireland, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and with the support of France, Estonia, and Norway, the Security Council is expected to hold its first open meeting on Tigray on July 2, 2021. (hrw.org)
  • These can include imposing sanctions or authorizing the use of force to maintain or restore international peace of security, although the council has yet to take up such measures related to Russia's current war in Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • 2017-08-07T18:50:11-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvODE4XC8yMDE3MDgwNzE4NTczMTAwMV9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== The United Nations Security Council held an emergency weekend meeting on a new set of economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea, a response to that country's launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles. (c-span.org)
  • The United Nations Security Council held an emergency weekend meeting on a new set of economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea , a response to that country's launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles. (c-span.org)
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a dramatic video appearance at the United Nations on Tuesday called on the body to remove Russia from the Security Council days after evidence circulated of executions and other atrocities committed by Russian troops in his country. (yahoo.com)
  • Zelensky said Russia should be removed from its place as a permanent member of the Security Council, where it holds veto power, arguing that it was time to reform the global peace-keeping body. (yahoo.com)
  • We are dealing with a state that is turning the veto [in] the U.N. Security Council into the right to die," Zelensky said in his remarks. (yahoo.com)
  • If Russia is not removed from the council, Zelensky said the body should just be dissolved. (yahoo.com)
  • Yesterday, the Russian army killed another Ukrainian child -a five-month-old boy named Danylo… One of the hundreds of artillery strikes that the terrorist state launches every day, and at the same time, Russia chairs the U.N. Security Council," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday , the day Russia's role formally began, calling it , "proof of the bankruptcy of procedures in world institutions. (cbsnews.com)
  • Each permanent member holds a veto power to reject measures brought up for a vote on the Security Council. (yahoo.com)
  • China, which has abstained from votes related to Moscow in the Security Council instead of using its veto, has largely offered support for Russia before and during the invasion and would be unlikely to support removing Russia from the Security Council. (yahoo.com)
  • Russia has used its veto power in the Security Council to reject statements of resolution condemning Moscow's invasion that began on Feb. 24, although two votes in the General Assembly have garnered a majority of member states voting to condemn Russia as the aggressor. (yahoo.com)
  • Russia backs Serbia on the issue and has threatened to veto any Security Council resolution on Kosovo independence. (voanews.com)
  • The UN Security Council currently consists of five permanent members, each with a power of veto - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - and ten non-permanent members, elected every two years by the UN General Assembly. (rt.com)
  • Washington has said it will veto Palestinian membership of the world body, but it could avoid the potential diplomatic fallout of vetoing the bid if Palestine fails to secure nine votes in the council. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The NCSC has produced free cyber security training to raise awareness and help school staff manage some of the key cyber threats facing schools. (suffolk.gov.uk)
  • In a press statement on Thursday, the council members reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed," the statement said, reaffirming the need for all states to combat threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Kosovo has been under U.N. administration since 1999, when NATO airstrikes drove Serbian and Yugoslav security forces from the province. (voanews.com)
  • c) To request the Secretary-General to submit at the end of this period a report on the developments in the situation and the measures taken to implement Security Council resolution 338 (1973). (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • This is a translation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2122. (peacewomen.org)
  • that sufficient agreement does not exist, either amongst the parties directly concerned or within the Security Council, to permit the convening of the international peace conference on the Middle East as called for in Resolution 42/66d,'' Secretary-General Javier P'erez de Cu'ellar wrote. (csmonitor.com)
  • The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Monday - without support from Russia and China - requesting that Taliban terrorists respect human rights in Afghanistan. (breitbart.com)
  • While the U.N. has not yet published the Security Council resolution passed on Monday, it published a summary of the discussion that preceded the vote. (breitbart.com)
  • The U.N. summary noted that only China and Russia of the 15 member states of the Security Council abstained, and both complained that they had pitched edits to the resolution that never made it into the final product. (breitbart.com)
  • The top Palestinian leadership holds that any attempt to restart the peace process would be futile unless the world community agrees to bind Israel through a Security Council resolution to freeze its illegal settlement activities in the West Bank and other Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem. (truthout.org)
  • Sources told IPS that last week the chief Palestinian diplomat had met Ambassador Rice, but failed to get a clear response for a possible Security Council resolution to halt Israeli settlements. (truthout.org)
  • It's very clear that at the moment the U.S. is not ready for any Council resolution on a settlement freeze," said a diplomat who did not want to be named. (truthout.org)
  • The Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister expressed hope that Saturday's meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the issue would be the first step towards formal UN intervention in the area and provisions for international protection. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • The African Union's Peace and Security Council meets had met on saturday 27 may 2023 at the heads of state and government level. (africanews.com)
  • Reports of Iranian security forces shooting protesters in the eyes emerged in the first months of the demonstrations, which began immediately following the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022. (rferl.org)
  • A general view during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the situation between Russia and Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 31, 2022. (cnbc.com)
  • Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya attends a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the situation between Russia and Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 31, 2022. (cnbc.com)
  • The Iran Human Rights group (IHRNGO) said the Islamic nation's security forces "intentionally targeted" the eyes and faces of protesters during a violent crackdown on demonstrations last year sparkled by the death of a young woman in police custody for allegedly violating the country's hijab law. (rferl.org)
  • Secretary Johnson will discuss the Department's work with public and private sector partners to strengthen the security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure. (dhs.gov)
  • The council has kept its deliberations and diplomacy behind closed doors despite abuses that the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. (hrw.org)
  • After the 1994 elections a committee called National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee was formed to advise the South African president on security and intelligence as well as its implementation. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the rise of PW Botha to prime minister, so the SADF's power increase in cabinet and with that the Directorate Military Intelligence (DMI), who would strive to dominate security issues in the new government and decide its policy and implementation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The updated framework replaces the U.S. federal government stages from the 2006 implementation plan for the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (US Homeland Security Council. (cdc.gov)
  • It is now clear that the goals set in San Francisco in 1945 for the creation of a global security international organization have not been achieved, and it is impossible to achieve them without reforms," he said. (yahoo.com)
  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tweeted Sunday that Ukrainian authorities must "stop war against their people" and asked the U.N. Security Council and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to give "urgent attention" to the crisis in eastern Ukraine. (cnn.com)
  • But as Jeremic noted in his address to the Security Council on June 17, that is only a fraction of the UN's total 192 member states, and Kosovo itself remains outside the UN. (rferl.org)
  • Under such circumstances, Jeremic said, it was only appropriate that the UN continue its mission in Kosovo, to help protect the security of the ethnic Serbian minority. (rferl.org)
  • China, another Security Council permanent member, also does not recognize Kosovo and supports continuing UNMIK. (rferl.org)
  • Serbian and ethnic Albanian negotiators are expected to present a report Wednesday to the U.N. Security Council about the demands of Kosovo Albanians for independence from Serbia. (voanews.com)
  • If Russia has any questions to Ukraine, it is better to meet and talk, not to bring troops to the Ukrainian borders and intimidate Ukrainian people,' said Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya at a United Nations Security Council meeting. (cnbc.com)
  • Strong condemnations and accusations were traded Sunday night as the U.N. Security Council held an urgent, previously unscheduled meeting to discuss the worsening crisis in Ukraine. (cnn.com)
  • Immediately afterward, President Biden announced another $800 million in security assistance to help Ukraine defend itself. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Moscow also assumes presidency of the council amid growing concern over the safety of Russian-occupied nuclear power plants in Ukraine. (cbsnews.com)
  • We expect Russia to continue to use its seat on the Council to spread disinformation and to try to distract from the attempt to justify its actions in Ukraine and the war crimes members of its forces are committing. (cbsnews.com)
  • The German ambassador's blog recalled an 'ideologically charged discussion about the appropriate attire' council members should wear on a tour of a refugee camp in Liberia. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • With Switzerland and Malta being non-permanent members, the West currently has five seats on the council, more than any other region. (rt.com)
  • If council members won't take that step, then the secretary-general would be justified to bang down the door. (hrw.org)
  • In a statement to the press, the members of the Council reaffirmed the need "to uphold and respect the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Mali and reject categorically any declarations to the contrary," and demanded "an immediate cessation of hostilities in the north of Mali by rebel groups. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The president and many of his top security and military chiefs are members of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. (latimes.com)
  • Despite the apparent interest of all members of the UN Security Council in convening a Mideast peace conference under UN auspices, such a move would be futile at this time, the UN Secretary-General concluded in a report last week. (csmonitor.com)
  • The four European members of the council (Britain, France, Italy, and West Germany) form a second group, according to the report. (csmonitor.com)
  • The nonaligned and East-bloc members of the Council endorsed a conference leading to ``the attainment by the Palestinian people of its legitimate inalienable rights, including the right to return, the right to self-determination, and the right to establish its own independent state in Palestine. (csmonitor.com)
  • The UN General Assembly on Monday elected Azerbaijan to a two-year term on the Security Council, joining Pakistan, Morocco, Guatemala and Togo as the five new non-permanent members of the most powerful UN body. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Azerbaijan won 155 votes on Monday in the 17th ballot since the 193 members of the UN General Assembly began casting their secret votes to elect five new council members. (eurasiareview.com)
  • However, the council is expected to vote on Nov. 11 and the new members' term does not begin until Jan. 1 2012, so unless there is a delay they will not influence the Palestinian bid. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Much to our surprise, Brahimi's remark went unchallenged by other Security Council members, including you. (adl.org)
  • These members who made substantive contributions to this report rotated off the Council in 1994. (cdc.gov)
  • During his speech to the Council, the former Algerian Foreign Minister and UN envoy sympathetically quoted a Palestinian woman from Gaza who told Brahimi that "Israel has put us in a concentration camp. (adl.org)
  • Last week, the Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour sent a letter to U.S. ambassador Susan Rice, who was then president of the Security Council, in which he described the current situation in Palestine as "grave" and said it required "urgent attention and serious action" by the international community, including the Security Council. (truthout.org)
  • The Security Council calls upon the Syrian government and opposition to work in good faith with the Envoy towards a peaceful settlement of the Syrian crisis and to implement fully and immediately his initial six-point proposal. (voltairenet.org)
  • The Security Council requests the Envoy to update the Council regularly and in a timely manner on the progress of his mission. (voltairenet.org)
  • Secretary-General António Guterres should press the Security Council to meet regularly and publicly on the situation, which has triggered a man-made humanitarian crisis and been characterized by widespread atrocities, including massacres and horrific sexual violence. (hrw.org)
  • The main thing is today, it's time to transform the system, the United Nations," he told the Security Council. (yahoo.com)
  • BEIRUT - The U.N. Security Council on Sunday condemned Syrian army artillery and tank barrages on a civilian neighborhood where 108 people, most of them women and children, were killed, suggesting in a carefully worded statement that government forces were largely responsible. (latimes.com)
  • The government says armed men attacked security forces in Houla on Friday, alleging that "terrorists" - its usual label for antigovernment rebels - carried out the massacre in a bid to discredit Syrian forces and sabotage the U.N. peace plan. (latimes.com)
  • Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic addresses the Security Council. (rferl.org)
  • Among the many questions that U.N. Security Council diplomats must grapple with as they travel the globe in search of solutions to the world's crises add these two: Should you wear a suit when visiting a refugee camp or go casual? (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Ukrainian diplomat is not a member of the council but was invited to participate as the crisis escalates at his country's border. (cnbc.com)
  • The decision to reveal, rather than paper over the divisions, is helpful, says one diplomat on the Council. (csmonitor.com)
  • For eight months, the Security Council has failed to even meet publicly on Tigray, let alone act to prevent further atrocities," said Akshaya Kumar , crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. (hrw.org)
  • The Islamic State took responsibility for the attack, though Taliban guards were reportedly in charge of security at the airport. (breitbart.com)
  • Azerbaijan is considered more vulnerable to the US pressure than its predecessor on the council Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite being an Islamic country. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The Security Council, meeting in an emergency session, said the "outrageous use of force against [the] civilian population" is a violation of a U.N. peace plan. (latimes.com)
  • However, there is no sign that the 15-member Security Council intends to take any immediate measures to rejuvenate the stalled peace process led by the U.N., the United States, the European Union and Russia. (truthout.org)
  • Rekindling the Agenda on Women, Peace and Security: can the EU lead by example? (lu.se)
  • The Security Council will meet again on February 22 to renew the mandate of the African Union mission in Somalia. (ibtimes.com)
  • The Security Council should immediately add Ethiopia to its formal agenda and request regular briefings from the secretary-general on the situation. (hrw.org)
  • I don't want to prejudge anything at this moment," Ivan Barbalić, president of the Security Council for this month, told IPS in response to a question about whether or not the Council would soon be holding a meeting to discuss the Middle East situation. (truthout.org)
  • If the council is unable to reach agreement on the need to address the issue, the secretary-general should step in to urge sustained attention to the crisis. (hrw.org)
  • The UN Security Council called Tuesday on Somalia's leaders to quickly resume dialogue to arrange new elections, hoping to resolve a new crisis in the violence-ravaged nation. (ibtimes.com)
  • Eurasian Energy Security is a thoughtful work that illustrates the need for a coherent European energy policy and argues that the ongoing financial crisis provides a unique opportunity to tackle the issue. (cfr.org)
  • Venezuela has been pushing hard for a seat on the Security Council, arguing that its independent voice is needed to oppose the United States. (voanews.com)
  • But Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, is a strong supporter of Belgrade's claims, resists closing UNMIK, and does not recognize Kosovo's independence. (rferl.org)
  • But a vote by member nations on Monday to fill Latin America's seat on the Security Council is capturing a lot of attention. (voanews.com)
  • There is no provision or mechanism to remove a permanent member of the Security Council written into the U.N. charter. (yahoo.com)
  • In a sense, a position as a temporary member on the UN Security Council is merely an award to the best and smoothest briber - such a country can claim some ceremonial status, not more. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • A spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the U.N. said Washington saw "no feasible international legal pathway," however, to change the fact that Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council, and so qualified to hold the rotating presidency. (cbsnews.com)
  • UNITED NATIONS -- Serbia has reiterated its opposition to Kosovo's independence, with Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic telling the UN Security Council that Belgrade will never recognize its former territory as a separate entity. (rferl.org)
  • The Security Council also condemned renewed violence by the Shebab jihadist group and reaffirmed support for the territorial integrity of Somalia -- where Somaliland declared independence during the 1991 civil war. (ibtimes.com)
  • The Council called for the immediate release of all abductees and renewed its call to all parties in Mali to seek a peaceful solution through appropriate political dialogue. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The following guidance, provided by the GOV.UK aims to help raise education provider's awareness of cyber-crime and cyber security. (suffolk.gov.uk)
  • The council is also planning a trip to Iraq, in a show of support ahead of parliamentary and provincial assembly elections on May 12. (gulfnews.com)
  • 10 April 2012 - The Security Council today urged the military rebels who seized control of the government in Mali to immediately implement the agreement signed last week with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which provides a series of steps to restore constitutional order in the country. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Council also condemned all violence against humanitarian workers after it was reported that seven Algerian diplomats were abducted in the town of Gao in northern Mali last week. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Security Council will consider the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) report on August 30. (hrw.org)
  • This Council Special Report, authored by Jeffrey Mankoff, explores the challenges faced by consumer and supplier alike in Europe and Eurasia. (cfr.org)
  • The reason is the split of the Security Council into three camps, which the report reveals openly for the first time, over the basis for such a conference. (csmonitor.com)
  • A subcommittee report recommended that Homeland Security continue using private prisons for immigration detention. (scrippsnews.com)
  • This report maps Arctic allies' and partners' defense strategies and domain awareness capabilities to make recommendations for enhancing Arctic security. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Myanmar has agreed to a visit by the UN Security Council after months of resistance, but it remains unclear whether ambassadors will be allowed to go to Rakhine state, the body's president said Monday. (gulfnews.com)
  • The council is currently considering President Mahmoud Abbas' application, which he submitted on Sept. 23. (eurasiareview.com)
  • I am very honoured to be able to have this opportunity during Niger's Presidency, and I apologize for not being able to be there in person to address the Security Council. (unhcr.org)
  • Your staff, who work on our services, will complete relevant security awareness training before working on or supporting, any service provided to us. (ccc.govt.nz)
  • For its part, Guatemala says it deserves a seat on the council, because it has troops participating in international humanitarian missions and it has never had a seat on the Council before. (voanews.com)
  • Analysts say the new structure of the council is more likely to yield to US pressure over the Palestinian bid for full UN membership, particularly Guatemala and Togo who replaced Brazil and Nigeria. (eurasiareview.com)