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UN Security Council adopts resolution for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza

After four failed attempts, the UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling for urgent pauses in fighting in Gaza and humanitarian corridors - to al...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #GazaStrip #Gazahumanitariancrisis #Israel #IsraelHamaswar #Israel-Palestineconflict #LindaThomasGreenfield #Maltasponsoreddraft #Palestine #UN #UNSecurityCouncil #UNSC #UnitedNations #gazablockade #gazahealthcaresystem #gazaunderattack #gazawar
UN Security Council adopts resolution for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza

aljazeera@squeet.me

Ceasefire or pause? Words UN members can’t agree on to stop Israel’s bombs

As pleas for a ceasefire in Gaza grow louder, there is a palpable sense of urgency at the United Nations. But the Security Council remains divided, strugglin...#Gaza #Hamas #Israel #Israelgazawar #Israelhamaswar #Israelselfdefence #LindaThomas #UNGA #UNRWA #UNSC #Unitednations #Unitedstates #draftresolutionsongazawar #gazaceasefire #gazawar #hamasattackonIsrael #unresolutionongazawar #unitednationsgeneralassembly #unitednationssecuritycouncil
Ceasefire or pause? Words UN members can’t agree on to stop Israel’s bombs

faab64@diasp.org

Jeffrey Sachs at #UNSC on #NordStream sabotage : "Sweden has perhaps the most to tell the world about the [Nord Stream] crime scene, which its divers investigated. Yet instead of sharing this information globally, #Sweden has kept the results of its investigation secret..."

#NATO #Germany #Terrorism #Politics #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineWar

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birne@diaspora.psyco.fr

The United Nations has the power to punish Putin. This is how it can be done

This situation plainly cannot continue while Ukraine burns. A sensible, doable first step would be to change the rules, via an exceptional one-off vote, to allow majority voting in the security council on specifically Ukraine-related issues. Russia’s inevitable veto could be overridden, and the rule change ratified, by the anti-Russia two-thirds majority that already exists in the general assembly. If Putin didn’t like it, he could lump it. And if he didn’t comply with subsequent resolutions – for example, on withdrawing Russian forces – all UN members would be expected to support UN-agreed punitive measures, as in the case of North Korea.

Majority voting in the UNSC could be introduced more generally over time. But, in any event, Guterres should now ask all member states to support the convening of a new foundational conference akin to that in San Francisco in 1945, to relaunch the UN, institutionally and organisationally, in ways that reflect the global power balances and priorities of the 21st century.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/united-nations-putin-ukraine-catastrophic

#Guardian #SimonTisdall #UN #UNSC #UNHRC