Reuters on Thursday reported that efforts by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) to clarify issues surrounding the so-called possible military dimensions (PMD) of Iran’s atomic program had – per the outlet’s headline – shown “no sign of breakthrough,” even as the May 15th deadline by which Iran was to have...

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In the wake of allegations of Syrian of chemical weapons use, questions about Syria’s commitment to abide by the chemical weapons convention it signed onto last year, the capture of Homs by the Syrian government, and the ever-rising death toll, the United Nations’ special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, announced his resignation...

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Palestinian outlet Ma’an reported Monday that the United Nations had officially accepted the Palestinians as members of the U.N. Convention against Corruption, one of scores of international institutions that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has committed to joining and – of those treaties and bodies – one of many that analysts...

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Asaf Romirowsky describes The Real Palestinian Refugee Crisis in the May 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine. At the center of the crisis, Romirowsky explains, is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which works counter to its stated goals: “UNRWA has no...

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At the end of March, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hastened the end of the American-sponsored peace talks with Israel by pursuing membership in fifteen of international treaties (of which the PA was already in violation of at least 11). This week, the PA was accepted into the  United Nation’s anti-corruption treaty....

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Despite the ongoing P5+1 negotiations between the West and Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed expectations of any compromise on his country’s ballistic missile program as “stupid” and “idiotic.” UPI reports on the statements made to Iran’s IRNA news agency. So this is a stupid, idiotic expectation …...

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In a surprising move, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Indonesian diplomat Makarim Wibisono to replace the controversial special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk. Though Falk’s term as rapporteur has come to a close, his wife, Hilal Elver, was appointed by the council to...

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Luis Moreno-Ocampo, a former prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), warned the Palestinian Authority that if it becomes a party to the ICC in order to pressure Israel, the decision could backfire. As reported in Ynet: When he was the court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo turned down a request...

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The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) on Sunday announced that the group’s central committee had adopted a plan under which the Palestinians would seek to join 60 United Nations bodies and international treaties, per a report by Agence France-Presse (AFP) subsequently cited in both Arabic and Israeli media: Palestine People’s Party...

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Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday called for an investigation into allegations that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime had recently deployed chemical weapons against civilians and opposition elements, after members of the body received a closed-door briefing from a coordinator charged with removing portions of Assad’s vast...

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