UN Security Council

The United Nations Security Council should mobilize to prevent further atrocities in Myanmar. The Council’s inaction over the last few months starkly contrasts with the clear warnings from senior UN officials who are urgently ringing alarm bells. By Akshaya Kumar As…

The speech of the MSF secretary-general to the UN Security Council has just finished. Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders [ Médecins sans Frontières] (MSF), in a speech to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), urged member states…

Meeting early in the evening, the Security Council rejected by 5 votes for, 4 votes against (United States, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom), and 6 abstentions a draft resolution presented by the Russian Federation by which the Council notably…

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira chairs a meeting of the UN Security Council today in New York, USA, to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Vieira, who concluded his working visit to Cambodia, postponed his visit to the Philippines and travelled to…

By refusing to negotiate, the US and NATO left Moscow no choice but to launch its military operation in Ukraine, FM Sergey Lavrov said Years of NATO encroachment on Russia and the West’s refusal to negotiate over Ukraine left Russia “no…

On 12th of July, 2022, the UN Security Council approved the conditional renewal of humanitarian aid through the Bab Al-Hawa crossing. Still I Rise’s alarm: “The lives of 4.4 million people have been turned into an instrument of political pressure.”…

By Anders Breidlid and Tomm Kristiansen (*) Norway is a new member of the UN Security Council from January 1 2021 and will, according to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “use the experience of decades of work for peace…

As forced displacement tops 79.5 million, Filippo Grandi urges UN Security Council to use its authority seek peace and inclusion for the displaced. By Tim Gaynor Ending conflicts around the world that are driving unprecedented global displacement is not just a…

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved the deployment of dozens of observers to the strategic Yemeni port city of Hudaydah for six months to monitor a truce reached during the latest round of UN-sponsored peace negotiations in Sweden last…

Viewpoint by Nursultan Nazarbayev The author is the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Following are extensive excerpts from his opening address to the two-day Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions on October 10, 2018 in Astana,…