By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman stated Monday that “the US stands with Israel against terrorists even if others won’t.” Ambassador Freidman was reacting to a reported “terror attack” near Ofra in which the militant Palestine Hamas group allegedly
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Major Jewish groups are upset over the failure of the UN General Assembly to adopt the U.S.-sponsored resolution last Thursday condemning Palestinian militant organization Hamas. The resolution condemned Hamas for “repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for inciting violence, thereby
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES If United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley was seeking to go out with a bang before leaving her post this month by pushing a U.S.-sponsored resolution to condemn the activities of the militant Hamas organization, she may now very well
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES (UNITED NATIONS -NEW YORK) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a ground breaking historic document that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948 as Resolution 217 at the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NEW YORK -Despite growing pressure on the United Nations to establish an independent investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the international body has not done so yet. Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, on behalf of the Istanbul
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Since 1962, the United States has maintained a crippling economic embargo on Cuba. The UN General Assembly on Thursday called for an end to the decades-old US blockade on Cuba. The UN voted overwhelmingly 189-2 in favor of ending the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Clare Hutchinson, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, said sustainable peace will not be achieved without women’s empowerment and participation. Hutchinson made the remarks in UN Security Council debate on women’s empowerment in New York on
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The UN Human Rights Committee said on Tuesday that France’s ban on the niqab, the full-body Islamic veil, was a violation of human rights and called on the country to review the legislation. The U.N. body
The President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji held an official visit to the United Nations in New York from 23 to 25 September 2018 to attend the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, as well as the opening of the High-Level general