GENEVA, May 25, 2018 – The U.S. called on Russia to pressure Syria to “stand down” from the presidency of the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament which the Assad regime is scheduled to take over on Monday despite allegedly carrying out numerous deadly chemical weapons attacks. UN chief Antonio …
GENEVA, May 25, 2018 – After delivering a speech yesterday in Geneva on disarmament, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres expressed the hope that Syria’s presidency of the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament, starting on Monday, won’t have a “negative impact” on the …
Debate in UN Conference on Disarmament May 22, 2018 Full 1-hour audio recording Click here for petition https://unwatch.org/wp-admin/post-new.php Highlights related to Syria’s upcoming presidency of the Conference on Disarmament. See UN Watch’s press release here. Syria: I hope that the Syrian …
GENEVA, May 23, 2018 – UN Watch today launched a global petition to leaders of major democracies urging them to pull their ambassadors form the UN Disarmament Forum when Syria’s Assad regime takes over the presidency on May 28, 2018. Petition sent to Nikki Haley, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, …
UN Watch’s exclusive report and appeal on Syria’s upcoming presidency of the UN’s top disarmament forum has sparked a global firestorm. The scandal arose yesterday in the U.S. State Department press briefing and then today in the White House press briefing, and is being reported in news media …
Syrian ambassador Hussam Edin Aala, left, with Vladimir Gratchev, representative of Michael Møller, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Sept. 3, 2014. GENEVA, April 9, 2018 – Despite accusations that it perpetrated yet another deadly chemical weapons attack on Saturday, Syria will …
A flurry of statements and articles by Sweden, the New York Times, and Foreign Policy, want us to believe that a U.S. reduction in its $360 million annual funding of UNRWA would bring humanitarian disaster and threaten international peace and stability. But according to a little-known internal audit, the …
Why U.S. Pulled Out of UNESCO My take on why the U.S has pulled out of UNESCO: "Between 2009-2014, UNESCO adopted 46 resolutions against Israel; 1 on Syria; and zero on Iran, Sudan, North Korea, or any other country in the world. UNESCO paid tribute to mass murderer Che Guevara, elected Syria to its human …
GENEVA, Nov. 30, 2017 – The U.N. General Assembly today condemned Israel in six Arab-sponsored resolutions, voting 151 to 6, with 9 abstentions, to adopt a text on Jerusalem which called Temple Mount by its Islamic name only, and voting 105-6-58 to condemn Israel’s presence on the Golan Heights, with the …
The following chart has been compiled by UN Watch. 2017 UNGA Resolutions Condemning Countries Resolutions on Israel: 21 (Click here to view chart) Resolutions on all other countries: 7 1. “Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran” (A/C.3/72/L.41) Extract: “Strongly urges the Islamic …
