Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Briefing to the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East, 22 April 2021
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Allow me to begin by wishing all Muslims of the world a blessed Ramadan.
I brief you today as Palestinians and Israelis are immersed in consequential political and electoral processes. Preparations continue for the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, scheduled for 22 May, while Israelis are engaged in efforts to form a governing coalition after the elections held on 23 March.
These developments may have significant implications for the prospects for advancing peace in the months ahead.
The holding of credible elections in Palestine is a crucial step towards renewing the legitimacy of national institutions and reestablishing Palestinian national unity. I encourage international support to these efforts.
April 10, 2021
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
Last year Senator Bernie Sanders led a public push to reduce the insanely bloated US military budget by a paltry ten percent. His push splatted headfirst against a bipartisan solid steel wall which shut him down definitively.
Sanders’ bill was killed in the Senate by a vote of 23 to 77, with half of Senate Democrats stepping up to help Republicans stomp it dead. It’s companion bill in the House of Representatives was killed by a margin of 93 to 324, with a majority of House Democrats (92 to 139) voting nay.
Contrast those numbers with those who voted to approve Trump’s $741 billion military budget this past December. The House voted to approve the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) budget by a margin of 335 to 78, 195 of those yes votes coming from the Democratic side of the aisle. The Senate passed that same budget by 84 to 13. This was a substantial increase from the previous year’s budget, a trend which has remained
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Security Council briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question (as delivered by UN Special Coordinator Wennesland), 26 January 2021
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Foreign Minister Coveney of Ireland,
Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia,
Foreign Minister Ebrard of Mexico,
Foreign Minister Eriksen Søreide of Norway,
Deputy Foreign Minister Tammsaar of Estonia,
Foreign Minister Malki of the State of Palestine,
Secretary-General Aboul Gheit of the League of Arab States,
Members of the Security Council,
I am honored to address this Council for the first time in my capacity as the Secretary-General’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and by the trust bestowed upon me in this role by the Secretary-General, the parties and you, Members of this Council.
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- The PM-designate, Florin Citu, declared on Tuesday that it is the role of the new Government to quickly manage the health and economic crisis. At the same time, I would like to make a firm statement, Mister President, here. Romania is going through a double crisis during this time, a health and economic one. It is the role of this Government to go as quickly as possible through this health crisis, with as little costs as possible for Romanians, to rearrange the economy, on its own legs, into a healthy one , Citu highlighted.