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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 30: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks to the media after a U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria on May 30, 2012 in New York City. The Security Council held discussions following a massacre of more than 100 civilians in Houla.
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As a University community, we must deplore the senseless violence by Syrian government forces that took the life of Bassel, and countless others over these many months. We hope and expect that growing international outrage, and yesterday’s condemnation of the Syrian government by the U.N. Security Council, will create a more peaceful and non-violent path to freedom for the people of Syria.
If it is not banned and if it is profitable, if the project is developed we are ready ... The U.N. Security Council permitted this issue in sanction resolutions. Preliminary consultations continue on this issue.
Zimbabwe is not a party to the Rome statute and to get an ICC charge against Mugabe would require a UN Security Council resolution. That means getting past all five of the permanent members.More quotes »
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Annan calls Syria situation 'bleak'
-- International envoy Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that the situation in Syria is "bleak" and expressed alarm at reports that government troops are still carrying out military operations in towns where U.N. observers are not present.He Read more »
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UN Security Council OKs 300 Syria observers
NATIONS -- The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday expanding the number of UN cease-fire observers in Syria from 30 to 300 and demanding an immediate halt to the violence that has been escalating since the government and opposition Read more »
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UN panel OKs cease-fire monitors for Syria
deadly shootings and ambushes, and reported at least 14 people were killed.Saturday's resolution gave the 15-nation Security Council its first united front since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad began 13 months ago; it called for immediate Read more »
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Iran vows new initiatives in talks with West
program, Iranian state media reported Thursday.The talks Saturday in Istanbul between Iran and the five permanent U.N. Security Council nations plus Germany are the first direct negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program after talks collapsed more than 14 months Read more »
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Clinton: Russia inaction keeps Assad in power
-- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Russia's refusal to support constructive action by the U.N. Security Council on the crisis in Syria is keeping its President Bashar al-Assad in power.Clinton said when foreign ministers of the G-8 meet in Washington Read more »
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U.N. Security Council concerned by lack of aid access in Sudan
under the resolution. Rice said the states had not started discussing the contentious issue of oil revenues. The Security Council passed the resolution after the African Union sought backing for its demand for Sudan and South Sudan to cease hostilities, withdraw 53 m ago from Reuters Read more »
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EU Preparing More Syria Sanctions
with partners in other European Union countries to impose additional sanctions on Syria, without the approval of the UN Security Council. Speaking from Istanbul, Hague warned that Syria was moving closer to an "all-out civil war," ITV News reported. U.S. Secretary 6:03 PM from Arutz Sheva Read more »
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Irwin Cotler: Since When Did the Right to Protect Become the Right to Protect Syria's Massacres?
for international support and solidarity in their struggle against the murderous regime. What is required now is a UN Security Council resolution -- it is astonishing that no such resolution has yet to be adopted after 14 months of mass atrocity -- in order 5:55 PM from The Huffington Post: Canada Edition Read more »
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Syria Risks ‘Civil War,’ UN Chief Says
Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks to the media after a U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria on May 30 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday warned that massacres like the one 3:52 PM from The Epoch Times Read more »
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Syria Simmers Amid U.N. Security Council Deadlock
appear increasingly inclined to push for regime change in Syria, although the latest round of diplomatic talks at the U.N. Security Council Wednesday suggest that it remains a distant possibility. Both Russia and China, the two leading members of the Shanghai 2:54 PM from Inter Press Service News Agency Read more »