UN Security Council

Nine countries are expected to vote in favour of an independent Palestinian state at the UN Security Council. The figure was announced by Nabil Shaath, a member of Fatah's...

A Palestinian specialist in settlement affairs has claimed that America's use of its veto in the UN Security Council last month has led to a rise in the rate...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has called on the representatives of its member states at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to convene an emergency meeting to discuss...

The Arab League's annual ministerial meeting to be be held in Cairo next week will discuss the Israeli attack on the Yarmouk Industrial Complex in Khartoum, Sudan. According to...

Jordan's Islamic Action Front has expressed its concern about Israel's violations of international laws, resolutions and conventions, not least its violations against the sanctity of Al Aqsa Mosque and...

Sudan has asked the UN Security Council to fulfil its responsibilities with regard to what it calls "attacks by South Sudan" in the Heglig region near the border between...

Agreement has been reached that the venue for the forthcoming talks on Iran's nuclear programme will be Istanbul. The European Union, Iran and the so-called "5+1 Group" (the permanent...

The Israeli occupation authorities have confiscated 350 acres of land in the occupied city of Jerusalem and the surrounding area in the past three weeks. Details of the land...

The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, strongly condemned a draft law that declares the city of Jerusalem as "the capital of Israel and the Jewish...

The Secretary General of the League of Arab States has said that "Israel's disregard for international law, public opinion and human rights conventions is far beyond all limits." Speaking...

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has said that national reconciliation will remove one of the excuses used by opponents of Palestine's membership of the UN....

The Saudi Foreign Minister has criticised the performance of the UN Security Council with regards to what he views as its "failure" to find a just solution to the...

In its efforts to reclaim rights for Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel, Palestine's Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs is to file a complaint with the UN Security Council. Minister...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called for the international prosecution of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad for the commission of war crimes. Pillay reiterated...

An Iraqi parliamentarian has called for the permanent members of the UN Security Council to support Iraq against what she calls "Kuwaiti land expansion" at the expense of Iraq's...

Israel has warned the UN Security Council that it will not "stand idle" as the war in Syria spills over the border. The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations,...

On Thursday, Damascus condemned Israel's intentions to drill for oil in the Golan Heights – Syrian territory it occupied in 1967, and labelled the action an "illegal and a...

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry has called on Iraq's security services to "assume their responsibilities" to stop what it described as Iraqi violations of the border area between the two...

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) demanded on Sunday that the ICC investigate crimes against humanity being committed by Israel in the Palestinian occupied territories. The Russell Tribunal on...

The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation , Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, has stressed that one of the Organisation's main goals is to secure a seat at the UN Security...

The UN Security Council (UNSC) agreed unanimously on Thursday to lift sanctions imposed on Iraq two decades ago following its invasion of Kuwait under former dictator Saddam Hussein. The...

The Lebanese Army's command issued a statement on Wednesday claiming that 12 Israel jets violated Lebanon's airspace and flew over various areas in the past 24 hours alone, according...

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it is refusing to accept a UN Security Council seat because the Council has failed to resolve the Palestinian issue, the...

Israel is preparing for a new, "even fiercer" war against the people of the Gaza Strip, claims a senior Hamas official, and the preparations have exposed "US hypocrisy" yet...

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khalid Suleiman Al-Jarallah denied on Thursday the reports suggesting that his country would take the UN Security Council seat which the Kingdom of Saudi...

After it was rejected by Saudi Arabia, Jordan is expected to accept the Arab seat in the UNSC, Western diplomats said on Friday. Saudi rejected the seat in protest...

The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have decided to form a unified military command for its member states. The decision was made at the council's 34th summit...

The US Senate has called on the Obama administration to launch a diplomatic campaign "to convince the world not to recognise a Palestinian state, in case the matter is...

The UN Human Rights Council has prepared a draft report which calls for a universal ban on making, transporting and using unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs), otherwise known as drones....

During her Senate confirmation hearing, the newly-nominated US representative at the UN has pledged to fight for Israel to have a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council. Samantha...

Iran has proposed a candidate for the position of vice chairmanship of the UN Disarmament Commission, a move that the US describes as "unacceptable in light of Iran's many...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed his belief that there is no military solution to the current Syrian crisis. A diplomatic solution is the most appropriate for...