es, the UN Secretary-General could then report to the Security Council and eventually recommend that it should confirm t

ll prevail in the General Assembly, though not in the Security Council. President Barack Obama, with whom Netanyahu just

House chief of staff Bill Daley said dismissively. Hillary decided to push her case on March 12, after the Arab League voted to request action from the U.N. Security Council—an extraordinary decision to break Arab ranks and ask the nations they had for so long denounced as colonialists to help. “Their statement moved her,

he Obama administration vetoes the application in the Security Council as expected, Palestinian officials are likely to

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ween Iran and the PS+1 (five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany) has now been scheduled to take plac

lestine. Although this responsibility falls under the Security Council, the constant exercise by the US of its veto powe

They realize that the measures taken until now by the United States and Europe have been relatively gentle, therefore wholly ineffective. Add to that the U.N. Security Council's recent failure to condemn Syria and official Arab support for Syrian stability, and you will grasp why the Assad regime saw an opening to reinforce A

supported by the three other permanent members of the Security Council. The world has meanwhile witnessed China's impres

udes a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem. The United States has lost all credibility on this issue; after casting the sole vote in the U.N. Security Council against censuring Israel for its illegal settlement building, it can no longer act as an objective mediator. This act was a watershed in U.S.- Saudi

r negotiations, a position fiercely opposed by Israel. More recently, the administration has confirmed that it will veto Palestine's statehood bid in the U.N. Security Council. Obama's relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seemed very strained at times. In a recently overheard conversation he told French P