Following an impassioned speech by Gordon Brown,
the security council voted to move troops in to protect citizens and diffuse the ongoing violence.
The article comes just weeks after the U.N.
Security Council voted to enforce tougher sanctions on the country after it teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year.
In March, the U.N.
Security Council voted to permit «all means necessary» to establish a no - fly zone and impose a cease - fire.
The September 3 nuclear test prompted a new round of sanctions on North Korea after
the Security Council voted unanimously on a resolution condemning the test.
What we've learned from court documents released Friday, and subsequent reporting, is that during the transition, Kushner instructed Flynn to try to get the Russian ambassador to block a United Nations
Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements.
Flynn: In December 2016, during the transition, Flynn spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions that President Barack Obama had just placed on Russia, and about a planned United Nations
Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements.
Not exact matches
«With that
vote Russia made a commitment to us, to the Syrian people, and the world to stop the killing in Syria,» Haley said of February's UN
Security Council ceasefire in Syria.
Flynn also told Mueller's team that he did not ask Kislyak to «delay the
vote on or defeat a pending United Nations
Security Council resolution» and that Kislyak «subsequently never described to Flynn Russia's response to his request,» the indictment says.
With 14
votes in the U.N. General Assembly, the region can be key to Canada's 2020 bid for a non-permanent U.N.
Security Council seat.
The
vote adds pressure on David Cameron to refer IS to the UN
Security Council, who in turn can refer the group to the International Criminal Court.
«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite
voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations
Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»
Even the UN
Security Council, which offers to its members the «best way to protect their own sovereign rights and national interests» by exercising the veto power, counts the
votes of an absent member as an abstention.
Short of
voting for a Palestinian state, the
Security Council» absent an American veto» also might revise its Resolution 242, adopted after the 1967 War.
Also at 12:30 p.m., NYC
Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito holds a press conference prior to the
Council's pre-stated meeting where members are expected to
vote on a private school
security bill, Red Room, City Hall, Manhattan.
Basically, it's related to the US abstinent on UN
Vote on Israeli Settlements (United Nations
Security Council 2334).
The UN's failures can be traced to the way the
Security Council (SC) is currently able to act in a judicial manner in determining whether states have complied with SC resolutions, while also acting as the executive in drawing up those resolutions, and also as the principal legislature in
voting on them.
Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for all Members of the United Nations when they have been adopted by a
vote of two thirds of the members of the General Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations, including all the permanent members of the
Security Council.
Ukraine, which supported the draft resolution at the
Security Council, was among 21 countries that did not turn up for the
vote.
It comes after the UN
Security Council, including Russia and China,
voted for further sanctions against Pyongyang.
Cook is firm in his belief that such a measure can only be justified by a
vote in the UN
Security Council.
-- With concerns about school
security on
voting days, some Republicans on the town
council are considering forming a subcommittee to investigate alternate polling places.
Add that outrageous betrayal of trust to her 2009 self - appointed pay raise (and the entire city
council) that defied a majority opposition to any pay raise voiced at a public hearing, followed by disobeying public referendum laws that recognized term limits that she abrogated (in favor of arranging an unlawful third term for Michael Bloomberg to serve, that automatically guaranteed her own job
security), plus a final and detrimental insult to the working poor that blocked our rightful
vote on sick pay coverage, and collectively, it would make total sense to impeach and prosecute such unethical, improper and unfair conduct — that is unbecoming to anyone purporting to serve their constituency.
«All of these nations that take our money and then they
vote against us at the
Security Council or they
vote against us, potentially, at the Assembly, they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they
vote against us.»
With 14
votes in favor, it was the first resolution the
Security Council has adopted on Israel and the Palestinians in nearly eight years.
CIVIC CENTER — A protester was injured struggling with
security officers during the City
Council's
vote Tuesday on the mayor's controversial citywide rezoning proposals.
Last month, the UN
Security Council unanimously
voted to give the African - led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) a one - year mandate to install a 3,300 - strong force to counter «terrorist, extremist and armed groups».
John Faso New York 19th C.D. Website: https://faso.house.gov (Sign up for Rep. Faso's newsletter) Legislation passed for the week of January 3, 2017 from MegaVote Objecting to the United Nations
Security Council Resolution
Vote 2334 Concerning Israeli - Palestinian Peace —
Vote Passed (342 - 80, 4 Present, 7 Not Voting) The House agreed to this resolution which would -LSB-...]
A slew of
council members who originally supported the bill backed by the unions and introduced by Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley today changed their
votes to back the mayor's plan — they said because of a change that will provide the most seriously wounded workers, who qualify for Social
Security disability, with a pension equal to 75 percent of their salary.
Paul Bodnar, a former senior director for energy and climate change at the White House's National
Security Council, said it might not be legally possible for the Senate to
vote Paris down in the way Ebell suggests after the United States has formally joined it.
In August, the
Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA)
voted 157 - 1 to ban psychologists from participating in national
security interrogations for military or intelligence entities.
Over 53 countries as well as UN
security council members
voted on Friday in favor of a mission that would send peacekeepers to guard some of the Middle East's world heritage sites from militants.
It has a fair amount of corruption, any member of the
Security Council can veto an action
voted for by the others, some offices were in the grips of a strong anti-Western setiment, its peace - keeping activities are often total failures, its policies have often been infected by anti-semitism and a kind of reverse racism which viewed ethnic clensing of Africans by Africans as tolerable but interference by non-Africans as intolerable, and I could surely go on.
That being said, the Treaties clearly make a distinction between situations requiring a unanimous
vote by the European
Council (e.g. guidelines in the Common Foreign and
Security Policy field) and areas where decisions are to be taken by consensus (e.g. guidelines in the area of Freedom, Justice and
Security)
The UN
Security Council acting pursuant to Chapter VII of the UN Charter may by majority vote — so long as none of the permanent members exercise a veto — authorise the use of measures falling short of the use of force (Art 41), and if the Security Council considers Art 41 measures are, or would be inadequate, it may authorise «measures» (which include the use of force) «as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security» (
Security Council acting pursuant to Chapter VII of the UN Charter may by majority
vote — so long as none of the permanent members exercise a veto — authorise the use of measures falling short of the use of force (Art 41), and if the
Security Council considers Art 41 measures are, or would be inadequate, it may authorise «measures» (which include the use of force) «as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security» (
Security Council considers Art 41 measures are, or would be inadequate, it may authorise «measures» (which include the use of force) «as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and
security» (
security» (Art 42).