Ileana Ros-Lehtinen says U.N. resolution on Syria is toothless; so why would...
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today dismissed a U.S.-backed European effort to adopt a U.N. resolution condemning Syria's bloody crackdown on protesters as a...
View ArticleRussia and China veto Security Council resolution condemning Syria
Russia and China today cast a rare double veto to block a U.S. and European-backed draft resolution condemning Syria for its brutal crackdown on protesters, exposing the first major rift in the U.N....
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Shots fired as Zenko's Libya argument starts a Twitter war
Micah Zenko, a frequentcontributor to Foreign Policy and a fellow for conflict prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations criticized the NATO-led military campaign against Libya's former leader on...
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Russia and China resist U.N. efforts to censure Syria
Add another name to Syria's growing enemies list: Barbara Walters. Syria's U.N. envoy, Bashar Jaafari, denounced the ABC broadcaster's handling of a prime time interview she conducted with President...
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Syria's allies claim victory in securing cease-fire
Syria's decision today to hold its fire may prove yet short-lived, confirming critics' contention that President Bashar al-Assad simply cannot be trusted to fulfill his commitments. But for one brief...
View ArticleWhat's the point of U.N. sanctions in Darfur when even the U.N. flouts them?
Every several months, a U.N. Panel of Experts issues a report documenting Sudan's extensive violations of U.N. Security Council sanctions in Darfur, and pleads with the council's big powers to use...
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A tear in China's invisibility cloak
Last week, I asked a U.N. Security Council diplomat to give me a read out of China's reaction to the Houla massacre of 108 civilians during a closed-door session of the 15-nation council. The diplomat...
View ArticleRussia, China veto third Security Council Syria resolution
At Turtle Bay, three times is not the charm. Today, Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-backed resolution threatening the Syrian government with sanctions, upending four months of U.N. diplomacy aimed at...
View ArticleThe peace prize nobody wants
The U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and his predecessor, Kofi Annan, have toiled in the cause of peace in Syria this year. So it's perhaps not a surprise that they would be nominated for an...
View ArticleCould China's Syria ceasefire plan be the path to peace?
Today's big Syria headline from Beijing: China unveils new 4-point peace initiative to end country's civil war. The Chinese plan is, in a nutshell, a few bits and pieces borrowed from pre-existing...
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Rice’s new Chinese sparring partner
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has a reputation for diplomatic sparring. Her battles with the Russian envoy, Vitaly Churkin, and the French ambassador, Gerard Araud, have been...
View ArticleU.N. launches drone investigation
An independent U.N. human rights researcher this morning announced the opening of an investigation into the use of drone attacks and other targeted assassinations by the United States and other...
View ArticleU.N. Security Council talks tough on North Korea
The U.N. Security Council this morning issued a statement that "strongly condemns" North Korea's detonation of nuclear explosives as a "grave threat" to world peace and pledged to immediately start...
View ArticleIs North Korea just pulling America’s pigtail?
As the U.N. Security Council weighs its reaction to North Korea's third and largest nuclear test, leader Kim Jong Un's government gave diplomats in New York something new to chew on. Speaking at the...
View ArticleWhy isn’t North Korea threatening China?
Listening to North Korea's response to the latest round of U.N. sanctions, one might be forgiven for thinking that there is no U.N. Security Council, or China, for that matter. It was America that did...
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