Security Council

The United States will assume the rotating precedency of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, and first lady Melania Trump is scheduled to become the first sitting first lady to preside over a council meeting.

A senior United Nations official defended the decision by President Joe Biden to limit his response to the Yemen Houthi terrorist organization to a weak “global terrorist” branding, claiming the move can help “safeguard many transactions necessary for our humanitarian activities.”

The government of Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called another meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, set for Friday, to address the aftermath of the harrowing jihadist attack on Israeli civilians last weekend by Hamas.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a phone conversation on Friday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to congratulate each other on skyrocketing bilateral trade and hint at future “security” cooperation, according to Russian media.

During an acrimonious overnight U.N. Security Council (UNSC) emergency session in which the Ukrainian ambassador literally told his Russian counterpart to go to hell, Ukraine made an ambitious effort to have Russia ejected from the United Nations entirely by arguing that Vladimir Putin’s government did not legally acquire the seat formerly held by the Soviet Union.

The United Nations Security Council held its second meeting this week on Russian aggression against Ukraine late Tuesday – a meeting presided over by the Russian ambassador ending with Ukraine’s envoy warning that he would “go straight to Hell.”

Emmanuel Macron is said to be willing to trade control of France’s permanent seat on the UN Security Council to Brussels for an EU Army.

Representatives from China and Russia urged the United Nations Security Council on Monday to lift sanctions on North Korea imposed in the aftermath of its last nuclear weapons test in 2017, failing to convince their American counterpart to support the move.

The rogue Islamic government of Iran petitioned the United Nations on Friday to take action against the United States after Iranian military forces shot down an American surveillance drone.

The United Nations Security Council accused North Korea of benefitting greatly from a “massive increase in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products and coal,” a violation of international sanctions, in a recent report, the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported Friday.

North Korea’s state media assailed the United States and allies at the United Nations Tuesday for helping pass a resolution condemning Pyongyang’s decades-long systematic human rights abuses, calling the resolution “a serious political provocation against the dignified” Korean state.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the United Nations Security Council on the subject of Iranian missile proliferation on Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his call Wednesday for reforming the United States Security Council and ending permanent membership, emboldened by his heightened international status following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made the case for expanding the U.N. Security Council to give power to smaller nations like Turkey, condemning the group’s inaction in the face of some of history’s greatest atrocities, during a speech to the General Assembly on Wednesday.

On September 26th, President Donald Trump will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss, according to U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, “Iran’s violations of international law and the general instability Iran sows throughout the entire Middle East region.”

The United Nations Security Council Friday imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea in a unanimous 15-0 vote on a U.S.-drafted resolution – complicating the narrative that the U.S. has isolated itself over its decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley urged the U.N. Security Council to back President Trump’s tougher stance on Iran Wednesday.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a softened version of a U.S.-drafted resolution imposing more sanctions on North Korea.

President Trump’s tough stance on China was vindicated Saturday when the U.N. Security Council voted to slap significant sanctions on North Korea, with China voting in favor of the tough sanctions – a major win for Trump’s hard edged stance toward the geopolitical foe.

NEW YORK CITY — The United Nations Security Council Saturday voted unanimously to slap major sanctions on North Korea in a major win for Trump’s hardline approach to China, and for U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley — who pulled a rabbit out of a hat in pressuring China and Russia to avoid using their veto power.

A draft U.N. Security Council resolution, seen by Breitbart News, would hit North Korea with a fresh wave of sanctions and aim at the regime’s key exports of coal, iron, lead, and even seafood in response to its recent missile launches – although the resolution’s fate in the Security Council is far from certain.

The Egyptian Ambassador to the United Nations, speaking in his role as the president of the Security Council, told reporters Wednesday that he does not see the crisis gripping Venezuela as a matter for the Council, as he claims it does not harm international peace and security.

A 33-year-old Norwegian MP who has supported headscarf restrictions in Norway, but once also backed the breaking of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, could soon fill a top anti-terror post at the United Nations Security Council.

TEL AVIV – Hezbollah may launch an attack against Israel before or during the construction of a new border fence next month, the former director of the Counter Terrorism Bureau at the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday.

TEL AVIV – Israel has sent messages to Iran via diplomatic channels in Europe warning the regime that it “will not tolerate” expanding Hezbollah’s arsenal with weapons factories in southern Lebanon.

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued a scathing criticism of the UN Security Council over their “anti-Israel” bias on Thursday after emerging from her first regular monthly meeting at the international body.

Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, condemned Russia for its “aggressive actions” in eastern Ukraine during her first public remarks to the U.N. Security Council.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday reiterated the claim that Israel has “unequivocal” evidence of the Obama administration’s involvement in orchestrating the anti-settlement resolution passed by the UN Security Council last month.

JERUSALEM – A majority of Israeli Jews support settlement construction and believe President Barack Obama to have been “unfriendly” towards Israel during his tenure, a new survey published in the wake of the anti-settlements United Nations Security Council shows.

TEL AVIV – Following the passage of an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party posted a cartoon on its official Facebook page on Saturday, featuring a large knife stabbing “settlements” and the words “Thank You” to the countries that voted for the resolution.

TEL AVIV – U.S. strikes against the Assad regime in Syria are once again being pushed by top security officials, but President Barack Obama is unlikely to give the go ahead.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that despite his disagreements he enjoyed his meetings with President Barack Obama over the past seven years, but that he hopes the commander-in-chief will not advance a last-ditch peace initiative before leaving office on January 20.

TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama set aside their differences on Wednesday and said farewell in a meeting that took place in a “light-hearted atmosphere,” a senior Israeli official said.

TEL AVIV – Eighty-eight U.S. senators on Tuesday released a bipartisan letter to President Barack Obama urging him to uphold the U.S. policy of vetoing any one-sided United Nations resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ahead of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York.

Most of those around President Barack Obama understand that a US-initiated resolution at the Security Council to lock in parameters of an Israeli-Palestinian agreement will not contribute to the diplomatic process, Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told The Jerusalem Post.

The U.S. State Department has asserted that any Russian arms sales to Iran without approval from the Security Council would violate the United Nations arms embargo.