The upcoming Summit of the Future is an opportunity to turbocharge efforts toward a more peaceful, secure, and sustainable world. Discussions on revitalizing the work of the General Assembly and the Security Council reform can further serve as avenues…
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Major General Robert Mood, Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), told an IPI audience on January 31st, “You cannot solve problems in one culture with solutions from another.”General Mood, who is ending his two-year term as head of what is the UN’s original peacekeeping force in […]
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Jack Lang, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Legal Issues Related to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, said at an IPI event on January 25, 2011, “We have to attack piracy at the head.”Mr. Lang referred several times to piracy “masterminds,” and asserted, “Each time that we know a mastermind, we have to apply […]
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“Hezbollah’s top choice is a war with Israel they can blame on Israel at the best time for Hezbollah,” said Thanassis Cambanis, reporter and author of the book A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel. His statement came in response to a question put to him on whether Hezbollah […]
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“Terrorism has always been with us. The solution is elusive, but we are moving towards it,” said Richard Barrett, Coordinator of the Al-Qaida/Taliban Monitoring Team, at the January 10, 2010 screening of The Terrorist Who Came Home, the first in a series of documentaries intended to highlight the stories of repentant terrorists.The brief film examines […]
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Addressing a standing-room-only audience gathered to discuss the January 9th referendum in Southern Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson said it was crucial for the international community to “speed up the process on resolving the critical post-referendum issues and to do so urgently.”Listing those issues, she said, “This means border demarcation, cooperation on oil and pipeline use, […]
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