UN Council

South Korea called on the divided UN Security Council on Thursday “to break the silence” over North Korea’s escalating missile tests and threats. “It’s a big question,” South Korea’s UN Ambassador Hwang Joonkook told reporters after an…
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Russia’s UN ambassador on Monday dismissed US and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool’s joke and announced a meeting to be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on defending…
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The divided UN Security Council failed to reach agreement on whether to extend travel exemptions for 13 Taliban officials now ruling Afghanistan so they will expire at midnight Friday. UN diplomats said Russia and China want to allow all…
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