GENEVA, May 25, 2018 – After delivering a speech yesterday in Geneva on disarmament, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres expressed the hope that Syria’s presidency of the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament, starting on Monday, won’t have a “negative impact” on the …
Debate in UN Conference on Disarmament May 22, 2018 Full 1-hour audio recording Click here for petition https://www.unwatch.org/wp-admin/post-new.php Highlights related to Syria’s upcoming presidency of the Conference on Disarmament. See UN Watch’s press release here. Syria: I hope that the Syrian …
GENEVA, May 23, 2018 – UN Watch today launched a global petition to leaders of major democracies urging them to pull their ambassadors form the UN Disarmament Forum when Syria’s Assad regime takes over the presidency on May 28, 2018. Petition sent to Nikki Haley, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, …
Trending UN Watch tweets from this past week: Jeremy Corbyn, who in the past has repeatedly called for sanctions on Israel, advocates “negotiations” and “diplomatic efforts” with Syrian mass murderer Bashar al-Assad; in a revealing video from 2009, the British Labour Party leader famously …
UN Watch’s exclusive report and appeal on Syria’s upcoming presidency of the UN’s top disarmament forum has sparked a global firestorm. The scandal arose yesterday in the U.S. State Department press briefing and then today in the White House press briefing, and is being reported in news media …
Syrian ambassador Hussam Edin Aala, left, with Vladimir Gratchev, representative of Michael Møller, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Sept. 3, 2014. GENEVA, April 9, 2018 – Despite accusations that it perpetrated yet another deadly chemical weapons attack on Saturday, Syria will …
Click here to sign our petition UN Watch, an independent non-governmental monitoring group based in Geneva, also called on the U.S. to deport Mr. Adi, whose identity was first exposed by The Algemeiner newspaper yesterday. “The U.S. government needs to investigate how a long-time agent of the Syrian …
Statement by UN Watch Agenda Item 10, UNHRC 35th Session 21st June 2017 Delivered by David Mendoza-Wolfson Thank you, Mr President. “There are many sick people walking around with guns these days. No UN or OSCE can protect us. If they want to kill us, they will just come. Who can protect us from this?” So said …
Outgoing WHO director-general Margaret Chan GENEVA, May 26, 2017 – The U.N.’s World Health Organization “decided to hide a positive report on Israel from the public eye” under pressure from Syria’s Assad regime, according to Israel’s representative, Ambassador Aviva …
The Top Ten Worst U.N. Moments of 2016 10. Misogynistic Iran joined the Executive Board of UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. 9. The UN elected dictatorships Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, and Egypt to its highest human rights body. 8. The UN Human …
