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Palestinian school girls sit behind a flag of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (AFP Photo / Said Khatib) 05.05.2009, 02:07

Moscow to highlight Mideast at UN

Russia will put the Middle East peace process firmly back in the international spotlight during its chairmanship of the UN Security Council this month, according to UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.

United Nations Building, New York City 26.04.2009, 09:35

"UN is a village council for the world"

Despite having many deficiencies, the UN is not outdated, said Hans Blix, chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, former head of the IAEA and former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq.

04.02.2009, 12:56 1 comment

Hidden war: Israelis eat away at Palestinians’ lands

While the world’s attention is focused on the fragile peace in Gaza and the food crisis it is facing after Israel’s military offensive, Palestinians in the West Bank see their land confiscated, polluted and walled off.

Ban Ki-moon (L) and Salam Fayyad (AFP Photo / Abbas Momani) 20.03.2010, 17:34 5 comments

Israel must stop its expansion in occupied territory – UN Sec. Gen.

Ban Ki-moon has visited Palestine for talks with PM Salam Fayyad, reports news agency Itar-Tass with reference to TV channel Al Jazeera. The trip comes shortly after a Mideast Quartet session in Moscow.

12.05.2009, 00:12

Lavrov: “All parties should resume talks towards peace process”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been chairing a UN Security Council meeting that seeks to restart the Middle East Peace Process. The outcome has been explained at a press conference at UN headquarters.

04.08.2010, 14:12 5 comments

UN membership door closed for Kosovo – Moscow

Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin has made it clear that Moscow will not allow Kosovo to join the organization and that UN Resolution 1244, which confirms Serbia’s territorial integrity, will not be amended.

Members of UN humanitarian commission (AFP Photo / Kazbek Basayev) 16.06.2009, 10:45 3 comments

Russia sends the UN mission packing from Georgia-Abkhazia

The UN's observer mission on the Georgia-Abkhazia border zone will wrap up its work on the ground. It comes after Russia vetoed a Security Council draft on prolonging the UN Caucasus mandate.

21.03.2010, 22:17 7 comments

Middle East Quartet urges talks, calls on Israel to freeze settlement activity

The Middle East Quartet mediators have called on Israel to freeze settlement activity in East Jerusalem. They have also urged the sides to return to the negotiation table.

09.06.2010, 16:19

Geneva talks on Caucasus end in deadlock

Yet another round of Geneva talks on security and stability in the Caucasus following the August 2008 conflict has brought no result. The parties failed to come to a compromise over a document on non-use of force.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Jerusalem on June 29, 2010 (AFP Photo / Gali Tibbon) 30.06.2010, 13:49 6 comments

Palestinian-Israeli conflict can be settled in 2 years - Lavrov

After negotiations with both sides, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has made an optimistic statement on the end of Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Time to press for peace in Middle East

Published: 11 May, 2009, 14:03


AFP Photo / Ramzi Haidar

Top Russian diplomats are in New York for UN Security Council debates aimed at re-starting the Middle East peace talks. With the new Israeli government now in place, Moscow believes it’s time to push the process forward.

 
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