UNIFIL
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 5, 2020
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The 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing; the United States sanctions the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; dissecting the failed ambitions of the US effort to force the UN mission in Lebanon to be…
- Categories: Middle East, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Karim Makdisi
- • September 3, 2020
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On Aug. 28, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to renew its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, called Unifil, for another year. This unanimity, however, masked what had been a series of heated informal discussions on the nature…
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • August 17, 2020
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The devastating series of explosions that rocked Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Aug. 4, killed nearly 200 people, injured thousands of others, destroyed most of the city’s port, flattened surrounding neighborhoods, damaged six hospitals and more than 20…
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- Opinion by Karim Makdisi
- • September 11, 2018
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BEIRUT — In late August, the United Nations Security Council unanimously renewed its peacekeeping operation in southern Lebanon, called Unifil. The less confrontational tone around the negotiation of Resolution 2433, contrasting with the heated debate on the renewal a…
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- Kacie Candela
- • July 28, 2017
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Since the liberation of the Iraqi city of Mosul in early July, United Nations officials and diplomats in New York have weighed in on the crucial stabilization process for the ruined city. Part of the voices included, of course,…
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