Posts Tagged: UN Secretary General
Top Israeli Official Calls for UN Chief to Resign After Saying Hamas Massacre ‘Did Not Happen in a Vacuum’
Israel on Tuesday excoriated UN Secretary-General António Guterres, with one top official calling for the UN leader to resign after he seemingly blamed the Jewish...
What the UN’s New Leader Needs to Know
Surprisingly to many, the ninth United Nations secretary-general will be António Guterres, a former socialist prime minister of Portugal. One surprise is that the winning candidate...
UN Secretary General Condemns Deadly Shooting at Brussels Jewish Museum
JTA - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned the recent killing of four people in a Brussels Jewish museum, as 1,500 people gathered in Brussels to...
Jewish Group Urges Removal of UN Under-Secretary General Rima Khalaf
Rima Khalaf, United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), came under fire on Thursday...
UN Votes in Favor of Making 2014 ‘International Year of Solidarity With the Palestinian People’
The UN General Assembly voted on Tuesday to make 2014 the "International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People." The decision was passed by...
UN’s Ban Ki-moon Visits Auschwitz in Holocaust Commemoration
JNS.org - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the remnants of the Auschwitz death camp for the first time in his current role, and walked under...
Israel’s UN Ambassador Says Ban Ki-moon’s ‘Blatant Denial’ of UN Anti-Israel Bias ‘Is No Recipe for Change’
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, responded sharply to comments made recently by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in which he denied...
Simon Wiesenthal Center Criticizes Ban Ki-Moon’s Silence as Erdogan Calls Zionism a “Crime Against Humanity”
An official with the Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's silence at a UN conclave in Vienna as Turkey's Prime...