# general-assembly - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The treaty will see states, for the first time ever, prohibited from selling arms to countries when they know they will be used to carry out war crimes or genocide.
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# general-assembly - Thursday 29 November, 2012
The US has responded by saying the vote sets ‘obstacles’ to peace, while Canada’s UN ambassador said it “undermines the core” of attempts to broker a peace deal.
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The General Assembly will today vote on giving Palestine ‘non-member observer state’ – equivalent to the Holy See.
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# general-assembly - Saturday 29 September, 2012
The Tánaiste also described events in Syria as “an affront to humanity”.
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# general-assembly - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
The decision at the end of the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks has provoked much debate.
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# general-assembly - Monday 24 September, 2012
Syria, Palestine, Iran’s nuclear program and protests generated by an anti-Islamic film will top the agenda.
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# general-assembly - Friday 3 August, 2012
The Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution criticising the Security Council’s failure to act on the Syria conflict.
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The diplomatic effort to solve Syria moves to the General Assembly, where Russia and China cannot veto it.
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# general-assembly - Monday 13 February, 2012
# general-assembly - Thursday 29 September, 2011
The Israel Ambassador in Ireland says he is tired of talk of an all-powerful Zionist lobby – a Jewish lobby exists, but it’s no different from the Irish lobby which exerted influence in the US, he argues…
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# general-assembly - Monday 26 September, 2011
Eamon Gilmore was addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York today.
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The Tánaiste addressed the UN on Ireland’s foreign policy priorities, the Arab Spring, the issue of Palestinian statehood and the humanitarian crisis in East Africa.
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# general-assembly - Friday 23 September, 2011
Earlier, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas outlined his country’s case for statehood.
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# general-assembly - Thursday 22 September, 2011
US delegates leave chambers after President Ahmadinejad refers to 9/11 attacks as a “mystery”.
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# general-assembly - Wednesday 21 September, 2011
President Barack Obama says it is the Israelis and Palestinians – and not the US – that must agree on the issues that divide them.
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# general-assembly - Saturday 17 September, 2011
The UN gave strong backing to Libya’s former rebels yesterday by handing their National Transitional Council the country’s UN seat.
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# general-assembly - Friday 16 September, 2011
President Mahmoud Abbas is to ask the UN to officially recognise the State of Palestine next week.
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