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# General Assembly

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# General Assembly
UN overwhelmingly votes to condemn Russia's 'illegal annexation' of Ukrainian land
America’s ambassador to the UN urged countries to send a message that seizing a neighbour’s land won’t be tolerated
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Oct 12th 2022, 10:45 PM
# New York
Key week for Ireland's term on UN Security Council during Ukraine-dominated General Assembly
Taoiseach Micheál Martin will also arrive in New York later today.
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# that's the joke
Trump brings the house down at UN General Assembly after insisting his White House has 'achieved more than any other'
Ordinarily the General Assembly is a pretty solemn place. But not today.
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Sep 25th 2018, 5:42 PM
# Terrorism
Israeli PM warns nuclear-capable Iran poses greater threat than Islamic State
He said “to defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear state power is to win the battle and lose the war”.
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Sep 29th 2014, 9:50 PM
# Good call
US and Iranian presidents speak by phone in first direct contact since 1979
The call to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme shows evidence of an unprecedented opening of relations between the two nations.
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Sep 27th 2013, 10:15 PM
# United Nations
United Nations adopts global arms trade treaty
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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Apr 2nd 2013, 9:54 PM
# Palestine
Palestinians win UN state recognition
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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Nov 29th 2012, 10:20 PM
# Middle East
Ireland likely to vote for increased Palestinian role at UN
The General Assembly will today vote on giving Palestine ‘non-member observer state’ – equivalent to the Holy See.
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Nov 29th 2012, 7:30 AM
# Diplomacy
Eamon Gilmore tells UN: Palestinian state is "long overdue"
The Tánaiste also described events in Syria as “an affront to humanity”.
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Sep 29th 2012, 12:22 PM
# Controversy
President Obama weighs in on 'terrible' NFL call
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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Sep 25th 2012, 11:14 PM
# United Nations
Frustration and turmoil as world leaders meet for UN general assembly
Syria, Palestine, Iran’s nuclear program and protests generated by an anti-Islamic film will top the agenda.
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Sep 24th 2012, 8:27 AM
# Syria
UN assembly hits out at Security Council failure on Syria
The Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution criticising the Security Council’s failure to act on the Syria conflict.
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Aug 3rd 2012, 9:07 PM
# Syria
UN General Assembly set to denounce Syrian crackdown
The diplomatic effort to solve Syria moves to the General Assembly, where Russia and China cannot veto it.
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Aug 3rd 2012, 12:00 PM
# Syria
UN human rights chief urges international community to "act now" on Syria
High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, told the General Assembly that the Government of Syria has failed to protect its people.
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Feb 13th 2012, 5:46 PM
Voices
Column: Of course there is a pro-Israel lobby - but there is an anti-Israel lobby too
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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Sep 29th 2011, 7:15 AM
# Palestine
Tánaiste says Ireland will back Palestinian push for UN membership
Eamon Gilmore was addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York today.
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Sep 26th 2011, 9:45 PM
# United Nations
In full: Eamon Gilmore's speech to the UN General Assembly
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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Sep 26th 2011, 4:33 PM
# Palestine
Live: World leaders address the UN General Assembly
Earlier, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas outlined his country’s case for statehood.
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Sep 23rd 2011, 6:50 PM
# Iran
US, Ireland walk out as Iran delivers UN speech
US delegates leave chambers after President Ahmadinejad refers to 9/11 attacks as a “mystery”.
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Sep 22nd 2011, 6:46 PM
# UN
Obama: Middle East peace will not come through UN resolutions
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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Sep 21st 2011, 5:33 PM
# Libya
UN approves Libya seat for former rebels
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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Sep 17th 2011, 2:11 PM
# Palestine
Palestine to seek full UN membership
President Mahmoud Abbas is to ask the UN to officially recognise the State of Palestine next week.
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Sep 16th 2011, 9:51 PM