United Nations

  • Barham Salih is a choice pick for a UN role

    As a former President of Iraq, Barham Salih may be best known as a statesman. However, many have rated his powers of intellect as well as ability to persuade. This puts him in the category of potentials or hopefuls for change as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the office of which he has just been appointed to.

    As he begins his role in the new year, he will face an epic challenge. The untold damage of human movement is reckoning with our ability to cope in modern ways. We cannot revert to human instincts as way to control or moderate people’s wishes. It must be done as a conscious effort.

    However, this is not the UN’s strong point at present. It has on record failed at this endeavour. It has employed some of the wrong staff members, backed some of the wrong causes, and said some of the wrong things. This has resulted in flows of people that shouldn’t exist. It’s now urgent to correct the matter.

  • World exclusive: UN dropout

    In a world exclusive for ConservativeNewsSite.com, a former UN strategist tasked with researching, and securing, the Internet has been spotted.

    He’s believed to have absconded from his role only to subsequently drop out. He was based at the UN building in New York City.

  • The UN needs a new mandate

    The United Nations has its place in world affairs but its voice isn’t heard. The trouble is disagreements already exist in writing. There are also agreements.

    The UK’s pledge for 100 years of support for Ukraine is indicative of it. We support each other. We get on with it and create our own alliances – or disagreements.

    The lack of proactivity on the part of the UN is due to this sort of international paper wrangling. It will never get what it wants because it has no real say in it.

    Its future is predicated on its ability to rip up agreements and unite the world under some kind of peace treaty it can arbitrate, and draw others together to debate.

  • UN take on Israel

    On Tuesday the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from land it contests as its own no later than the next 12 months.

    It comes as Israel fights off Hamas and Hezbollah in its ongoing war against terror in the region. Its incursion into Gaza came as a result of an attack by Hamas last year.