Middle East & North Africa
UN Security Council meets on Iran on 27 October after the IAEA Board’s first referral in 20 years
The Security Council held a briefing on Iran on 27 October, focused on the IAEA Board of Governors’ 9 September…
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UN Security Council
Analysis
Varosha explained: the fenced-off Famagusta quarter and the UN
Varosha has been sealed off by the Turkish army since 1974. What UN Security Council Resolutions 550 and 789 say,…
Greece
Greece chairs UN Security Council meeting marking 30 years of the children and armed conflict mandate
Greece is holding a Security Council briefing on 26 October to mark three decades of the UN mandate on children…
Greece
Gerapetritis in New York: he chairs two UN Security Council meetings, meets Guterres, and Mitsotakis presides over the maritime-security debate
Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis is in New York from October 25 to 30, at the end of the month in…
Africa
UN Security Council condemns Abyei drone attacks as possible war crimes, in statement read by Greece’s Balta
The Security Council condemned the 19 October drone attacks near Amiet Market and Todach in Abyei, called for a prompt…
Greek-Turkish Relations
Illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum: Greece writes to UN Secretary-General Guterres, Egypt repeats its flat rejection to Fidan
Greece sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the illegal 2019 Turkish-Libyan memorandum after its approval by Libya’s…
Analysis
Treaty of Guarantee explained: what Article IV allows and what it bans
The 1960 Treaty of Guarantee protects Cyprus’s independence and territorial integrity and bans partition. Here is what each article says…
Greece
State Department on the Turkish–Libyan memorandum: “good-faith negotiations” – while Greece raises it at the UN Security Council
Responding to a question from Greek public broadcaster ERT, a State Department spokesperson urged “partners in the Eastern Mediterranean” to…
Balkans
Kosovo: UN mission head warns tensions are “eroding trust” as Council splits over UNMIK’s future
Peter Due told the Security Council on 20 October that tensions and unresolved issues with Serbia are eroding trust in…
Balkans
UK urges UN Security Council to review UNMIK and press Serbia on Banjska and missing persons
At the UN Security Council on 20 October, the UK said Kosovo-Serbia normalisation is essential to stability, called for a…
Africa
UN warns against early cut to Central African Republic peacekeepers as the Sudan war spills across the border
Speaking to the Security Council on 20 October, the head of MINUSCA said the war in Sudan is spilling into…