#China, #Russia oppose #UN criticism of #Myanmar over #Rohingya https://goo.gl/8v9fsm

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In the words of #UN #Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, it is the “epicentre of suffering”. Just a few kilometres from the affluent central neighbourhoods of Damascus lies the Eastern #Ghouta region, where hunger and deprivation reigns among bombed-out homes, as yet another icy winter descends on Syria.

The Eastern Ghouta wasn’t struck by some inexplicable natural disaster, but by war and collective punishment. The insurgent-controlled enclave is under siege by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has imposed harsh restrictions on the entry of food, medicine, and humanitarian supplies.

The UN recently estimated that 393,000 people live in the Ghouta enclave, a quarter of them internally displaced. That represents 94 percent of all the people listed by the UN as living under siege in Syria. Their situation has always been difficult, but after smuggling routes were destroyed and aid deliveries stopped by Syrian authorities earlier this year, it has grown into a major crisis.

A last-minute rush of food deliveries in late October and November seems to have brought temporary relief, but the Ghouta’s humanitarian crisis is sure to continue. This is because it is man-made, and the men who made it do not want it to end.
https://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2017/12/19/man-made-disaster-syria-s-eastern-ghouta?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=irinsocial&utm_campaign=irinupdates

#MilliMun #MunAzerbaijan #ModelUNAzerbaijan #IIMilliMunConference #MunAze #MunMatters #ARGİN #MYS #NationalModelUnitedNations #UN #UnitedNations #conference #Baku #Azerbaijan

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#Ukraine #Israel #Hamas
#terror #peace
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💥 Garrisoning the Globe: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Undermine National Security and Harm Us All

🔵 With the U.S. military having :

👉withdrawn many of its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan,

♐️ Although few know it, the United States garrisons the planet unlike any country in history, and

👉 the evidence is on view from Honduras to Oman, Japan to Germany, Singapore to Djibouti.

♐️ Like most Americans,

👉 rarely thought about military bases.

Scholar and former CIA consultant Chalmers Johnson described me well when he wrote in 2004,

➡️ “As distinct from other peoples, most Americans do not recognize—or do not want to recognize—that:-

➡️ the United States dominates the world through its military power.

♐️Due to government secrecy, American citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet.”


How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Undermine National Security and Harm Us All

http://bit.ly/1PusYDG

#NorthKorea rejects #UN #sanctions

North Korea on Sunday rejected the latest U.N. sanctions resolution on its intercontinental ballistic missile launch, threatening to further strengthen its "self-defensive" nuclear deterrence, Yonhap reports.

#WorldNews #News #DPRK

http://lenta.inform.kz/en/north-korea-rejects-un-sanctions_a3104374