Saturday, September 24, 2011

#Palestine : UN Receives Palestinian Application for Membership

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today submitted an application for Palestine to become a United Nations Member State.

Mr. Abbas handed over an application to
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at UN Headquarters in New York this morning. Palestine currently has observer status at the UN.

This afternoon Mr. Ban submitted the application to the President of the Security Council, as per the provisions of the UN Charter.

Any application is considered by the Council, which decides whether or not to recommend admission to the 193-member General Assembly, which has to adopt a resolution for the admission of any new Member State.

Later, Mr. Abbas
told the Assembly’s annual general debate that Palestine is applying for full membership of the UN, on the basis of the so-called 4 June 1967 borders.

“Palestine is being reborn. This is my message,” he said, adding that he hoped it did not have to wait long for the application to be approved.

“I call upon Mr. Secretary-General to expedite transmittal of our request to the Security Council, and I call upon the distinguished members of the Security Council to vote in favour of our full membership. I also appeal to the States that have not yet done so to recognize the State of Palestine.”

In his address to the Assembly, Mr. Abbas said that Israeli Government policies were responsible “for the continued failure of the successive international attempts to salvage the peace process.”

 
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) submits application to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for Palestine to become a UN Member State
Credit: UN

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http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1139/001/UN_Receives_Palestinian_Application_For_Membership.html

#Muslim peace conference condemns terrorism

Thousands of Muslims have attended a peace conference in London which has condemned terrorism.
About 12,000 Muslims gathered at Wembley Arena for Islamic group Minhaj-ul-Quran's Peace for Humanity Conference.
The conference launched a campaign to get one million people to sign an online declaration of peace by 2012.
Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said the conference would send a message that 10 years of extremist activity should end.... read more

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15044797

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#Palestine : Bill Clinton ' #Netanyahu killed the Peace Process' !

Who's to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power, and whose rise represents a key reason there has been no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/22/bill_clinton_netanyahu_killed_the_peace_process#.TnwCK50tSid.twitter

#Palestine : Bill Clinton ' #Netanyahu is not interested in Mid East peace'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the inability to reach a peace deal that would end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Thursday.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, the former U.S. president was quoted by Foreign Policy magazine as claiming that Netanyahu lost interest in the peace process as soon as two basic Israelis demands seemed to come into reach: a viable Palestinian leadership and the possibility of normalizing ties with the Arab world.


Bill Clinton - Reuters - 22.9.2011 Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaking during the 2011 Clinton Global Citizen Award ceremony at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 22, 2011.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bill-clinton-netanyahu-isn-t-interested-in-mideast-peace-deal-1.386222

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#Palestine :The #UN turns into a diplomatic battlefront as the US objects to the Palestine's UN bid for statehood

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#Iran : How Would A U.S. Led Iran War Begin ?

#Iran: PM - UN remarks fit Britain better than Iran !


The British Prime Minister David Cameron counted the key criticisms of his own government during his UN General Assembly address but accused Iran of facing those difficulties rather than Britain.


Cameron who was waiting in the wings when President Ahmadinejad was addressing the chamber diverted from his script and launched an attack on the Iranian president saying Tehran is impinging on the freedom of speech and of media and leading a crackdown on demonstrators.

"He [Ahmadinejad] didn't remind us that he runs a country where they may have elections of a sort but they also repress freedom of speech, do everything they can to avoid the accountability of a free media, violently prevent demonstrations and detain and torture those who argue for a better future," Cameron said.

The elements of his comments, however, were very familiar to the British who have been following up the news in their own country over the recent months.

The PM put social networking websites including Facebook and Twitter as well as Research In Motion company, which produces Blackberry devices, under pressure back in August to suspend their services during civil disturbances.

That was in the aftermath of the worst unrest in more than three decades that started in London's Tottenham area and spread across Britain.

“So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services,” Cameron told the Commons back in August.

That was only one case in the long list of the British government's clampdown on the freedom of expression that includes prosecuting anti-tax-avoidance protesters for fabricated violence charges and using brutal tactics in dealing with students calling for lower university tuition fees.
Closely affiliated with Britain's restraints on freedom of speech are London's violent suppression of demonstrations that have shaken the pillars of the British society over the second half of the 2010 and well into 2011.

The British police have been repeatedly charged with using ferociously aggressive tactics in dealing with demonstrators among them kettling protesters, using rubber bullets to disperse them, charging horses at demonstrators and resorting to harsh physical handling of activists.
This is while Cameron himself approved using water cannons during civil disturbances back in August.
As for the detentions, which Cameron pointed to during his attack on Ahmadinejad, it goes without saying that London is a champion in putting people in prisons as evidence of the recent unrests show.
The scale of the detentions after the unrest was such that prison officials said the arrests shot the number of inmates to record high levels making jails full to the brim.

After all, the question that rings in the mind after Cameron's attack on Iran is whether London's clampdown on freedom of speech, free media and demonstrations and detention of those opposed to the government policies make Britain a better country with a “better future.”

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200731.html

Friday, September 23, 2011

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#Palestine : UK Protestors demand recognition of Palestine.


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British activists held a large rally outside the Downing Street to condemn the Israeli regime and call on the government to support recognition of the Palestinians' statehood bid.


The rally organized by Palestine 194 campaign group called on Prime Minister David Cameron to “recognize Palestine” as a state.

The vocal demonstrations featured anti-Zionist Jews carrying placards , which read “recognize Palestine”, “vote for Palestine” and “a Palestinian state a step in the right direction.”

Palestine 194 said on its website that their demand is supported by “almost 60 percent of the British public” and “over 90 [British] MPs” who have “signed a motion” demanding “recognition of Palestine in the United Nations.”

British pollsters YouGov found in a research on September 6 that 71 percent of the public think that the Palestinian people have a right “to their own state.”

The campaign group called on the British government and the UN to recognize Palestine as the international body's 194th member state.

London has announced that they will not support Palestinians' bid for full UN membership.

Foreign office sources said last week that Britain will start using the word “state” to refer to Palestine if Palestinians avoid taking their statehood bid to the UN.

The sources said London will only approve the same 'non-member state' status at the United Nations as the Vatican for Palestinians but if they resume negotiations with the Israeli regime based on the so-called Middle East peace process.

The peace talks have been paralyzed by the Israeli regime's lack of commitment to its terms, especially an end to settlement-building in the Palestinian occupied territories.

A number of British MPs, leaders and members of the workers' unions and anti-Zionist Jews were present at the rally.

AMR/HE


http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200561.html

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