Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has accused China and Russia of breaching a United Nations arms embargo by continuing to supply weapons to the Sudanese authorities for use in Darfur.
Popularity: 3% [?]
May 8, 2007A senior Russian diplomat said a U.N. plan for the eventual independence of Serbia’s breakaway province of Kosovo will not pass, giving Moscow’s strongest indication yet that it might veto the proposal, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday quoting Russian news agencies.
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April 24, 2007Russia and the United States clashed sharply over Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia on Tuesday as the United Nations Security Council debated renewing a U.N. mission in the Caucasus state.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 11, 2007A Russian uranium enrichment plant may be a part of a $150 million nuclear fuel bank, partially funded by Warren Buffett and promoted by the United Nations to discourage development of atomic weapons, a UN official said on Wednesday, March 21.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 22, 2007According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Russia will not support “excessive sanctions†against Iran in the United Nations Security Council.
Popularity: 1% [?]
The U.N. mediator on Kosovo has rejected a Russian call for more talks between Serbia and ethnic Albanians in the disputed province, saying discussions have been exhausted, the Reuters news agency reported on Monday quoting the mediator’s spokesman.
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 20, 2007The United States hopes Russia will back a U.N. plan putting Serbia’s Kosovo province on the road to independence and does not expect a Russian veto in the Security Council, the Reuters news agency quoted a U.S. official as saying on Monday.
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 14, 2007A Russian diplomat who once chaired a UN budget committee was found guilty in U.S. of helping launder hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and taking a share of the money, the Reuters news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 9, 2007
Negotiations on an Iran sanctions resolution were unexpectedly postponed Tuesday because of Russia’s anger at the United States for raising the plight of an opposition leader in Belarus in the U.N. Security Council, The Associated Press news agency reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
December 13, 2006Russia will carry over 300 kilos of enriched uranium from a Soviet-era nuclear research reactor in eastern Germany back to Russia, the Reuters news agency reported Thursday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 7, 2006
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