• comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    “Part of the agreement with the UN is that the host country for its headquarters allows all heads of state to address the annual gathering.

    The Palestinian Authority "stressed that this decision stands in clear contradiction to international law and the UN Headquarters Agreement”

    THIS HERE ^^

    The Trump Admin is using this to destroy the fundamentals of the UN. The UN will have to move out of the US which is exactly what they want to achieve without saying it out loud.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      They’re mentioning this as if the US had ever cared about any international law. Or about the UN for that matter.

    • mrdown@lemmy.world
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      UN was always spineless. They should abolish all parts except it’s humanitarian entities

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        the UN is a place for diplomacy at all costs: nothing more. any action that comes from the UN is simply a secondary outcome of facilitating talk between countries

        it’s not meant to have teeth - it’s meant to facilitate agreement, and avoid misunderstanding

        • mrdown@lemmy.world
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          Agreements that nobody respect, it’s a waste of everybody money and time.

          UNRWA,WHO,UNICEF,UNHCR has concrete effects while icj and icc and resolution voting are useless. Powerful countries will do wathever it want regardless of icj ,icv snd ressolutions