The Iran's nominated ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Abutalebi, was denied a US visa today due to his involvement in the seizure of the US embassy in Iran over 30 years ago, reports the BBC.
A spokesperson from Iran’s mission to the UN, Hamid Baaeui, describing the decision as ‘regrettable’, said that the decision violated international law.
Ukraine’s interim prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, outlined the possibility of devolving powers to areas of eastern Ukraine, that have seen a surge of protests demanding self-rule.
The prime minister travelled to eastern Ukraine to hold talks with activists who had seized a government building, reports the BBC.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry today, condemned a United States Senate resolution that deemed the massacres of a speculated 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 a genocide, reports Reuters.
Protesters that had occupied Taiwan’s parliament for 3 weeks, left parliament today and vowed to continue their campaign against a trade pact with China through other means, reports Reuters.
The United States Senate adopted a resolution today calling on the Senate to commemorate the Armenian genocide, reports the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
The Executive Director of the ANCA, Aram Hamparian, urging Obama to acknowledge the Turkish cover up of genocide, said,
French courts, today, detained a Rwandan genocide suspect who was accused of taking part in killings of Tutsis in the western town of Kibuye, reports Agence France-Presse.
The Dutch government announced today that it would give $28000 compensation to the families of there men killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, reports the Associated Press.
South Sudanese paramilitary and government officials, said today that threats of further US sanctions did not worry them as their sides were not responsible for escalating the conflict situation in the region.
The South Sudanese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman, Mawien Makol Arik, deemed sanctions unnecessary.
The United Nations Security Council will authorise an strengthened peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic, this week, reports the Voice of America.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry, today, warned of tougher sanctions should Russia fail to withdraw it’s presence from Ukraine, reports the Associated Press.
Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry said,
The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Navi Pillay, addressing the UN Security council today, outlined that Syrian government crimes outweighed crimes committed by opposition armed forces.
Drawing upon findings from the Syrian Commission of Inquiry, Pillay highlighted that although both parties had been found accountable for crimes, the two could not to be compared, reports Reuters.
The extradition of a man allegedly involved in the Rwandan genocide was authorised in a Norwegian court today, reports Agence France Presse.
The alleged criminal and former teacher, Eugene Nkuranyabahizi, is suspected of aiding massacres in the Rwandan regions of NKakwa and Cyahinda in April 1994.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking at the Rwandan genocide memorial events today, said he was ashamed of the way the situation was handled by the international community, stating,
