Anthony Clark Arend

Reuters is reporting:
The United States is ready to hand over more than $2 billion in new and old contributions it owes the U.N. peacekeeping department, Washington’s U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, said on Wednesday.
“The United States is now in a position to clear all peacekeeping arrears accumulated from 2005 to 2008 and to meet our obligations in full for 2009 — …

Reuters is reporting today:
The international arrest warrant for Sudan’s president will top the agenda of an Arab summit next week, which he may attend despite his indictment for war crimes, host Qatar said on Saturday.
Sudan’s Omar Hassan al-Bashir has made trips to Egypt, Eritrea, Libya and Ethiopia over the past two weeks, after the warrant was issued by the International …

Late Thursday evening, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1860. The vote was 14 in favor, with the United States abstaining. The Resolution provides:

“The Security Council,
“Recalling all of its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 1397 (2002), 1515 (2003) and 1850 (2008),
“Stressing that the Gaza Strip constitutes an integral part of the territory occupied in 1967 and will …

Advocacy Project Director and MSFS adjunct professor at Georgetown, Iain Guest, has a thoughtful op ed in today’s Christian Science Monitor on the Obama Administration and the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Counci, it will be recalled, was recently established to replace the old, and frequently ineffective, Human Rights Commission. Guest writes, in part:
Until 2006, UN human rights policy …

The operative paragraphs of Security Council Resolution 1846 provide:
Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,
1.  Reiterates that it condemns and deplores all acts of piracy and armed robbery against vessels in territorial waters and the high seas off the coast of Somalia;
2.  Expresses its concern over the finding contained in the 20 November 2008 report of …