Anthony Clark Arend

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 …

The New York Times reports:
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe announced Monday that it would end its 16-year mission in Georgia early next year because it had been unable to resolve a deadlock with Russia over whether to treat the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as sovereign nations.The mission has overseen negotiations between clashing sides in …

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 …

My dear friend Steve Bainbrige has an exceptionally thoughtful and detailed post on legal and policy questions that have been raised about the prospects of Obama appointing  a US Ambassador to the Holy See. Bainbridge writes:
Now let’s disentangle two issues. First, is there anything constitutionally incongruous about the US having an ambassador to the Vatican? Second, as a matter …