António Guterres
Israeli officials sought to ensure that the annual report, which documents those who kill and main children in armed conflicts, did not falsely accuse the Jewish State.
It was the first meeting between an Israeli prime minister and the Turkish president since 2008.
The Israeli defense minister is scheduled to meet with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and U.S. ambassador to the international body Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
A letter urges U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to take action to make it clear that anti-Semitism has no place in the United Nations.
The ouster of senior U.N. official Sarah Muscroft for condemning the terror group’s “indiscriminate” rocket fire is “a recipe for misguided self-censorship by U.N. officials,” says Israeli U.N. envoy Gilad Erdan.
“Slurs about a ‘Jewish lobby’ that acts to ‘control’ the media are reminiscent of the darkest days of modern history,” said the Israeli prime minister in a letter to António Guterres.
They also asked U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to terminate the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry.
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations CEO William Daroff called the probe a “one-sided farce” that “again demonstrates the clear anti-Israel bias in the U.N. body.”
“I feel I must do something to honor and continue the Jewish life of my ancestors, and to speak up against the anti-Semitism that nearly extinguished us,” said activist Elisha Wiesel, the only child of Holocaust survivors Marion and the late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
A United Nations office’s description of a recent terror victim as a “settler” raises difficult questions regarding the international body’s motives, says Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan.
U.N. recognition “will be an important achievement for the State of Israel and the Jewish people,” said Ambassador Gilad Erdan.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres also requested that the U.S. extend waivers on Iran’s oil trade and “nuclear non-proliferation projects.”
