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September 17, 2025 · 11:46 am

New Zealand Minister Condemns Israel at UN

DWS News Item with this Title: “Fiery UN Speech: New Zealand FM Condemns Israel at Two-State Solution Conference | AC15″  ….30 Jul 2025 #MiddleEastPeace #TwoStateSolution #InternationalNews

Global leaders meet at the UN to discuss a two-state solution for Israel and Palestinians, hosted by France and Saudi Arabia. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DWS News. #IsraelPalestine #UNConference #TwoStateSolution #NewZealand #MiddleEastPeace #France #SaudiArabia #UNSpeech #GlobalNews #Diplomacy #Israel #Palestine #UNLive #PeaceTalks #InternationalNews Israel Palestine, UN conference, two-state solution, New Zealand FM speech, Israel criticism UN, France Saudi Arabia host, UN peace talks, Israel Palestine conflict, Middle East peace, UN live, UN speech, New Zealand foreign minister, Israel Gaza, international diplomacy, global politics, UN news, peace process, Israel Palestine news, United Nations, AC15 #UNConference #IsraelPalestine #TwoStateSolution #MiddleEastPeace #UNLive #France #SaudiArabia #GlobalLeaders #PeaceTalks #Palestine #Israel #WorldNews #DRMNews #Diplomacy #BreakingNews#UNConference #IsraelPalestine #TwoStateSolution #MiddleEastPeace #UNLive #GlobalLeaders #PeaceTalks #Palestine #Israel #WorldNews #BreakingNews #Diplomacy #DRMNews

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November 20, 2024 · 9:35 pm

Gerald Peiris: A Lifetime of Wide-Ranging Research & Service

These are but some of his publications over a career spanning the 1950s to 2020s — with eyesight deterioration blighting his last platform of life. No more table tennis, but much to remember. So, here. let me doff my cap to thee, Gerry Machang, …. Mike

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February 21, 2024 · 4:38 pm

USA Vetoes Algerian Motion in UN Security Council

Fair Dinkum …. in highly disturbed state of mind

United State’s’ Secretary of State John Kerry chairs a meeting of the Security Council at UN Headquarters in New York Stock Photo – Alamy

Today at the UN Security Council, a draft resolution put forward by Algeria calling for a ceasefire in Gaza was vetoed by the US
The votes were 13 in favour
1 opposed (US)
1 abstaining (UK,)

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January 17, 2024 · 12:53 am

The Geopolitics underlying the Strengthening of Maldivian Links with China

Timur Fomenko in rtcom.news, 15 January 2024, where the title reads  as “How a tiny tourist paradise has become a political flashpoint between India and China” ….. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi and pertinents Thoughts sent by “Skindiver” who sent this reference to Thuppahi.

The Maldives, with its new anti-New Delhi, pro-Beijing president, is set to become an inconvenient neighbor.

The Maldives is an archipelago nation just south of India. With a population of just half a million people, the islands may seem inconsequential, and the small republic is mostly known as a paradise getaway for tourists.

Maldives’ President Mohamed Muizzu (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, January 10, 2024 ©  STR / CNS / AFP

 Despite this, the nation is, in fact, a stage for a political flashpoint between China, India and the West, having recently elected a new president, Mohamed Muizzu, who is actively pro-Beijing and openly antagonistic to New Delhi, so much that Indians are now threatening a tourism boycott of the country. Muizzu has just visited China, where he inked a series of agreements with Xi Jinping, particularly in the area of infrastructure.

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October 10, 2023 · 5:25 pm

The World’s Watchdogs: The United Nations & Its Manifold Weightages and Flaws

An Observer from a Black Sea Town

When it comes to things like human rights, military/humanitarian interventions – small or weak states are always targeted, not big powerful states. It is easy for NATO to intervene (without UN Security Council authorization) to bomb Serbia and Libya because these countries are not big powerful states.  NATO recently announced its intention to intervene into North Africa and the Sahel countries, again without UN Security Council authorization. So, NATO doesn’t just circumvent the UN Security Council, but its goal is to unilaterally replace it.

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April 28, 2023 · 7:15 pm

USA’s Double Standards: A Payback Today for Sri Lanka’s Refusal to Kow-Tow in 2009

Item in the DAILY MIRROR, 28 April 2023… with this title “Designating Karannagoda; Russia hits back at US: Says West should not interfere in other countries affairs”

 The United States has designated former Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda, for his alleged involvement in gross violations of human rights. The US State Department said that Karannagoda has been designated pursuant to Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2023, due to his involvement in a gross violation of human rights during his tenure as a Naval Commander. As a result of today’s action, Karannagoda and his wife, Srimathi Ashoka Karannagoda, are ineligible for entry into the United States.

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October 11, 2022 · 6:28 pm

UNHRC Resolutions Display Blatant Double Standards

Fair Dinkum, with this sub-title “UN resolutions reveal the West is opposed to international democracy, while it tries to block attempts directed against racism and Xenophobia”

The UN Human Rights Council has just concluded its 51st session, adopting 41 resolutions and decisions. Examining the way countries vote on these resolutions reveals much about the hypocrisy of Western values, and that all their talk of democracy, equity, and valuing human rights is just meaningless rhetoric – a fact that can be observed in two important resolutions just passed by the UNHRC.

 

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October 4, 2022 · 6:51 pm

An Exposure: “Human Rights” as A Tool of US Intervention in Sri Lanka

 Natasha Gooneratne, an item entitled “Under the Guise of Protecting Human Rights and Establishing Democracy: US Intervention in Sri Lanka,” …. presented in 2015 or 2016 (?)

Introduction

The discourse regarding Sri Lanka within international media has intensified since 2009, when the then government of president Mahinda Rajapaksa announced that it had defeated terrorism in the form of the armed non-state group known as the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) [recognized as an international terrorist organisation by the US in 1997], that Sri Lanka had been in armed conflict with since the early 80s. Sri Lanka’s announcement prompted widespread reports of humanitarian law violations, and human rights abuses by both sides. A week after the announcement, on May 26th, the UN Human Rights Council held a special two-day session on the situation in Sri Lanka, concluding in the adoption of a resolution commending the state for the policies it had adopted. The resolution passed with 29 votes in favor, 12 against, and 6 abstentions.

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September 19, 2022 · 8:44 pm

Multi-faceted Campaign against the SL Government Crackdown on the Aragalaya

HRW …. 31 August 2022 …………. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/31/sri-lanka-end-use-terrorism-law-against-protesters 

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July 31, 2022 · 4:42 pm

Jonathan Manz’s Revelations re US Machinations in Sri Lanka: Two Essays

Jonathan Manz, in LankaWeb

ONE: “Pivot-to-Asia: America executes a Ligthening Coup to take control ofa strategic Island in the Indian Ocean” …. in LankaWeb, 13  June 2022 …. note DATE

Bewildered, reeling and confused, Sri Lankans are just beginning to pick up the pieces of the jigsaw to decipher the events of Black-Monday, 09 May 22, when America, with its all-too-familiar ‘false-flag’ operations, executed a lightning Coup, to take control of the strategic Island in the Indian Ocean.

Taking control of the Island-Nation was critical to the Americans to implement their re-chartered game-plan for the Indian-Ocean region; this plan, they were compelled to develop following the unexpected defeat of their proxy mercenaries in Sri Lanka.

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