Tag Archives: United Nations Security Council

Mexico Looking to Reopen Relations with North Korea

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico wants to reestablish diplomatic ties with North Korea, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Sunday, July 18. “We have a position of hands-off around the world,” Ebrard reportedly told Bloomberg News in New York City, where he is currently attending a United Nations Security Council meeting. “We respect all governments, and we want

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An Urgent Appeal for Continued Assistance to Afghanistan

By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former career diplomat and senior adviser for the Project on Prosperity and Development, with JAMES SCHWEMLEIN and HANNAH DAVIN (The following article was written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with express prior permission.) U.S. President Joe Biden and his team have said that

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The World Is on Autopilot

  By TAN SRI HASMY AGAM and ANIS BAJREKTAREVIC The COVID-19 situation is a very worrying, indeed, alarming matter, not just as a global health and biosafety issue, but potentially as a global security challenge, as well. While the pandemic is being dealt with by the World Health Organisation (WHO), along with other relevant United Nation specialized agencies, the situation

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Kazakh Envoy Touts Nation’s Accomplishments, Dodges Questions on Human Rights

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Kazakhstani Ambassador to Mexico Andrian Yelemessov has no great love for Human Right Watch (HRW), the New York-based NGO that has been defending refugees, migrants and political prisoners since 1978. “For me, that organization is bad,” Yelemessov told Pulse News Mexico during a press conference at his embassy on Wednesday, Feb. 20, to tout his government’s economic

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The Night of the Iguala Massacre

By RICARDO CASTILLO     Mexico City’s streets were filled with demonstrations this past week calling for the “appearance, dead or alive” of 43 normal school students who went missing on the “night of Iguala,” Sept. 26-27, 2014, in the southern state of Guerrero. Four years later, there is one similarity between now and then. In 2014, President Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN)

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A World without Colonies

By EMHAMED KHADAD     Special to Pulse News Mexico     Last November marked the 42nd anniversary since 350,000 Moroccans crossed into the Western Sahara as part of the staged manipulation called the Green March. November 6 is a dark day for the Sahrawi people, because it epitomizes Morocco’s illegal military invasion and partial occupation of the Western Sahara. In October of 1975, the International

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