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As the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, you are about to leave your post after nearly six years and return to Tel Aviv at a time when Iran is releasing touched-up photographs of its latest missile tests and continuing to enrich uranium in defiance of U.N. sanctions. How seriously do you take their threats? Listen to Ahmadinejad, who denies the Holocaust while planning the next one, who talks about wiping Israel off the face of the map — listen to him, and take him at face value.But what if it’s all bluster? Maybe he’s just a short man who...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 1: In an emotional address to the 15-member UN Security Council on Monday, Lebanese acting Foreign Minister Tarek Mitri pleaded with it to order ceasefire by Israel in the war and order inquiry into the Israeli bombing in Qana which killed at least 64 people mostly children. “The spilled blood of the children in Qana deserves much more than expressions of regret,” said Mr Mitri.UNITED NATIONS, Aug 1: In an emotional address to the 15-member UN Security Council on Monday, Lebanese acting Foreign Minister Tarek Mitri pleaded with it to order ceasefire by Israel in the war...

Last update - 18:03 16/08/2005 Envoy to UN: Pullout should end UN hostility toward Israel By Reuters The Gaza pullout should mark an end to UN hostility against Israel, UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said on Monday, urging the world body to support the withdrawal as a historic move toward peace. The comments echoed previous calls by Israel and the United States to halt the litany of anti-Israel resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly each year and dismantle the extensive bureaucracy built up around the Palestinian cause. "It is time for the United Nations to acknowledge Israel's actions," Gillerman told...

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman was Monday unanimously elected as the new vice president of the UN General Assembly. This is the second time that an Israeli envoy has be elected to a position of this rank. The post was previously held by legendary Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, who assumed the role in the early 1950s. Gillerman was the candidate of the Western nations, a bloc containing some 30 states, including members of the European Union, Canada, Australia and the United States. "This is an important and historical moment for the State of Israel, both in essence...

Address by Ambassador Dan Gillerman, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, to the Security Council October 5, 2003 Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you on the assumption of the Presidency of the Security Council. Let me also express to you my regret that your first meeting is of this nature and taking place on this day. I wish also to express to Sir Emyr Jones-Parry my great appreciation for his able and fair stewardship of the Security Council last month. This meeting of the Security Council is being convened within hours of Yom Kippur, the Day...

Oct. 10, 2003 Security Council meets on security fence By JPOST.COM STAFF The Security Council held a closed-door meeting on Friday to discuss a Palestinian-backed, Syrian-sponsored draft resolution demanding that Israel halt construction of the security fence and tear down sections already built. The proposed resolution was introduced at the request of the Arab League. The United States requested that the discussion be postponed until Wednesday, Haaretz reported, while it was also agreed that an open meeting on the issue would be held on Tuesday. An additional resolution urging the parties to implement the road map is in the works,...

Oct. 8, 2003 Gillerman: "Dangerous developments" inside UN Security Council By MELISSA RADLER NEW YORK As Israel lobbies against a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that condemns its Sunday morning missile strike in Syria, new, more "dangerous developments" are taking place inside the council, Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman said yesterday. A Palestinian-backed, Syrian-sponsored draft resolution demanding that Israel halt construction of its security fence may be introduced into the council in the coming days, and an additional resolution urging the parties to implement the road map is in the works, Gillerman said during a conference call with the Conference...

UN Ambassador Gillerman: Israel Has Right to Defend Her Citizens US: Syria Is On The Wrong Side in the War on Terrorism - Harbors Terror Organizations United Nations---October 6......Israel's UN ambassador defended the IDF attack on Islamic terror bases in Syria, saying that Syria was harboring and supporting terrorists. The U.N. Security Council is presently meeting at Syria's request to discuss the Israeli air raid on a Palestinian terror training base near Damascus on Sunday. Syria's U.N. Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad called on the council to adopt a resolution condemning the attack as "military aggression." Syria's draft calls for Israel to...