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The escalation of Israeli military violence in Gaza is unacceptable and must stop immediately, said the South African government on Sunday. "The South African government unequivocally and in the...
Statement by Mr Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for the closing session of the United Nations African Meeting on the Question of Palestine, Pretoria
A United Nations peacekeeping force will be sent to Lebanon in
about a week, Secretary General Kofi Annan said before beginning a
visit today to Beirut. Annan made the comment when he telephoned...
The United Nations plans to deploy a 3 500-member force in southern
Lebanon within 15 days as Israel began withdrawing its soldiers
after a cease-fire halted more than a month of fighting with the...
Fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah gunmen intensified in
southern Lebanon as Israel carried out new air attacks on the
group's bases in Beirut. The army targeted six Hezbollah cells...
The International Court of Justice (IJC) was to deliver yesterday a
damning verdict on Israel's controversial West Bank barrier
declaring it illegal and calling for it to be torn down.
The South African Government was gravely concerned at the ongoing
house demolitions and military incursions by the Israeli Defence
Force in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, the Department of...
STATEMENT BY THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SOUTH AFRICA, H.E.
AMBASSADOR DUMISANI KUMALO, TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON THE
SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST
US Middle East envoy William Burns here yesterday welcomed the
unofficial initiatives launched by Israeli and Palestinian groups
for a final peace settlement but without actually endorsing them.
In the wake of the devastating bombings against British interests
in Istanbul, Israeli officials and experts predicted yesterday that
the next target of global terrorism would be Europe.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas, under increasing pressure
from Israel and Yasser Arafat, will hold crisis meetings here today
in a bid to salvage the international road map for peace and...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged to dismantle Jewish
settlement outposts and accepted the principle of "territorial
contiguity" for a future Palestinian state, after an...