UN Security Council

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with UNMIK head Caroline Ziadeh on Friday to discuss the political and security situation in Kosovo-Metohija and an October 30 UN Security Council session on a report on the work of UNMIK, the UN Mission in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held security consultations at the Defense Ministry Monday night to discuss the response of Israel to the armed attack by Hezbollah drone strike on Sunday and the retaliation in Iran.

The leaders of nine southern European Union countries and Jordan are meeting in Cyprus on Friday to come up with ways to de-escalate the crisis in the Middle East that is threatening to engulf Lebanon and trigger a wider humanitarian crisis.

The killing of two Hezbollah commanders by Air Force aircraft strikes in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military announced Thursday morning.

Multilateralism has had a difficult time lately, especially at the United Nations. The UN Security Council couldn't exactly stop Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon remain elusive. Subsequent COP summits have failed to raise the bar enough, let alone spur concrete action, to meet global climate targets.

NEW YORK - The UN Security Council will on October 30 debate the UN secretary general's new semi-annual report on the work of UNMIK, the UN mission in the Serbian Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija.

The UNSC session in New York, scheduled for the afternoon hours CET, has been called by Switzerland, the current UNSC president, the UNSC website says.

Chancellor Olaf Schultz has condemned “in the strongest possible terms” Iran’s missile attacks on Israel, warning that they “threaten to further escalate the already tense situation in the Middle East.”

Greece will continue to spearhead the integration of Western Balkan states into the European Union, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis confirmed during a ministerial meeting in Berlin, part of the "Berlin Process."

A meeting of the Greece-Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council could take place in early 2025, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the 79th UN General Assembly tonight.