15 February 2015

SHARES News Items Overview: 16 January 2015-15 February 2015

This is our News Items Overview of 16 January 2015-15 February 2015, a summary of recent news relating to shared responsibility. (more…)

15 February 2015

UN Security Council approves resolution targeting sources of financing for ISIL

Urging global cooperation ‘to impair, isolate and incapacitate’ terrorist threats, the UN Security Council approved measures targeting sources of funding for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Nusrah Front (ANF), condemning those buying oil from the groups, banning all trade in looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria, and calling on states to end ransom payments. (more…)

Source: UN News Centre | Security Council approves resolution targeting sources of financing for ISIL

15 February 2015

Ban Ki-moon urges international support to end crisis in Yemen

Amid a dangerous political and humanitarian crisis and a seething secessionist movement, Yemen sits on the brink of collapse, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the Security Council, reminding the international community of its ‘solemn obligation’ under the UN Charter to help the country prevent an escalation of the conflict and re-launch its political process.  (more…)

Source: UN News Centre | 'Yemen is collapsing before our eyes,’ UN Chief warns, urging international support to end crisis

12 February 2015

UN Deputy Secretary-General: ‘Together with the Israelis and the Palestinians, the international community holds the responsibility for what has been a collective failure to advance a political solution’

The resolution of the long-standing Israel-Palestine conflict is ‘clearly a serious matter’ for international peace and security, particularly during a time when the entire Middle East is threatened with terrorism and violent extremism, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson warned. (more…)

Source: UN News Centre | After ‘grim’ 2014, UN urges renewed push for Middle East peace
Source: United Nations | Deputy Secretary-General: Statements | Deputy Secretary-General's remarks, on behalf of the Secretary-General, at the opening of the 2015 Session of the Committee on the exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People | New York, 10 February 2015

11 February 2015

Federica Mogherini: the rescue of migrants at sea and other shared challenges ‘require a stronger exercise of shared responsibility’

Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission in the Juncker Commission, said on 10 February 2015 that: ‘We cannot allow other tragedies at sea in the coming weeks and months; we need to be able to give a strong political and operational response … I will convene an extraordinary meeting of the Commissioners’ Group on External Action in the coming days in order to discuss with the Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos, a review of our policies. I’ve also decided to put a discussion on migration on the agenda of the Foreign Affairs Council soon. The fight against smuggling and trafficking, the rescue of migrants at sea, the protection of asylum seekers are shared challenges; they require a stronger exercise of shared responsibility.’

Source: EU External Action | Statement by the High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini on addressing the challenges of migration | Strasbourg, 10/02/2015