by Michel Abu Najm | Oct 14, 2017 | World
Paris – UNESCO’s executive board voted Friday to make a former French culture minister the UN cultural agency’s next chief for the four coming years after an unusually heated election. UNESCO’s executive board voted 30 to 28 in favor of Audrey...
by Michel Abu Najm | Oct 13, 2017 | World
Paris — Unlike all previous expectations, the fourth election round to assign a new director general for UNESCO carried a surprise that has never happened in the history of the UN organization. The fourth round, which was carried out Thursday evening and was expected...
by Michel Abu Najm | Oct 11, 2017 | World
Paris- The ranking of the top three candidates did not change in the second round of the UNESCO elections for a new director-general held Tuesday afternoon as Qatar’s candidate for the post of Director-General of the UN organization Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari...
by Michel Abu Najm | Sep 29, 2017 | Middle East
Paris – France is maintaining pressure on the Libyan parties to push for a political settlement, in continuation of the Celle Saint-Cloud summit in July, which brought together Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan armed forces, and Prime Minister...
by Michel Abu Najm | Sep 26, 2017 | Middle East
Paris- French President Emmanuel Macron asserted on Monday with his guest Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who is on an official trip to Paris, that conditions were not yet suitable for the safe return of the Syrian refugees to their country, revealing contradictions...
