The U.S. has opposed the UN's top court issuing an advisory opinion for Israel's immediate withdrawal from Palestinian-claimed territories.Acting State Department legal adviser Richard Visek has argued against resolving the conflict through a one-sided advisory opinion.Visek said the conflict should be addressed within established frameworks like the "land for peace" principle and occupation law. The
On Friday December 08, 2023 when the UN Security Council was voting on the UAE sponsored resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories one man who arrogantly opposed was Robert A. Wood.
states withdrawal from afghanistan. kylie atwood is live at the state department. what exactly is the inspector general going to look into? so the acting state department inspector general has alerted congressional committees that the state department inspector general is going to be essentially looking into a number of reviews. they are calling these oversight projects into the biden administration s chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. they ll focus on four specific things. the afghan special immigrant visa program, the processing of afghans to become refugees here in the united states. the resettlement of both those sivs and of those afghan refugees here in the united states. and also the planning and the execution of the chaotic withdrawal from the embassy in kabul and also the withdrawal of all those americans and all of those afghans that came out in that evacuation. now the acting inspector general said that she is letting congress know about these
leaving. they ve all decided to resign or left or ousted. we don t know exactly the situation. of course, personnel transitions are not unusual between administrations. acting state department spokesman mark turner said the departures of long-time staffers is business as usual. in the american foreign service association agrees. two state department officials tell us that one of them planned to serve in the next administration. now her last day is friday. whatever replaces her in charge of enforcing voting policy. rex tillerson is expected to be sworn in as early as next week. other long-time serving diplomats have chosen to quit rather than serve in a new administration and now president trump s state department has even more jobs to fill. most of these folks had served multiple bipartisan administrations. that s why it seems so unique