Saturday, December 16, 2023

Turkish FM in Oslo to bolster global stance for Gaza cease-fire

from Daily Sabah

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Friday visited Oslo with the Gaza contact group of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to strengthen the shifting global stance for Israel to stop its attacks on Palestinian civilians.

Fidan, Palestine's top diplomat, Riyad al-Maliki, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi as well as Hissein Brahim Taha, the secretary-general of the OIC were part of the group. Diplomatic sources said that the invitation for the contact group to come to Oslo came from Scandinavian and Benelux countries.

The group held talks with the foreign ministers of Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway and Finland’s permanent state secretary.

Nordic as well as Benelux countries are traditionally known for role their active in role mediation, international law and humanitarian issues. Sources said that these groups of countries adopting a more critical role toward Israel's actions in Gaza is vital to reaching peace. The sources further said that the Oslo visit is essential as an opportunity to increase the number of countries calling for a cease-fire.

Denmark, Finland and Sweden, which had previously not voted in favor of Palestine, voted so in Tuesday's draft resolution, showing a shift in stances...

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3 comments:

  1. I do believe that with almost every one of the world's 190+ nations, with a mere 1 or 2 exceptions, sitting on the fence on their asses, that an analysis of how long this can go on must be approached from a financial perspective, till their economy implodes along with their currency, as eg sean foo did a week ago.
    Also covered in narrative but no charts or graphs by a few other commentators utube.

    They seem to all converge saying sometime in january/2024 this will happen, which of course is well before this story's claim of how long it's going to take them.

    But in any case, there's been no mention of what time extension is possible if as suspected by many Z going home "empty-handed" was just their devious way of stating he's just moved back to 2nd-in-line because for now they're endlessly supplying billions to help out their buddies on the med. None of those monies are audited.

    'More battles to come': Israel says Hamas war will last 'more than several months'
    Posted 2023-12-15, Khaleejtimes Headlines

    https://article.wn.com/view/2023/12/15/More_battles_to_come_Israel_says_Hamas_war_will_last_more_th/

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  2. New Big Pharmer jingo for 2020's: "Take a chill pill for your ills" is replaced by "To be where it's at, take a pill to cut the fat."

    Even so, the share of the population that is overweight has increased virtually every year since the nineteen-seventies. In the years after the National Institutes of Health essentially declared war on obesity, in 1998, rates of severe obesity doubled, and deaths from obesity-related heart disease tripled.

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-of-ozempic?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

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  3. Googoo Nooz coming!
    REAL NEWS U can believe (in)!

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    DEC16
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCwMtnpW_0g

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