A U.N.-blacklisted North Korean shipping company continues to evade sanctions through its use of foreign-flagged ships, name changes and other means of obfuscation, according to a new report by United Nations monitors. The U.N. Security Council’s Panel of Experts on …
Piracy off the coast of Somalia is getting worse, partly due to the legal limbo that has led some countries to release captured suspects, Russia’s U.N. envoy said this week. Over the past year and a half, the U.N. Security …
China’s participation in an international naval operation to protect ships from pirates off the coast of Somalia should help improve maritime security in the Horn of Africa, an EU naval commander said Thursday. China said late last year it would …
The United Nations is concerned about the possibility of collaboration between pirates and government officials in Somalia’s Puntland region, according to a new U.N. report released Wednesday. The report, prepared by the office of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the …
A summit meeting on the financial crisis in London next month will tackle the issue of climate change, which the U.N. chief had planned to make the focus of a separate gathering in New York, diplomats said. Worried that the …
