Richard J. Roth

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InternacionalONU

It seemed like a mirage at first. I was standing outside the UN Security Council chamber Wednesday morning. Media and diplomats stood around awaiting the results of the latest "straw poll" inside the Security Council on the 10 candidates still running to be the next UN secretary-general.
After years of deadlock and division on seemingly everything among the major members of the Security Council, what did I see?

Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the president of the Security Council for October, suddenly walked out of the chamber, smiling, with US Ambassador Samantha Power right behind him, along with the 13 other ambassadors in a diplomatic conga line.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente Próximo

On April 29, 2003, the citizens of Qatar went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly to approve a new constitution — one that guarantees freedom of the press. But 10 years later, the press here still is not free.

The turnout in Qatar for the constitutional referendum in 2003 was 84.3 percent, and of those 98 percent voted in favor of the new constitution. That vote, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Web site, was a vote by Qataris “to transfer into a new era where they soar high in the horizons of freedom.”

“This new era,” the Web site goes on to say, “is marked with setting up a permanent constitution that upholds personal liberty, safeguards the principle of equal opportunities for all citizens, protects private proprietorship, deems all people equal in rights and duties and prohibits the expulsion of any citizen from the country or preventing him from returning to it.…  Seguir leyendo »