17 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 17th, 2012
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- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm at the worsening violence in Syria, including the reported mass killing of Alawites and alleged firing of long-range missiles on Syrian territory.
- The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea celebrated its 30-year anniversary.
- France reported that officials from the Afghan government, the Taliban rebel movement and other factions would meet this week near Paris to discuss the country’s future.
- Libya’s ruling national congress ordered the temporary closure of its borders with four of its neighbors over the weekend and declared its vast desert south a closed military zone in the face of growing unrest.
- The Security Council has extended the term of office of five judges serving with the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to facilitate the completion of the court’s work.
- Sudan and South Sudan were set to resume security talks, with Khartoum demanding that its southern neighbor cut ties with rebels on its territory.
- Georgia and Russia took the first steps for the partial restoration of ties at their first direct talks about bilateral relations since the former Soviet republics fought a five-day war in 2008.
- An airstrike on a Palestinian refugee neighbourhood in Damascus has cost Assad considerable political capital in the Palestinian community.
- A report will be submitted today to the IMF’s Board to decide on how to deal with Argentina’s failure to provide transparent inflation data; eviction from the IMF is a possibility.
- Argentina has one case less to worry about at the WTO after Mexico withdrew its request for the establishment of a WTO Panel following the conclusion last Friday of an automobile trade pact between the two nations.
- Ghana is considering its response to the ITLOS’s order for it to release the ARA Libertad, a decision about which Craig Allen provided a guest post this weekend.
- Singapore and the EU have concluded negotiations on a free trade Agreement.
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