United Nations

Greece supports the creation of a Palestinian state based on the borders of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday in statements after the meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

He also announced that Mr. Abbas will visit Athens on December 21 for a two-day visit.

Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos met on Thursday with ILO general director Gay  Guy Ryder.

Their talks focused on labour relations and Katrougalos thanked Mr. Ryder for the support of ILO towards Greece during the memoranda period and on labour issues such as collective contracts and mass layoffs.

Mud from a dam that burst at an iron ore mine in Brazil earlier this month, killing 12 people and polluting an important river, is toxic, the United Nations' human rights agency said on Nov. 25.

The year 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest on record, the UN's weather agency said Nov. 25, days before a UN summit opens in Paris to craft a climate rescue pact.
 
Based on data for the first 10 months of the year, "We feel very confident... that 2015 will be the warmest year on record," said Michel Jarraud, head of the World Meteorological Organization.
 

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday told Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia - three countries that last week limited transit rights to migrants from war-torn states - that the restrictions violate human rights.

The special adviser of the U.N. Secretary-General (SASG) on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, said after a meeting with Turkish Cypriot Leader Mustafa Ak?nc? on Nov. 24 that progress has been reached on a number of issues in recent peace talks. Eide was speaking a day before the two leaders from both sides of divided Cyprus were scheduled to meet in Nicosia as part of talks on Nov. 25. 

Two Russian warplanes violated Turkish national airspace for 17 seconds, flying 1.36 miles into Turkish borders on Nov. 24, Turkey has reported in a letter to the United Nations Security Council. According to the letter, one plane left Turkish territory after multiple warnings, while the other was fired at and subsequently downed by Turkish F-16 jets after ignoring the repeated warnings.

The United Nations took aim on Nov. 23 at politicians who want to end the resettlement of Syrian refugees following the Paris attacks, saying the "rhetoric" showed disrespect and that there can be no discrimination.

A rally has been planned in central Istanbul to protest femicides across Turkey amid an alarming number of women murdered by men in recent years, despite the efforts of activists to prevent this significant problem, as the world readies to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Nov. 25. 

The US National Security Archive published documents detailing how the UN and international community failed to take action to prevent the Srebrenica massacres in July 1995.