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Secretary-General’s remarks to the Security Council – on Venezuela – Statement by António Guterres, Secretary-General delivered by Ms. Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.
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The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to free bus travel for people over 60.
Tony Vaughan MP has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702845
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk
Find out more about how petition debates work: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/content/194347/how-petitions-debates-work/
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Source: United Nations (video statements)
Briefing by Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, on behalf of António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the situation in Venezuela.
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Secretary-General’s remarks to the Security Council – on Venezuela – Statement by António Guterres, Secretary-General delivered by Ms. Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee recently held a roundtable event as part of its inquiry into housing conditions in England. Bringing together tenants and housing providers across the private rented sector, social housing and temporary accommodation, the session gathered a range of perspectives which will contribute to the evidence gathered for the Committee’s findings and report.
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Today the House of Commons and the @HouseofLords will return from Christmas recess and resume business at 2.30pm.
Business in the House of Commons will start with questions to the Home Secretary.
Members of the House of Lords will discuss topics, including support for parents to toilet train their children, sudden cardiac death in young people, and Government use of social media platform X.
Watch today’s business as it happens on Parliament Live TV: https://parliamentlive.tv
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New year’s message by the of South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa
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Minister Ronald Lamola remarks on South Africa’s state visit to Switzerland
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Government’s response to the US tariffs and measures that will be implemented to mitigate the impact
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Somali Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman told journalists in New York that Israel’s recent recognition of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state is a “calculated effort by the Israelis occupying force to distract the world,” and said that reports that Somaliland “secretly accepted” 1.5 million Palestinians to be deported there from Gaza would be “unacceptable.”
Osman was briefing reporters on the program of work of the Security Council for the month of January, which Somalia is presiding.
On Claims that Somalia had committed crimes of genocide in Somaliland, he said, “those atrocities can never be called genocide. And it was not a term that can be used because it was not targeted for a specific group or specifically. The government were fighting with people who want to overthrow that regime at the time, and it took place many parts of Somalia, not only northwestern region.”
Osman said, “the claim of genocide in Somalia decades ago – more than 40 years ago – by the occupying power of Israel, it was kind of like a shock to us. And it is an attempt, I believe, to distract what the occupying force are doing in the occupied land of Palestine.”
The Somali Ambassador expressed appreciation for Security Council Members who unanimously supported “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Somalia” at the Council on Monday.
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He said, “Somaliland no longer exists. Somaliland was – when we got independence – was two regions, northeast and northwest region. And northeast, which is about 45 percent of the territory and 45 percent of the population, if it’s not more, are also part of the Federal Government of Somalia.”
Osman Said, “this, basically is not a problem of sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is a small group that want to secede.”
He said Israel’s is to “export the Palestinian from Gaza to any country that accepts,” adding that this was “probably” linked to the recognition of Somaliland.
