#tammsaare

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Home of Anton Hansen, aka A. H. Tammsaare, in Tallinn, Estonia

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And the main course. 🤤 This particular meal costs ten euros more in my country.

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Fb järjud suudaks kirjutada Andrese ja Pearu vaenust, aga Tammsaare ei ole kunagi maha saanud lausega "miks hurdime neid keda laavime" <3

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Tammsaare-Järva-Madise loodusrada

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As world leaders descend on the United Nations headquarters in New York City, the international body is fighting to maintain its relevance in a world it wasn’t built for when it was established nearly 80 years ago.

Global powers are increasingly circumventing the unwieldy U.N. system to conduct multilateral diplomacy, such as through the G-7, G-20, and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) blocs. Eight years ago, the U.N. outlined an ambitious batch of goals to tackle global poverty, gender equality, climate change, and other pressing global issues by 2030. But so far, the world is way off target in meeting those goals.

The war in Ukraine has frontally challenged one of the U.N.’s most fundamental purposes, enshrined in its foundational charter, of averting major wars. Moves to condemn the war at the Security Council have been shut down by Moscow, leading to revived calls to reform and modernize the council by adding new permanent members or reforming its veto structure.

“The U.N. is still at the core of multilateralism and rule-based order, and yet the impression one gets from the Security Council in particular is that it is not fully fit for purpose anymore,” said Rein Tammsaar, Estonia’s ambassador to the United Nations.

“This stark reality undermines directly the credibility of the council, as well as of the U.N. and its authority,” said Tammsaar, whose country is one of Ukraine’s strongest supporters within the U.N. and NATO.

The Western world’s laser focus on the conflict in Ukraine, meanwhile, has frustrated other countries in the global south as other dire humanitarian catastrophes—conflict in Sudan, coups across Africa, the migration crisis in Central America, and a lot of climate-related disasters—struggle for resources and high-level attention.

Some of the world’s most influential leaders are skipping the U.N. General Assembly High Level week, underscoring the challenges the institution faces to maintain its status as the go-to multilateral forum for tackling global challenges. The leaders of China, Russia, India, France, and the United Kingdom are passing on the confab. U.S. President Joe Biden will be the sole leader of the U.N. Security Council’s five permanent members to attend.

“With how fractured everything at the U.N. is these days, UNGA may become more a space for grandstanding than a space for any meaningful diplomacy to happen,” said Akila Radhakrishnan, the president of the Global Justice Center, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Many officials and experts are skeptical the U.N can adapt to changing times. Then again, as the U.N.’s second secretary-general, Dag Hammarskjold, said: “[T]he United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell.”

The U.N. still serves as a powerful venue for smaller states to make their voices heard. Its annual summit is an important barometer for what world leaders aim to tackle in the coming years, and a litmus test of whether the United Nations can revive momentum in its ambitious sustainable development goals and efforts to tackle climate change. Here’s what to expect next week.

1. Zelensky steals the show

The U.N.’s sustainable development goals and the war in Ukraine are likely to dominate next week’s meetings, but not without some tension. In the early days of the war, Western officials rankled their counterparts from the developing world in failing to balance the shock of the Russian invasion with other pressing global issues. “You had Western diplomats going into meetings about famine in the Horn of Africa or sea level rise and talking about Russia and Ukraine. That created a lot of resentment,” said Richard Gowan, the U.N. director at the International Crisis Group, who added that Western messaging around the conflict has since improved.

An in-person appearance from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is all but guaranteed to be the focal point of the media’s coverage at least, as the comedian-turned-president has perfected the art of making barnstorming speeches before world leaders.

“If there’s any issue at the U.N. that currently has traction, it’s Ukraine,” said Radhakrishnan. “That is a good thing, but it means Ukraine is crowding out the space for attention on a lot of other crises,” she said, citing Syria, Myanmar, and Sudan.

Another leader who is likely to draw a lot of attention is Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva. With the Russian, Chinese, and Indian leaders expected to skip the summit, Lula is the de facto spokesperson of the world’s major non-Western powers, but he’s also someone that Washington can work with. “He is the charismatic face of the global south,” Gowan said. The Brazilian president is scheduled to co-host an event on labor protections with Biden.

2. Grim News on the U.N.’s Development Goals

In 2015, with much fanfare and optimism, the United Nations launched a collection of “sustainable development goals,” or SDGs, aimed at tackling some of the most pressing global challenges—poverty, access to clean water, environmental protection, gender inequalities, and quality education—with specific targets to hit by 2030. This General Assembly marks the halftime review of how the world is progressing on those goals, and the results are not good. Take gender equality, for example. At the current global rate of dismantling barriers for women’s rights and gender inequalities, it will take 300 years to achieve full gender equality, according to the U.N.’s own reports.

Many experts and U.N.-based diplomats say progress was stalled, and in some cases reversed, thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic, as well as the global effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other major humanitarian and environmental disasters. But member states’ own inaction and lack of ambition had a lot to do with it, too.

“Unless we act now, the 2030 Agenda will become an epitaph for a world that might have been,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres wrote in a midterm progress report on the SDGs released ahead of the upcoming summit.

Guterres is holding out hope that the SDG Summit, organized on the sidelines of the General Assembly, will recharge momentum for the 2030 agenda.

“I love the idea that we’re all about to go into the locker room at halftime on the SDGs,” Michelle Milford Morse of the U.N. Foundation said in a piece for the nonprofit advocacy organization. “And we’re down and we’re losing, and, yes, we feel a little demoralized. But we’ve got to get back on the field, and we need to imagine winning this game.”

3. Can Guterres catalyze action on climate change?

Another year of record-shattering heat and a cascade of deadly environmental disasters fueled by human-caused climate change has ramped up pressure on world leaders to tackle what Biden called the “only existential threat humanity faces.”

An influential U.N. panel on climate change warned that the world could, within a decade or so, pass a crucial “tipping point”—the point at which the earth warms 1.5 degrees Celsius, triggering cascading and more calamitous climate change effects. Guterres has made and will make climate change his focus. But the audience is distracted.

“His speeches have gotten more and more dark over the last couple of years. He is basically up there screaming doom to the assembled policymakers,” said Anjali Dayal, an associate professor of international politics at Fordham University.

Guterres and other U.N. leaders want member states to cut carbon emissions but also to get climate finance operative; the countries worst-hit are those that have done least to deserve it. At the G-20 summit last week, countries for the first time agreed it would cost almost $6 trillion for the developing world to meet climate goals by 2030, with a further $4 trillion required every year if they are to reach net-zero emissions targets by 2050.

“We see this story now almost every year, it’s a sort of tragic cycle where the U.N. releases more data showing we’re not doing enough on climate change. There is a side event at the General Assembly that is meant to trigger a new level of ambition. Then everyone descends on COP, and the results are ultimately underwhelming,” said Gowan, of the International Crisis Group.

4. Paralysis over security council reform 

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine laid bare the impotence of the Security Council to deliver on its primary goal of maintaining international peace, and reinvigorated long-standing calls for reform. The problem is, the Security Council’s ills are a feature, not a bug.

“In order to make sure that the Security Council can fulfill the tasks set by the U.N. Charter, there is no alternative to adjusting the structure and working methods of the Security Council while further reinforcing the power of the U.N. General Assembly,” said Tammsaar, the Estonian ambassador.

There has been progress around the fringes. Biden endorsed expanding the Security Council to include new permanent members from Africa as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. “The Security Council should reflect today’s global realities, not global realities from nearly eight decades ago,” Biden’s envoy to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said during a speech in April.

A resolution, presented by Lichtenstein and adopted last year, will see members of the permanent five come before the General Assembly each time they wield their veto power to explain their decision. Another measure by France and Mexico in 2015 and supported by a majority of member states calls on the five to voluntarily suspend their use of the veto in instances of mass atrocities. “There should be no veto right if there is a suspicion that the one who uses it may have acted against the international law,” Tammsaar said.

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"Sirli, Siim ja saladused" vocabulary

It was kooslugemispäev again last week, this year reading an excerpt from Andrus Kivirähk's kids' story "Sirli, Siim ja saladused" (available in many languages at the link!). Here are some words that were new to me or I needed a refresher on.

roosa siga sörkis lähemale - to jog, to scurry (sörkima) - "the pink pig scurried closer"

häda ja viletsus on meie juurde jõudnud - misery - "trouble and misery has reached us"

nii et pole otsa ega äärt - edge - "so that there isn't an end or an edge"

oma tempe teha - tricks, shenanigans (temp) - "to do her own tricks"

hädaldas - to lament (hädaldama)

suur kari loomi - herd - "a big herd of animals"

eesel - donkey

venitasid oma võõraid kasukaid - stretched, strained (venitama) - "they strained at their own strange furs/skins"

ringi uitama - wander in a circle

Pistan ta õige pintslisse! - brush (pintsel) - "I poked him right in the brush" (?!) honestly, not sure - this is in reference to a donkey

looberdas - to loiter (looberdama)

nõiduskütkeis - under witch's spells? (kütke?)

Vaesed loomad kisasid ja kräunusid hirmsas hädas, aga nõid ei halastanud kellelegi - to bray (kisama), to yowl (kräunuma), to take pity on (halastama) - "The poor animals brayed and yowled in dire straits, but the witch didn't take pity on anyone"

ülbelt - arrogantly

lõi takka üles ja hirnus - from behind (takka=tagant but üles takka looma=to buck, as a horse), to neigh (hirnuma)

ilmsüütu - completely innocent

nii et maa mürtsus - to rumble (mürtsuma) but more of a sense of bang - "so that the earth shook"

Siim kortsutas kulmu - to scowl (kortsutama) - "Siim furrowed his brow"

igasugusteks asjadeks moondama - to disguise - "to disguise as any kind of things"

siin vist juhtus väike viperus - glitch, quirk - "here there only happened a small glitch"

lagendik - clearing, plain

mitte valge villaga talleke - lamb - "not a lamb with white wool"

säärane - such (=selline)

Kas tolmurulliks või kuusekäbiks - dust bunny (tolmurull) - "Whether as a dust bunny or a fir-tree cone"

sülitas põlglikult - to spit (sülitama), disdainfully or contemptuously (põlglikult)

Nõid läks ahmi täis - wolverine... or glutton? (ahm) - "The witch became a complete glutton" (?)

ähkis ja puhkis - huff and puff (ähkima ja puhkima)

kuss olla - to be quiet

kaelkirjak - giraffe

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Mis teie lemmik Tammsaare on? Mulle täitsa meeldib “ma armastasin sakslast”

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TOMMY CASH x bbno$ - TANGO from NAFTA on Vimeo.

Director Tommy Cash Creative Director Tommy Cash Creative consultant Mari-Ly Kapp 1AD Helen Lõhmus Management: Anton Glushnyov, Marili Jogi Song produced by Danny Zuckerman

PRODUCTION company Nafta Films Producer Ilya Medovy Line Producer Sissel-Maria Mägi Production Manager Sven Olters Production Coordinator Gynel Sihhalijeva Key PA Felikz Volož PA Kailiin Dubrov PA Milla Maria Kujala PA Robin Marten Leppik

Location Manager Eliise Saar Set Assistant Ralf Tõra Set Assistant Patrick Tammsaar Set Assistant Märten Kitsing DOP Heiko Sikka 1AC Frank Saunanen 2AC Ardi Ossaar BCam Aranya Sen

Deep Fake/Face replacement T-VFX VFX Denis Strahhov Colorist Evgeny Bystrov (jojo agency)

Gaffer Andrus Ilp Electrician Reimo Paevere Electrician Karl-Robert Vain GRIP TEAM Car rigging Bertil Tarbe Production Designer Anneli Arusaar Production design assistant Joonas Hirv Production design assistant Mark Nettan Custom props Juhan Malmstein Wardrobe stylist Mari-Ly Kapp

HMU assistant - hair Edvardscissorhand (Edvard Hiietam) Costume assistant Sille Randviir Costume assistant Kerttu Reinmaa Costume assistant Anna-Liina Haamer Tattoo artist M Lorah

Casting director Silvia Lorenzi Casting assistant Ingrid Liivaleht Casting Intern Karoliine Rämmi

Stunt coordinator Konstantin Aleksejev Stunt performer Rodion Sidorov Stunt performer Max Nikolajev Stunt performer Vanya Esepchyk Caterer Nautilus Restoran Traffic control Andri Tsupin Traffic control German Costume bus Reevo Kraam Additional Unit Studio Unit DOP Joosep Jürisson Studio Unit Gaffer Olaf Iowa Studio Unit 1AC/DIT Risto Niils Studio Unit Make-Up Artist Suzanna Eisel Studio Unit PA Sander Koit Big thanks to Racer Worldwide, Ron Verlin, Sveta Vintage, Siim Oja, Must Luik, Nafta Kostüümiladu, Rahvusooper Estonia Kostüümilaenutus, Vibram Fivefingers Eestonia, Ott Krüger, Jaanus Vahtra, Kristiina Tali, Eesti Lihaveisekasvajataje Ühistu ja Rando Treimuth, Angelika Koovit, Karl Kargets, Location Unit, High Voltage

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"Tammsaare radadel" - Eerik Teder

Kirjastus: Eesti Raamat Lehekülgi: 56 Ilmumisaasta: 1977 Peale keskkooli lõpetamist pole ma eriti nn kohustusliku kirjanduse radadele sattunud. Mõned üksikud korrad on tekkinud kerge “heldushoog”, kuid muidu olen hoidnud kõrvale. Nüüd on aga hakanud tasapisi uudishimu kasvama, eelkõige mõttega, et äkki saan paremini aru või märkan lisadetaile. Olles paar kuud tagasi Tammsaare romaani põhjal…

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Birthdays 1.30

Beer Birthdays

Martin Stelzer (1815)

Christian Hess (1848)

Sean Turner

Five Favorite Birthdays

Lloyd Alexander; writer (1924)

Phil Collins; rock drummer, singer (1951)

Roy Eldridge; jazz trumpeter (1911)

Gene Hackman; actor (1930)

Franklin D. Roosevelt; 32nd U.S. President (1882)

Famous Birthdays

Peter Agre; physician and biologist (1949)

Michael Anderson; English film director (1920)

Christian Bale; British actor (1974)

Marty Balin; rock musician (1942)

Les Barker; English poet and author (1947)

Luc-Marie Bayle; French painter (1914)

Francis Bradley; English philosopher (1846)

Richard Brautigan; writer (1935)

Ruth Brown; singer (1928)

Kylie Bunbury; Canadian-American actress (1989)

Gelett Burgess; author, poet, and critic (1866)

Brett Butler; comedian (1958)

Dick Cheney; war criminal, war profiteer (1941)

Shirley Chisholm; politician (1924)

Olivia Colman; English actress (1974)

Michael Dorris; writer (1945)

Ann Dowd; actress (1956)

Charles Dutton; actor (1951)

Doulas Englebart; inventor of computer mouse (1925)

Richard Greene; actor (1918)

Tammy Grimes; actress and singer (1934)

Tubby Hayes; English saxophonist and composer (1935)

Shirley Hazzard; Australian-American writer (1931)

Fred Hembeck; author and illustrator (1953)

Patrick Heron; British painter (1920)

John Ireland; actor (1914)

Horst Jankowski; German pianist and composer (1936)

Dave Johnson; Baltimore Orioles 2B (1943)

Mike Johnson; politician (1972)

Josh Kelley; singer-songwriter (1980)

Fred Korematsu; activist (1919)

Walter Savage Landor; English poet and author (1775)

Bernie Leighton; jazz pianist (1921)

Charles Martin Loeffler; German-American violinist & composer (1861)

Delbert Mann; film director (1920)

Steve Marriott; English singer-songwriter (1947)

Dick Martin; comedian (1928)

Jaishankar Prasad; Indian poet and playwright (1889)

Harold Prince; film director (1928)

Johann Joachim Quantz; German flute player & composer (1697)

Vanessa Redgrave; actor (1937)

Amrita Sher-Gil; Hungarian-Indian painter (1913)

Snagglepuss; cartoon character (1959)

Boris Spassky; Russian chess player (1937)

Payne Stewart; golfer (1957)

A. H. Tammsaare; Estonian author (1878)

Jake Thomas; actor (1990)

Barbara Tuchman; writer, historian (1912)

Wilmer Valderrama; actor (1980)

Jody Watley; singer (1959)

David Wayne; actor (1914)

Maiko Yuki; Japanese model, actor (1977)

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Talín - 06 de janeiro de Ano 4 - Domingo - Doc - 28 anos.

07:40 - Acordamos, tomamos banho e nos arrumamos. 08:20 - Tomamos café no hotel:

08:50 - Saímos. 09:00 - Visitamos o museu:

09:40 - Visitamos: Katariina trepp

10:00 - Visito: KUMU Kunstimuuseum

11:00 - Passeamos pela ponte: Pallasti sild

11:20 - Visitamos mais um local: Lasnamäe Linnaosa Valitsus

12:10 - Almoçamos: Mantel ja Korsten

13:40 - Visitamos mais um museu: Anton Hansen Tammsaare Museum

14:20 - Saímos. 14:35 - Chegamos ao hotel e vamos na piscina aquecida.

15:10 - Voltamos, ficamos confy e eu trabalho. Pi dorme.

18:10 - Tomamos banho e nos arrumamos para sair. 19:10 - Jantamos: Restoran Pull

21:00 - voltamos, vemos tv e dormimos (L).

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Efemérides literarias: 30 de enero

Nacimientos 1781: Adelbert von Chamisso, escritor alemán (f. 1838). 1878: Anton Hansen Tammsaare, escritor estonio (f. 1940). 1886: Daniel Alfonso Rodríguez Castelao, escritor, pintor, médico y dibujante español (f. 1950). 1912: Barbara Tuchman, historiadora y escritora estadounidense (f. 1989). 1919: Nikolái Glazkov, poeta soviético (f. 1979). 1919: Enrique Jarnés Bergua, escritor y…

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2023

Q-Space'i kultuurifestival tõi kokku väliskülalisi ja kohalikud filmihuvilised 6.12.2023, Vikervaade Q-Space korraldab LGBT+ kultuuri festivali Tallinnas ja Narvas 16.10.2023, Vikervaade „Transcendentia” ehk maailm pärast lõppu 3.10.2023, STL Is corporate support for LGBT+ community breaking prejudices in Estonia? 2.10.2023, ERR Dräägime binaarsust 22.09.2023, Sirp Galerii: Parima Balti drag-kuninga tiitel toodi taas Eestisse 17.09.2023, Vikervaade Tartus toimub Balti sugusantide tuleproov 7.09.2023, Vikervaade Kvääriklubi Hungr reisib Tartusse 29.08.2023, Vikervaade Kogo galerii kvääriprogrammis algas värvikate drag-esinejate näitus 26.08.2023, Tartu Postimees Kogo galeriis avatakse Baltimaade drag-esinejate rühmanäitus 15.08.2023, Vikervaade Drag-pidu BÄM! tähistab 7. sünnipäeva oksjoniga Hungris 6.07.2023, Vikervaade ‘What the new generation wants’ 22.06.2023, Meduza Helgi Saldo: Erinevus ei ole puudujääk 21.06.2023, Eesti Ekspress Galerii: ERM-i ööelu näituse jaoks valmib lühifilm "Lillade õuduste öö" 14.06.2023, ERR Tartu LGBT peol käib nii palju heterosid, et see on saanud endale „heterosõbralikkuse“ märgi 8.06, Eesti Ekspress Sveta Grigorjeva: miks peaks iga hetero minema Pride’ile 7.06.2023, Vikervaade Filmimuuseum näitab dokfilmi mässust, millest algas rahvusvaheline LGBT-liikumine 1.06.2023, Vikervaade "Lillade õuduste öö" otsib taustanäitlejaid 19.05.2023, Vikervaade Ligi 150 LGBT esindajat kogunes Tammsaare parki vägivallavastasele meeleavaldusele 17.05.2023, Reporter.ee LGBT-vaenu vastasel päeval toimub Tammsaare pargis meeleavaldus 12.05.2023, Vikervaade Kväärid avavad Tallinnas uue kogukonnabaari 13.04.2023, Pealinn BÄM! otsib superstaari: Svetas toimub drag-võistlus 3.04.2023, Vikervaade Helgi Saldo: inimese vastu kena olemine ei maksa mitte midagi 19.03.2023, ERR Kultuur Eesti Laul 2023: Milline etteaste oleks parim tänavustele gei-"Näljamängudele" ehk Eurovisioonile? 8.02.2023, Eesti Ekspress Kiirkohting: Charity Kase 1.02.2023, Müürileht Fantaasiat ja kväärpunki: Tallinnas esineb drag queen Charity Kase 25.01.2023, Vikervaade

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A.H. Tammsaare Muuseum Vargamäel 

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[ad_1] A senior British diplomat described the marketing campaign as a “massive lobbying and outreach effort.” It includes practically each stage of the U.S. diplomatic infrastructure, from ambassadors to assistant secretaries to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Members of Congress would possibly even make some calls. If handed, the decision would enhance the Western effort to isolate Russian chief Vladimir Putin, undermine his argument that he's a liberator and, ideally, persuade him that escalating the struggle will invite solely extra international backlash. The European Union has invited practically your complete U.N. membership — 188 nations — to debate the draft decision. Belarus, Syria, North Korea and Eritrea didn't obtain invites, primarily based on their opposition to Ukraine’s territorial integrity in earlier U.N. resolutions. A draft model of the decision obtained by POLITICO calls for that Moscow pull its troops out of Ukraine and says that “illegal so-called referenda” organized by the Kremlin to say 4 territories as Russian “have no validity under international law and do not form the basis for any alteration of the status of these regions of Ukraine.” In a letter dated Tuesday and obtained by POLITICO, Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to the U.N., writing to his fellow ambassadors, referred to as the draft decision a “sham.” He described the lobbying effort as a “clearly politicized and provocative development” and urged U.N. members to vote in opposition to the decision. Russia can also be calling for a secret poll on the proposal with the aim of limiting Western efforts to disgrace U.N. members into voting for the decision. The benchmark for achievement, in response to the diplomats who spoke to POLITICO, is getting as shut as potential to the 141 votes achieved in March condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “141 votes is the gold standard — 100 votes is muddling through,” Rein Tammsaar, Estonia’s ambassador to U.N., stated in an interview. “The goal is to grow the coalition rather than agreeing to a perfect text,” stated one other European ambassador. U.S. officers insist they aren't counting on quid professional quos, however fairly established one-on-one relationships that may tip a rustic from an abstention to a “yes.” Key targets doubtless embrace India and South Africa, together with many smaller nations that usually wrestle to get consideration from world powers. As the motion shifted from the U.N. Security Council to the General Assembly, European officers have taken the lead in mobilizing nations which have thus far abstained in Russia-Ukraine resolutions in 2022, British and EU diplomats stated. While Western officers declined to get particular about which nations are being focused, and the way, they've been at pains to incorporate South Africa — which has thus far abstained on Ukraine issues — from the beginning of the drafting course of. The course of follows efforts to get an identical decision permitted by the 15-member U.N. Security Council. Russia, a everlasting council member, used its veto to kill that measure final week. Now, the main target is on the bigger physique, the General Assembly, and the push is harking back to U.S. congressional leaders’ efforts to whip votes for a invoice. To organize talks with reluctant nation representatives, U.S. diplomats are turning to spreadsheets and grids that observe which American officers have held conferences or in any other case know related overseas counterparts, a State Department official accustomed to the difficulty stated. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is among the many folks exhausting her Rolodex. President Joe Biden is unlikely to immediately become involved within the effort, until the subject comes up in already scheduled talks with different heads of state. Otherwise, “it really is a full court press,” stated the State Department official, who, like others, was granted anonymity to debate delicate issues.

“It is an art more than a science,” a U.S. official accustomed to the method added. The allies’ aim is to border the decision as a vote establishing that a state’s territorial integrity can't be modified by violence or sham referendums, and never as an assault in opposition to Russia. If the textual content sticks narrowly to the significance of sustaining a rustic’s territorial integrity, extra governments will doubtless signal on. The extra political, anti-Russia language that will get added, the extra some will hesitate. There is a few confusion about what the magic variety of votes should be. A diplomat on the U.N. stated that, relying on the wording of the decision, a two-thirds majority vote is likely to be required. Some U.S. officers indicated they had been going for a decision that will require a easy majority. There are 193 U.N. member-states. Some might not vote. And if the U.S. and its allies really feel they won't get the votes they want, they might not suggest a decision in any respect. Either manner, the nations Washington and its companions will foyer are most certainly to hail from Africa and Latin America, main areas within the so-called Global South. Many such nations have tried to remain impartial within the battle between Russia and Ukraine, though some have pleaded for an finish to the preventing. They be aware that the struggle has brought about meals, fertilizer and vitality shortages which have damage their populations. Some have histories of “non-alignment” insurance policies, that means they keep away from taking sides in competitions among the many world’s nice powers. India specifically has annoyed Washington by persevering with to purchase Russian vitality merchandise, filling the Kremlin’s coffers simply because the West is attempting to economically squeeze Moscow. The vote has additionally turn out to be a great alternative for nations Washington usually ignores to press their points to the superpower and its allies. Even the smallest nations, in any case, get a vote on the United Nations. “This vote in particular shows the value of the U.N. as a global convening body,” stated Peter Yeo, senior vice chairman of the United Nations Foundation. “The reality is smaller countries have a seat at the table at the U.N., and this is their moment to not only horse trade but make sure their views are being heard.” Some nations are also balancing their curiosity in coping with China as they weigh what to do about Russia. China has stayed pleasant with Russia regardless of the latter’s invasion of Ukraine in February. But Beijing has at times abstained on associated votes, akin to throughout final week’s Security Council session. Some Pacific island states the place China has made inroads might take a cue from Beijing within the upcoming vote. But every of their votes counts as a lot as that of a bigger nation, an element U.S. officers think about as they recreation out whom to have interaction, when and the way. “You want to certainly reach out to India and make your best possible case, but for every India that you get, every Barbados counts as well, or every Fiji counts, every Palau counts,” the State Department official stated. The Biden administration has pressured that, not like the Trump administration, it values the function of multilateral organizations. Thomas-Greenfield, for instance, has met with as a lot of her U.N. counterparts as potential. Still, there are some overseas governments that really feel marginalized by the United States — particularly after former President Donald Trump’s common dismissal of many world leaders’ issues. “Yes, for some cases, you are playing a little catch-up,” the State Department official stated. U.S. officers argued even a easy courtesy assembly the place a U.S. envoy listens to the issues of one other nation can go a good distance. There may very well be alternative for that in conversations Blinken has together with his counterparts as he visits Latin America this week.

Analysts and others watching the method stated it was unlikely that Ukraine’s pals can exceed a March excessive level when 141 nations condemned Russia’s full-scale invasion. They pointed to Security Council members Gabon and Brazil, which voted in favor of the March decision however switched to abstentions on the measure vetoed by Russia final week, as proof of the issue of hitting 141 votes subsequent week. Instead, some diplomats are setting their baseline hope at 100 votes: the identical variety of nations that voted for a 2014 General Assembly resolution criticizing Russia’s effort to subsume the Ukrainian area of Crimea by way of a sham referendum. Attempts to get feedback from roughly a dozen nations which have abstained in earlier votes associated to Russia and Ukraine weren't profitable Tuesday. The Russian delegation on the United Nations additionally didn't reply to a request to debate its lobbying effort. The draft decision obtained by POLITICO had a number of paragraphs hammering the concept Russia was violating worldwide regulation. The sheer variety of such paragraphs could also be a flip off for some nations. “Most U.N. members want to think this can be settled peacefully before too long,” stated Richard Gowan, a U.N. analyst with the International Crisis Group. “Ukraine could lose sympathy if it seems too hawkish, however unfairly.” Putin’s current claims of annexation apply to 4 Ukrainian areas. So-called referendums held there usually concerned Ukrainians being compelled to vote at gunpoint, according to media reports. Among the arguments that the United States and its allies are making to nations as they rally votes for the upcoming decision is that Russia’s actions undermine the tenets of the U.N. Charter. That was one point Biden made in his current speech to the U.N.’s annual gathering of world leaders. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been more blunt, urging nations to desert neutrality. “You definitely have to choose sides,” he stated final month. “You cannot vacillate between good and evil, light and dark.” [ad_2] Source link