How a fight between the USA and EU over a carbon cap and trade scheme for commercial airlines informs the debate about Palestinian membership to UN agencies.
Congress can't muster the will to change laws prohibiting American funding of UN agencies that admit Palestine as a member. Yet a vast majority of countries around the world support Palestine's membership to a growing number of UN Agencies.
The UN Security Council has formally recognized the threat posed by the late Gadhafi's unsecured arms depots and the resulting proliferation of weapons, particularly small arms and man-portable air-defense systems, or MANPADS.
Less than 20% of the Afghan Security Forces can read or write at a basic level of a first grader. Guess which UN agency runs literacy programs for the Afghan National Police?
