"For the United States, 'protecting children' and 'maintaining international peace and security' clearly mean something very different from what the U.N. Charter provides," he told reporters.

U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo said the world body was aware of the reports of the deaths at the girls' school. She noted the impact the U.S.-Israeli strikes and the Iranian retaliatory strikes was having on children across the region.
A demonstration in July 1953 in Tehran, in support of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The elected prime minister was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence.

"We have been reminded of this truth over the last two days," she told the Security Council. "Schools in Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman have closed and moved to remote learning owing to the ongoing military operations in the region," she said.

Melania Trump was the first spouse of a world leader to take the president's seat at the United Nations' most powerful body, which is charged with ensuring global peace and security, according to the U.N.

The wife of President Donald Trump was given the opportunity as the United States takes over the council presidency for the month of March. In the past, presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers have often wielded the gavel.

Speaker after speaker on Monday said it was important to close the digital divide between developed and developing countries so all children have access to 21st century technology.

Melania Trump strongly advocated for all children to be connected to artificial intelligence to help them learn about the beliefs, customs and history of others. "AI is democratizing knowledge which was once confined to university libraries," she said.

Drawing a connection between knowledge and peace, she urged members of the Security Council to "safeguard learning."

"Enduring peace will be achieved when knowledge and understanding are fully valued within all our societies," she said.
US has cut funding to UN agencies that protect children

While the first lady spoke of a need to protect children and their access to education and technology in conflict, her husband's administration has cut funding for a number of U.N. agencies and other international organizations that address these issues.

Among them is the U.N. Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict, which provides detailed reporting on the impact that conflicts have on children around the world. This information can help trigger action to prevent rape and violence against women and children. President Trump withdrew U.S. support in January.

The U.S. has also dramatically cut funding for the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, and has withdrawn from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO.

DiCarlo told the council the world is facing the highest number of armed conflicts since World War II. "The number of civilians killed in these conflicts is the highest in decades," she said. "Our reality is clear: When conflicts erupt, children are among those most severely affected."

The first lady arrived at U.N. headquarters in a motorcade and was greeted by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. She shook hands with each of the 15 Security Council members and posed for a group photo.

>>1493537
This is SO ironic!!! More than anything related to Jeffrey Epstein…

The rotating president of the council gets to choose the subject and participants for some meetings. Monday's meeting was scheduled before the war began.

The council's last meeting, on Saturday, was a contentious emergency session called in response to the start of the war. Guterres condemned the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes as violations of international law, including the U.N. Charter. He also condemned Iran's retaliatory attacks for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations in the Mideast.
Melania Trump's support of Ukrainian children

Melania Trump took the unusual step last summer of writing a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin before his summit with her husband and later announced that the effort had led to a group of children displaced by the Russia-Ukraine war being reunited with their families.

Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 resulted in Russia taking Ukrainian children out of their country so they could be raised as Russian. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has lobbied world leaders for help reuniting families.

It ees terrible vat Iran do to girls

>>1493592
Epstein and Trump also diddled zeh girls

HEARD AN ISRAELI TALKING ABOUT THE SCHOOL STRIKES ON THE RADIO

YOU COULD HEAR THE LIE IN HIS VOICE

"NOT AWARE OF ANY STRIKES" COMEPLETE BULLSHIT ISRAEL BOMBED KIDS AGAIN

MELANIA IS HARMLESS LET HER COOK

>>1493599
That should be a war crime…

>>1493602
Pretty sure bombing schools is a war crime
But so is hiding terrorist cells under schools and hospitals. Recently IRGC units have been photographed relaxing in the quad of a high school, and some of the imams who voted on the new supreme Muslim were photod in a space which social media determined was a local hospital (idk Iranian hospitals, so I'm taking that on faith)

Trying to hide behind innocents only gets you so far

>>1493848
That doesn’t matter. Bombing civilians is still a war crime, regardless of the other guys comiting war crimes of their own.

>>1493850
Good point.
Who is in charge of prosecuting war crimes? Can they hold Israel responsible or nah