PRINCE
ZEID: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews
Network / 08
February 2010 - MaximsNewsNetwork, News Network for the
United Nations and the International Community, is pleased to honour the
international work of His
Royal Highness Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad with
this brief photo tribute and to thank him for his service at the United
Nations from 2000 through 2006 and now as Jordan’s sixteenth Ambassador of
the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan to the United States of America and to the United Mexican States (Mexico).
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“To
succeed today, the United Nations cannot merely serve as a tool for the large
and powerful countries of the world to dominate the global agenda,” said
Prince Zeid.
“Nor must it be used simply as an instrument of smaller
countries to delay or deter necessary change.
"Renewed by all and for all in
the Twenty-First century, the United Nations can fulfill its founding
promise.”
Prince Zeid Bin Ra'ad has led a distinguished
career as a diplomat, peacekeeper, international mediator and expert in the
field of international justice; he has also played a central role in
the establishment of the International Criminal Court, ICC, where in September
2002 he was elected the first president of its the governing body.
Over the years, Prince Zeid has consistently
challenged the United Nations to live up to its founding ideals and to be a
servant of all the world's peoples, and an instrument of the Member States for
development, peace and security.
As
one of the most seasoned of Jordan's Ambassadors he served as his country’s
Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations where he worked
on the U.N.’s most challenging issues and received the respect, admiration
and friendship of U.N. delegates from around the world.
In 2006 Prince Zeid, at 42, was the youngest
candidate to run
for the position of United Nations Secretary-General, to
replace Kofi Annan.
The selection of the S-G normally rotates from one
world region to another and in that year it was Asia’s turn to head the
world body, with Jordan being classified as an Asian country by the U.N.’s
definition, even though it is on the far western edge of the region.
Despite Jordan’s size and location within Asia,
the Prince was one of the most highly respected and well-liked candidates in
the International Community and his candidacy gave the opportunity to have a
Muslim leader as the world’s top diplomat.
However large East- and South-Asian countries prevailed and the
selection went to Ban Ki-moon.
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PRINCE ZEID
(MaximsNewsNetwork)
His
Royal Highness Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad Jordan’s sixteenth Ambassador of
the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan to the United States of America and to the United Mexican States (Mexico).
PRINCE
ZEID SPEAKS TO U.N. CORRESPONDENTS ON SEXUAL ABUSE BY U.N. PEACEKEEPERS
(MaximsNewsNetwork)
Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, the Secretary-General's Special
Adviser on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse speaks to correspondents after an
open meeting of the Security Council on sexual exploitation and abuse by
United Nations peacekeeping personnel, at United Nations Headquarters
in New York.
23 February 2006.
United Nations, New York. UN Photo: Ryan Brown
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In 2007 Prince Zeid presented his credentials to President
George W. Bush to become the sixteenth Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan to the United States of America; he also presented
his credentials to Mexico's President Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa to
be non-resident Ambassador to the United Mexican States (Mexico).
Jordan and the United States have worked, and continue to work,
together to achieve a common vision for the Middle East with the goals of
peace, prosperity and stability.
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While
at the United Nations, Prince Zeid became known worldwide as an expert in
the field of international justice after he played a key role in the
establishment of the International Criminal Court.
For
some two years the Prince chaired the complex negotiations on the
‘elements’ of individual offenses that fall under the new definitions for
the crimes of: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes.
Because
of his groundbreaking work as chairman, Courts worldwide now cite the
definitions for ‘Crimes Against Humanity’, refined by the ‘elements’,
as ‘authoritative’.
Prince
Zeid was elected the first president of the governing body of the
International Criminal Court, ICC, in September 2002, when the Court had not
yet been established and had no staff or offices.
But with his oversight the
institution grew during the first three years to reach global importance.
The
Prince also worked on other important legal and political issues when he was
the first of two ambassadors to chair the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on
the Scope of Legal Protection that is a part of the Convention on the Safety
of U.N. personnel.
Later
he was selected as chair of the ‘Panel of Experts for the U.N.
Secretary-General’s Trust Fund to Assist States in the Settlement of
Disputes through the International Court of Justice’, regarding a sensitive
boundary dispute in 2004 between Niger and Benin.
Also
in 2004 the Prince represented the government of Jordan at the International
Court of Justice regarding the issue of Israel building a wall in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories.
From
February 1994 to February 1996, Prince Zeid was a political affairs officer in
UNPROFOR where he worked intimately with U.N. peacekeeping issues in the
former Yugoslavia.
He continued to gain extensive knowledge in U.N.
Peacekeeping from his work in this and other regions for more than a decade.
In
2004, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed the Prince as “Advisor to
the Secretary-General on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse,” after widespread
allegations were made about U.N. peacekeepers in the summer of that year.
The
Prince then produced an important report considered “revolutionary” by the
international civil society because for the first time it presented a
comprehensive strategy to eliminate Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in all
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations.
The report was fully endorsed in 2005
by the 191 Heads of State and Government.
Between
2004 and 2007, Prince Zeid also worked with the United Nations Development for
Women, UNIFEM, as the chair of the Consultative Committee where he was
instrumental in developing a greater strategic direction for the new agency on
women’s issues.
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PRINCE
ZEID CONDEMNS SEXUAL ABUSE BY U.N. PEACEKEEPERS (MaximsNewsNetwork)
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, Secretary-General's Special
Adviser on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, speaking at a Security Council
meeting on sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeeping
personnel.
The Council strongly condemned all acts of sexual abuse and
exploitation committed by UN peacekeeping personnel, underlining the
importance of maintaining zero tolerance for such abuses and advocating
their investigation and punishment.
31 May 2005.
United Nations, New York. UN Photo: Devra Berkowitz
PRINCE
ZEID AT MEETING OF U.N. PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS ABOUT TROOPS FOR LEBANON
(MaximsNewsNetwork)
Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan, pictured at
the meeting of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) on troop
contributing countries for Lebanon, at UN Headquarters in New York.
17 August 2006.
United Nations, New York. UN Photo: Evan Schneider 
PRINCE
ZEID AS JORDAN'S AMBASSADOR SIGNS AGREEMENT ON ICC (MaximsNewsNetwork)
Ambassador Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan,
signs the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International
Criminal Court.
28 June 2004.
United Nations, New York. UN Photo: Gitika Noyes
PRINCE
ZEID AS JORDAN'S AMBASSADOR SIGNS W.H.O. TOBACCO CONTROL CONVENTION
(MaximsNewsNetwork)
Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United
Nations, signs the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control.
28 May 2004.
United Nations, New York. UN Photo: Gitika Noyes
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In
2009, Prince Zeid chaired the closing stages of negotiations to define the
Crime of Aggression, referred to in Nuremburg as the “supreme international
crime”. This definition is to
be included in the Statute of the International Criminal Court in 2010.
Prince
Zeid earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, Christ’s College, in the
United Kingdom and a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in the United
States.
Later
he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the Southern California
Institute of Law in June, 2008.
Prince
Zeid received his commission as an officer in the Jordanian desert police (the
successor to the Arab Legion) in 1989 and saw service with them until 1994.
In
April 2008, Prince Zeid delivered the Grotius Lecture at the 102nd Annual
Meeting of the American Society of International Law.
The Prince’s publications include: ‘A Nightmare Avoided: Jordan and Suez
1956’ in Israel Affairs (Winter 1994); and ‘Religious Militancy in the
Arab Middle East: Threats and Responses 1979-1988’ in the Cambridge Review
of International Affairs (Spring 1989).
Prince
Zeid is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Institute for Historical
Justice and Reconciliation. He is married to Princess Sarah Zeid, and they
have a son and a daughter.
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A
21st CENTURY U.N. by PRINCE ZEID (MaximsNewsNetwork)
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews
Network / 6
September 2006 -- A conflict erupts in an explosive part of the world and
the United Nations is asked to serve as the only mediating force acceptable to
all sides.
A
natural disaster engulfs an entire region, and the United Nations is asked to
coordinate an unprecedented relief operation.
Does
this mean the United Nations is important?
Yes.
Does
it mean that it is equipped to succeed?
No - not now, not yet, not without a
genuine renewal to make it a Twenty-First century agent for change and
progress.
The
UN’s recent centrality to resolving conflicts and alleviating suffering
around the world should serve – not as cause for complacency – but as a
spur to deeper change as its looks to new leadership at the end of this
year.
A Twenty-First century United Nations worthy of the hopes and
aspirations of a new, post -Cold War generation of citizens in every part of
the world must be guided by five central principles -
Reflect
the initiative and innovation of a new generation of leaders driving progress
throughout the world in development, peace and human rights.
From
Shanghai to Santiago, from Johannesburg to London, we are witnessing the rise
of a new generation of builders -- men and women of every race and creed
creating growth and development by harnessing the potential of globalization
for the benefit of their societies. To succeed in the Twenty-First century,
the United Nations must partner with these forces of progress and modernity.
Serve
as a bridge between cultures and faiths in search of peace and development.
The
ongoing deadly conflicts in the Middle East, and the terrorist attacks of 11
September 2001 and those that have followed them -- from Bali to Madrid
and London to Amman -- have made plain the urgent need to prevent extremism
from succeeding in creating further victims and divisions between peoples.
A
United Nations that understands the sources of these schisms, where they
occur, and can speak to all sides with experience and credibility, can play an
important role in resolving these dangerous conflicts.
Engage
today’s threats as a peacekeeper and mediator with vision and credibility.
The
recent outbreak of war in Lebanon and the ongoing conflicts in Africa have
reminded the world of the UN’s unique legitimacy in restoring peace and
security. Global legitimacy, on its own, however, is not enough.
The
UN must also be effective and principled in the face of war. Only by
applying the lessons of the peacekeeping failures of the 1990s – Bosnia and
Rwanda in particular – can it lay claim to being the peacekeeper of the Twenty-First
century.
Advocate
the cause of international justice.
Wherever
peace is threatened and development is imperiled, the rule of law is
the beginning of the answer. The United Nations has played a central role in
promoting the rule of law – both at the national and international level –
but can and must do more to put the rule of law at the service of the
world’s peoples.
Renew
itself at the speed of globalization.
To
deliver on its founding promise, the United Nations must be willing to
challenge its own practices and structures as never before – its governance,
its management, its practices in the field, its willingness to hold itself and
everyone who serves under its flag accountable to the highest standards of
integrity and excellence.
The
Twenty-First century has already brought immeasurable progress to those
societies able to seize on the opportunities of globalization – the United
Nations must learn from them, and become an agent as well as a beneficiary of
that progress.
To
succeed today, the United Nations cannot merely serve as a tool for the large
and powerful countries of the world to dominate the global agenda. Nor
must it be used simply as an instrument of smaller countries to delay or deter
necessary change.
Renewed by all and for all in the Twenty-First century, the
United Nations can fulfill its founding promise.
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