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   PRINCE ZEID: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper. PHOTO:  Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, addressing the 111th plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the question of equitable representation on an increase in the membership of the Security Council at UN Headquarters. 11 July 2005. United Nations, New York. UN Photo: Rick Bajornas

PRINCE ZEID AT UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (MaximsNewsNetwork)

Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, addressing the 111th plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the question of equitable representation on an increase in the membership of the Security Council at UN Headquarters. 11 July 2005. United Nations, New York. UN Photo: Rick Bajornas

PRINCE ZEID: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper. PHOTO:  Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse addresses 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

PRINCE ZEID ADDRESSES U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL (MaximsNewsNetwork)

Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse addresses 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

 

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).  

 

“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.  

 PRINCE ZEID: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper. PHOTO:  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 (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: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper. PHOTO:  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

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

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.  

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.  

PRINCE ZEID: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper. PHOTO: 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 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: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper. PHOTO: 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 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: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper. PHOTO:  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 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: A PHOTO TRIBUTE from MaximsNewsNetwork by Dr. Max Stamper. PHOTO: 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

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

 

 

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.

His Royal Highness Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad has been a Contributor to MaximsNewsNetwork where his article, A 21st CENTURY U.N. by PRINCE ZEID (MaximsNewsNetwork), announced the launch of his campaign for the position of United Nations Secretary-General in 2006.

 

 

  -- By Dr. Max Stamper, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, MaximsNewsNetwork.

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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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