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Boukar Doungous is a Chadian Diplomat. He has five young kids and two adults. Fatma Boukar, 13. Hadje Amina Boukar, 11. Ibni Omar Boukar, 8. Hawa Bouakr 25. Salma Boukar, 29. "he UN Security Council will meet this month on North Korea's rights record following calls to refer Pyongyang to face crimes against humanity charges, a spokesman said Friday.

Ten of the council's 15 members had asked for the meeting in a letter sent to Chadian Ambassador Cherif Mahamat Zene, whose country holds the council's presidency for December.

North Korea's sole major ally China and Russia did not sign the letter.

Chad agreed to the request and will schedule a meeting, although no date has been set, spokesman Boukar Doungous of the Chadian mission told AFP.

Australia, Britain, Chile, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, South Korea, Rwanda and the United States said they were "deeply concerned" by the situation in communist North Korea.

The 10 ambassadors pointed to the "scale and gravity of human rights violations" outlined in a UN commission of inquiry report released in February.

"These violations threaten to have a destabilizing impact on the region and the maintenance of international peace and security," they wrote in the letter obtained by AFP.

The year-long inquiry heard testimony from North Korean exiles and documented a vast network of harsh prison camps holding up to 120,000 people along with cases of torture, summary executions and rape.

Responsibility for these violations lies at the highest level of the secretive North Korean state, according to the inquiry led by Australian judge Michael Kirby, who said that the atrocities amounted to crimes against humanity.

The 10 ambassadors asked that a meeting be held "as early as possible in the month of December."

Other than China and Russia, council members Argentina, Chad and Nigeria also did not join the push for North Korea's rights record to be discussed.

The move came less than three weeks after a landmark resolution was adopted in a General Assembly committee condemning North Korean rights abuses and calling on the Security Council to consider referring Pyongyang to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

UN diplomats said it was likely that China, which has veto power at the council, would block any move to refer North Korea to the ICC.

Both Russia and China voted against the resolution in the General Assembly committee. The measure was adopted by a vote of 111 to 19, with 55 abstentions.

The General Assembly is due to vote on the resolution again this month." By Wire News Sources on September 23, 2009

Ben Piven is reporting from the United Nations for Worldfocus. He filed this report about how the foreign press reacted to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday.

Heralding a “new chapter of international cooperation,” U.S. President Barack Obama delivered his maiden speech to the U.N. General Assembly today. Obama remains very popular around the world, although he has not yet elicited any major concessions in global geopolitical conflicts.

I asked media personnel at the U.N. whether Obama’s good will might translate into tangible foreign policy benefits.

“I am very proud of the way that Obama has spoken frankly, since he comes from Africa,” said Boukar Doungous, press attache from Chad to the U.N. “But in terms of the tough foreign policy issues, all these conflicts — such as Israel-Palestine — existed before Obama came to power.”

“It’s difficult for him to truly resolve these issues of external politics before resolving internal American political problems. Although he has a clear vision, he’s prioritized the domestic issues for now,” Doungous said.

Brenda Miyeh Yufeh, a reporter at the state-owned daily Cameroon Tribune, said: “Obama has the good will to act, and he will be true to what he says. But he cannot operate alone as the president.” She continued, “There are so many groups with whom he needs to collaborate. The speed at which he needs to act should not frustrate us. As far as Africa is concerned, we need to give him some time to do better than George Bush.”

A reporter for the Arabic-language Algerian daily Sawt Al Ahrar, which is associated with the ruling FLN party, expressed cautious optimism about Obama’s speech.

“He confirmed his intention to reform the foreign policy of the U.S. with regards to international organizations,” Nadjib Belhimer said. “But in reality, to change American strategy is a big task. For example, Guantanamo is still there. With the Muslim world, he has not yet modified the American stance.

Belhimer continued, “The Obama administration knows it’s not easy to shift the foreign policy of a superpower overnight. Yet it’s good to be optimistic. Obama already convinced the world that change has come. This president clearly doesn’t resemble Bush. Still, the whole world is waiting. Everyone wants to give Obama his chance.”

– Ben Piven

Worldfocus spoke with foreign journalists at the United Nations to get their reactions to U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday. http://worldfocus.org/files/2009/09/th_un_obama2.jpg http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.heralddeparis.com/worldfocus-reporting-from-the-united-nations-day-two/ Source"