Sweden urges UN Security Council to produce results in 2017
UNITED NATIONS - Sweden's UN ambassador urged members of the often divided UN Security Council on Tuesday to make a New Year's resolution: Try to find common ground and produce results in 2017 that improve global peace and security.
Olof Skoog, the council president for January, said he also urged members of the UN's most powerful body to look beyond their national interests and "deal with each other in a respectful way ... because I think it's been missing sometimes."
Skoog said people look at the Security Council as the main body protecting them from conflicts, humanitarian crises and violations of international humanitarian law, "all of which are at a low right now."
