Overseas Security Advisory Council

EMERGENCY MESSAGE FOR U.S. CITIZENS: CAIRO (EGYPT), ACCESS TO EMBASSY BLOCKED BY PROTESTORS; PROTESTS PLANNED FOR DECEMBER 1

Near East > Egypt > Cairo

The Embassy wishes to inform U.S. citizens that as of 1030 hours local time access into and from Embassy is currently blocked by protestors. Police and protestors are clashing in area at Cornich checkpoint on Lazoughly Street, including on al-Shams and Osiris Streets. Thh Regional Security Office has instructed that no departures from Embassy or arrivals will be permitted until further notice. The Embassy strongly urges U.S. citizens to avoid the Garden City area at this time. more...

EMERGENCY MESSAGE FOR U.S. CITIZENS: BELGRADE (SERBIA), PLANNED PROTEST IN BELGRADE (NOVEMBER 30)

Europe > Serbia > Belgrade

Local authorities have informed the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade that the Serbian Radical Party will hold a protest related to the release of former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army in downtown Belgrade on November 30 between noon and 2:00 p.m. The protest will begin at the Presidential Palace in Andricev Venac and end in Trg Republike. Several hundred participants are expected, and we expect a heavy police presence in the vicinity of the protest and the U.S. Embassy. The embassy has advised embassy personnel to avoid the area. more...

EMERGENCY MESSAGE FOR U.S. CITIZENS: SKOPJE (MACEDONIA) AND PRISTINA (KOSOVO) PROTEST ACTIVITY

Europe > Kosovo > Pristina; Europe > Macedonia > Skopje

The U.S. Embassy has learned that the “Self-Determination” movement (“Lëvizja VETËVENDOSJE”) is holding a demonstration on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at the Morine border crossing point near Prizren on the way to Kukes, on the Kosovo-Albania border. more...

BENGHAZI VIOLENCE IS BEYOND THE CONTROL OF EVEN THE CITY’S POWERFUL MILITIAS

Near East > Libya

The killing was not a shock here, in the city where Libyans started their quest to shake off dictatorship and now struggle, nearly two years later, to douse the simmering violence that is a legacy of the revolt. more...

U.N. SET FOR IMPLICIT RECOGNITION OF PALESTINIAN STATE, DESPITE U.S., ISRAEL THREATS

Near East > Palestinian Territories

The U.N. General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine on Thursday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding much-needed funds for the West Bank government. more...