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THIS WEEK @UN

It Happened at the UN: Week Ending Nov. 15

Welcome to This Week @UN: Africa in the Security Council; Azerbaijan’s ‘COP of Peace’; fixing Haiti’s food and water crises; Elise Stefanik. Plus: Trump; COP29; UNRWA; Guterres on genocide in Gaza; Sudan. We have revived our BlueSky account, so please …

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