Yasuhiro Ueki
Yasuhiro Ueki is a professor in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. He is a former public information officer and spokesman for the United Nations. He also worked at the UN mission in East Timor and for Unmovic in Iraq. Ueki has an undergraduate degree from Sophia University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. hiro.ueki@sophia.ac.jp
- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • April 4, 2022
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Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military attack on Ukraine has not only undermined the basic norms and tenets of the international order based on the United Nations Charter but it has also provoked strategic recalculations of international relations in the…
- Categories: Asia, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • March 7, 2022
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Russia’s unprovoked military attack on Ukraine meets the definition of “act of aggression,” as defined by the International Criminal Court. The Rome Statute, which is the legal basis of the ICC, states in its Article 8 bis 2 that…
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- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • November 15, 2018
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We live in an age of uncertainty caused by the shifting structure and dynamics of international politics, economics and social change. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his address to the General Assembly in September that this uncertainty…
- Categories: Asia, Disarmament, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • April 26, 2017
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The images of civilians, particularly children, being asphyxiated by chemical substances and dying in Idlib Province of Syria on April 4 were a game changer. Judging that the chemical attack was carried out by the Syrian government, the United…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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