GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • April 30, 2012
Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is said to be replacing B. Lynn Pascoe, the United Nations’ under secretary-general for political affairs, who has served for five years. The announcement…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • April 23, 2012
The appointment last week of Richard A. Grenell to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign staff as national security and foreign policy spokesman has already caused a stir in political and journalism arenas, suggesting that Romney’s foreign policy will be hawkish…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • March 24, 2012
With only hours to spare before the deadline on Friday for nominating the next president of the World Bank, President Obama announced a surprise choice: Jim Yong Kim, the 52-year-old president of Dartmouth College and a global expert on HIV-AIDS….
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 22, 2012
Kofi Annan, with the Security Council now fully behind his mediation mission in Syria, has gathered a group of experienced former United Nations officials and diplomats to work with him as he seeks the end of hostilities and, ultimately,…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • March 12, 2012
Three new UN under secretaries-general have been chosen by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his reshuffling of top posts for his second five-year term: Maged Abdelaziz, Egypt’s UN ambassador since 2005, as special adviser on Africa; Angela Kane of Germany…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 4, 2012
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has chosen Jan Eliasson, a former Swedish foreign minister with years of experience as a key United Nations mediator and humanitarian relief director, to be his new deputy secretary-general. Eliasson, 71, was twice ambassador to the…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • February 24, 2012
In his recently released 2013 budget proposal, President Obama has increased funds for foreign aid to the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development, but the 1.2 percent rise over 2012 figures is still less than…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 20, 2012
José Graziano da Silva took up his three-year post as the new director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, based in Rome, in January. The agency, which was founded in 1945, is tasked with eradicating hunger worldwide,…
- Categories: Development, GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 17, 2012
The International Criminal Court will swear in six new judges on March 9 and elect, by absolute majority, a new president of the court and two new vice presidents. The court’s 18 judges will vote in the election, with…
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 1, 2012
What goes on inside the United Nations as important issues are hashed out by officials and diplomats is rarely seen or heard by outsiders – consider the tense negotiations on Syria right now, done behind closed doors. But earlier…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • January 27, 2012
The United Nations World Food Program has named Ertharin Cousin of the United States to replace Josette Sheeran, also American, when Sheeran’s five-year term as executive director ends in April. And Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • January 22, 2012
Milos Koterec, permanent representative of Slovakia to the United Nations, was elected president of the Economic and Social Council earlier this month in its first organizational meeting this year. Koterec, 39, succeeds Lazarous Kampambwe of Zambia, after serving as…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • January 21, 2012
The Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect has released its first issue of a bimonthly digest, the R2P Monitor, reporting on populations in countries that could be at risk to mass-atrocity crimes. The mission of the center, part…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • January 18, 2012
American officials now rank Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz as dangerous to American interests — or even more so in the short term — than Iran’s nuclear program. Where is this place, and why has it…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Middle East
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • December 13, 2011
Fatou Bensouda has been named the new prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, nominated by consensus by the Assembly of States Parties, which manages the court. She begins her nine-year term on June 16, 2012. Bensouda replaces Luis Moreno-Ocampo,…
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