Peace and Security
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 3, 2022
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The last time the United Arab Emirates was elected to the Security Council, in 1986, the country was only 15 years old, and Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, the current UAE ambassador to the United Nations, was just 7. Since then she …
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 2, 2022
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- Categories: Peace and Security, Women
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- Dr. Catherine Mullaly
- • March 1, 2022
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Ukraine’s population data are rapidly changing as the war rages in its country since Russia began its aerial, ground and sea assaults late last week. Within 24 hours of issuing its first report, the UN Refugee Agency documented that 368,000 …
- Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Mark Malloch-Brown
- • February 28, 2022
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Putin’s decision to send Russian troops into Ukraine was a flagrant breach of the most fundamental rules of interstate relationships. It was not only an unprovoked attack against an independent sovereign nation, and by an unfree country on a free …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • February 25, 2022
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This week, alas, a heavy spotlight on Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, read how the …
- Categories: Peace and Security, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Dawn Clancy
- • February 24, 2022
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- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Stephen Schlesinger
- • February 22, 2022
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President Vladimir Putin is now 69 years old and he has been in office for almost 22 years, so he is starting to face his mortality: witness his two-year effort to isolate himself from Covid and holding meetings at comically …
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • February 18, 2022
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Artillery shelling blasts eastern Ukraine; what’s the Collective Security Treaty Organization?; the UN boss jets to Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 17, 2022
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In last-minute change of plans, America’s top envoy, Antony Blinken, flew to New York City to attend a long-scheduled United Nations Security Council meeting this morning to speak about the possible war threats to Ukraine. The session, led by Russia, …
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Opinion by Sally Anne Corcoran
- • February 15, 2022
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As girls are being sold in the streets of Kabul, the Norwegian government flew in the Taliban and people from Afghan civil society into Oslo to talk to one another and with Western diplomats. While United Nations agencies have warned …
- Categories: Asia, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Dawn Clancy
- • February 8, 2022
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On days when the sky in Dang Xa, a village in North Vietnam, was a crisp shade of blue, 7-year-old Dang Dinh Quy would climb to the top of a tree to watch the United States bomber planes dodge the …
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 2, 2022
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If it were up to the Kremlin, the United Nations Security Council would not have discussed tensions building along the Ukrainian border at a public meeting on Monday. It’s a nonissue, according to Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the …
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Security Council Presidency
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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 31, 2022
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The United States and Russia publicly aired their stances and concerns over the Ukraine crisis in a United Nations Security Council meeting, with the US calling Russia’s military buildup on Ukraine’s borders a “clear and consequential threat to peace and …
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • January 10, 2022
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VIENNA — The name Helga Schmid probably does not ring a bell beyond diplomatic circles in this very diplomatic city. Nor is the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, which Schmid leads, a household name, either. But …
- Categories: Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 4, 2022
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Norway holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council in the country’s 2021-2022 term only once — in January — so it is aiming to make the best of this moment. “We have to make sure to put our mark …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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