Security Council Presidency
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 7, 2022
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Brazil will try to push for a softening of global sanctions on Russia to free up essential food supplies and ease access to fertilizers internationally. Ambassador Ronaldo Costa, the country’s permanent representative to the United Nations, hinted at such action …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Security Council Presidency, UN Peacekeeping
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 2, 2022
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The lack of accountability on a range of human-rights abuses and atrocities committed by countries and others across the world will be highlighted during Albania’s first open debate as rotating president of the United Nations Security Council this month. Prime …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • May 8, 2022
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The United States is making the tackling soaring prices of food commodities the main focus of its presidency of the United Nations Security Council in May. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the country’s permanent representative to the UN, elaborated on the topic …
- Categories: Security Council Presidency, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 12, 2022
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As most of the world’s superpowers continue to impose sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Britain says it will double-down on its effort to call out Russia by ensuring it does not continue to misuse …
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 2, 2021
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When Niger, a landlocked country in West Africa, started its term on the Security Council almost two years ago, Covid-19 was not an international crisis yet, Operation Barkhane, a French antiterrorist operation launched in 2014, was full-fledged in the Sahel …
- Categories: Africa, Security Council Presidency
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 2, 2021
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Mexico has only one chance in its two-year term to shine as president of the Security Council, and it’s this month. While all eyes are now focusing on Glasgow, Scotland, and the United Nations-led COP26 meeting on climate change, Mexico …
- Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, Migration, Refugees, Security Council Presidency
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 4, 2021
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In October, the United Nations Security Council diplomats are packing up their suitcases and hopping on an overseas flight to the Sahel region of West Africa to assess the serious challenges that this semiarid strip is countering. It is the …
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Latin America, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 1, 2021
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The day after the Taliban took over Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason of Ireland spoke directly to Afghan women through her remarks in the United Nations Security Council, telling them: “Women of Afghanistan: we hear you and we …
- Categories: Human Rights, Security Council Presidency
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 2, 2021
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The presidency of the Security Council is always a high time for a country’s diplomacy, but for India right now, it’s more than that. In August, the country is going to try to show the world why it deserves a …
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 1, 2021
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France is in the diplomatic spotlight at the United Nations as it’s not only leading the Security Council for the month of July, but it is also just finishing up hosting the long-awaited Generation Equality Forum, a UN-led gathering that …
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Humanitarian Aid, Security Council Presidency, UN Peacekeeping
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 31, 2021
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The small Baltic country of Estonia is ready to boost the prospects of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres winning a second term as the country holds its last Security Council presidency in June during its current elected term. “It will …
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Secretary-General, Security Council Presidency
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 5, 2021
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When China last took the reins of the Security Council, in March 2020, the country was just starting to control the pandemic at home, while the virus was spreading rapidly abroad, all the way to United Nations headquarters in New …
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar, Security Council Presidency
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