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India Renews Claim for a Permanent Security Council Seat; UK Seeks Global Unity Against Covid

September 26, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India accused the United Nations of failing to update its work and adopt overdue reforms in his speech to the General Assembly’s 75th-anniversary session, on Sept. 26. He praised what he saw as India’s leading role in the world on many fronts and asked, in a focus of his …

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Trump’s Foreign Policy Brilliance? Let Me Count the Disasters

September 25, 2020

by Irwin Arieff

Fake news alert: President Donald Trump said something vaguely positive about the United Nations during his speech marking the opening of this year’s General Assembly session. “God bless you all. God bless America. And God bless the United Nations,” Trump intoned on Sept. 22. Comically, the world body may justifiably be relieved, having braced …

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The Dos and Don’ts of Digital Diplomacy in the Covid-19 World

September 24, 2020

by Stéphanie Fillion

The first-ever virtual General Assembly session has been full of both challenges and opportunities: the risks of technical problems were high (and some have happened), but the opportunities for global leaders to stand out individually in their pre-recorded video speeches turned out to be greater than speaking in the cavernous General Assembly Hall. While …

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Finally, a Woman Leader Speaks at the UN General Assembly Debate: Slovakia

September 23, 2020

by Sonah Lee

A pre-recorded statement from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s President Sefik Dzaferovic kicked off Day 2 of the 75th General Assembly, and like many other world leaders, he called for heightened multilateralism amid today’s pandemic and global conflicts. Simultaneously, for the first hour of the day, a Unicef-sponsored virtual event about protecting future generations from the …

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At the UN: US Condemns China; France Lectures; China Plays Sage; Turkey Is Gifted

September 22, 2020

by Barbara Crossette

Donald Trump, speaking on the opening day of the United Nations’ 75th General Assembly session — the same day that the United States officially tallied a coronavirus death toll of 200,000 people — reiterated all his familiar grievances against China and added a few. He blamed the Chinese not only for spreading Covid-19 across …

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Among World Leaders at UN’s 75th Commemoration, Trump Is a No-Show

September 21, 2020

by Evelyn Leopold

President Trump failed to deliver an expected video speech for the United Nations’ 75th anniversary commemoration. Instead, the acting deputy United States ambassador addressed the ceremony live from UN headquarters. From Washington, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced new sanctions against Iran during the UN anniversary remembrance, flanked by the US ambassador to the UN, …

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75 Years In, Does the UN Still Matter? Our New Podcast Episode

June 25, 2020

by Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

On June 26, 1945, delegates from 50 nations who had gathered in San Francisco over two months to attend the United Nations Conference on International Organization signed the United Nations Charter, forging a new world order. Seventy-five years in and a whole different world later, the UN is celebrating its past, present and future, …

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Who Knew? Putin Loves the United Nations

June 24, 2020

by Stephen Schlesinger

It turns out that Vladimir Putin is a history buff. He has just written a lengthy piece for the American magazine National Interest, titled “The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War 2″ and published on June 18. In his assessment, Putin reviews the events leading to the second world war, including the …

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The UN-75 Declaration, a Daring Commitment for a More Perfect World

June 23, 2020

by Richard Ponzio and Cristina Petcu

On the heels of the 1930s Great Depression and in the midst of global turmoil — World War II — leaders from the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom gathered in 1944 at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., to consider a new postwar international architecture to succeed …

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Will the UN Make It to 100?

June 2, 2020

by Thomas G. Weiss

Seventy-five years ago this month, delegates in San Francisco signed the United Nations Charter. Anniversary events were supposed to culminate in the commemoration of the entry into force of the world organization’s constitution on Oct. 24. That, of course, was before Covid-19 turned the world upside-down. Like school and university commencements, the UN’s celebration …

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UN at 75: The Security Council Must Remember Why It Exists

April 21, 2020

by Mona Ali Khalil and Fred Carver

The United Nations is turning 75 this year. While the UN has so far successfully averted a third world war, the aggressions in Iraq, Ukraine and Syria remind us that interstate conflicts remain a real and present danger. The Security Council’s failure to resolve intrastate conflicts, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to …

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Will the UN-75 Declaration Signify More Than a Birthday Party?

February 17, 2020

by Richard Ponzio

WASHINGTON, D.C. — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres used his annual State of the World speech to the General Assembly last month to outline his 2020 priorities. He stressed four threats to progress in the 21st century: growing geostrategic tensions and mass violence in fragile states, creating an unprecedented refugee crisis; the climate catastrophe; rising mistrust …

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Melissa Fleming Wants to Change the UN’s Public Image. Can She Do It?

January 27, 2020

by Stéphanie Fillion

The United Nations turns 75 this year, all year long. As its purpose is being questioned by some of its biggest donor nations, including the United States, the UN has a new person to reshape its public image through its global communications office, starting with how it presents its news. PassBlue obtained an exclusive copy …

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India Renews Claim for a Permanent Security Council Seat; UK Seeks Global Unity Against Covid

Trump’s Foreign Policy Brilliance? Let Me Count the Disasters

The Dos and Don’ts of Digital Diplomacy in the Covid-19 World

Finally, a Woman Leader Speaks at the UN General Assembly Debate: Slovakia

At the UN: US Condemns China; France Lectures; China Plays Sage; Turkey Is Gifted

Among World Leaders at UN’s 75th Commemoration, Trump Is a No-Show

75 Years In, Does the UN Still Matter? Our New Podcast Episode

Who Knew? Putin Loves the United Nations

The UN-75 Declaration, a Daring Commitment for a More Perfect World

Will the UN Make It to 100?

UN at 75: The Security Council Must Remember Why It Exists

Will the UN-75 Declaration Signify More Than a Birthday Party?

Melissa Fleming Wants to Change the UN’s Public Image. Can She Do It?

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