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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 26, 2020
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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…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75
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- Irwin Arieff
- • September 25, 2020
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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,”…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 24, 2020
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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…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75
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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • September 23, 2020
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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…
- Categories: General Assembly, SDGs, UN75
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 22, 2020
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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…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75
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- Evelyn Leopold
- • September 21, 2020
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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…
- Categories: General Assembly, Nuclear Disarmament, UN75, US Foreign Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • June 25, 2020
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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…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, UN75
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- Stephen Schlesinger
- • June 24, 2020
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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….
- Categories: UN75
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- Richard Ponzio  and Cristina Petcu
- • June 23, 2020
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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…
- Categories: Climate Change, Governance, Secretary-General, UN75
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- Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 2, 2020
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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,…
- Categories: UN75, US-UN Relations
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- Mona Ali Khalil  and Fred Carver
- • April 21, 2020
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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…
- Categories: Covid-19, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN75
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio
- • February 17, 2020
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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…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, UN75
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 27, 2020
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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…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN75
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