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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 25, 2023
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Elina Valtonen, Finland’s foreign affairs minister, told PassBlue that her country joined NATO this year for security reasons, given that Finland has the longest border with Russia in Europe — 830 miles north to south — and Russian troops…
- Categories: General Assembly, SDGs, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Arthur Bassas
- • September 24, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming out of the organization. This week, world leaders descended on New York City for the opening debate of the 78th session of the General Assembly. It…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, General Assembly, Latin America, SDGs, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Clair MacDougall
- • September 24, 2023
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Burkina Faso hit out at the “diplomatic hypocrisy” of France, the United Nations and other West African states for their treatment of Sahelian countries and threats to Niger, including its exclusion from speaking at the General Assembly, a story…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Security Council, Terrorism, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Anastasiia Carrier and Dawn Clancy
- • September 23, 2023
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Russia Blames the West, an ‘Empire of Lies,’ for All Global Ills —Â Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used his speech on Saturday, toward the end of the United Nations General Assembly’s annual debate, to recite many of the…
- Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 22, 2023
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Barbados: The Time for Reparative Justice Has Come — Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley said that reparative justice is inevitable for countries that suffered the horrendous consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to develop economically. She made…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • September 21, 2023
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‘Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is’: Financing the SDGs —Â The poor progress of the Sustainable Development Goals continued to be a common theme through the middle of the General Assembly high-level week. On Wednesday, heads of state,…
- Categories: Asia, Development, SDGs, UNGA78
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 21, 2023
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The United Nations Secretariat has received requests from both the ousted government of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been held hostage in Niger’s capital Niamey by the country’s military since it staged a coup d’état on July 26,…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, UNGA78
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- Dawn Clancy and Damilola Banjo
- • September 20, 2023
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His Peace Plan Will Save Both Ukraine and the UN, Zelensky Says — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine promoted his 10-point peace formula to the United Nations Security Council, meant to end Russia’s war in his country. Among the…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Dawn Clancy and Maurizio Guerrero
- • September 19, 2023
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Biden Pushes Global Unity as Russia Keeps Demolishing Ukraine —Â President Joe Biden called for unity and partnership as world leaders gathered at what he described as an “inflection point in world history,” where nations must work together to…
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 18, 2023
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The common thread woven across the dozens of speeches by world leaders at the opening of the two-day United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Summit was a clarion call for faster progress toward achieving the goals’ deadline of 2030. National…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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