US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 6, 2020
Only days before the United States said it would submit a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council to extend an Iran arms embargo, the American envoy for Iran has resigned. Brian Hook, who also held the post as…
- Categories: Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Allison Lecce
- • July 24, 2020
The Security Council held a climate change and security debate, led by Germany, nearly 10 years since the first and last time the Council met on this specific issue and agreed to a presidential statement on it. The Dominican…
- Categories: Climate Change, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Fiona Shukri
- • July 13, 2020
Six months into her job as the United States ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, Kelley Currie has done little to demonstrate that she can restore American leadership on women’s rights while reporting to an ideologically driven administration known for…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Allison Lecce
- • July 10, 2020
In a final straw to the current troubles between the World Health Organization and the United States, the Trump administration notified United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on July 6 of its withdrawal from the agency, effective July 6, 2021. But…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Kseniya Oksamytna and Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren
- • July 7, 2020
Leaders of United Nations peacekeeping operations comprise an important and unique category of high-level officials in the world body. They have a difficult and often thankless job of trying to manage “Christmas tree” mandates handed down by the Security…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 30, 2020
Deep uncertainty and unease are descending across the United States just as Americans are preparing to celebrate their most important “political” holiday, Independence Day, on July 4. Contrary to what Trump administration officials are proclaiming, the US is not…
- Categories: Covid-19, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 17, 2020
An almost empty General Assembly Hall, masks of all types and colors and diplomats rejoicing to see their colleagues that they probably have seen only on their computer screens for months marked this year’s General Assembly elections at the…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Fiona Shukri
- • June 15, 2020
Already struggling with a surging Covid-19 pandemic, United Nations health agencies must now face the possible abdication of the United States’ leading role in fighting polio — just as the world gets tantalizingly close to eradicating it for good….
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 10, 2020
With Joseph Biden taking an unassailable lead by June 7 as the Democratic Party’s choice for president of the United States, many Americans foresee a desperate, ugly political campaign for re-election by Donald Trump coming. The magnitude of his…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • June 8, 2020
VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency issued an alarming report on June 5, voicing “serious concern” over Iran’s refusal to allow the agency’s inspectors to investigate two sites where the country is suspected of having conducted undeclared nuclear…
- Categories: Covid-19, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 2, 2020
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
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 1, 2020
Even if Belgium’s presidency took place in February and Estonia’s, in May, is over, the European Union just held a virtual press conference from its mission in New York City to say that this spring was a European one…
- Categories: Security Council Presidency, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2020
Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than…
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 20, 2020
The Trump administration may be bound and determined to extend a tight global arms embargo on Iran, but it still can’t send a straight message about how it will do so through the United Nations Security Council. The embargo,…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • May 19, 2020
On April 14, the US Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna issued a press release declaring that the State Department had contributed $11 million to a project fighting Covid-19 by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. The…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, US-UN Relations
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