Ambassador Zhang Jun
- Damilola Banjo
- • August 4, 2022
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Myanmar’s military junta has extended its state of emergency by six months, a year and a half after it overthrew the democratically elected government in a February 2021 coup. The ruling was announced on Aug. 1, the same day…
- Categories: Asia, 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…
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar, Security Council Presidency
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 7, 2020
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In early March, China appeared to be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel back home in containing the coronavirus spread, while in New York City, the country was preparing to take over the rotating presidency of…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 2, 2020
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With the incremental transformation the Security Council has gone through in March by transferring the bulk of its meetings online, the Dominican Republic’s special envoy to the United Nations intends to preside over the Council “like a sailboat, we’ll…
- Categories: Caribbean, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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