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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 10, 2022
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This week, our focus is on rising food crises worldwide as a result of several converging factors, including Russia’s war on Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is…
- Categories: General Assembly, Peace and Security, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • June 7, 2022
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If there is a mantra for United States foreign policy under the Biden administration, it is the idea of a “rules-based international order.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a major speech delivered at the Asia Society on May…
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • May 20, 2022
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This week, enduring efforts to save lives in Ukraine, crippling droughts and Mexico’s disappeared. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and…
- Categories: Africa, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • May 19, 2022
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Antony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State, accused Russia of weaponizing food in its fight against Ukraine and creating a hunger crisis in many parts of the world as a result. Blinken made the remarks at an open…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • May 8, 2022
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The United States is making the tackling soaring prices of food commodities the main focus of its presidency of the United Nations Security Council in May. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the country’s permanent representative to the UN, elaborated on the…
- Categories: Security Council Presidency, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 17, 2022
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In last-minute change of plans, America’s top envoy, Antony Blinken, flew to New York City to attend a long-scheduled United Nations Security Council meeting this morning to speak about the possible war threats to Ukraine. The session, led by…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 5, 2021
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COP26 opens with a foreboding announcement from the UN secretary-general; peacekeepers shot by the presidential guard in the Central African Republic; Mexico’s agenda on the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • October 21, 2021
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As abuses against Sahrawi activists and journalists mount in Western Sahara, 10 United States Republican and Democratic senators are urging the Biden administration to include a human-rights element in the work of the United Nations referendum mission in the…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 24, 2021
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The fourth day of the United Nations General Assembly debate soldiered on, with pointed speeches by, among others, the Caribbean island nation of Barbados, whose prime minister, Mia Amor Mottley, asked the General Assembly Hall, “How many crises and…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, Health and Population, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 21, 2021
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Joe Biden, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21 for the first time as president of the United States, did not say again to the world that America was back. His message was that it never…
- Categories: General Assembly, UNGA76
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- Lucas Dias Rodrigues dos Santos
- • August 5, 2021
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GENEVA — The United States is campaigning for election to the Human Rights Council in October for the 2022-24 term, starting a new chapter in its volatile relationship with the Geneva-based body. Its current re-engagement, including more acceptance of…
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 28, 2021
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Grass-roots activists know peace-building best; Gaza reconstruction goals begin; the UN Security Council returns home. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and…
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • May 27, 2021
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The proposed selection of Rebeca Grynspan, a Costa Rican economist and former vice president of her country, to head the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was made without consulting the core of the agency — the Group…
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 9, 2021
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It was all over in one crucial week. Barring an unforeseen hitch, António Guterres is the clear winner of a second, five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations, beginning on Jan.1, 2022. This was not a surprise: he…
- Categories: Latin America, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 7, 2021
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China in the United Nations’ hot seat; Guterres’s vision for another five years; the future of global cooperation; who was Anne Dragon Nezeriotis? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
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