Danny Danon

Why Israel Dropped Out of the UN Security Council Race: Not Enough Votes

May 28, 2018

From the start, it was a closely watched contest pitting Germany, Belgium and Israel against one another for their regional bloc’s two seats in the next term on the United Nations Security Council. Israel has never held a seat on the Council, and as it celebrates its 70-year membership in the UN in 2018, the …

General Assembly, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Reform Eludes the Human Rights Council as Bolton Returns to the Scene

April 1, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

The 2018 winter session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was marked more by what didn’t happen than what did. There was still no official announcement in Geneva from the Trump administration about whether the United States would leave the Council or even seek re-election in 2019, when its current term expires. There was …

Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Nikki Haley to Mahmoud Abbas: Get Over Trump’s Jerusalem Decision

February 20, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach

Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority, sticks to his well-known grievances. While Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, finger-points; Nikki Haley, the American envoy to the UN, warns everyone to stay off the topic of Jerusalem. In the latest showdown on Palestine in the UN Security Council, which welcomed Abbas …

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council, US Foreign Relations

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Myanmar, North Korea, Gender Parity: Guterres Highlights the Topics of the UN Debate

September 13, 2017

by Dulcie Leimbach

António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said the top two problems he would highlight the most at the opening session of the General Assembly next week were Myanmar’s rapidly unfolding humanitarian disaster and North Korea’s nuclear-weapons provocations. “The humanitarian situation is catastrophic,” Guterres said at a media briefing on Sept. 13 at …

Secretary-General, UNGA72

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In a Single Day, US Congress Castigates Both the UN and Obama Over Israeli Vote

January 6, 2017

by Barbara Crossette

While Washington is caught up in the unfolding drama about the extent and motives of Russian hacking and possible attempted manipulation of the 2016 American presidential election, another story is playing out around threats to “punish” the United Nations. On Jan.5, the United States House of Representatives voted to repudiate the Security Council resolution …

Health and Population, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, UN Agencies

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Danny Danon

Why Israel Dropped Out of the UN Security Council Race: Not Enough Votes

Reform Eludes the Human Rights Council as Bolton Returns to the Scene

Nikki Haley to Mahmoud Abbas: Get Over Trump’s Jerusalem Decision

Myanmar, North Korea, Gender Parity: Guterres Highlights the Topics of the UN Debate

In a Single Day, US Congress Castigates Both the UN and Obama Over Israeli Vote

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