Danny Danon
- Kacie Candela
- • 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…
- Categories: General Assembly, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 1, 2018
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…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 20, 2018
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…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 13, 2017
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….
- Categories: Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 6, 2017
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….
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