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The Public-Relations Industry Grabs a Foothold in the UN

Barbara Crossette
• July 14, 2021

As the final round of the Generation Equality Forum was about to open in Paris in late June, some reporters, including from PassBlue, were directed by a few United Nations agencies most involved in the event, to ask their…

Categories: Journalists, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Careers

The UN Warns Personnel About Potential Violence in the US but Is Silent on the Election Itself

Stéphanie Fillion
• November 4, 2020

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has so far remained silent on the United States Nov. 3 presidential election, despite concerns about possible violence in the country and President Trump having prematurely proclaimed victory. Indeed, the UN warned its…

Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Relations

The $64,000 Question: Can the UN Survive the Trump Era?

Barbara Crossette
• December 4, 2016

The United Nations will swear in António Guterres as its ninth secretary-general on Dec. 12, when the organization will be only weeks away from the inauguration of Donald Trump and the potentially most threatening, hostile political opposition to the…

Categories: Special Report, UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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In Burkina Faso, a US Ambassador Wins Over a Slice of Francophone West Africa

Dulcie Leimbach
• January 13, 2016

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Nowhere can the positive presence of the United States in West Africa be more obvious than in the quiet, dusty nation of Burkina Faso, a mostly rural state surrounded by six other countries of ranging…

Categories: Africa, US Foreign Relations

To Educate Girls in Burkina Faso, a Fund-Raiser Is Held in New York

Dulcie Leimbach
• April 20, 2014

Fred Eckhard was beloved in the United Nations as the spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a position Eckhard left in 2005. An American, he absconded for the Brittany coast in France, where enjoys fruits de mer and his seaside…

Categories: GOINGS-ON

Kofi Annan: The Back Story

Irwin Arieff
• January 28, 2013

Frederic Eckhard, the United Nations spokesman for eight and a half of Kofi Annans 10 years as secretary-general, was certainly well placed to write a tell-all account of that action-packed era. But readers of Eckhard’s new book, “Kofi Annan:…