Iran nuclear deal
- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • September 7, 2020
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency has just reported that Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium continues to grow. The stockpile now exceeds the limit set in the 2015 nuclear deal tenfold. According to the confidential quarterly IAEA report,…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 1, 2020
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Niger hasn’t been a member of the Security Council for almost 40 years, and now that it has a voice on one of the world’s most visible platforms, it intends to use it to build more alliances with influential…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council Presidency
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- Allison Lecce
- • August 22, 2020
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A military coup in Mali; massive protests in Belarus over the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko; more than a million people displaced in Burkina Faso; and the United States takes its next step to extend the Iran arms embargo through…
- Categories: Africa, Middle East, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Allison Lecce
- • August 15, 2020
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The tremendous fallout from the explosion in Beirut on Aug. 4 continues as the United Nations offers direct aid, including providing a mobile health clinic and vaccines for children, while a new $565 million appeal to help the Lebanese…
- Categories: SDGs, This Week @UN
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- Evelyn Leopold
- • August 14, 2020
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Doomed from the start, the United States asked the 14 other United Nations Security Council members to approve a resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran that expires on Oct. 18. The embargo is part of the Security…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 6, 2020
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Only days before the United States said it would submit a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council to extend an Iran arms embargo, the American envoy for Iran has resigned. Brian Hook, who also held the post as…
- Categories: Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 3, 2020
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A big power in Southeast Asia and a middle power globally, Indonesia plays a “bridge builder” role in the United Nations Security Council, it says. It’s a strategy that is getting harder and harder to embody, however, with rising…
- Categories: Asia, Security Council, Security Council Presidency
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • June 8, 2020
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency issued an alarming report on June 5, voicing “serious concern” over Iran’s refusal to allow the agency’s inspectors to investigate two sites where the country is suspected of having conducted undeclared nuclear…
- Categories: Covid-19, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 1, 2020
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Even if Belgium’s presidency took place in February and Estonia’s, in May, is over, the European Union just held a virtual press conference from its mission in New York City to say that this spring was a European one…
- Categories: Security Council Presidency, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • January 13, 2020
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Donald Trump may have dodged the big one in the Middle East for now. But recent events make clear that the president and his tragic idea of leadership may yet drag the United States into a major war with…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Tariq Rauf
- • December 1, 2019
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VIENNA, Austria — Ensconced near the Danube River in this European city is the headquarters of the world’s single-most important means of ensuring safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear energy. Created in 1957, four years after United States…
- Categories: Disarmament, OPINIONS
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- Irwin Arieff
- • August 26, 2019
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Donald Trump must have known just what he was getting into when he named Kelly Knight Craft to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. But does Knight Craft understand the humiliating position the president is putting…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 20, 2019
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In the middle of a muggy August afternoon in New York, the United Nations Security Council gathered once more to figure out how to “maintain peace and security” in the Middle East. But the recurring topic always leaves conversations…
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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • February 18, 2019
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After fleeing violence and unemployment in their home country for the relative stability of neighboring Iran, hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghans are now returning home. The mass reverse migration is taking place just as the United States, eager…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Migration, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 6, 2018
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They call it the “Trump effect” and it is permeating and weakening support for numerous international agreements still in their formative stages. For governments, diplomats and civil society around the world, accustomed to bombastic outbursts from Donald Trump, American…
- Categories: Geopolitics, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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