Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Evelyn Leopold
- • June 30, 2019
The United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians is vastly short of funds for 5.4 million people, while the Trump administration is doing its best to shut down the program and initiate new, albeit controversial financing. At issue was a…
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 17, 2017
Palestinian causes in the United Nations are gaining wider and more active support in the Arab and Islamic worlds in light of Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in defiance of global opinion and decades of UN…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 8, 2017
In a rare step by two of America’s closest allies, Britain and France called for an emergency meeting of the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council to air their concerns over the decision by Donald Trump of…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • October 24, 2012
Kofi Annan‘s existential crisis during his decade as United Nations secretary-general was without question related to the US-led invasion of Iraq. But the most fascinating part of his new memoir, “Interventions: A Life in War and Peace,” is…
- Categories: BOOKS, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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