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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 22, 2020
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Donald Trump, speaking on the opening day of the United Nations’ 75th General Assembly session — the same day that the United States officially tallied a coronavirus death toll of 200,000 people — reiterated all his familiar grievances against…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75
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- Evelyn Leopold
- • September 21, 2020
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President Trump failed to deliver an expected video speech for the United Nations’ 75th anniversary commemoration. Instead, the acting deputy United States ambassador addressed the ceremony live from UN headquarters. From Washington, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced new sanctions…
- Categories: General Assembly, Nuclear Disarmament, UN75, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 18, 2020
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The most important week of the year at the United Nations has arrived, though expectations are low, given that the annual opening debate of the General Assembly is being held virtually because of Covid-19. No global leaders are coming…
- Categories: SDGs, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 20, 2020
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The Trump administration may be bound and determined to extend a tight global arms embargo on Iran, but it still can’t send a straight message about how it will do so through the United Nations Security Council. The embargo,…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, 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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- 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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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 19, 2018
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A year after his bombastic debut at the United Nations as president of the United States, Donald Trump returns on Monday, Sept. 24, to lead a US effort to spur global action to stem the narcotics and opioid plagues….
- Categories: General Assembly, Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Ben Donaldson
- • May 25, 2018
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If United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo follows through with his threat to impose “the strongest sanctions in history” on Iran, the United States should be prepared for Iran to retaliate by withdrawing from the Treaty on the…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations
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- Enrico Carisch
- • May 10, 2018
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What can the five remaining signatories to the Iran nuclear deal do now that the Trump administration has trampled on Security Council Resolution 2231 and its 13 binding decisions, adopted under Article 41 of the United Nations Charter? Sooner…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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