Jeffrey Feltman
- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 23, 2021
The Joe Biden climate-fest; rape as a weapon of war in Tigray; Burma slides further downhill. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting…
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • August 17, 2020
The devastating series of explosions that rocked Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Aug. 4, killed nearly 200 people, injured thousands of others, destroyed most of the city’s port, flattened surrounding neighborhoods, damaged six hospitals and more than 20…
- Categories: Covid-19, Middle East, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 9, 2019
After two years as the American ambassador at the United Nations, Nikki Haley left the job in December 2018 as much an enigma as the day she arrived. Haley, a career politician, came to the UN with little foreign…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US-UN Relations
- Enrico Carisch
- • April 26, 2018
Two important global events that are about to happen may sound alluring to some Americans: first, the United States government may jettison or significantly alter the nuclear deal with Iran; and Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea will…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 20, 2017
Considerable restructuring of the peacekeeping, political affairs and peace-building departments of the United Nations is being proposed by Secretary-General António Guterres as he continues to embark on reforming the world body, which contends with increasingly complex crises and conflicts each year….
- Categories: General Assembly, Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 9, 2017
The United Nations has formalized its relationship with the Community of Sant’Egidio, the highly regarded Catholic membership organization based in Rome that has been focusing on conflict prevention and resolution, primarily in Africa, for 30 years. A community of…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Human Trafficking, International Justice, Libya, Migration, Peace and Security
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 7, 2017
Russia called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, a day after the United States launched a missile attack in Syria. But Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Safronkov, faced a tough response…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 23, 2015
Chad is not only leading the regional military assault on the Boko Haram terrorist group but it is also said to be leading the drafting of a United Nations Security Council resolution to authorize the multinational task force in…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 16, 2012
The United Nations Security Council will not renew the mandate for the monitoring mission it set up in Syria this spring to supervise a peace plan that never materialized. The mandate for the UN Supervision Mission, called Unsmis, expires…
- Categories: Middle East, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 8, 2012
When leaders of the world start descending on the United Nations in September for the opening of a new General Assembly session, there will two new internationally well-known figures in prominent positions at the top of the organization. In…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Secretary-General
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • April 30, 2012
Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is said to be replacing B. Lynn Pascoe, the United Nations’ under secretary-general for political affairs, who has served for five years. The announcement…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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