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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 15, 2021
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After four years of wandering lost in the desert, diplomacy is finding its way back to Washington. With Joe Biden in the Oval Office, “America First” is out and “multilateralism,” “cooperation” and “alliance” are no longer dirty words. Washington…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • January 21, 2021
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Donald Trump may be out, along with his disastrously incompetent foreign policy advisers, but don’t expect them to sit quietly on the sidelines while a new team struggles to clean up the mess they left behind. Just days before…
- Categories: OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 18, 2020
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Does UN Secretary-General António Guterres deserve another term; as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out in New York City, what about UN staff and diplomats there; and how far will President-elect Biden go at the UN? You’re reading This Week…
- Categories: Health and Population, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 11, 2020
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A United Nations convoy was shot at in Ethiopia’s Tigray region; Southeast Asia’s progress on the women, peace and security agenda; the United States brokers a deal with Morocco in exchange for loss of Western Sahara’s sovereignty. You’re reading…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Governance, Health and Population, This Week @UN
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 7, 2020
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When President-elect Joe Biden nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the next ambassador to the United Nations, he was signaling that American diplomacy would face big changes. If she is confirmed by the Senate in the new year, the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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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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- 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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- Allison Lecce
- • June 26, 2020
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Starting in June, a summary of the most important news on the United Nations’ work in New York City and worldwide will be highlighted weekly. The news will be drawn from the UN spokesperson’s briefings, our original reporting and…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Irwin Arieff
- • May 15, 2020
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A year ago, Kelly Craft was serving as Washington’s frequently absent ambassador to Canada, soon to be en route to the United Nations. Her spouse, the coal baron Joseph Craft III, was knee-deep in a Trump administration assault on…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 17, 2020
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What a difference a few weeks can make. At the end of March, Kelly Craft, President Trump’s top ambassador at the United Nations, insisted that midbattle against a dread disease sweeping the globe was no time for an international…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 4, 2020
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President Trump and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo love to label Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus” or “Wuhan virus.” But Kelly Craft, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, is calling on Washington to work hand in hand…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • February 26, 2020
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Kelly Craft has taken a big step toward helping to ensure her political future, lavishing a campaign contribution of $360,600 on the re-election of her boss, President Donald Trump. The gift is the first that Craft, the United States…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Helmut Volger
- • February 1, 2020
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Everyone familiar with the United Nations knows that its relationship with its key member, the United States, has been and still is subject to far-reaching changes. The periods when the US administration and the Congress make use of the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 25, 2020
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The naming of Jonathan Moore, a senior United States Foreign Service officer, to the position of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, signals that in the United Nations’ 75th year, the Trump administration is getting serious. The…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 12, 2019
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It’s easy to figure out why Donald Trump picked Kelly Knight Craft to be his ambassador to the United Nations. She and her husband, Joseph Craft III, a billionaire coal baron, showered the president and his Republican Party with…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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