Kelly Knight Craft
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 2, 2020
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Mitch McConnell, the United States Senate Majority Leader, is known for his obstructionist role as Donald Trump’s enforcer and enabler of domestic policies and executive orders. Lately, the senator from Kentucky has also begun maneuvering in foreign policy and…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 20, 2019
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In this season of giving, the United States delegation offered free bourbon from Kentucky to the media and is splurging on a holiday party paid for by Kelly Knight Craft, the US ambassador, while in more serious business at…
- Categories: LGBT, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach and Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 6, 2019
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GLASGOW, Kentucky — “There’s no place like home for the holidays” is the United States’ theme for the Security Council presidency in December, while at the same time, in a slight contradiction, the US wants to tackle the problem…
- Categories: Security Council Presidency, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 18, 2019
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While most countries use their presidency in the United Nations Security Council to visit war zones and pivotal peacekeeping missions around the globe, the United States ambassador, Kelly Knight Craft, is taking her counterparts to her home state of…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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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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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • August 21, 2019
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She calls herself a homemaker, a philanthropist and a consultant, but who, exactly, is Kelly Knight Craft, the newly confirmed United States ambassador to the United Nations? This week, UN-Scripted, PassBlue’s new podcast series, features veteran journalist and PassBlue…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations
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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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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 14, 2019
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Donald Trump will shake hands with Emmanuel Macron, Jair Bolsonaro and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. But will Benjamin Netanyahu; Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel be there, too? The 74th opening debate of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts on…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • July 31, 2019
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The Senate has confirmed Kelly Knight Craft to be Washington’s top ambassador to the United Nations, even as a key Democrat pronounced her “unfit to serve.” The move ends a seven-month vacancy in one of the country’s most senior…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 22, 2019
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Is President Trump’s nominee to represent the United States at the United Nations in Geneva in last-minute trouble? A long, detailed letter, sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by prominent global human-rights groups and those concentrating on women’s…
- Categories: Gender Violence, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 19, 2019
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Kelly Knight Craft, Donald Trump’s pick to be the next United States ambassador to the United Nations, raised eyebrows in her June 19 Senate confirmation hearing by putting some space between her views on global climate change and those…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Kacie Candela
- • May 22, 2019
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The next United States ambassador to the United Nations, which could be Kelly Knight Craft, will arrive at a US mission to the UN that is far diminished in size and stature than the one her immediate predecessor, Nikki…
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • March 21, 2019
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More than six months ago, the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced that she was leaving her post. Following her decision, President Trump nominated Heather Nauert to be her successor. Then the administration tarried, never submitted…
- Categories: OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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