Kosovo
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 2, 2022
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The lack of accountability on a range of human-rights abuses and atrocities committed by countries and others across the world will be highlighted during Albania’s first open debate as rotating president of the United Nations Security Council this month….
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 26, 2020
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As the United Nations turns 75 years old this month, it is worth noting that its membership has more than tripled — almost quadrupled — since its founding in 1945. From 50 signatories at the San Francisco conference that…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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- Yermi Brenner
- • April 24, 2013
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One of the most complicated dynamics in international relations is whether foreign powers should intervene when a government is creating a humanitarian crisis among its own people. David L. Phillips, a former a senior adviser to the United States…
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 21, 2013
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International crises are not always resolved on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. Sometimes breakthroughs come around a table at a restaurant that is continents away. Or they fall in place because of a thoughtful gesture made by…
- Categories: BOOKS, UN Diplomats
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- Yermi Brenner
- • February 19, 2013
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Thousands of people packed the streets of Pristina this past weekend, celebrating as Kosovo marked five years of independence. But in the municipalities of northern Kosovo, few people were rejoicing. Thirteen years after Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian leader whose…
- Categories: General Assembly, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 19, 2011
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Farid Zarif of Afghanistan has been appointed the secretary-general’s special representative for Kosovo. He succeeds Lamberto Zannier of Italy, who led the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (Unmik) until June. Zarif held a number of diplomatic posts in…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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