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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 5, 2022
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After ending its nine-year military stay in Mali and promising to halve its military presence in West Africa, France said it remained committed to ensuring good governance in the countries affected by continuing instability in the region. Nicolas de…
- Categories: General Assembly, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 16, 2021
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António Guterres soon will be recrowned Secretary-General after Manhattan’s five-member Electoral College, the permanent members of the Security Council, send its recommendation to the General Assembly for a ceremonial vote. In 2016, his election was an unusually transparent process…
- Categories: OPINIONS, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Stephen Schlesinger
- • June 24, 2020
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It turns out that Vladimir Putin is a history buff. He has just written a lengthy piece for the American magazine National Interest, titled “The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War 2″ and published on June 18….
- Categories: UN75
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- Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 2, 2020
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Seventy-five years ago this month, delegates in San Francisco signed the United Nations Charter. Anniversary events were supposed to culminate in the commemoration of the entry into force of the world organization’s constitution on Oct. 24. That, of course,…
- Categories: UN75, US-UN Relations
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- Stephen Schlesinger
- • May 6, 2020
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This fall, the United Nations will celebrate its 75th anniversary. This is a notable occasion. Most global security bodies have had short shelf lives. But the UN has shown an extraordinary durability — a tribute to how this body…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Covid-19, Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • July 14, 2016
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When it comes to the United Nations, the word “debate” takes on a civilized bearing, with no relation to heated contests among many sides. Over two nights this week at different settings in New York, UN secretary-general candidates campaigning…
- Categories: Secretary-General
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • November 3, 2015
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It is a well-known story that the five world powers at the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945 — the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Great Britain and France — set up the…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 9, 2015
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The 70th anniversary of the signing and entry into force of the United Nations Charter should draw attention to the 1942-45 United Nations Alliance that gave rise to the world body and the underpinnings of contemporary global governance. While anniversaries…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Dave Steward
- • May 12, 2014
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Sadly, South Africa remains the only state that has ever voluntarily dismantled its entire nuclear weapons ability. Others like Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan have foregone the possibility of acquiring them — but South Africa has been the only country…
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