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- Helmut Volger
- • February 1, 2020
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 18, 2018
Kofi Annan, the seventh and probably the most popular and widely respected secretary-general the United Nations has ever known, died unexpectedly in Bern, Switzerland, early on Saturday morning, Aug. 18. His death, reportedly from leukemia, followed what initial reports…
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General
- Jeffrey Laurenti
- • August 2, 2017
The uncanny success of Nikki Haley in becoming the most public and quotable voice on President Trump’s foreign-policy team, combined with the telegenic United Nations ambassador’s apparent disinterest in the nuts and bolts of how it actually works, has…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • February 9, 2017
A recent email sent out by a member of the United States Mission to the United Nations, then tweeted and possibly subtweeted, contained the following statement: This is to let you know that Ambassador Haley will be spending her…
- Categories: Journalists, Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 2, 2016
Whatever the real reason that led Donald Trump to name Nikki Haley as his ambassador to the United Nations — that she is a “deal-maker,” a woman from an ethnic minority and a moderate Republican voice he may want…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 8, 2015
Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has made herself scarce in answering direct, spontaneous questions from the press corps based at the UN, to the chagrin of many reporters. The press corps is international by…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Mirva Lempiainen
- • April 30, 2014
As increasing numbers of women embark on careers as diplomats, the United Nations headquarters in New York is slowly but surely undergoing a big change in demographics: the female-to-male ratio of diplomats is becoming — dare it be possible…
- Categories: Security Council, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 3, 2013
As media coverage of the United Nations dwindles and becomes more hyperfocused on geopolitics, the public learns less and less about the UN itself and how it operates. Who is to blame for the decreasing, narrow coverage — the…
- Categories: US-UN Relations
- Patrick Rosenow
- • August 1, 2013
President Obama’s choice of Samantha Power to become the next United States ambassador to the United Nations and her recent confirmation by the Senate sends a strong, positive signal to all human-rights defenders. “As one of our country’s leading…
- Categories: Human Rights, Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Patrick Rosenow
- • April 18, 2013
JENA, Germany — Many rumors abound regarding the future of America’s top envoy at the United Nations, Susan E. Rice. While she is still working as the United States ambassador to the UN, some media reports are predicting that…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • September 3, 2012
Even though Ban Ki-moon just began his second five-year term this year as United Nations secretary-general, names are already surfacing as to his possible replacement when his term is up. Technically, Ban could be appointed a third term, but…
- Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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