Nikki Haley
- 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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- 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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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 29, 2019
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After the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just voted to place 13 Trump administration nominees across diverse positions in the State Department, Senate ranking member Robert Menendez is using another nomination as a negotiating chip to demand details on two…
- Categories: Migration, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 26, 2019
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“I am pro-life, I believe that all human life is sacred, and that human life begins at conception,” Andrew Bremberg told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently. Asked if rape victims should have access to abortion, he…
- Categories: Human Rights, 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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- La Rainne Pasion
- • April 29, 2019
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The Trump administration’s unilateral decision to stop paying its full United Nations peacekeeping bills is hanging peacekeeping missions out to dry while creating financial woes for the countries that provide the blue-helmeted troops and police officers, United Nations Secretary-General António…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • April 17, 2019
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In case you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s not really “America First.” It’s “Donald Trump First.” Life would no doubt be safer for the rest of us if his administration based its foreign policy on something larger than…
- Categories: OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 12, 2019
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Just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt met with President Trump in the White House, receiving an effusive reception, Trump nominated Jonathan R. Cohen, the acting permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, as…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 24, 2019
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“Hold the line” was the frequent refrain heard during the contentious negotiations swirling around the annual meeting at the United Nations ensuring the rights of women. Delegates from the UN’s 193 countries were urged by conference leaders to remain…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 5, 2019
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Two months after leaving the United Nations, Nikki Haley has assembled a political network that is laying the groundwork for a possible presidential run in 2024, or even in 2020 — should her mentor Donald Trump not run. The…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 16, 2019
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Heather Nauert, who was nominated by President Trump in early December to succeed Nikki Haley as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has withdrawn from consideration as of Feb. 16, 2018. Nauert was the chief spokesperson for…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 1, 2019
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Kelley Currie, an ambassador who represents the United States on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is the alternate representative of the US to the General Assembly, is leaving her post at the US mission…
- Categories: General Assembly, GOINGS-ON, US-UN Relations
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