Nikki Haley
- Opinion by Christen L. Broecker
- • June 4, 2017
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Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, will address the Human Rights Council at the opening meeting of it 35th session, on June 6. She has said she intends to put the 47 members of the Council…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 21, 2017
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A board of inquiry looking into major gaps or flaws in United Nations security policies that might have contributed to the murders of two UN experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was set up May 1, according…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • May 20, 2017
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If Nikki Haley is dressing for attention, honestly, it would be hard to fault her. One of the few women named to President Trump’s administration, Haley, a former governor of South Carolina who is the ambassador to the United…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 28, 2017
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Speaking to the United Nations Security Council at a meeting on North Korea held at the foreign-minister level, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked member countries to join the United States in a strong campaign to enhance pressures on the…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 18, 2017
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Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, presided over what she was determined to sell as “an historic meeting exclusively on human rights” in the UN Security Council. But her brief speech in the April 18…
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- Opinion by Ryan Kaminski and Ted Piccone
- • April 17, 2017
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WASHINGTON, D. C. — Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has articulated an ambitious blueprint for the American presidency of the UN Security Council this month. One pillar of the US approach will be what…
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 16, 2017
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The Trump administration, buoyed by a powerful anti-internationalist movement among conservative Republicans in the United States Congress, is headed for a new confrontation with the United Nations over who decides how much the US should pay for peacekeeping. With…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Take a Look, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 10, 2017
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When António Guterres was chosen by the United Nations Security Council in October to become the next leader of the UN, neither he nor anyone else could have predicted precisely who would be commanding the Oval Office of the…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 7, 2017
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Russia called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, a day after the United States launched a missile attack in Syria. But Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Safronkov, faced a tough response…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 4, 2017
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With White House proposals to slash United States assessments and donations to international organizations now in play in the writing of a federal budget for 2018 — as an April 28 deadline approaches — the extent of potential losses…
- Categories: Take a Look, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 29, 2017
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Nikki Haley, the Trump administration’s ambassador to the United Nations took her ambitious plans and convictions about the role of the United States in the UN to the center of New York’s foreign policy establishment: the Council on Foreign…
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 25, 2017
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The annual women’s conference at the United Nations may have encountered severe weather on its second day, when a blizzard swept through the region and events had to be canceled at the UN, but the real storm originated with…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 7, 2017
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The long-simmering dispute over the fate of Jerusalem stands at the center of the Middle East conflict. Israelis and Palestinians, divided on many points, become most emotional when discussing the future of the walled, ancient crossroads city that is…
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 5, 2017
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Jonathan Wachtel is the new director of communications and spokesman for Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations. Wachtel will be working with Haley and the rest of the US mission on its policy issues, among…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 20, 2017
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Vitaly Churkin, 64, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations since April 8, 2006, died on Feb. 20. A statement from the Russian mission to the UN said Churkin “died suddenly.” It added curtly: “A prominent Russian diplomat has passed away…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Diplomats
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