Nonaligned Movement

• August 2, 2020

With five months to go before India takes its elected seat on the Security Council for 2021-2022, the country’s foreign minister says it will stay true to its founding tradition of nonalignment and not take sides with any big power. “Nonalignment was a term of a particular era and geopolitical landscape,” the minister, Subrahmanyam …

India, Security Council

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After 50 Years of UN Sanctions, Is the System Broken?

Enrico Carisch and Loraine Rickard-Martin

• December 1, 2017

With only few of the current United Nations sanctions cases accomplishing their political objectives, it is not unreasonable to wonder why the system seems broken. As the 50th anniversary of the first use of this important political tool is duly noted, the short answer is that nothing is wrong with sanctions. The problem is with …

Libya, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS

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UN Decolonizers Strive Again for Puerto Rican Independence

Barbara Crossette

• February 18, 2014

DORADO, Puerto Rico — Year after year, decade after decade, the United Nations General Assembly’s special committee on decolonization has taken up the issue of Puerto Rico’s status as a dependent commonwealth of the United States. Puerto Rico is self-governing but without the full representation in Washington enjoyed by the 50 American states or …

Caribbean, General Assembly, Latin America, US-UN Relations

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Ban Ki-moon Invokes Strong Words for Iran, Syria and the Nonaligned

Barbara Crossette

• August 30, 2012

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking on Aug. 30 to the 120-member Nonaligned Movement meeting in Tehran, took a swing at his hosts, saying that denying the Holocaust and threatening Israel’s existence is racist and undermines the values of the United Nations. “We must prevent conflict between all UN member states,” he said, without naming Iran. …