Nonaligned Movement
- Barbara Crossette
- • 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…
- Categories: India, Security Council
- 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…
- Categories: Libya, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- 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…
- Categories: Caribbean, General Assembly, Latin America, US-UN Relations
- 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…
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General