Olof Skoog
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 22, 2021
The United Nations’ top agency for humanitarian aid is poised for a new boss to arrive, one who could instill a management style far removed from what some of its staffers call a “neocolonial mind-set” under the outgoing head,…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, UN Agencies
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 12, 2021
Olof Skoog knows the United Nations like the back of his hand. As the European Union ambassador to the world body since 2019, he speaks for the 27-member bloc at the UN headquarters in New York City; most recently,…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, US-UN Relations
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • October 4, 2018
Just days before the United Nations held a meeting with heads of state and foreign ministers on Secretary-General António Guterres’s Action for Peacekeeping initiative, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2436 on peace operations, on Sept. 21. Drafted…
- Categories: Geopolitics, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 5, 2018
Welcome to our new column, Security Council Presidency, providing insight into the United Nations Security Council member sitting in the rotating seat of the president every month, starting in July with Sweden and its ambassador, Olof Skoog. The column…
- Categories: Climate Change, Security Council, Security Council Presidency
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 21, 2017
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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 28, 2016
In a narrow vote conducted over seven hours amid five rounds of inconclusive balloting between Italy and the Netherlands for an elected seat on the United Nations Security Council, the two nations decided to split the two-year term. Italy…
- Categories: Security Council
- Vesna Jaksic Lowe
- • May 25, 2016
Thailand said it had no enemies, while Kazakhstan pointed out it had voluntarily given up the fourth-largest nuclear arsenal in the world more than two decades ago. Sweden emphasized it was militarily nonaligned. Italy, the only Mediterranean candidate, said…
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council
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