Russian mission to the UN
- Dawn Clancy
- • June 22, 2022
In the waning days of 2021, roughly two months before its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia agreed to contribute $14 million to the United Nations Development Program for climate-related projects in Europe and Central Asia to begin…
- Categories: Development, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Agencies
- Michelle Langrand
- • May 24, 2022
GENEVA — Boris Bondarev, Russia’s counselor to the United Nations in Geneva, resigned on Monday, calling the war in Ukraine a “crime against the Ukrainian people” as well as Russia’s population. “Never have I been so ashamed of my…
- Categories: Peace and Security
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 23, 2022
Can we shed a tear for Sergey Lavrov? Who could have foreseen, a few years back, the huge mess he now finds himself in? Spanning five decades of service in Moscow’s foreign policy hierarchy, the veteran envoy has worked…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Diplomats, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 2, 2022
If it were up to the Kremlin, the United Nations Security Council would not have discussed tensions building along the Ukrainian border at a public meeting on Monday. It’s a nonissue, according to Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s deputy ambassador to…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Security Council Presidency
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 6, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought enormous changes and challenges to the United Nations Security Council. One result has been the heightened politicization and proliferation of the Arria-formula meetings, or informal sessions, of the Council that can be initiated by…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 4, 2020
From the very moment that the United Nations decided to work online, after the pandemic hit, Russia has been the strongest and loudest opponent of going virtual at the world body. For its Security Council presidency, in October, Russia…
- Categories: Africa, Middle East, Security Council Presidency
- Dulcie Leimbach and Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 26, 2020
The coronavirus officially hit the United Nations at its New York City headquarters on March 12, when the first reported case was announced by the Philippines mission to the UN that one of its diplomats had Covid-19 and was…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Humanitarian Aid, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 4, 2019
Russia is president of the United Nations Security Council in September just as nearly 200 heads of state and government and even a prince or two will soon travel to New York City to attend the opening session of…
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