Security Council elections
- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 11, 2021
The Ghana delegation posing outside the United Nations General Assembly Hall, June 11, 2021, after the Assembly voted on Security Council members for the 2022-23 term. Besides Ghana, the others are Albania, Brazil, Gabon and United Arab Emirates. They…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 4, 2020
CHICOUTIMI, Canada — The Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, Marc-André Blanchard, told a Canadian newspaper in March “now is not the time to campaign for a Security Council seat,” as world diplomacy is being disrupted by the coronavirus…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Security Council
- Kacie Candela
- • May 23, 2017
Amid the predominantly Francophone region in West Africa is tiny Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea, a country blessed — or cursed — with vast oil reserves. For most of its independent life, the country has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Poverty, Security Council