Susan Rice
- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • January 25, 2022
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President Joe Biden has brought back an era of diplomatic normalcy to the United Nations in his first year in office. After the often-raucous and unpredictable four years of the Trump administration’s relations with the UN, Biden and his…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Helmut Volger
- • February 1, 2020
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Everyone familiar with the United Nations knows that its relationship with its key member, the United States, has been and still is subject to far-reaching changes. The periods when the US administration and the Congress make use of the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
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- Kacie Candela
- • May 22, 2019
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The next United States ambassador to the United Nations, which could be Kelly Knight Craft, will arrive at a US mission to the UN that is far diminished in size and stature than the one her immediate predecessor, Nikki…
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Kacie Candela
- • August 25, 2017
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Nikki Haley has been appearing on American TV news programs an awful lot lately, so what gives? Some observers point to Haley as a refreshing and stable face amid an unpredictable White House and uncannily quiet secretary of state,…
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 25, 2017
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The annual women’s conference at the United Nations may have encountered severe weather on its second day, when a blizzard swept through the region and events had to be canceled at the UN, but the real storm originated with…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 2, 2016
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Whatever the real reason that led Donald Trump to name Nikki Haley as his ambassador to the United Nations — that she is a “deal-maker,” a woman from an ethnic minority and a moderate Republican voice he may want…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 15, 2016
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A newly released Wikileaks trove of emails sent to or sent by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, some as old as 2009, reveals a wide range of topics related to the United Nations over the years, from the…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 8, 2015
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Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has made herself scarce in answering direct, spontaneous questions from the press corps based at the UN, to the chagrin of many reporters. The press corps is international by…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Mirva Lempiainen
- • April 30, 2014
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As increasing numbers of women embark on careers as diplomats, the United Nations headquarters in New York is slowly but surely undergoing a big change in demographics: the female-to-male ratio of diplomats is becoming — dare it be possible…
- Categories: Security Council, Women
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- Opinion by Patrick Rosenow
- • August 1, 2013
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President Obama’s choice of Samantha Power to become the next United States ambassador to the United Nations and her recent confirmation by the Senate sends a strong, positive signal to all human-rights defenders. “As one of our country’s leading…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 5, 2013
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Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations and a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, will become the country’s national security adviser, replacing Tom Donilon, 58, who has resigned, as expected. Rice’s new position will not…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Amy Lieberman
- • March 14, 2013
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The United Nations Security Council bases its resolutions on agenda items as varied as the renewal of a peacekeeping force mandate in Haiti to responding to a missile launching in North Korea. With resolutions’ language often dense legalese that…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 13, 2013
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Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland, United Nations high commissioner for human rights and philanthropist, is said to be the main candidate for the new United Nations special envoy post for the Great Lakes region in central Africa….
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 5, 2013
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Gert Rosenthal does not sound like a Spanish name, but the mother of Rosenthal, the Guatemalan ambassador to the United Nations, was born there and his father was German. To complicate matters, “a little accident happened,” he said, as…
- Categories: ICC, Security Council, UN Diplomats
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 13, 2012
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President Obama announced that Susan Rice, US ambassador to the United Nations, has asked to have her name removed from consideration for US secretary of state. Hillary Clinton, who holds the position now, said she was leaving the post…
- Categories: US-UN Relations
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