UN-NY Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 18, 2020
Does UN Secretary-General António Guterres deserve another term; as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out in New York City, what about UN staff and diplomats there; and how far will President-elect Biden go at the UN? You’re reading This Week…
- Categories: Health and Population, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach  and Barbara Crossette
- • October 29, 2020
Terje Rod-Larsen, the president of the prestigious International Peace Institute since 2005, resigned Thursday, according to a statement released by the Manhattan-based think tank on Oct. 29, 2020. Rod-Larsen is a renowned Norwegian diplomat, politician and former United Nations…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Diplomats
- Kacie Candela
- • November 10, 2018
The quiet work of diplomacy at the United Nations headquarters often makes for a dry atmosphere. But after sundown, it’s a whole different scene, thanks to a robust after-work culture of clubs — much as you would find at…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • March 17, 2017
They have years to go before they could conceivably sit in the Security Council seat as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, participate in a high-level summit on refugees or cast a vote for their country in…
- Categories: Education, Security Council, UN Diplomats
- Dr. Catherine Mullaly
- • March 12, 2017
Four days after Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin’s sudden death in New York City last month, the United States Mission to the United Nations wrote to the New York City Mayor’s Office for International Affairs and requested a communications blackout…
- Categories: Geopolitics, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2016
Government leaders from around the world are gathering in New York for the opening on Tuesday of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, an event haunted by momentous crises demanding undivided attention and action from all member…
- Categories: General Assembly, Migration, Refugees, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 8, 2015
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
- Amy Lieberman
- • September 5, 2013
As most people know, the United Nations headquarters rests on a prime slice of New York City real estate along the East River, stretching from East 42nd to East 48th Streets on First Avenue. The UN agreed to adopt…
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations
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