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Canada’s Trudeau Uses the UN to Apologize to His Country’s Indigenous People

• September 21, 2017

One of the biggest criticisms lodged against Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, has been his lack of commentary on the country’s history with its indigenous people of its First Nations, Métis and Inuit populations. In what could be considered a daring move, Trudeau used his time at the General Assembly podium to …

General Assembly, Nuclear Disarmament

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Snubbing Trump, Europe Stands Firm on the Iran Deal

Dulcie Leimbach

• September 20, 2017

The fight over preserving the Iranian nuclear deal took a firmer direction at the United Nations on Sept. 20. After Donald Trump, the United States president, proclaimed to the General Assembly the day before that the deal was “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into,” heads …

Disarmament, Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, Terrorism

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Trump Blows Up the UN, Metaphorically Speaking

Laura E. Kirkpatrick

• September 19, 2017

Can a rebuttal happen before an event occurs? United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took pre-emptive strikes against President Donald Trump in his speech at the opening session of the 72nd General Assembly, on Sept. 19, 2017. Rumors were rampant that Trump would deliver a strongly nationalistic speech, reportedly written by Stephen Miller, author of …

General Assembly, Middle East, Migration, Peace and Security, Refugees, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Trump on the UN: ‘I Saw Great Potential Right Across the Street’

Kacie Candela

• September 18, 2017

In a much-anticipated gathering, the United States led a high-level meeting on United Nations reform on Sept. 18, with President Donald Trump and UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaking to the assembled world leaders. Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, also spoke briefly; in Trump’s entourage was his chief of staff, John Kelly, …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Myanmar, North Korea, Gender Parity: Guterres Highlights the Topics of the UN Debate

Dulcie Leimbach

• September 13, 2017

António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said the top two problems he would highlight the most at the opening session of the General Assembly next week were Myanmar’s rapidly unfolding humanitarian disaster and North Korea’s nuclear-weapons provocations. “The humanitarian situation is catastrophic,” Guterres said at a media briefing on Sept. 13 at …

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Stopping Sex Abuse in UN Peacekeeping: Guterres’s Direct Call for Political Support

Barbara Crossette

• September 12, 2017

The United Nations’ top coordinator of a drive to end sexual exploitation and abuse in and around peacekeeping missions says the organization cannot succeed without more political support from member nations and cooperation from independent, civilian humanitarian and development agencies working with the UN. Jane Holl Lute, the special coordinator with the rank of …

Gender Violence, Refugees, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping

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How Will Trump Act at the UN? It’s Anyone’s Guess

Laura E. Kirkpatrick

• September 9, 2017

The countdown to Donald Trump’s first speech at the United Nations as United States president has begun. What is known: on Sept. 19 in the General Assembly Hall, Trump will step at the lectern in front of the green marble wall he has disparaged in the past and deliver a speech roughly 15 minutes …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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To Cuff or Not to Cuff: Male Leaders Strut Some Style at the UN

Laura E. Kirkpatrick

• September 2, 2017

The lazy days of late summer are not that idle in Turtle Bay, as the United Nations prepares for this month’s opening debate of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York. Before the swarm of world leaders descends on or about Sept. 18 and the news cycle hits hyperactive, now is the right …

UN Diplomats

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Trump to Force UN Reform Agenda at General Assembly Session in September

Kacie Candela

• August 30, 2017

The United States is planning to hold a high-level meeting on United Nations reform during the opening days of the 72nd General Assembly debate. The Sept. 18 meeting is to be chaired by Donald Trump and held a day before he is scheduled to address the UN for the first time as America’s president in …