UNGA72
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • 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…
- Categories: General Assembly, Nuclear Disarmament
- 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…
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, Terrorism
- 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…
- 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…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- 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….
- Categories: Secretary-General
- 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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Refugees, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- 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…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- 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…
- Categories: UN Diplomats
- 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…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations