UNGA74

Pakistan to India: ‘There Will Be Bloodshed’

• September 27, 2019

War clouds hovered again when the leaders of India and Pakistan, the South Asian adversaries that have failed over decades to end their perilous standoff over Kashmir, spoke on the same day at the United Nations, Sept. 27. India has been holding its Kashmiri Muslim population in a near-total communications lockdown since Aug. 5, …

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The Oscars of International Politics: A #UNGA74 Recap

Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

• September 26, 2019

This year’s opening session of the United Nations General Assembly stood out for revealing the stark divide now defining international relations: the split between globalists and patriots. On this week’s UN-Scripted podcast, PassBlue reporters Kacie Candela and Stéphanie Fillion look at the similarities in speeches at the high-level debates, between Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro …

General Assembly

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Women Sighted at #UNGA. Plus: Iran’s Warnings to the US and Russians Denied Visas

Laura E. Kirkpatrick

• September 25, 2019

How women’s issues could be more prominent at the United Nations General Assembly’s annual opening session remains an enigma. The topics of women’s rights and gender equality pop up in speeches by world leaders, including those by women, but their remarks just don’t stand out — especially this year. “As the UN rightly tries …

General Assembly, Women

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O, Canada, Where Are You at the #UNGA?

Stéphanie Fillion

• September 25, 2019

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a point of bringing Canada back to the international stage at the United Nations to win a coveted nonpermanent seat on the Security Council for the 2021-22 term. But amid Trudeau’s re-election campaign and an international scandal around his use of blackface, Canada has sent a low-level delegation …

General Assembly, Security Council

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Globalists vs. Patriots at the UN: A ‘Great Fracture’ Revealed

Stéphanie Fillion

• September 24, 2019

After most of the world leaders spent a day teaming up to fight climate change at the Climate Action Summit, the next day strongmen opened the high-level debate of the United Nations General Assembly, showing a growing split between nationalist and globalist leaders. “I fear the possibility of a great fracture,” UN Secretary-General António …

General Assembly, US-UN Relations

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Highlights of the UN General Assembly’s Opening Session: A Podcast on What to Expect

Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

• September 18, 2019

The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on Tuesday, Sept. 17, which means that the world’s leaders — mainly heads of state and heads of government and their entourages — are heading to New York City for the climate change meeting on Sept. 23; the annual speechmaking, called the general debate, …

General Assembly, SDGs, US-UN Relations

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Women Leaders to Watch at the UN’s Big Meet

Laura E. Kirkpatrick

• September 15, 2019

Men will dominate the podium during much of the United Nations General Assembly but, as Abigail Adams urged her husband and other founding fathers of the United States in 1776, “remember the ladies.” This is advice that the UN needs to be reminded of — just as the opening session begins, on Sept. 17. Women …

Climate Change, General Assembly, Women

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SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCY

Russia Is Busy as Security Council President, but Putin Is Staying Home

Stéphanie Fillion

• September 4, 2019

Russia is president of the United Nations Security Council in September just as nearly 200 heads of state and government and even a prince or two will soon travel to New York City to attend the opening session of the General Assembly. President Vladimir Putin will not be taking part in any event this …