US ambassador to UN
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • June 24, 2021
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One of America’s greatest supporters of the United Nations, Ambassador William vanden Heuvel, died on June 15 in New York City at age 91. A son of European immigrants, vanden Heuvel grew up in the upstate city of Rochester, N.Y. …
- Categories: UN Diplomats, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 26, 2021
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Should the United States acknowledge and openly lament the fact that white supremacy played a significant role in the country’s founding? Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Joe Biden’s pick as the US ambassador to the United Nations, thinks so. So does Biden himself. …
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 7, 2020
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When President-elect Joe Biden nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the next ambassador to the United Nations, he was signaling that American diplomacy would face big changes. If she is confirmed by the Senate in the new year, the UN will …
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Lucia Mouat
- • July 18, 2020
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In her enjoyable memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” Samantha Power shifts easily between her family life and her challenging career adventures. She draws on her Irish roots in storytelling — coming to the United States from Dublin at age …
- Categories: BOOKS
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- Irwin Arieff
- • May 15, 2020
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A year ago, Kelly Craft was serving as Washington’s frequently absent ambassador to Canada, soon to be en route to the United Nations. Her spouse, the coal baron Joseph Craft III, was knee-deep in a Trump administration assault on federal …
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 17, 2020
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What a difference a few weeks can make. At the end of March, Kelly Craft, President Trump’s top ambassador at the United Nations, insisted that midbattle against a dread disease sweeping the globe was no time for an international blame …
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • February 26, 2020
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Kelly Craft has taken a big step toward helping to ensure her political future, lavishing a campaign contribution of $360,600 on the re-election of her boss, President Donald Trump. The gift is the first that Craft, the United States ambassador …
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, 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 competencies …
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • August 26, 2019
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Donald Trump must have known just what he was getting into when he named Kelly Knight Craft to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. But does Knight Craft understand the humiliating position the president is putting her …
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 19, 2019
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Kelly Knight Craft, Donald Trump’s pick to be the next United States ambassador to the United Nations, raised eyebrows in her June 19 Senate confirmation hearing by putting some space between her views on global climate change and those of …
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • March 21, 2019
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More than six months ago, the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced that she was leaving her post. Following her decision, President Trump nominated Heather Nauert to be her successor. Then the administration tarried, never submitted Nauert’s …
- Categories: OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 12, 2019
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It’s easy to figure out why Donald Trump picked Kelly Knight Craft to be his ambassador to the United Nations. She and her husband, Joseph Craft III, a billionaire coal baron, showered the president and his Republican Party with millions …
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 14, 2019
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President Trump announced that he was nominating Heather Nauert, the chief State Department spokesperson, to succeed Nikki Haley as the United States ambassador to the United Nations on Dec. 7, 2018, after Haley resigned the job in October. Since Trump’s …
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 9, 2019
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After two years as the American ambassador at the United Nations, Nikki Haley left the job in December 2018 as much an enigma as the day she arrived. Haley, a career politician, came to the UN with little foreign policy …
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 23, 2018
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Nikki Haley insisted all along that she had no desire to become Donald Trump’s secretary of state. But with Mike Pompeo, the CIA director, in line to succeed Rex Tillerson as the State Department’s top dog, Haley may soon find …
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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