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What to Expect From This Year’s UN General Assembly, So Far

Stéphanie Fillion
• September 7, 2021

This year’s United Nations General Assembly could make or break the future of in-person meetings at the gathering in New York City. After a year of carefully negotiating, adapting and crafting health guidelines, UNGA organizers are hoping to avoid…

Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Latin America, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council, UNGA76, US-UN Relations

The US Raises Its UN Profile, but Not Its Support

Barbara Crossette
• January 25, 2020

The naming of Jonathan Moore, a senior United States Foreign Service officer, to the position of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, signals that in the United Nations’ 75th year, the Trump administration is getting serious. The…

Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations

Where’s Kelly Knight Craft? She Is Neither in Ottawa Nor at the UN

Irwin Arieff
• August 26, 2019

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…

Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council

NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Nikki Haley’s Chief of Staff Is Leaving New York to Work for Her in D.C.

Dulcie Leimbach
• June 4, 2018

David Glaccum, the chief of staff for Nikki Haley, America’s envoy to the United Nations, is leaving the New York office to move to Washington, D.C., where he will apparently continue working for Haley as a senior adviser based…