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- Joe Penney
- • September 24, 2022
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On the next-to-last day of the globe’s largest talkfest by world leaders, Sept. 24, the United Nations may have been quiet and most of the police barricades may have been dismantled outside, but inside the Assembly Hall, two powerful, stern …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Peace and Security, Secretary-General
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 7, 2021
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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 a …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Latin America, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 9, 2021
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It was all over in one crucial week. Barring an unforeseen hitch, António Guterres is the clear winner of a second, five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations, beginning on Jan.1, 2022. This was not a surprise: he had …
- Categories: Latin America, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 7, 2021
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China in the United Nations’ hot seat; Guterres’s vision for another five years; the future of global cooperation; who was Anne Dragon Nezeriotis? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered …
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 5, 2021
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When China last took the reins of the Security Council, in March 2020, the country was just starting to control the pandemic at home, while the virus was spreading rapidly abroad, all the way to United Nations headquarters in New …
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar, Security Council Presidency
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • December 1, 2020
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Recent events in Hong Kong should alert those people who hope that economic development can lead to democratic change. A few weeks ago, the territory’s fragile democratic order took another hit when opposition members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council resigned …
- Categories: Asia, Governance, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 22, 2020
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Donald Trump, speaking on the opening day of the United Nations’ 75th General Assembly session — the same day that the United States officially tallied a coronavirus death toll of 200,000 people — reiterated all his familiar grievances against China …
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 14, 2019
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Donald Trump will shake hands with Emmanuel Macron, Jair Bolsonaro and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. But will Benjamin Netanyahu; Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel be there, too? The 74th opening debate of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts on Sept.17 …
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 26, 2014
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The United States and Japanese military held joint war games in California in February, practicing how to invade and take back an island seized by hostile forces. While they didn’t say whose forces they were worried about, the drill was …
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