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NYT Picks up our Fresh Air Sense at U.N.
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, as my colleague Scott Paul noted last month, is a breath of fresh air...
A Great Week for International Institutions
After Zimbabwe won its election to Chair the Commission on Sustainable Development and Paul Wolfowitz held the World Bank hostage last month,...
A Day to Remember
Today is the International Day of U.N. Peacekeepers. It's a good time to remember that those that worked and have sometimes given...
Biden: UN Arrears Resolution Progressing
Senator Joseph Biden , who when he isn't busy running for president, also is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said...
Diplomacy Works
Yesterday, Belarus ran for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council - and lost badly. A few weeks ago, a Belarussian...
Bush Asks Senate for Law of the Sea
In case you missed it: "I urge the Senate to act favorably on U.S. accession to the United Nations Convention on the...
Power Couple
If confirmed, he'll have closed to 189,000 troops under his purvue and she oversees close to 90,000 troops and police. A true...
Mortimer Joins “Blair to World Bank” Push
Good to see Edward Mortimer the former Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General join the push...
World Publics Favor New Powers for the UN
Today I attended a presentation by pollster, Steven Kull who just released an eighteen nation survey showing that publics around the world...
What a Difference an Ambassador Makes
Ambassador Khalilzad's first speech before the U.N. General Assembly is pasted below. Bush administration policy hasn't substantially changed over the past five...
U.S. Playing Catch-Up as Zimbabwean Bid for UNCSD Chair Moves Forward
SustainUS, the U.S. youth network for sustainable development, sends delegations of young people to U.N. sustainable development meetings every year to meet...