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Special Report: We Joined NATO to Protect Ourselves From ‘Aggressive’ Russia, Finland’s Foreign Minister Says

Elina Valtonen, Finland’s foreign affairs minister, told PassBlue that her country joined NATO this year for security reasons, given that Finland has the longest border with Russia in Europe — 830 miles north to south — and Russian troops have …

Sonia Guajajara. Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil

It Happened at the UN: Week Ending Sept. 23

Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming out of the organization. This week, world leaders descended on New York City for the opening debate of the 78th session of the General Assembly. It attracted …

Bassolma Bazié, Burkina Faso Minister of State

Special Report: Burkina Faso Hits Out at France, Ecowas, the UN and Homosexuality

Burkina Faso hit out at the “diplomatic hypocrisy” of France, the United Nations and other West African states for their treatment of Sahelian countries and threats to Niger, including its exclusion from speaking at the General Assembly, a story that …

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, leaves the UN Security Council meeting on Sept 20, 2023

Special Report: Russia’s Lavrov Loves to Blame the West; Why Estonia Wants a Special Court to Try Putin

Russia Blames the West, an ‘Empire of Lies,’ for All Global Ills — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used his speech on Saturday, toward the end of the United Nations General Assembly’s annual debate, to recite many of the Kremlin’s …

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, at the United Nations on Sept 19, 2023

Special Report: Barbados, China and Chad; Prepping for the 2024 Summit of the Future

Barbados: The Time for Reparative Justice Has Come — Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley said that reparative justice is inevitable for countries that suffered the horrendous consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to develop economically. She made this …

Tandia Bakary, Co-Founder at Abolition Institute

Special Report: Mauritanians Protest; Reforming the Global ‘Financial Architecture’

‘Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is’: Financing the SDGs — The poor progress of the Sustainable Development Goals continued to be a common theme through the middle of the General Assembly high-level week. On Wednesday, heads of state, ministers …

UN Sends Mixed Signals on Niger, Which Is Unlikely to Speak at the General Assembly

The United Nations Secretariat has received requests from both the ousted government of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been held hostage in Niger’s capital Niamey by the country’s military since it staged a coup d’état on July 26, 2023, …

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine enters the UN Security Council on Sept 20, 2023

Special Report: Zelensky, Blinken and Lavrov Appear in the Security Council; Nigeria and Algeria

His Peace Plan Will Save Both Ukraine and the UN, Zelensky Says — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine promoted his 10-point peace formula to the United Nations Security Council, meant to end Russia’s war in his country. Among the points …

US President Joseph Biden and US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the UN on Sept 19, 2023

Special Report: US and Ukraine; Türkiye and South Africa; Brazil and Cuba; UNGA Analysis

[…] longer,” he said. In his speech, on Sept. 19, Biden straddled a range of foreign policy and global issues, including reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, reforming global financial institutions to better serve developing countries and harnessing …

Special Report: World Leaders Agree to Speed Up SDGs; French Envoy Refuses to Leave Niger

The common thread woven across the dozens of speeches by world leaders at the opening of the two-day United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Summit was a clarion call for faster progress toward achieving the goals’ deadline of 2030. National leaders …

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