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UN Security Council Fiddles While Syria Burns (Albeit With Mock Humor)

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 02.25.2012

Evelyn Leopold

Arguing over a resolution on Syria, Russia and the United States indulged in barbs that resulted in a U.S. cartoon of the "Grinch Who Stole Christmas" adorned with the face of the Vitaly Churkin, Russia's U.N. ambassador.

Is Russia's UN Initiative on Syria a Compromise or a Delay to Action?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 02.18.2012

Evelyn Leopold

No one so far is calling for military intervention in Syria. Instead it is expected that arms will be smuggled to the opposition, possibly through neighboring Turkey -- unless the Arab League manages to institute a genuine peace.

Syria Has Few Friends But UN Punitive Action Is Elusive

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 01.24.2012

Evelyn Leopold

Will Turkey and others ensure that Syrian opposition forces have enough military support to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad? Suddenly, it's a fast moving saga.

Dramatic Bid For Palestinian Statehood On Hold At U.N.; Major Powers Buy Time

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 11.24.2011

Evelyn Leopold

The speeches from Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu illustrated the gulf between Israelis and Palestinians -- a fear their existence is at stake and widely disparate accounts of a painful shared history.

Deaths in Syria Too Brutal for UN Council to Stay Silent

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 10.04.2011

Evelyn Leopold

As the Syrian military killed more and more people, all 15 members of the U.N. Security Council for the first time condemned the government's use of force against civilians and its gross violations of human rights.

Libya and UN: Will Benghazi Be Saved From Gaddafi?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Evelyn Leopold

Surprisingly, the often lethargic UN Security Council has approved force against Libya in a race against time to prevent the forces of Col. Muammar Gaddafi from crushing the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

Sudan Bombs While White House Talks

Susan Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Susan Morgan

Why is the US agreeing to turn over control of peace negotiations to a government currently engaged in bombings, village burnings, and obstruction of peacekeepers?

Somali Coast: A new Golden Age for Pirates

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Evelyn Leopold

As long as a ransom is paid and impoverished Somalia is in shambles, combating piracy is a matter of hit and miss and depends on fire power of vessels or foreign navies rushing to their protection.

Iraq at the UN: Mission Accomplished?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Evelyn Leopold

More than 20 years after sanctions were imposed on Iraq for Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, the UN Security Council lifted most restrictions, symbolically closing what Baghdad calls a "dark chapter" in its history.

UN Flotilla Probe: Verbal Clash of Muddled Mandates

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Evelyn Leopold

Ban Ki-moon denied the Israeli military was off limits in a U.N. inquiry into the deadly Israeli commando raid on a Turkish-led aid flotilla heading for Gaza. Israel disputes this and no one is sure what the panel's job description is.

How'd We Lose Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon?

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Grenell

If you are comfortable living in a world where America has no more influence than China, then you may like Obama's softer, quieter, weaker America. Iran certainly loves it.

Top US Diplomat Fails to Show Up to Defend Israel

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Grenell

It's mystifying why Susan Rice, the American Ambassador to the UN, was a no-show to the roughly 12-hour UN Security Council negotiations that left a key ally fending off global criticism.

Oprah Is Tougher

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Grenell

Texting while driving, an important public safety issue, is best left to the jurisdiction of local and state officials, not our UN Ambassador. America's representative to the UN has plenty of other issues she should be working on.

Big Powers Agree on Iran Sanctions; Brush Aside Deal With Brazil and Turkey

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Evelyn Leopold

The big powers struck back at Turkey and Brazil's uranium swap deal with Iran by putting their draft sanctions resolution on the table, in effect telling the two nations they were not going to run the show.

Susan Rice Refuses to Call Out Libya As They Are Elected to the Human Rights Council

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Grenell

What is clear is that Susan Rice hasn't found her voice at the UN even though she has been in the job for over a year. It seems hard to take her seriously.

US Leadership at the United Nations

Mark Kornblau | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Kornblau

Ambassador Susan Rice -- on the front lines in New York -- has dramatically changed our course at the UN to make Americans safer and to move us toward a more peaceful and prosperous world.

New Study Suggests U.S. Ambassador Rice Isn't Engaging the UN

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Grenell

It has been just over one year since Rice was confirmed by the Senate to be the Permanent Representative to the UN and she so far has been wildly inattentive in New York while actively social in Washington.

Cuban Vote at UN: "Here We Go Again"

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Evelyn Leopold

For the 18th consecutive year, the General Assembly condemned the US embargo against Cuba. But this was the first vote since President Obama took office, and everyone listened for hints of change.

Obama Administration Seeks To Join U.N. Rights Of The Child Convention

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 05.25.2011

UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration is reviving efforts to have the United States sign onto a global children's rights treaty ratified by ...

Obama's UN Envoy Got Iraq War Wrong

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

The Nation reports that President-elect Obama's UN ambassador is another staffer who got the Iraq war wrong: On the outside chance that anyone thoug...

Susan Rice, UN Ambassador

HuffPost/Various | Posted 05.25.2011

Check back for updates ***Update 12/1, 11 AM*** At a news conference today, Obama introduced his picks of retired Marine Gen. James Jones as Whit...