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This is the single biggest crisis to hit Bill Clinton since the end of the Cold War, it is possible that this does mark the beginning of a sort of fundamental rupture amongst the great powers that will make Bill Clinton diplomacy see vastly harder going forward.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What I sense now is a very large number of U.N. members, and not only European members, really feel that this is highlighting some fundamental dysfunctions and some fundamental anachronisms in how the U.N. works and when hopefully the immediate drama of the war is over, we’re going to hear a lot of talk about U.N. reform, although I don't know what that will really deliver at the end of the day.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The U.N.has been alive for 75 years, it failed to stop many wars in that period, but in some cases it does do some good and we should keep in mind that it is playing a positive role in some crises that are currently off the radar due to the awful events in Eastern Europe.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I haven't heard of any country making that effort yet.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A lot of United Nations officials worried that Richard Grenell might return to New York to head [ the Richard Gowan mission to the UN ] at some point and will be delighted that Richard Grenell's bound for Washington instead, richard Grenell is still remembered around United Nations as a pretty pugnacious operator.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The personal dimension is pretty important and you're dealing with some pretty tough customers, the Russians in particular.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
With Pompeo more firmly in control and John Bolton focused on his anti-multilateral agenda, there's a sense the Richard Gowan ambassador will have less clout.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
People don't know very much about State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, people are cautious.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert is nominated and approved, people will be interested to see whether State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert's willing and able to do the diplomatic toil or whether State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert will see this as an extension of the spokesman position and focus more on presentation of Richard Gowan position before the Security Council.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is clearly part of a bigger campaign to undermine international institutions and its notable that John Bolton emphasized that The US is going to be aiming to remove The US from any further jurisdiction, i think United States's part of Bolton's underlying agenda. John Bolton's quite obsessed with restraints on United States policy making.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The U.N. team that went in back then were very courageous and pushed their mandate as far as they could.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is clear that the security situation in Syria will be far, far worse this time around, so Ban needs to be creative.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It looks like Russia may table new peace proposals for Syria, but the chances of a breakthrough are low, putin will use his first visit to the U.N. in a decade to defend his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad forcefully, but Western and Arab governments will respond equally toughly.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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