Category: World

Together with vehicle manufacturers and governments, the UN Working Party dealing with advanced driving technology issues has adopted a new regulation that prevents unwanted, sudden acceleration by making use of tech that can detect objects both in front of and behind vehicles. Tokyo driver Data from Asia and Europe suggest that older drivers tend to make […]

James Swan, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) briefed ambassadors noting that the Somali government is prioritising security and combating Al-Shabaab fighters on many fronts. “For its part, Al-Shabaab remains determined to continue terrorist attacks with little regard for the loss of civilian life,” he said. “I condemn these terrorist attacks and […]

With around a dozen mentions in an hour and a half, Russian President Vladimir Putin was repeatedly referenced by President Joe Biden and rival Donald Trump during Thursday’s presidential election debate as they vied to show who was tougher on foreign policy. “If we had a real president, the president that … was respected by […]

Joint Statement by the Principals of the UN Steering Group on Solutions to Internal Displacement: DCO, IOM, OCHA, UNDP, UNDPO, UNDPPA, UNICEF and UNHCR   New York/ Geneva – Two years after the launch of the UN Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement, there has been significant progress towards its common vision and objectives. As members […]

Since 2006, this Council has adopted nine resolutions on the DPRK. All nine condemned the DPRK’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity. They called on the DPRK to cease this activity and imposed sanctions, including prohibiting the transfer of arms and related materiel between the DPRK and any UN Member State. All nine were unanimously adopted […]

Regional Solicitor Samantha Thomas I am Samantha Thomas, the daughter of immigrants that came to the United States from the Caribbean in the 1960s. My father hails from the beautiful island nation of Trinidad and Tobago and my mother from Carriacou, Grenada, in the Grenadine Islands. My family has a legacy of service, and I […]

“You can hear bombardments from the north, the middle and the south…Gaza now really is hell on earth, It’s very hot…Trash is piling up everywhere, people living under plastic sheeting where temperatures soar,” said Ms. Wateridge, a Senior Communications Officer with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, hours after returning to the shattered enclave […]

Briefing ambassadors at the Security Council on the situation in the country, head of the UN mission Valentine Rugwabiza stated that the additional deployment also facilitated the delivery of humanitarian aid in the restive and hard-to-access Haut Mbomou region. Bordering South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the region – which is larger […]

With four months to go until Election Day, the earliest-ever general election debate featured two presidents – one current, one former – and a lot of bitter personal attacks. Joe Biden’s universally acknowledged poor performance surprised and even panicked Democrats; Donald Trump gave a more forceful – if not truthful – performance. The Conversation asked […]

MS GEORGE:  Hi. AUDIENCE:  Hi. MS GEORGE:  Welcome to the State Department.  Thank you all for joining us today to dedicate this Treaty Room to Secretary Powell and the Secretary’s Conference Room to Secretary Albright.  It’s an immense privilege to mark this special and, for me, personally very meaningful occasion with so many cherished family […]