U.N. - 18 Settembre 2019 Was Former GA Pres. Espinosa’s Success Enough to Reach the Helm of UN? As one of the final acts as President of the General Assembly, Ms. Espinosa passed the gavel on to the new President, Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria. Nigeria’s former UN representative banged the gavel to open his year in office as the President of the 74th session of the General Assembly on September 17, 2019. As he addressed the General Assembly in his inaugural speech, Mr. Muhammad-Bande said he would “collaborate and coordinate” with the Security Council, and the Secretariat “to ensure that greater attention is paid to prevention rather than reaction to full blown conflict.”
U.N. - 7 Febbraio 2019 President of the World Parliament María Fernanda Espinosa: Reflections and Power The ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ecuador and first Latin American woman to be elected President of the General Assembly of the UN answers our questions on Sustainable Development Goals and the UN’s battle – that sees Italy among its protagonists – to reform the Security Council. Maria Fernanda Espinosa also offers her views on the attacks against freedom of the press.
New York - 26 Settembre 2018 Trump Attacks China for Meddling in 2018 Election at the UN Security Council Trump gets off topic at the beginning of the United Nations Security Council meeting on the "nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction." However, other presidents stay on track and criticize the United State's foreign policy and interventionist action.
U.N. - 5 Giugno 2018 U.N. Elects First Latin-American Woman to Be President of General Assembly After more than a decade of male General Assembly president's, the president-elect dedicated her election to “all the women in the world who participate in politics today and who face political and media attacks marked by machismo and discrimination.”
Onu - 29 Settembre 2017 Yemen: l’Assemblea Generale ONU passa, la tragedia continua (nel silenzio) E sì che la soluzione alla tragedia umanitaria già ci sarebbe, "delineata nella dichiarazione presidenziale adottata lo scorso 15 giugno", spiega l'ambasciatore italiano Cardi. Ma la comunità internazionale, mentre il mondo si dimentica dello Yemen, è in confusione: gli USA stringono l'occhio ai sauditi, l'Arabia Saudita non si pronuncia. E anche l'Italia ha i suoi problemi interni
U.N. - 26 Luglio 2016 UN Welcomes IOM to the Table Director General of the International Organization for Migration states that “This is an historic day, not only for IOM and the UN, but for migrants and their families across the globe” as UN General Assembly unanimously votes to make the organization a related body of the United Nations.
U.N. - 1 Luglio 2016 Italy Elected to UN Security Council for 2017 After Splitting Seat Italy and the Netherlands' solution to split the seat of the non-permanent 2017-18 term of the UN Security Council may be a potential sign for greater unity of the EU in the UN. Leaders hint at a European Union seat on the UNSC. Historically, splitting a non-permanent seat in the Security Council was actually a common practice in the late 1950s through the mid-1960s
Onu - 10 Giugno 2016 UN General Assembly Aims to End AIDS by 2030 The UN General Assembly passed a resolution that outlines the goals of the international effort to battle the global pandemic of HIV/AIDS over the next five years, as well as the long-term goal of extinguishing HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030
U.N. - 12 Gennaio 2016 Happy UN birthday Born on the ashes of the horror and devastation of the Second World War (its first meeting held in Central Hall in London in 1946), the General Assembly has been the place where countries convene to find a common position on the pressing issues of the moment