By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) until Aug. 31, 2020. The resolution requests the UN Secretary-General to continue to inform the Security
Credit: ec.europa.eu/ Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES “I do not know what it is to be black,” Ursula von der Leyen, a German, and president of the European Commission stated. The
Credit: ©ICC-CPI/ Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands January 2019. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Not content with the International Criminal Court‘s acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo of all war crime charges, the
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs reporters at Department of State headquarters in Washington D.C. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that a historic United Nations Human Rights Council
Credit / UN News/Daniel Dickinson / George Floyd, an African American, was killed after being restrained by police in the United States. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN Human Rights Commission will launch a report to address
Credit: europol.europa.eu / Four houses and arrested three individuals suspected of forgery of documents. DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The French Border Police (Police Aux Frontières) within the French National Police (Police Nationale), supported by Europol, dismantled a large criminal network involved in document fraud. On the
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Flag of the Republic of Kenya By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK- The Republic of Kenya has won a seat on the powerful United Nations Security Council for 2021/22 beating rival Djibouti. Kenya secured the 128
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Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Turkish diplomat and politician Volkan Bozkir By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Volkan Bozkir of Turkey was elected Wednesday President of the forthcoming session of the UN General Assembly. Bozkir, a veteran diplomat and
United Nations Security Council chamber at UN world headquarters in New York City By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – NORWAY, IRELAND, INDIA, MEXICO were elected non-permanent seats on the powerful UN Security Council Wednesday. The UN General