Credit: Credit: Wikipedia Commons / DOS Twitter / U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Heather Nauert, the former Fox News anchor turned State Department spokesperson, has withdrawn her name from consideration as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. “Today Heather Nauert withdrew
Credit: wikipedia commons / Jamal Khashoggi By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Saudi Arabia seriously curtailed and undermined Turkey’s investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.N. human rights expert said in preliminary report released Thursday. U.N. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard said the evidence showed
Credit: Photo by Gary Raynaldo / Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations E. 46th Street Manhattan, NY By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is still working on a daily basis with the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Venezuelan To The
Credit: U.N. MINUSMA/Blagoje Grujic / U.N, peacekeepers on patrol in Kidal, Mali. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Two United Nations peacekeepers from Sri Lanka were killed Friday when their convoy hit a land mine in the West African nation of Mali, the U.N. reported. They
Photo by Gary Raynaldo / UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed concern over the political crisis in Venezuela this week that was sparked after opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president. The Trump administration announced it recognizes
Credit / Souleymane Ag Anara, AFP | United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ten U.N. peacekeepers from Chad were killed in a suspected Islamist attack in northern Mali early Sunday. The U.N. confirmed that ten ‘blue helmets’
Credit: Wikipedia / Brazil President Jair Messias Bolsonaro DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF Newly inaugurated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro announced this week he is pulling out of a United Nations agreement protecting the rights of migrants. Brazil joins just a handful of countries—led by the United States—that refused
Photo Credit: By Gary Raynaldo / United Nations World Headquarters In New York City USA. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he deeply regrets the decision this week of the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to declare its top
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for a “credible” investigation into journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, AFP reported Sunday. “It is absolutely essential to have a credible investigation and to have the punishment of those that were
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Today is International Human Rights Day as the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights turns 70. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a ground breaking historic document that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December