UN Security Council

On July 26, de Mistura announced that he aims for the next round of intra-Syrian peace talks to take place in late August, rather than early August as he had hoped a month prior. Russia and Syria's plan to create...

Abdelkader K. Abbadi is one of the most experienced active UN Correspondents you will find at the United Nations having been a UN official for 30 years. La Voce sat down to talk with him about his new book, "From...

The UN Security Council held a secretive straw poll showing support for Portuguese Antonio Guterres' Secretary General candidacy. UNSC and UNGA tensions bolden as Mogens Lykketoft pushes for more transparencies in the process. Bulgarian Irina Bokova comes out first among...

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...

UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura announced yesterday that Security Council talks on the political transition in Syria will resume in August with the hope of executing a plan in September. He urged UNSC members to take responsibility and come...

Sweden and Italy are not only head-to-head in the UEFA Euro match, but also in the UN Security Council Elections, and to make things more difficult the Netherlands is in the race as well

Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Martin Kobler and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini recently briefed the UN Security Council on the increasingly volatile situation in Libya

This latest initiative for negotiations between Syria’s fractioned parties comes after a failed attempt at ceasefire. De Mistura’s advances, however, have been met with criticism and frustration from different countries, with US ambassador Samantha Powers calling out Russia for its...

This sequence of events has been seen before: the Democratic People Republic of Korea detonates an atomic bomb; the UN Security Council expresses its outrage and issues strong-language warnings and resolutions of condemnation. The DPRK does it again and the UN Security...