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Dr. David Nabarro, special envoy of the secretary-general on Ebola, and Anthony Banbury, head of the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, spoke at a U.N. plenary meeting on the public …

Jan Eliasson and John Ging spoke to reporters on the military conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. United Nations Deputy Secretary General Eliasson condemned the bombing of a U.N.-run …

The U.N. Security Council held a meeting on the Russian intervention in Ukraine. The meeting occurred following Crimea’s vote to break away from Ukraine to join Russia. U.S. Ambassador to th…

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting on the situation in Ukraine. Earlier in the day Russia’s upper house of Parliament voted unanimously to approve sending military forces in…

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson gave an update on the United Nations current agenda and the upcoming work. Topics included the civil war in Syria and that country’s use …

President Obama spoke at a roundtable on supporting civil society around the world.

The United Nations Secretary General’s Special Enoy to Sudan Jan Eliasson talked about the status of his negotiations on the future of the Darfur region and the issue of transatlantic cooper…

Mrs. Bush and other officials talked about the global AIDS pandemic and efforts to control the spread of the disease, as well as international prevention efforts at the 2006 High Level Meeti…

A roundtable discussed the politics of reform at the United Nations with Jan Eliasson, president of the United Nations General Assembly. Among the topics addressed were the need for internat…

Participating by remote connection from New York City, Ambassador Eliasson talked about his efforts to make changes in the United Nations Human Rights Commission to prevent countries with a …

Ambassador Eliasson, the incoming president of the United Nations General Assembly, talked about reform proposals for the United Nations. Topics included weapons of mass destruction, AIDS, o…

Diplomats talked about relations between the U.S. and Europe, the role of the United Nations in world affairs, U.S. policy in Iraq and the Middle East, and the potential impact of a second B…

Participants talked about the challenges that face the European Union. They focused on how their courts will address free market issues, the protection of human rights, the entrance of new c…

The American Assembly public policy forum continued its series of panel discussions on American national security with a discussion of the non-military aspects of America’s security, includi…

Participants in the 1991 American Assembly convened to determine the final public policy initiatives to be published under the name of the 1991 forum’s topic “Rethinking America’s Security.”…

The American Assembly held a forum on “Rethinking the Military Dimensions of American National Security” during the second day of its public policy forum on America’s national security. The …