United Nations Agenda for 2008
In his first news conference of 2008, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon talked about his priorities for the coming year. Top…
Michael Barnett talked about his book Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda, published by Cornell University Press. As a p… read more
Michael Barnett talked about his book Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda, published by Cornell University Press. As a political officer on the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in 1994, Mr. Barnett observed the U.N.'s reaction to the Rwandan genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis were murdered by Hutus over a period of about three months. In this interview Mr. Barnett argued that the United Nations and United States government knew the extent of the killing and failed to act deciviely to stop the murders. He was interviewed on the C-SPAN BookTV Bus. close
In his first news conference of 2008, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon talked about his priorities for the coming year. Top…
President Bush met with the special envoy for Sudan.
Rep. Donald Payne, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, talked about Kenya’s political situatio…
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egelandwill spoke …