Anthony Clark Arend

A previous post discussed German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s address to a Joint Session of Congress and the commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Over the next several days, there will be many celebrations in Germany and elsewhere in the West recognizing the demise of the Wall and the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
In these celebrations, …

On October 24, 1945, the United Nations Charter entered into force, formally bringing the organization into being.  Below is Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s United Nations Day message.

President Barack Obama issued this proclamation:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release                                     October 19, 2009
UNITED NATIONS DAY, 2009
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF …

Anthony Clark Arend is interviewed by Georgetown School of Foreign Service Dean Carol  Lancaster about the Obama Administration and the United Nations.

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The text of the address provides on the White House website is below:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release                                         September 23, 2009

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
United Nations Headquarters
New York, New York
10:10 A.M. EDT
THE …

Laura Rozen reports:
Arms control takes center stage when President Barack Obama heads to New York this week, becoming the first American president to lead a United Nations Security Council summit on nonproliferation Thursday.
The U.S. plans to introduce this nonproliferation and disarmament resolution at the meeting. I’ve posted two earlier working drafts that the U.S. distributed to Security Council members earlier in the …

American University Professor David Bosco has a very thoughtful op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post in the wake of President Obama’s upcoming visit to the United Nations in a few days. As has been widely reported, Obama will be chairing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on non-proliferation issues. Bosco urges the Obama Administration to approach the United Nations …

Reuters is reporting:
The United States is ready to hand over more than $2 billion in new and old contributions it owes the U.N. peacekeeping department, Washington’s U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, said on Wednesday.
“The United States is now in a position to clear all peacekeeping arrears accumulated from 2005 to 2008 and to meet our obligations in full for 2009 — …

Reuters is reporting today:
The international arrest warrant for Sudan’s president will top the agenda of an Arab summit next week, which he may attend despite his indictment for war crimes, host Qatar said on Saturday.
Sudan’s Omar Hassan al-Bashir has made trips to Egypt, Eritrea, Libya and Ethiopia over the past two weeks, after the warrant was issued by the International …