President Donald Trump announced he was nominating Kelly Knight Craft, currently the U.S. ambassador to Canada, to replace Nikki Haley as his envoy to the United Nations. The position was vacant for four month after a abrupt departure of Nikki Haley. Kelly Kraft is the wife of the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, one the largest…
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Ambassador Nikki Haley resigns
President Donald Trump said he believes Amb. Nikki Haley has helped make the position of UN ambassador “more glamorous” and “more important” and said that “many people” want to succeed her in the post. “I think she’s helped make it a much better position…She’s made it a more glamorous position, she’s made it, more importantly, a…
EU-U.S. cooperation on HR continues “whenever possible”
Reacting upon the decision of the United States decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European External Action Service issued a statement, regretting the move, and underlining that it “risks undermining the role of the US as a champion and supporter of democracy on the world stage”. https://twitter.com/eu_eeas/status/1009195620920422406 However the EU via a spokesperson…
US to impose new sanctions on Russia
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, told CBS TV channel’ “Face the Nation” program that the United States would announce new economic sanctions on Russia as early as Monday, April 16, aimed at companies “that were dealing with equipment” related to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged chemical weapons use. TOMORROW: @nikkihaley talks…
UN majority vote against Trump decision on Jerusalem
“The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said addressing the 193-member General Assembly ahead of Thursday’s vote on Jerusalem. RT @USUN: “America will…
Washington warns North Korea of "utterly" destruction
The United States warned North Korea’s leadership it would be “utterly destroyed” in case of war break out after Pyongyang again launched this time its most advanced missile, putting the U.S. mainland within range, in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. The US warns that North Korea's leadership will be "utterly destroyed" if war breaks…
Gen.Mattis reserved on North Korea military options
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis showed reserve about the existence of military options on North Korea that might spare Seoul from a brutal counterattack but declined to say what kind of options he was talking about or whether they involved the use of lethal force. Asked whether there were any military options the United States…
SweDoctors: Syria’s gassed babies video fraud
The photos of gassed Syrian babies, which visibly moved US President Trump, and were displayed as a major piece of evidence against President Assad at the UN by ambassador Nikki Haley are in the centre of an international scandal accused of fraud. pic.twitter.com/SvxAM45dP9 — Archive: Ambassador Nikki Haley (@AmbNikkiHaley) April 5, 2017 Swedish Doctors For…
Duma on US ‘sabotage’ of soltuion for Syria
The head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Council of Federation, Konstantin Kosachev, defined as a ‘sabotage’ the statement of the US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley about the inability to find a political solution to the conflict in Syria. He wrote about it in Facebook. In an interview with CNN, Haley…
EU-US divergence over Israel
The EU and US policy towards Israeli-Palestinian peace process close come into a collision. While the Members of the European Parliament (MEP) call the EU and its member states to recognise Palestinian statehood, the US administration reportedly considers abandoning the UN Human Rights Council in disagreement over its policy towards Israel. Led by delegation chair…
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