Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, both Republicans, released a statement on Sunday that said they will not call the General Assembly back into session to address concerns of election integrity in the presidential election.
The president of the United Nations General Assembly has teased that this year’s general debate next week — during which all the world’s heads of state may deliver remarks on any topic of their choosing — will feature more world leaders than ever.
Jordanian King Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussein, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, called on the international community to combat “Islamophobia,” deeming it a threat that fuels terrorism along with jihadi ideology.
New Delhi canceled a meeting on Friday between Pakistani and Indian ministers on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, citing Islamabad’s “evil agenda” and “unclean intentions” as the reason.
North Korea’s foreign minister will give a keynote address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Nikki Haley tore into the U.N.’s General Assembly Thursday, threatening to pull U.S. funding from the U.N.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed a U.N. resolution that condemned the American embargo of Cuba Wednesday, describing the debate as a “shiny object” used to distract U.N. attention from its grave human rights abuses.
TEL AVIV – Israel is working to prevent the Palestinian Authority’s latest campaign to become a full member state in international bodies, this time by blocking its lobby to join Interpol.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday addressed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directly in his speech at the UN General Assembly, telling him that if he dares to threaten Israel with annihilation he will face no fiercer enemy.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the “bad” Iranian nuclear deal’s “sunset clause” must be removed or else the world will face a “radical Islamist empire” armed with hundreds of nuclear bombs.
President Trump gave his starkest warning yet to the North Korean regime Tuesday, threatening to ‘totally destroy’ North Korea.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley gave a preview of President Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly next week, telling reporters Friday that in the address, Trump “slaps the right people [and] hugs the right people.”
The U.S. push for reform of the bloated United Nations is off to a murky start ahead of next week’s General Assembly.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres offered a diplomatic answer Tuesday to a question about Trump’s “America First” slogan.
The U.S. is reportedly considering scaling back its presence at the United Nations General Assembly next month.
Venezuela’s government has confirmed that dictator Nicolás Maduro is skipping the United Nations General Assembly because he is “very busy.” Canceling the trip to New York would allow Maduro to avoid the uncomfortable logistics of entering the U.N. when American sanctions ban him from the country entirely.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was elected as vice president of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, marking a major triumph for the Israeli mission to the international body.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson for wearing a Palestinian flag scarf at a special meeting Tuesday to mark “Palestinian Day.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not likely to meet with President Barack Obama on his upcoming trip to the United States later this month.
Shiwei Yan, founder of the Global Sustainability Foundation, entered a guilty plea on Wednesday to charges of funneling $800,000 in bribes to former United Nations General Assembly President John Ashe.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged listeners at the UN General Assembly Thursday to avoid “the same old recipes” to solve conflicts, and warned against “unilateral action” to solve problems like the civil war in Syria, which may put Tsipras at odds with his Russian allies.
Turkey, the nation’s most vocally opposed to the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, took the stage at the UN General Assembly Wednesday, demanding that the “vicious tyrant” be removed, and the world unite for a Syria “without Assad and without Daesh [ISIS].”
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro praised President Barack Obama’s “courage” in working with Cuba, while condemning “neoliberalism” and calling for a “new geopolitical system.”
Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, Cuban dictator Raúl Castro insisted that, without the transfer of sovereignty of Guantánamo Bay to the communist regime and the censorship of U.S. broadcasts condemning human rights violations, the normalization of relations with the United States cannot occur.
In remarks to the United Nations General Assembly, President Barack Obama insisted that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must be removed from power. His statement contradicts a remark from Secretary of State John Kerry that Assad is necessary to bring peace in the region.
