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#YoungDiplomat Episode 7: Eileen Scollan of the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, New York talks to Young Diplomats about the UN, including the importance of women in peace building and peacekeeping as well as the roll of youth in the work of the organization. #WPS #UNSCR1325 Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/gGFXWGwn

On Thursday, Mar 20, Algeria's Deputy Permanent Representative, Toufik Koudri, addressed the Security Council re: the situation in Gaza. This Week @ UN covers all the news around the UN, including important UNSC meetings. Read the latest -> https://lnkd.in/ghAqK_kS

This Serbian May Run for UN Secretary-General Again, Experts Say Vuk Jeremic, a former UN General Assembly president and Serbian foreign minister, may once again run for Secretary-General on a reform platform called . . . DOGE-UN. https://lnkd.in/gveigEpJ

#Diplomacy: It may seem like a joke, but in the absurd diplomacy of dealing with President Donald Trump, South Africa’s best move could be to appoint a golf champion as its next ambassador to Washington. https://lnkd.in/gUEhcbup

#Opinion: It is time to concede that the UN’s decade-long political mediation work and the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria leading this effort in settling the Syrian war has reached a point of irreversible irrelevance. It needs to be abolished. A different platform needs to be identified to lead this work, one that could be endorsed by the Security Council. This is not to say there is no role for the UN in Syria during this critical transitional period. https://lnkd.in/gY47ZGJw

Bonkers 2.0 #CSW69 - During the first Trump administration, a source embedded in the CSW deliberations called the US position, which saw the country side with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Belarus and Russia on various positions, especially around #SRHR, "bonkers." At the first CSW of Trump's second administration, the US is again playing spoiler. "Diplomats who took part in the negotiations, however, told PassBlue that the US opposed any gender language and wording deemed to advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI) policies and the Sustainable Development Goals." #SDGs https://lnkd.in/g3tDCrSW

An interview with Latvia’s Minister of Justice Inese Libina-Egnere. https://lnkd.in/dYpf6UPC

This Week @ UN Eileen Scollan in the latest Young Diplomats gives the perfect lead in to the first week of #CSW69. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g6QKe25d

At a Foreign Policy side event to #CSW69, Canada’s Chrystia Freeland broke down how her country feels about the threats of annexation from Donald #Trump and their feelings towards the general US population.

Is Chile’s Michelle Bachelet planning to run for secretary-general?