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Serbia refuses to back EU choice for UN position. Filling a mostly ceremonial post at the United Nations has provoked a fall-out between the European Union and Serbia, a...

The international community has shown this year how mass atrocities can be averted. Good news not only sells less well than bad news, but also often seems harder to believe....

The question for Israel and its friends to address the risks of recognition of a Palestinian state, and to calibrate their reaction accordingly. Shortly before Israeli Prime...

Where will senior EU figures be staying in New York? Senior officials of the European Union are heading to New York for next week's General Assembly of the United Nations...

Israeli ambassador says statehood bid is ‘distraction'; Palestine to seek upgrade of UN status next week. The European Union should do more to convince the Palestinians...

The EU position on Palestine's bid for statehood is crucial. In less than two weeks the Palestinian Authority (PA) will ask the United Nations to recognise a Palestinian...

It is time for the EU to push for a UN-led commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity committed in Myanmar. Four years ago, the people of Myanmar rose up in a...

EU has laid the ground-work to help South Sudan. South Sudan's declaration of independence on Saturday (9 July) has done nothing to improve the plight of its impoverished...

Last chance for ministers to agree before September, while five EU states champion non-recognition. National foreign ministers from the European Union will make a last-ditch...

A look back at four decades of EU involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today, 14 May, the EU enters its fifth decade of involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian...

The EU's place as an international power depends more on its actions than on its status at the UN. The European Union has suffered major set-backs at the United Nations in...

'Voiceless' nations vote against EU proposal. Hopes that Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, will enjoy new rights to speak at the United Nations in...

First president of the European Council faces being left in the cold in New York. The person who becomes the first president of the European Council may get star billing in...

The answer is perhaps that the term is pragmatic. And, in Kosovo, that may not be unreasonable. After months of uncertainty, the United Nations Security Council earlier...

Europe needs to be more outward-looking if it is to re-gain the influence it has lost on human-rights issues. The EU may struggle to achieve a common foreign policy, but...

Despite Russian opposition in the UN Security Council, the UN presses ahead with the transfer of assets and responsibility in Kosovo to the EU. UN administrators has...

The imminent independence of Kosovo will mark the end of the territorial re-ordering which followed the gradual and violent demise of that once-proud country, Yugoslavia. The...

I am referring to your column (Entre Nous, 7-13 June) in which you make reference to the OLAF press release of 4 June 2007 entitled ‘Investigation concerning cleaning...

The UN faces a budget crisis unless member states reach agreement on internal management reform by the end of June. Last December the major funders - the US, EU, and Japan -...

Another session of the United Nations General Assembly has just come to an end without reaching agreement on the contentious issue of the possible expansion of the Security...