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Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad
News Summaries
UN top envoy sees window of change in Somalia (01/06)
UN to Assess Needs of Survivors of LRA Attack in DRC (01/06)
Bush authorizes US air support for Darfur mission (01/06)
U.N. reports jump in Zimbabwe cholera cases, deaths (01/06)
U.N. Agencies Assess Indonesian Quakes (01/06)
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Statement Highlights
The United States is, of course, deeply concerned about the situation in Gaza, which is clearly worsening.
- 01/06/2009 Condoleezza Rice
Sixty years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly took the extraordinary step of adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was an historic day for all people and all nations -- recognizing and enshrining the principle that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
- 12/10/2008 Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
...we strongly support and endorse the responsibility of States to protect the human rights of all people, including migrants, in their territories. The United States takes this responsibility very seriously and urges other States to do so.
- 11/21/2008 Ambassador T. Vance McMahan
One, the Security Council has spent a lot of today discussing Somalia. We're still in consultations now. The United States has taken the lead and circulated a draft resolution on piracy.
- 11/20/2008 Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo
Protracted civil conflicts continue to create some of the largest situations of forced displacement and are a tragic reminder that civilians are, at times, deliberately targeted.
- 11/11/2008 Ambassador T. Vance McMahan
Indeed, the American people remain the largest providers of humanitarian aid to the Cuban people. In 2007, the American people provided $240.5 million in private humanitarian assistance.
- 10/29/2008 Ronald Godard
The United States reiterates its commitment to working with others in the UN to prevent the use of sexual violence as a tactic of warfare and to ensure the full participation of women in peace processes and at all decision-making levels of the United Nations
- 10/29/2008 Zalmay Khalilzad
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