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Assistant Secretary Silverberg’s Dispatch #5 from the 62nd UNGA
Posted by: Kristen Silverberg
United Nations – Today was another full day of meetings with my counterparts from a number of countries, including Italy, Israel, and Libya. Meanwhile, the Secretary was meeting with the Foreign Ministers of the other permanent members of the Security Council (China, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom), plus Germany and the European Union (referred to as the P5 plus two), to talk about a third sanctions resolution on Iran. Iran continues to defy the international community in its refusal to suspend its nuclear proliferation-related…
Assistant Secretary Silverberg’s Dispatch #4 from the 62nd UNGA
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United Nations – What a busy day! I’m exhausted! The Secretary was in Washington opening the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change, which brought together countries representing 85 percent of the global economy and 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change. I stayed in New York.
With the situation in Burma weighing heavily on our minds,…
Assistant Secretary Silverberg’s Dispatch #3 from the 62nd UNGA
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United Nations – Another busy day in New York! First thing this morning, President Bush met with President Karzai to discuss progress in Afghanistan. We have a lot of hope for the future of Afghanistan. There has been a more than twenty percent decrease in child mortality over the last five years, access to basic health care is now available to eighty percent of the public, up from eight percent a few years ago, and primary school enrollment for both boys and girls has increased by five hundred percent over the past five years.…
Assistant Secretary Silverberg’s Dispatch #2 from the 62nd UNGA
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United Nations – Hello again from New York. I spent most of today following the President’s busy schedule, which required me to run quickly (and in heels!) to keep up.
In his speech to the 192 nations of the General Assembly, President Bush reminded his listeners of the promise the United Nations has made – through the
UNGA 101
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Kristen Silverberg, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs
Welcome to the State Department’s new blog, Dipnote. My name is Kristin Silverberg and I lead the Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs which is responsible for managing the U.S. relationship with the United Nations.
Each September, the President and the Secretary of State go to New York to join their counterparts from around the world to honor the opening of the General Assembly of the United…
Assistant Secretary Silverberg’s Dispatch #1 from the 62nd UNGA
Posted by: Kristen Silverberg
Hello. My name is Kristen Silverberg and I lead the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. I will be in New York for the next two weeks to support the President and the Secretary of State as they participate in the opening of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly. I will be posting updates each day on the events here in New York.
We arrived from Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Secretary Rice went immediately to a high-level meeting on Iraq, co-chaired by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and Secretary General Ban.…