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It is my goal to communicate the priorities and principles of the United States foreign policy at the UN.
Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad


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UN names new AIDS chief (12/01)
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More HIV testing can save babies' lives-UN report (12/01)


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...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

the United States is gravely concerned about the humanitarian conditions in Afghanistan. The situation is worsening and many lives are in jeopardy

- 10/14/2008 Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad

In our view, the Almaty Program of Action is an important and necessary initiative for realizing the full potential of landlocked developing countries and achieving and sustaining the Millennium Development Goals.

- 10/03/2008 Ambassador T. Vance McMahan