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May 2017
UNITED STATES: ‘Trump budget cut bid would make it 'impossible' for U.N.: spokesman’, Reuters, 24 May 2017; and ‘U.N. says Trump budget cuts would ‘make it impossible’ to do it’s job’, New York Times, 24 May 2017 DISARMAMENT: 'U.N. Panel Releases Draft of Treaty to Ban Nuclear Arms', New York Times, 22 May 2017 PEACEKEEPING: ‘For 2 experts killed in Congo, U.N. provided little training and no protection’, New York Times, 20 May 2017 DISARMAMENT: ‘A Call to Action on the UN Disarmament Agenda’, Arms Control Today, May 2017 PEACEKEEPING: ‘UN chief 'outraged' by latest attacks in CAR, warns they could be war crimes’, UN News Centre, 14 May 2017 SECRETARY-GENERAL: ‘UN must reform to defend enlightenment values, secretary-general says’, Guardian, 10 May 2017 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: ‘4 UN peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic’, Associated Press, 10 May 2017; also see ‘Central African Republic: UN Mission condemns deadly attack on peacekeepers’, UN New Centre, 9 May 2017 UNITED STATES: ‘EU criticizes US for $640 million cut to UN agencies’, Associated Press, 10 May SOUTH SUDAN: ‘More than one million children have fled escalating violence in South Sudan – UN’, UN News Centre, 8 May 2017 UNITED STATES: ‘Trump's UN envoy often off-message, seems in his good graces”, Associated Press, 30 April 2017 NORTH KOREA: ‘Korean Peninsula: Conflict prevention 'our collective priority' but onus also on DPRK, says UN chief’, UN News Centre, 28 April 2017. Also see ‘Secretary of State Tillerson urges U.N. to act 'before North Korea does Reuters, 28 April 2017 HUMAN AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS: ‘Anger over Saudi appointment to UN Women's Rights commission’, Independent (London), 25 April 2017