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  • Emerging economies are not taking the European demands for control of the IMF laying down.  They are not buying the “only a European can solve this” rationalizing and are pointing...

    Calling out the hypocrisy

    Emerging economies are not taking the European demands for control of the IMF laying down.  They are not buying the “only a European can solve this” rationalizing and are pointing...

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  • The World Health Organization’s incumbent Director-General got an early boost toward re-election this week at the organization’s World Health Assembly meeting. Dr. Margaret Chan will hold office through June 2012. During...

    Chan gets early boost in 2011-12 WHO Director-General race

    The World Health Organization’s incumbent Director-General got an early boost toward re-election this week at the organization’s World Health Assembly meeting. Dr. Margaret Chan will hold office through June 2012. During...

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  • This is a old post, published this past March by Brazil’s former foreign minister Celso Amorim, but it is well worth sharing still. Let’s take first the simple reality of...

    Brazil: Let Us In

    This is a old post, published this past March by Brazil’s former foreign minister Celso Amorim, but it is well worth sharing still. Let’s take first the simple reality of...

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  • Russia is the latest Security Council permanent member to express support for a permanent seat for India, according to the Wall Street Journal. [Russian President Dmitry] Medvedev on Tuesday offered...

    Four down, one to go

    Russia is the latest Security Council permanent member to express support for a permanent seat for India, according to the Wall Street Journal. [Russian President Dmitry] Medvedev on Tuesday offered...

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  • The General Assembly and Security Council will respectively meet this morning to vote to fill a seat on the International Criminal Court vacated by U.S. national Thomas Buergenthal earlier this...

    Morning Memo

    The General Assembly and Security Council will respectively meet this morning to vote to fill a seat on the International Criminal Court vacated by U.S. national Thomas Buergenthal earlier this...

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