- 50 state leaders will address the UN General Assembly today.
- Ms. Michelle Bachelet, the new Under-Secretary-General for UN Women, will be a guest at today’s Noon Briefing.
- Is Canada risking its chances for a seat on the Security Council or did Harper win over enough votes to win one of the two available seats?
- David Bosco suggests “a new era at the IMF” may be emerging – with changes in voting quotas and the possibility of a non-European Director.
- Is the UN losing out to the G20 in terms of relevance, or was the scheduling of events this week just poor planning?
- 44 treaties are being highlighted at the 2010 UNHQ treaty event.
- Ted Turner draws an analogy between the U.S. state- and federal-level governments and the United Nations, each being a bureaucracy, with the UN as “our international government that deals with the things…like the oceans and the atmosphere, things that are too big for one country to handle.”
