Established in 1945 under the Charter of the United Nations, the General Assembly occupies a central position as the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations.
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted Friday to back a declaration outlining “tangible, time-bound and irreversible steps” toward a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. The text was ...
The UN General Assembly will vote on Friday on whether to back the "New York Declaration," a resolution that seeks to breathe new life into the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.
Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie ...