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VIDEO CLIPS: UN’s Role in the World Today
Stephen Schlesinger |
Abdelkader Abbadi |
Ian Williams |
Richard Roth |
On Oct. 4, 2016, the Overseas Press Club hosted panel with a host of veteran experts on the United Nations to discuss current international conflicts, challenges and crises, including peacekeeping, human rights, and humanitarian efforts around the world, as well as the prospects for the UN in the year ahead.
Panelists were Stephen Schlesinger, historian and author; Abdelkader Abbadi, UN correspondent and former director of the UN’s Department of Political Affairs; Richard Roth, CNN’s veteran UN Correspondent; and Ian Williams, UN correspondent for The Nation.
The panel was moderated by OPC member Linda Fasulo veteran independent correspondent for NPR News at the UN.
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