Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist


Most Recent Articles by Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist:

When President Trump and President Xi Jinping meet for the first time next month, exploring avenues for further constructive cyberspace cooperation between China and the United States should be amongst the issues they discuss

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who comes to the UN from his glass house of Jordan, should not be throwing stones at the United States

Perhaps the Security Council would not have failed yet again to deal effectively with the Syrian crisis if a more narrowly tailored consensus resolution had been proposed.

She will aim to sharply reduce the rampant waste in the UN budget, perhaps starting with the often overlapping, over-the-top pro-Palestinian agencies and programs the UN has established over the years.

The Secretary General has unfortunately fallen prey to the hysteria surrounding the executive order that President Trump signed last weekend relating to refugees and visitors to the United States

The U.S. will be “taking names”


The Obama administration has engaged in the romantic fiction that the UN as it is presently structured is worth the billions of dollars we pour into it

Mr. Trump's characterization of the United Nations as a “club for people to get together, talk and have a good time” is only partially correct. As he recognized in a tweet, the UN as it is structured today is actually causing more problems

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power shamelessly defended the U.S. abstention as an act to save the so-called "two-state" solution

President Obama delivered his coup de grace in an act of spite against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Obama administration has allowed Russia to get the upper hand militarily, with devastating consequences that the most recent Security Council resolution can soften for survivors only slightly

The UN today is a bloated organization, which is rightly perceived as non-transparent, non-accountable, ineffective and, at times, hypocritical

But Iran, freed of sanctions, is likely to be the spoiler

Engaging with China need not be a zero sum game: Obama Administration’s Pointless Confrontation with China over the South China Sea

Palestinians are using the United Nations to avoid direct negotiations with Israel, to delegitimize Israel’s Jewish roots and to use the leverage of so-called UN-created “international law” to pressure Israel into accepting a suicidal “peace.”

UNESCO’s resolution which denies a connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem, is an embarrassing stain on the pages of UN history

Business as usual in Syria while UN Human Rights High Commissioner demands UN boycott against Israel

UN is reduced "a frothing of words." Any real diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict, which has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, displaced millions of people, precipitated a refugee crisis of historic proportions, is further away than ever

United Nations and its dysfunctional Human Rights Council, which counts some of the world’s worst human rights abusers as its members, should butt out of domestic affairs of oldest continuously functioning constitutional democracy in the world

Admission of refugees and migrants from Syria and other terrorist infested countries should be suspended

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon could have used his valedictory speech to the General Assembly for some self-reflection on what he could have done better during his two terms.

For Hillary Clinton, the UN remains a useful instrument to advance her “progressive internationalist” agenda

The United States Senate should convene at the earliest opportune time to consider the Paris Agreement as having been deemed submitted to it as a treaty

UN Security Council resolutions, economic sanctions, and resumption of negotiations with the rogue state, which has repeatedly broken previous agreements, will not stop North Korea

Paris Agreement on climate change, Obama did not even go through the motions. He bypassed Congress altogether

The UN's protection of the alleged perpetrator Machar, added to the UN peacekeepers' failure to adequately protect civilians when they had the chance, adds up to a botched UN mission in South Sudan

Congress should give serious consideration to mandating a different registration system that reduces, if not eliminates, UNHCR’s role in the intake process

The decisions of the UNCLOS “compulsory” arbitration tribunal are not enforceable in the conventional legal sense

It is time to give ISIS the final “end of days” battle with the infidels it so desperately wants and bring their own days to an end.

Iran continues to fund global terrorism, with its treasury being replenished thanks to the Obama administration’s largesse