Victor Angelo

 https://www.dn.pt/opiniao/o-pessimismo-sobre-a-onu-%C3%A9-um-erro The original version in Portuguese language of my op-ed of today 26/09/20...

The UN and its General Assembly Must Be Taken Seriously Victor Ângelo The annual high-level session of the UN General Assembly begins next w...

Suu Kyi and our Ursula Victor Angelo     I intended to write about the coup d'état in Myanmar. I follow regularly what happens t...

  In today’s Diário de Notícias (Lisbon) Notes on Mali Victor Angelo     Mali is a fascinating country, diverse in its landscapes ...

  The serious political situation Mali is going through raises in my mind some fundamental questions about the political performance of the ...

When the challenge is huge and its evolution unpredictable, the best approach is to concentrate all the efforts on containment. You limit...

I know there are many things going on and competing for today’s headlines. All of them are of great importance. They concern people at th...

From a European perspective, the resolution of the Libyan civil conflict is a priority. Such crisis has several consequences that are of ...

These are very strange times. The international scene has been deeply challenged since the beginning of the New Year. And we heard no men...

In January 1957, the Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, V. K. Krishna Menon, spoke for 8 hours, when addressing the Security Coun...

Some people will spend a bit of their time reading the official picture of the 2019 G20 Meeting just held in Osaka. These types of pict...

The United Nations is always required to be politically smart. That’s the way I saw it, when performing the responsibilities that had bee...

There are a few crisis situations in the world that must be seen as requiring urgent attention. Venezuela is certainly one of them. And, ...

Regarding the Syrian complex crisis, it´s obvious that Assad and Putin believe in the military solution. And they are now close to achiev...

When I scrutinise the foreign policies of permanent members of the UN Security Council I find no real differences, when it comes to the p...

When it comes to the difficult response to the current US Administration, the EU leaders have decided to follow two lines. First, to k...

Acts of war and drawn-out conflicts are among the key factors that undermine the authority of UN Security Council. Actually, they have a m...

This week, President Trump has been directly trapped by Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Kim Jong-un of North Korea. Both dictators decided to...

The new US Administration plans to cut in a big way the country´s financial contributions to the UN. This decision, if it materialises, wi...

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, is a crazy man. But above all, as a political leader, he is tremendously dangerous. For his people...