Victor Angelo

Purpose To inform APEC leaders of the strategic risks posed by Russia’s current foreign and economic policies and their potential impact on...

  10 October 2025 | Worldwide | Secretary-General Contingency Plan Letter to Staff Members Dear Colleagues,   I am writing to update you on ...

Ukraine: what are China's responsibilities as a P5? Victor Angelo   Earlier this week, Olaf Scholz met by videoconference with Xi ...

Peace. Dignity. Equality. Planet. Victor Angelo   On this Christmas Eve, it seems appropriate to recall the current motto of the Unite...

China and us Victor Angelo   China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke this week to the cream of US business leaders based in his cou...

My opinion piece on the United Nations, as published today, in Portuguese language, in the Diário de Notícias (Lisbon)   Maintaining the...

The 2020 UN General Assembly has started. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, the world leaders will not be travelling to New York for the G...

Josep Borrel, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, addressed the UN Security Council yesterday. It was a long speech about seve...

In responding to a friend that lives in China, I said I am also genuinely concerned regarding the growing tension between his country and...

One of the characteristics of the new international disorder is to ignore the role of international organisations. The conventions, resol...

I find the current realities in international affairs a great opportunity to re-think the way the global political architecture should be...

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...

At this time of the year, a good number of people in the Northern Hemisphere are on leave. This is the peak period of the Summer season. ...

Brief answers to questions about the EU defence and security: First, it is obvious that NATO remains the strongest defence option for...

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

Yesterday, we got two pieces of news that reminded us that the respect for international norms is currently very low. States act as they ...

Once more, the conflict between Israel and Palestine is not on the agenda of this year’s Munich Security Conference.  This annual con...

The Kremlin has been surprisingly slow in responding to the measures taken by Theresa May against Russia´s hostile actions. It´s difficul...

Last year, in the US, the number of shale oil wells has doubled. The American production is now 9.29 million barrels a day. That is about ...