Morning Multilateralism

Monday, June 15 2020

• The contested elections for United Nations Security Council seats come down to the wire.

• An attack in Mali claims the lives of two UN peacekeepers from Egypt.

• Iran claims that the United States is blocking its application for an emergency International Monetary Fund loan.

• The UN’s Human Rights Council will hold a debate this week on racism and protests in the United States.

• With the European Commission urging a gradual lifting of restrictions, an update on the state of Europe’s borders.

• Sudanese militia leader appears before the International Criminal Court, calls charges “untrue.”

• European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde urges ministers “not to let this crisis go to waste.”

• ASEAN foreign ministers to hold virtual dialogue on the pandemic response with Russia’s foreign minister.

• AstraZeneca reportedly strikes deal with European consortium to provide 400 million doses of vaccine being tested at Oxford.