Louis Charbonneau

Position: United Nations Correspondent
I am based in New York where I write about the United Nations. I was previously posted in Berlin, Vienna, Hong Kong and Prague.

Articles

Iranians linked to banned drone videos in Darfur-UN November 06, 06:27pm EST 

* Arms embargo violations in Sudan's Darfur continue - UN * UN monitors probe violations, seek China's cooperation By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Two Iranian businessmen working at a Dubai-based ...  Full Article 

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Forget about light bulbs - Iran wants a seat at the table

For years Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and outgoing head of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, has warned the United States and other Western powers against jumping to conclusions about Iran's nuclear program. While Washington, Israel and their allies see increasing indications that Tehran's secretive nuclear program is aimed at developing weapons, ElBaradei told an audience of academics, politicians and diplomats at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City that his agency has "no concrete evidence" that Tehran is pursuing an atom bomb. So is Iran's nuclear program intended solely for lighting light bulbs in the world's fourth biggest oil producer? According to ElBaradei, its purpose is something completely different.   Full Article | Comments [19] 

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A world without nuclear weapons: Obama's pipe dream?

U.S. President Barack Obama says he wants a world without nuclear weapons. But will that ever happen?   Full Article | Comments [22] 

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Norwegian memo sparks PR crisis for UN's Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon isn't having a good year for public relations. Halfway through a five-year term as U.N. secretary-general, he's been hit with a wave of negative assessments by the Financial Times, The Economist, London Times, Foreign Policy and other media organizations.  Full Article | Comments [7]