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Hi, this is Michelle. The president of the UN General Assembly is in Geneva for the Human Rights Council, warning of the severity of the UN’s financial crisis and urging those responsible to step up.

At the Conference on Disarmament, Washington aired its frustrations with China for quietly joining a nuclear arms race while everyone looked elsewhere. And David Stiefel, a former senior biodefence official in the Biden administration, argues that the Trump administration’s interest in the bioweapons convention may be the key to keeping it alive.

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Michelle Langrand

25.02.2026


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Annalena Baerbock, president of the UN General Assembly, speaks to the media at he 61st session of the UN Human Rights ouncil in Geneva, 24 February 2026. Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

UN assembly chief urges US to settle dues ‘in full’ as cash crunch deepens. UN General Assembly president Annalena Baerbock stressed the severity of the financial crisis faced by the world body as the United States withholds roughly $4 billion in outstanding payments.

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❝Slow progress beats no progress in reversing bioweapons convention atrophy. As global norms to prevent biowarfare show signs of erosion, states should back Trump’s rare push to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention, writes David Stiefel from the US security think tank, the Nuclear Threat Initiative.


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