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The World Next Week: The Palestinian Authority’s Bid for UN Membership

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Members applaud after the United Nations General Assembly voted on South Sudan’s membership to the United Nations at UN headquarters in New York July 14, 2011. South Sudan achieved independence on Saturday after its people voted for secession from the rest of the country in a January referendum, under the terms of a 2005 peace deal that ended a 20-year war between north and south Sudan. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
The United Nations General Assembly in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I sat down to talk about the sixty-sixth UN General Assembly meeting next week, including the Palestinian drive for statehood and the High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases; and the International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meeting.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110915_TWN…]

The highlights:

The New York Times covers American efforts to avoid seeing the issue of Palestinian statehood coming to a vote (and likely U.S. veto) at the UN, and BBC News discusses Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s vocal support of the Palestinian initiative. For more background on NCDs, check out my post compiling great CFR resources on the topic; in addition, a TWE reader recommended a post by Pan-American Health Organization Director Dr. Mirta Roses. News Ahead previews the IMF-World Bank meeting, and the Wall Street Journal brings up the possibility that the BRICS nations may help bail out ailing European economies.