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Taking the pulse of the UN at 80
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- Inside Geneva
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- Oct 28, 2025
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- 2575
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Send us Fan Mail This week on Inside Geneva, we take the pulse of the United Nations as it turns 80. “Someone celebrating their 80th birthday cannot be expected to be in tip-top shape. The UN is an old lady,” says Corinne Momal-Vanian, executive director at the Kofi Annan Foundation. Some world leaders don’t have much time for the UN. “All I got from the UN was an escalator that stopped halfway on the way up and a teleprompter that didn’t work,” said US President Donald Trump. Others think it...