- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaking at a Security Council meeting in New York City, April 12, 2017
A number of Arab states heeded the plea by Nikki Haley, the U.N. ambassador to the United Nations, to focus more in a Middle East debate on the threat posed by Iran than on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Haley, this month the president by rotation of the U.N. Security Council, convened a council session on the Middle East.
“How one chooses to spend one’s time is an indication of one’s priorities,” she said in her opening remarks.