The choice of the next SG will determine whether the UN regains relevance or slides further into insignificance. A woman leader would not only break a glass ceiling; it would show the UN retains the capacity for renewal. A male candidate seen as a P5 compromise would confirm fears that global leadership remains a private club for the powerful.
A revised version presented on 1 October reflects the Western double standards and the continuous desire of the UNHRC to bend over backwards to please the West. The most shocking aspect is that the recommendations in the report were made without consultation with the Government of Sri Lanka.
Op Sindoor was motivated by the Security Council statement on “the need to hold perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors” of the Pahalgam attack accountable and it targeted terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, he said.
Rulers and decision makers must deter aggression and a calculated pursuit of violence in today's world” by nations “impelled by political goals such as territorial expansion or domination, or by deviant nonstate actors and terrorists who sow fear and destruction due to their deviant belief systems”, he said.
Many countries in Africa are facing fragility because of the threats of terrorism and economic problems and India is working with nations in the continent to tackle these and other challenges, Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Wednesday
India will be the voice against terrorism at the Security Council, but will also act a healer and a bridge-builder within the polarised body, according to India's Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti
India has expressed concern over the possibility of terrorists getting hold of chemical weapons and called for unrelenting global action against them
UN Secretary General António Guterres and President of General Assembly Volkan Bozkir have condemned the terrorist attack in Mach which claimed lives of 11 innocent coal miners in Pakistan
As the Taliban and the Afghan government set to resume the second round of the Intra-Afghan negotiation, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) urged both sides to reduce violence in order to create a better atmosphere for talks and better humanitarian assistance
With a pledge to “bring human-centric and inclusive solutions” to world problems, India has taken its place on the UN Security Council, the organisation's highest decision-making body
Days after the Maldives submitted its ambitious net-zero emission target 2030, Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), congratulated the nation for its ambitious target
On December 31, the last day of 2020, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on human rights violations by Myanmar against Rohingyas and others by a huge margin
Pakistan urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday to prevent the “judicial murder” of a Kashmiri leader and human rights activist and to persuade India to drop all “fabricated charges” against her
India became a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on January 1 taking a seat at the UN's highest decision-making body at a time of changing reality even as it presses ahead with its quest for a permanent seat
More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) said
Volkan Bozkir, president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), on Tuesday called on all people to continue to work together to end the COVID-19 pandemic
In his New Year's message, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to make 2021 "a year of healing"
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is happy with the progress in global climate action, but sad about the lack of international cooperation in dealing with the still raging coronavirus pandemic, according to his spokesman
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that there can be no talks with India under the current deteriorating situation between the two countries
