Tag: General Assembly
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Afghan representative calls off speech in UNGA
Ishaqzai was scheduled address the 76th session of General Assembly on Monday but he later called it off
September 28, 2021 -
Seat at UN
The ministry of foreign affairs has made the controversy official, going by the minister, Ameer Khan Muttaqi’s letter to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.
September 26, 2021 -
UN changes phrase in draft declaration to commemorate 75th anniversary after India, five others object
Following the objection, Muhammad-Bande wrote to UN Member States on June 25 proposing a re-worked phrase to substitute the sentence on which silence was broken.
June 29, 2020 -
India set for comfortable win as non-permanent member of Security Council
India is all set to join the powerful 15-nation Security Council as a non-permanent member. India is a candidate for a non-permanent seat from the Asia-Pacific category for the 2021-22 term.
June 17, 2020 -
India mocks UNSC over reforms, says Council victim of ‘self-inflicted wounds of diminishing relevance’
Evaluating the functioning of the UN, Akbaruddin said the Council was failing to look at future risk scenarios and taking action to deal with them through "continuous attention rather than one-shot solutions."
October 9, 2018 -
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression: Mamata pays homage to victims of conflict
The purpose of the day is to acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are the victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse.
June 4, 2018 -
Japan calls for text-based parleys on Security Council reform
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has called to urgently revitalise the long-stalled Security Council reform process by adopting a text on which to base the negotiations during the current General Assembly session. “The reform of the Security Council is an urgent task necessary for the Council to more effectively address threats to international peace and...
December 16, 2017 -
India’s Dalveer Bhandari re-elected to International Court of Justice
Judge Dalveer Bhandari was re-elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday as the General Assembly rallied behind him in a show of strength that made Britain bow to the majority and withdraw its candidate Christopher Greenwood. “I am grateful to all the nations who have supported me,” Bhandari told IANS in the...
November 21, 2017 -
Free bus rides for senior citizens in Delhi on 1 October
The Delhi government has announced free bus rides for senior citizens on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons on 1 October. Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot directed the DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation) and the Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System (DIMTS) to allow them free rides on that day and ensure they...
September 29, 2017 -
UNSC as it will be
The annual election to choose five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council produced both the expected and the near preposterous. The elections, actually selections by the 193-member General Assembly, saw no opposition for any of the two- year Council terms. Candidates were chosen based on the time-honored rule of both geographical representations as well...
June 10, 2017 -
Six countries win terms on UN Security Council
The UN General Assembly voted on Friday for The Netherlands, Peru, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, and Poland to occupy six of the 10 rotating seats on the Security Council. In the case of the Dutch, the General Assembly confirmed a 2016 agreement between the Netherlands and Italy to split the 2017-2018 term after neither...
June 2, 2017 -
‘Convergence’ on UNSC reforms, don’t slide back: India
India has cautioned against questioning the "convergence" of views that took the negotiation process for Security Council reforms forward instead of building up on that progress. India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin told a meeting of the Inter Governmental Negotiations (IGN) on Council reforms on Monday that the paper produced in the last session of the...
February 7, 2017