"The Security Council must give a clear assessment of the actions of the terrorist state," Zelensky told the UN body in a video address.
November 24, 2022The official said it was a sign of Russian weakness and a testament to the fact that Russians recognize that they are being isolated on the world stage.
September 23, 2022The Al Jazeera journalist was tragically gunned down on May 11, while another journalist Ali Al Samudi who was present with Akleh was also shot.
May 14, 2022UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed a Security Council statement in which the council "spoke with one voice for peace in Ukraine."
May 7, 2022Palestine on Tuesday called on the United Nations Security Council to stop Israel from escalating tensions against Palestinians after Jewish activists reportedly decided to break into a holy mosque in East Jerusalem.
May 4, 2022At a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticised the 15-member Security Council for failing to prevent or end Russia's ongoing war against Kiev.
April 29, 2022Explaining India’s abstention, India’s Permanent Representative, T S Tirumurti said: “It is a matter of regret that the path of diplomacy was given up. We must return to it.”
April 14, 2022Norway plans to hold a "signature event" on January 18 on addressing violence targeting women in peace and security processes, she said.
January 5, 2022In a vote of 12 in favor and 2 against the resolution (Russia and India) with one absent (China), the council acting under the Chapter VII of the UN Charter rejected the draft, owed to the negative vote by a permanent Council member, as reported by Xinhua news agency.
December 14, 2021At a time when the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will profoundly affect the geopolitics of the region, the former Foreign Secretary of India, Krishnan Srinivasan speaks to Soumyadip Mullick on what policy India must adopt now to tackle the Afghan dilemma.
September 10, 2021The US Permanent Representative Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a member of President Joe Biden's Cabinet, was among the diplomats Foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla met
July 16, 2021The dumping of bodies is indubitably an outrage of a Buddhist shrine, if ever there was one. “It is like a genocide. They are shooting at every shadow,” was the lament of an organiser of the protest against the gross injustice meted out to Aung San Suu Kyi post her election victory yet again.
April 13, 2021"I do not wish to waste the time of this Assembly by responding to the irrelevant and irresponsible remarks made by the representative of Pakistan, which has become 'Pavlovian' whenever India is mentioned," Tirumurti said on Monday at a General Assembly session on Security Council reform.
November 18, 2020Chapter VII of the Charter set out a clear logical progression or escalation in a possible Council response varying from Article 40 to the final stage along the line of escalation with the use of force, the basis for which is provided in Article 42. However, the envisaged process of response of the Council was done away for sheer practicality
October 25, 2020The context in which the UN was born in 1945 has changed. The engine of growth has shifted to the Asia-Pacific. While China finds a place at the high table India is denied this privilege in spite of its impressive GDP
October 11, 2020Say an expansion will be indispensable to make this body more representative, legitimate & effective
September 25, 2020The General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, and the only one in which all member states have equal representation.
September 18, 2019