Tag: UN General Assembly
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Pakistan disappointed at India’s cancellation of Sushma-Qureshi meet
India on Friday had lashed out at Pakistan’s new PM Imran Khan, saying his “true face” has been revealed to the world in his first few months in office.
September 22, 2018 -
Donald Trump to meet South Korea’s President at UN General Assembly
US President Donald Trump spoke with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in, when they agreed to meet later at the UN General Assembly.
September 5, 2018 -
India, Pak foreign ministers may meet in New York in September
The meeting between the two foreign ministers would also depend on the speeches Pakistani participants make at the UNGA.
August 28, 2018 -
India-Japan-US hold trilateral dialogue; agree to enhance cooperation
Senior officials of the three countries held their ninth trilateral meeting and held in-depth consultations on regional and global issues of mutual interest.
April 4, 2018 -
Vote for us, Sushma Swaraj tells Ajmal in return for compliment
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday returned AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal’s compliment for India voting in the UN General Assembly against the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying “vote for us”. “Thank you Ajmal Sahib. Now you vote for us,” Sushma Swaraj tweeted late on Tuesday evening in response to Ajmal’s …
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December 23, 2017 -
Palestinians hail UN rejection of Trump’s Jerusalem declaration
Palestinians have hailed the UN General Assembly resolution which denounced US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Nabil Abu Rdineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said in a statement on Thursday that the resolution expresses the international community’s support for the Palestinians’ rights. “The threats of Trump to the UN members …
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December 22, 2017 -
Cry for Freedom
‘No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property,” said President Woodrow Wilson of America in …
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December 13, 2017 -
Bhandari re-elected to ICJ by huge margin
In a huge diplomatic win for India, Justice Dalveer Bhandari has been re-elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the 2018-2027 term as the UN General Assembly solidly backed the Indian candidate in an unprecedented show of strength that forced the United Kingdom, a permanent member of the Security Council, to withdraw its …
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November 21, 2017 -
India again raises H1-B issue with US
India on Wednesday again raised the issue of H1-B visas with the US when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson here. “We discussed the significant contributions to the US economy made by skilled Indian professionals holding H1-B and L1 visas,” Sushma Swaraj said in a joint address to the …
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October 25, 2017 -
Pakistan, 14 other nations elected to UN rights body
Fifteen countries, including Pakistan, have been elected to the UN Human Rights Council by the UN General Assembly. In a vote on Monday, Afghanistan, Angola, Australia, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Qatar, Senegal, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine were elected, a Foreign Office statement said. They will serve a three-year …
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October 17, 2017 -
UN, France regret US decision to quit Unesco
The UN and France have voiced deep regrets over the US decision to withdraw from Unesco, the Paris-based UN cultural organisation. The US on Thursday informed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that it would formally withdraw from the organisation on December 31, 2018 and would seek to remain engaged as a non-member …
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October 13, 2017 -
India calls for closer and real-time intelligence sharing
India has called for closer and real-time intelligence sharing, coordination of operations and technology assistance to address the increasing challenges posed by transnational crime organisations. Despite the development of an expanding body of international treaties and conventions, designed to address the entire range of trans-border crimes, the challenge appears to only grow further, Mayank Joshi, …
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October 5, 2017 -
UN reforms inadequate for challenges world faces: India
The reforms under consideration for the global organisation are not adequate for meeting the challenges posed by a “creaking and crumbling” world order confronting a furious pace of change, India’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin has told the General Assembly. “If we are to not remain prisoners of historical destiny for all times to come, if …
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October 4, 2017 -
Pakistan provocation at UN is ‘lonely voice’ wasting time: India
India has dismissed Pakistan’s latest provocation at the General Assembly by raising surgical strikes and Kashmir as a waste of time “symbolic of what holds us all back”. Pakistan Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi’s remarks about India on Tuesday were “a lonely voice from the wilderness”, said Eenam Gambhir, a First Secretary in India’s UN Mission. …
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October 4, 2017 -
Adopt anti-terrorism pact as threats are growing ‘exponentially’: India
With threats growing “exponentially”, India has appealed to the United Nations to adopt the Comprehensive Compact on International Terrorism (CCIT) that has been stalled for 21 years mainly over differences on defining who is a terrorist. “Even as the global threat from terrorism countries to expand exponentially, we here at UN have so far been …
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October 3, 2017 -
North Korea threatens Japan with nuclear destruction
North Korea on Tuesday threatened Japan with nuclear destructions in response to Tokyo’s attempts to convince the international community to reject dialogue in favour of applying more pressure on Pyongyang. In an article released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang responded to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s speech at the UN General Assembly last …
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October 3, 2017 -
Recent laws have legalised child labour in India: Activist
Some of the recently enacted laws have legalised child labour in many sectors in India, representative of an Indian organisation that works against sex trafficking has told members of the UN General Assembly. Ruchira Gupta representing Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an award-winning organisation that works against sex trafficking in India, in her address to …
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September 30, 2017