Tag: UN General Assembly
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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 -
Don’t blame us for Hafiz Saeed, Pakistan tells US
Pakistan has told the US that it can’t be blamed for terrorists like Hafiz Saeed, who masterminded the Mumbai terror attack, saying Washington considered such men as “darlings” until a few years ago. Mincing no words at the Asia Society forum here on Tuesday evening, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said it was very easy …
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September 27, 2017 -
Army must prepare to counter US ‘threats’: Maduro
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro called on his army to ready their weapons to defend the country in an escalating war of words with US President Donald Trump. Maduro joined his army top brass at a military exercise near the northern city of Maracay, where he reminded them of their obligation to defend the country. “We …
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September 27, 2017 -
Sniper attacks at UN
As is customary, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj used her visit to the UN General Assembly to present some of the important preoccupations of the government and to seek international support and sympathy for what it was trying to achieve. She spoke of the strategy for economic advancement and mentioned several of the programmes to …
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September 27, 2017 -
Venezuela slams US travel ban, calls for talks
Venezuela’s government on Monday criticised the White House decision to impose a travel ban against its citizens, and called for a dialogue to overcome their ideological differences. “Venezuela categorically rejects the irrational decision by the US government to once again categorise the Venezuelan people as a threat to national security … under the false pretense …
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September 26, 2017 -
Rahul thanks Sushma for recognising Congress role in nation building
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday thanked External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for acknowledging the contribution of Congress governments in nation building. “Sushmaji, thank you for finally recognising Congress governments’ great vision and legacy of setting up IITs and IIMs,” said Gandhi on Twitter. In her address at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, …
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September 24, 2017 -
Kim calls Trump ‘deranged’ as Pyongyang hints at Hydrogen bomb
Responding directly for the first time to US President Donald Trumps threat at the UN to destroy nuclear-armed North Korea, its leader Kim Jong-un called Trump a “mentally deranged US dotard” as the regime’s Foreign Minister hinted it may explode a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. In a rare statement, Kim Jong-un said that …
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September 22, 2017 -
Pakistan hub of terror activities: Afghanistan
Afghanistan today accused Pakistan that it was diverting the attention of the international community from its “longstanding failure” to take effective action against various terrorist groups and sanctuaries on its territory. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said in his address at the UN General Assembly that safe havens of the Taliban does not exist …
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September 22, 2017 -
Pakistan PM warns of ‘dangerous escalation’ on subcontinent
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi warned on Thursday of the possibility of a “dangerous escalation” on the subcontinent and clamoured for intervention by the global organisation, while delivering what is likely the most virulent attack on India at the UN General Assembly in recent times. Accusing New Delhi of frequently violating the ceasefire along …
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September 22, 2017 -
BRICS nations at UN reaffirm commitment in fighting terrorism
The BRICS countries have strongly condemned terrorism in all forms and its manifestation and called for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations to allow India and the fellow members of the five-nation bloc to play an important role in the world body. Foreign ministers of BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South …
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September 22, 2017