External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar officially launched India’s campaign for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2028-29 term, saying the country’s presence in this vital body will help decision-making at a time when the world is facing a profound paradox.
Speaking as the co-chair at the Arria-formula meeting of the Security Council on ‘Bridging the Implementation Gap: Security Council Resolutions and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security,’ Pakistan’s permanent member to the UN, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, raised Kashmir as expected.
BRICS nations on Friday deplored unilateral economic sanctions, reaffirming that the bloc does not intend to impose or support sanctions contrary to international law and unauthorized by the UN Security Council.
Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Amir-Saeid Iravani, has sharply criticised the Bahrain-US efforts to rally support for a draft UN resolution on the Strait of Hormuz, calling the campaign "ridiculous, misleading, and deceptive", according to Iranian state media Press TV.
Airstrikes and drone attacks in Sudan's Kordofan and Darfur states have killed dozens of civilians, including women and children, UN humanitarians have said.
It was in 1965 that the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize amidst much brouhaha that did not escape even a class V student that I then was.
Plastic pollution ranks among the most urgent global environmental crises today, with scientific studies detecting its presence from deep ocean trenches and remote mountain peaks to the human brain and bloodstream.
Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has conceded that his country hasn't made headway in its Kashmir campaign at the United Nations and elsewhere in general.
The UN Security Council committees dealing with terrorism are without chairs halfway through the year because of Pakistan’s insistence on getting control of one or more of the three panels.
India has strongly refuted Pakistan's claims regarding the Indus Water Treaty at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), saying that the neighbouring country has violated the treaty's spirit by inflicting three wars and thousands of terror attacks on India, resulting in over 20,000 Indian lives lost in the last four decades.
