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.
Six staff members of the UN relief agency for Palestinians, known as UNRWA, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
In July 1944, delegates from 44 countries gathered in the UN sponsored Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to decide on a post-Second World War monetary and financial order.
Super Typhoon Yagi made its second landfall in Xuwen County, in the city of Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong Province, around 10:20 p.m. Friday, said the provincial meteorological bureau.
Since the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, started collating data on persons displaced by disasters in 2018, this set of the population has been increasing.
Failing to adopt measures for Security Council reforms at its current session, the UN General Assembly on Tuesday decided unanimously to push the negotiations to the next, a move India decried as risking the process's legitimacy.
