United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Dennis Francis expressed his happiness as he arrived in India amid Ram Lalla's Pran Pratishtha ceremony in Ayodhya and said that he is looking forward to discussing peace and progress in the country.
India's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj, strongly condemned the loss of civilian lives in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas saying that the alarming humanitarian crisis was 'clearly unacceptable'.
The Israel-Hamas war in Gaza continues unabated for a third month. All calls for a ceasefire have come to naught. The short five-day pause ended with both sides blaming the other for breaking it.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Gaza, a top official confirmed.
Two days after the Cricket World Cup final, India has absented itself from voting on a General Assembly resolution on sports promoting "understanding among peoples and nations".
Some of the priority issues for India at the ongoing 75th session of UN General Assembly will be to push for strengthening global action against terrorism.
'Rules and legislation brought in the Jammu and Kashmir are internal affairs of the country,' India said at UN.
Pakistan has been consistently raking up the Kashmir issue at various UN platforms in a bid to internationalise it but has repeatedly failed to get any support.
Following the 'Howdy, Modi' event, Trump last met PM Modi for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the UNGA for about 40 minutes.
In a major diplomatic victory for India, the United Nations Security Council in a 'closed consultation' in August acknowledged India’s measures to bring normalcy and development to Kashmir.
