Tag: United Nations
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India votes in favour of Israel at UN against Palestinian rights group
Maya Kadosh, deputy chief of mission, Israel Embassy in India, thanked India.
June 12, 2019 -
Entente Cordiale
There is little doubt that bilateral relations have attained a “major-country relationship” featuring what President Xi described as the “highest degree of mutual trust, the highest level of coordination and the highest strategic value”.
June 10, 2019 -
Geelani asks UN, OIC, Pakistan to rescue Uighur Muslims in China
He said although international media is almost silent about what is happening with Uighur community of China but whatever little information trickles down through social media and a few media houses, is not only disturbing but alarming as well.
June 1, 2019 -
See Kapil Sharma sing and Akshay Kumar tap to Hawa Aane de ahead of World Environment Day
Kapil Sharma has also lent his voice to the collaborative effort.
May 30, 2019 -
Indian economy to grow at 7.1% in FY’20: UN report
The Indian economy, which generates two-thirds of the regional output in South Asia, expanded by 7.2 per cent in 2018.
May 21, 2019 -
India must have permanent UNSC seat: German ambassador
Walter J Lindner, the German Ambassador to India, said on Tuesday, “India must have a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. India with 1.4 billion people is not yet a permanent member, this is unheard of. This can't go on like this because it hurts the credibility of the United Nations system.”
May 21, 2019 -
Green, not grey
António Guterres has begun his mission in New Zealand with a specific compliment to the young Maoris and people of the Pacific Islands in general for their contribution towards fighting climate change.
May 18, 2019 -
Propriety plummets
For all the trumpet-blowing about succeeding in bringing China on board on the condemnation of the Pak-based jihadi terror outfit, the people will have to wait for a visible fall in militancy in the Kashmir Valley before joining the applause ~ the “experience” with the LET punctures the euphoria in the diplomatic-political community.
May 5, 2019 -
UN agencies met ahead of ‘Fani’ to assess preparedness
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Spokesperson Stephane Guterres said, "Fani was less intense at landfall, but is still one of the most intense storms to make landfall in Odisha for 20 years."
May 4, 2019 -
UN declares Maulana Masood Azhar global terrorist after China lifts hold
Beijing’s decision to lift the technical hold came just over a week after Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in China.
May 1, 2019 -
Long-term impacts of institutional care on children
While the very foundation of institutional care is to provide care and education to abandoned and orphaned children, the standard of such facilities varies between being the optimum level of care to being highly inadequate.
March 28, 2019 -
WFP chief David Beasley to visit cyclone-battered Mozambique
Satellite imagery has shown floodplains that included an "inland ocean" 125 km by 25 km, the size of Luxembourg, according to WFP.
March 26, 2019 -
Parlous planet
The findings will bear on public health not the least because a quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage.
March 25, 2019 -
‘Golan Heights will always remain Arab Syrian territory’
"The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic strongly condemns this irresponsible statement on the legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan," the Syrian ambassador said.
March 23, 2019 -
Crop-guzzling insect threatens farms from India to Thailand: UN warns
A crop-guzzling insect, which has moved from its native Americas to Asia, threatens to cost farmers from India to Thailand billions of dollars in lost production, the UN food agency has warned.
March 21, 2019 -
A consultant remembers
The future of the UN and its various political and development agencies is being actively discussed by its members and the public at large.
March 18, 2019 -
Divisive policies will undermine India’s economic growth: UN Human Rights chief
She alleged that "it appears that narrow political agendas are driving the further marginalisation of vulnerable people".
March 7, 2019