While addressing a joint press conference in the national capital on June 18, the Secretary (West) of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
As India was elected as non-permanent member of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for term 2021-22, the Secretary (West) of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Vikas Swarup said that India enjoys goodwill at United Nations.
Major Suman Gawani and Brazilian Naval Officer Commander Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo will receive the award during an online ceremony presided over by United Nations Secretary-General Guterres on May 29, the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
The 21st century must be the century of women’s equality, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said, in a call to transform the world by ensuring equal participation for all.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday urged the UN to fulfil its commitments with the people of Kashmir and help them achieve right of self-determination as he met chief of the global body Antonio Guterres.
GDP growth in India and few other large emerging countries may gain some momentum this year after the global economy recorded its lowest growth of 2.3 per cent in 2019 due to prolonged trade disputes, a UN study said on Thursday while lowering its current and next fiscal forecasts for the Indian economy.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is "deeply concerned" by the US strike that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on Friday, and urged world leaders to show "maximum restraint", his spokesman said.
UN chief Antonio Guterres wants to ensure that all governments pursue "non-discriminatory laws", but will not comment on India's Citizenship (Amendment) Bill while the domestic legislative process is still underway
Sea levels are rising faster and higher than previously expected. Long-term sea-level rise will vary greatly depending on emissions, but could reach nearly four meters by 2300 if emissions are not reduced, experts with the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) said on Friday.
India has pledged to contribute USD 5 million in 2020 to the UN Palestine refugee agency, even as it voiced concern over the agency's "dire" financial situation due to the funding gaps that risk its core services to the refugees in the fields of education and health.
Speaking at a General Assembly Sixth Committee meeting on ‘measures to eliminate international terrorism’, First Secretary/Legal adviser in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Yedla Umasankar on Wednesday called for increased cooperation between the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the UN to combat terror financing.
As they made their pledges at the Climate Action Summit, though, they and others conceded it was not enough. And even before they spoke, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shamed them over and over for their inaction: “How dare you?”
Speaking at the Iranian mission to the UN in New York, Tehran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Independent newspaper on Sunday that "maximum pressure" from the US has produced "maximum resistance" from Iran, and that Tehran will continue to resist.
Wishing Modi on his birthday, Ashraf tweeted: "Don't forget the repressed people of Balochistan. Give them voice and raise the issue at all international fora, including United Nations. Baloch are also human beings, they have a right to live with dignity."
An Indian delegation of political leaders and foreign policy experts will be visiting the United States ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit there address the United National General Assembly on September 27.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, has made several recommendations to the Pakistani authorities to address these violations.
The report said climate change already has worsened land degradation, caused deserts to grow, permafrost to thaw and made forests more vulnerable to drought, fire, pests and disease. That’s happened even as much of the globe has gotten greener because of extra carbon dioxide in the air. Climate change has also added to other forces that have reduced the number of species on Earth.
The Rajya Sabha passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill that sought to scrap Article 370 and Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
IndiaStack is a set of Application Programming Interface that allows governments, businesses, startups and developers to utilise a unique digital infrastructure to solve India's hard problems towards presence-less, paperless and cashless service delivery, its website said.
"The United Nations has been seeking deployment of a female engagement team (FET) in its missions as part of its gender parity/sensitisation initiative."
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