Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency session to discuss Israel's ongoing large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip."The failure of the Security Council to
Fortaleza/ New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday called for "urgent reform" of institutions such as the UN Security Council and International Monetary Fund while stressing the international community should have zero tolerance towards
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make his first foray into international diplomacy when he leaves Sunday for the sixth summit of BRICS countries July 15-16, with the meeting expected to discuss creation of
United Nations: Five new countries joined the UN security council (UNSC) as non-permanent members starting from the new year, while Jordan assumed Thursday the rotating presidency of the council for January. Chad, Chile, Jordan, Lithuania
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today pitched for out-of-the-box thinking to give birth to a new global order which could effectively deal with various key challenges facing the world.He said the “outdated 1945
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia is rejecting its seat on the UN Security Council and says the 15-member body is incapable of resolving world conflicts. The move came just hours after the kingdom was elected as one
United Nations : The UN General Assembly Thursday elected Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to a two-year term in the UN Security Council (UNSC), the organisation's most powerful body.The new members will begin
United Nations: UN diplomats say the Security Council has agreed to proposals by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to destroy Syria's chemical weapons by the target of mid-2014. The British and Russian UN ambassadors, who were
United Nations: The U.N. Security Council called today for immediate access to Syria to provide desperately needed aid, expressing alarm at the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation.The unanimous statement was a quick follow-up to the Security
United Nations: Making a strong case for the reform of the UN Security Council to reflect current political realities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said global peace and security issues must be handled through multilateral
United Nations: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday night to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2 ½-year
Washington: Edging toward a punitive strike against Syria, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing “limited and narrow” action as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that
United Nations, Nov 9: There is no consensus in the powerful UN Security Council on whether Palestine should be granted full statehood at the UN, according to a report by a key panel of the
United Nations, Oct 28: The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to bring to an end the authorised international military action in Libya on October 31 following the death of Muammar Gaddafi that brought an
New Delhi, Sept 21: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today pressed for an early reform of the United Nations, particularly an expansion of the Security Council, noting it must be seen as an impartial, credible and
Tehran, Mar 21 : Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used his new year's message today to slam the military intervention in Libya, back regional revolts, and accuse US President Barack Obama of lying."The US
Washington, Mar 22: Two days after the US forces commenced operation to assist coalition forces to enforce the UN Security Council resolution of no-fly-zone over Libya, US President Barack Obama told the Congressional leadership that
Moscow, Mar 21: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today publicly criticised Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, terming his remarks likening the use of military force in Libya to a 'call for crusades' as "unacceptable".In what appeared to
United Nations, Feb 12 : External Affairs MinisterN was caught in a public gaffe when he inadvertently read out the speech of the Portuguese Minister at a UN Security Council meeting here but rectified the
WASHINGTON: The United States says it does not see its support for India becoming a permanent member of the UN Security Council at odds with New Delhi's refusal to sign two nuclear treaties."Well, we don't
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