Security Council President Sven Jurgenson said that Guterres conformed to the highest standards of competence and integrity. Guterres ran unopposed because none of the self-nominated candidates was sponsored by a member nation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday delivered a keynote address at the UN “High-Level Dialogue on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought” via video conference.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a virtual high-level dialogue on desertification, land degradation and drought at the UN convened by the President of the General Assembly next week.
Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid was on Monday overwhelmingly elected as President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
India has been elected to the Economic and Social Council, one of the six main organs of the United Nations, for the 2022-24 term
Of the two billion COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed globally till now, about 60 per cent have gone to just three countries - the US, India and China, a senior adviser at the World Health Organisation said.
As per the Union Health Ministry, over 60 per cent elderly population has received at least one dose of vaccine.
Tackling climate change head-on will help protect the most vulnerable people from the next crisis while sustaining a job-rich recovery from COVID-19, the UN chief said.
The Council met in a virtual session as the situation in the Israel-Palestine-Gaza region spiralled into a violent crisis, with reports that before the session, Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 40 people, some of them children.
One of the key drivers of economic recovery has been investment, he said, with some countries like the U.S. seeing only a 1.7 per cent drop in investment last year while some developed countries saw investment drop by 4 per cent of GDP or even more.
Top American, Chinese, and Russian diplomats, as well as other ministers, will attend a Security Council meeting on Friday
China's UN ambassador on Monday urged stronger diplomatic efforts to resolve the confrontation in Myanmar since the Feb.
"Our team there, led by Resident Coordinator Renata Lok Dessallien, is supporting the authorities’ response to the pandemic by providing equipment and supplies, including to local governments,” spokesperson Farhan Haq said
"Within countries, illness and death from Covid-19 has been higher among people and communities that contend with poverty, unfavourable living and discrimination," said Guterres.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric reiterated Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' salute on Friday to the bravery of Chadian peacekeepers who defended their camp in Aguelhok in the Kidal region, and his tribute to the four Chadians who lost their lives in the attack.
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to renew the mandate of UN experts monitoring sanctions against North Korea hours after members met to discuss Pyongyang's latest test firings of banned ballistic missiles.
Urging Israel to cease the advancement of all settlement activity immediately, Wennesland reiterated that settlements have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation of international law.
India on January 16 began its mammoth coronavirus vaccine rollout by administering 207,229 shots on the first day with the help of hundreds of thousands of health workers who were trained and assisted by the UN agencies.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week that over 130 million doses of vaccine have been deployed globally — three quarters of them in only ten countries.
The Internet has been snapped at Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri protest sites to "maintain public safety and for averting public emergency".
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