"As a main player on the world stage," India will surely be a contender if the size of the UN Security Council is raised to between 21 and 27 members, according to the Co-chair of the reform negotiations Tareq M.A.M. AlBanai.
As many as 821 Indian Army personnel were awarded the prestigious United Nations Medal during the Medal Day Parade organised by of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), today.
Following years of intense negotiations, nations have reached a landmark agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping by setting mandatory fuel standards and introducing an industry-wide carbon pricing mechanism.
With displacements and civilian casualties continuing in Gaza, UN humanitarians pleaded for lifting of the aid blockade and access to the few remaining stocks of food supplies.
Amid warnings of the risks of a recession from the trade war, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he “sincerely hopes” there won’t be one because of the effects it would have on the poorest.
Lack of friends at a time when India is a significant military and economic power surprises oldtime diplomats. Within living memory, the pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other; in the 1950s and 1960s when we had little to offer to the world except moral guidance, we were the undisputed leader of developing nations.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said Sunday that the UN is closely monitoring the rapidly evolving situation in the country and is looking forward to the next steps toward a political transition following the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad on December 8.
The inaugural edition of the Cambodia-India Bilateral Army Exercise (CINBAX-I) concluded at the Foreign Training Node in Pune on Friday.
Once, human rights were understood as the simple principle that one person’s rights should never extend beyond the tip of another’s noseunless invited.
This includes a new core finance goal of $300 billion that triples the previous $100 billion target. There were breakthroughs in the Baku Finance Goal and UN carbon markets too.
