Unga Session

UNGA president to visit India for three days with 'main focus' on science

UN General Assembly President Csaba Korosi will begin a three-day visit to India on Sunday that will uniquely focus on the connection between science and the work of the Assembly

UN General Assembly President Korosi set to visit India, China, Japan

The visit of the UNGA President who has been invited by the Indian govt will likely begin on Jan 29 and will include an address to the Indian Council of World Affairs, a foreign policy think tank

India abstains on UNGA resolution on ICJ opinion on Palestinian rights

India has abstained in the UN General Assembly on a resolution that asked the International Court of Justice for its opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's prolonged occupation and annexation of the Palestinian territory. The draft resolution Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem' was adopted by a recorded vote on Friday, with 87 votes in favour, 26 against and 53 abstentions, including by India. The resolution decided to request the UN's highest judicial body to render an advisory opinion on what are the legal consequences arising from the ongoing violation by Israel of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, from its prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and from its adoption of related

Obfuscates misdeeds in his own country: India on Pakistan PM's rant at UN

India exercised its 'Right of Reply' against remarks made by Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif on minorities in India and the issue of Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) debate.

In UNGA, Biden to urge world leaders to rebuke Russia's war in Ukraine: NSA

US President Joe Biden in his address to the UN General Assembly session on Wednesday will urge the international community to rebuke Russia's "unjust" war in Ukraine and stand against it, his top national security advisor has said. During a press conference at the White House on Tuesday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will put forward his vision for US foreign policy and stress on principled leadership in the world. Biden will make new announcements about the US' investments to address global food insecurity and lay out in detail how the country "restored its global leadership by delivering on its promises on global health, climate and emerging technologies among others", he said. "He will offer a firm rebuke of Russia's unjust war in Ukraine and make a call to the world to continue to stand against the naked aggression that we've seen these past several months," Sullivan said. Biden will underscore the importance of strengthening the United Nations and reaffirm the core

Jaishankar arrives in US for UNGA high-level meet, SC reform tops agenda

Security Council reforms will be the top item on Jaishankar's agenda as he meets dozens of world leaders during the week packed with the Assembly session and several events on the sidelines

World leaders meet this week at UN General Assembly: All you need to know

After two years of virtual and hybrid summits, the world's leaders will reconvene on the river's edge in New York this coming week at the UN General Assembly, an exercise in multilateralism born from the hope for lasting peace that followed World War II. The opening of the 77th session comes as the planet is beset with crises on nearly every front. Russia's war in Ukraine, inflation and economic instability, terrorism and ideological extremism, environmental degradation and devastating floods, droughts and fires and the ongoing pandemic are just a few of the rampant perils. The high-level meeting opens Monday with a summit on education, whose thorough disruption during the coronavirus pandemic will reverberate for decades to come. Speeches from the scores of attending leaders begin Tuesday and run through Monday, Sept. 26. While this year is billed as something of a return to the way things were, certain concessions to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have been made. In addition to

EAM Jaishankar likely to address high-level UNGA session in September

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected to address the annual high-level UN General Assembly session in September, according to a provisional list of speakers released by the UN here

Meenakshi Lekhi discusses Ukraine conflict with UNGA Prez Abdulla Shahid

Discussed various issues on the agenda of #UNGA76 including the impact of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine on the global commodity, financial and energy markets across the world: Lekhi

UNGA Prez urges early resolution of Palestinian question through action

Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, has emphasised the need for action rather than words to bring a resolution to the Palestinian question

PM Modi expected to address annual UNGA session in person on Sept 25

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address the annual high-level UN General Assembly session in person on September 25, according to a provisional list of speakers released by the UN.

India's resolution on counter-terrorism adopted at UN General Assembly

India's annual resolution on the issue of counter-terrorism was co-sponsored by over 75 countries and adopted by consensus in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly

British PM hails India's vaccine efforts in his UN General Assembly address

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a special reference to India's role in the manufacture and access to one of the most promising coronavirus vaccine

For Covid-weary audience, PM's UNGA speech delivers differentiated content

Modi asked aloud what commoners on New York's streets wonder when the annual gridlock and mass migration of diplomats drives them nuts each September. "So, what exactly does the UNGA do?"

UN faces crisis of confidence, need reformed multilateralism: Modi at UNGA

Modi's remarks came on a day when the United Nations General Assembly committed itself to put "new life" into the stalled reform of the Security Council

Virtual UNGA to see record participation of world leaders: Guterres

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will next week address the high-level meeting to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and the General Debate

Turkey's Volkan Bozkir elected president of 75th UN General Assembly

Bozkir is currently serving as a Justice and Development (AK) Party lawmaker from Istanbul and head of the Turkish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee

Coronavirus politics at UN as Russia resolution calls for ending trade war

One resolution, which has more than 135 co-sponsors, calls for intensified international cooperation to contain, mitigate and defeat the pandemic

Imran Khan to raise Kashmir issue at UNGA session next month: Report

Khan's General Debate speech at the world body is scheduled for September 27, the Express Tribune reported

Nehru approaching UN on J-K was more than a Himalayan blunder: Amit Shah

Shah said that there are no restrictions in the Valley now and expressed confidence that Jammu and Kashmir will be the most developed region in the country in the next 10 years