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Prez Xi to address UNGA tomorrow, to deliver important remarks: Chinese FM

Chinese President Xi Jinping will address the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday and will deliver important remarks via video link, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

We are contributing to peace-building efforts in Afghanistan: India at UNGA

India's development partnership with Afghanistan includes more than 550 Community Development Projects covering all its 34 provinces and is aimed at strengthening the country, said Pratik Mathur

India at UNGA stresses need for building systems for sustainable water use

India on Thursday stressed the need for building resilient systems that can provide long-term solutions for the sustainable use of water

UNGA adopts India-led resolution declaring 2023 as Int'l Year of Millets

UN adopted by consensus a resolution sponsored by India and supported by over 70 nations declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets, aimed at raising awareness about the benefits of the grain

UN General Assembly president Volkan Bozkir receives Covid-19 vaccine

Bozkir was given a Pfizer BioNTech vaccine at the Javits Center in New York, said Brenden Varma, his spokesman

Terming children foreign terrorist may lead to stigmatisation: India at UN

Naidu highlighted the recent trend in global terrorism wherein growing number of children are recruited and involved in terrorism-related activities

Negotiation based on single text with UNGA rules can only save IGN: India

The first IGN meeting on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reforms in the 75th session of the General Assembly took place on Monday

UNGA adopts resolution to safeguard religious sites across the world

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to promote a culture of peace and tolerance to safeguard religious sites

Iran, six other nations lose right to vote in UNGA over unpaid dues

The UN charter calls for such a voting rights suspension for countries whose arrears equal or surpass the amount of the contributions due from them to UN coffers in the previous two years

UNGA president calls on people to work together to end Covid pandemic

Volkan Bozkir, president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), on Tuesday called on all people to continue to work together to end the Covid-19 pandemic

Vaccine can't undo damage from Covid; it's time to reset: UN chief Guterres

He voiced grave concern that extreme poverty is rising, the threat of famine looms and the world faces the biggest global recession in eight decades

Nearly 100 world leaders to speak at UN session on Covid-19, recovery path

Nearly 100 world leaders and several dozen ministers are slated to speak at the UN General Assembly's special session on the response to Covid-19 and the best path to recovery from the pandemic

India slams Pak on transfer of Kartarpur Sahib management to non-sikh at UN

India slammed Pakistan for violating UN resolution and transferring the management of Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara, from the Sikh Community body to the administrative control of a non-Sikh body

Word leaders to address a high-level, special session of UNGA on Covid-19

World leaders, the top leadership of the UN and vaccine developers will address a two-day, special session of the UN General Assembly on Covid-19 this week and discuss the pandemic's impact

India's resolution in UNGA to prevent terrorists from getting WMDs adopted

A resolution tabled by India in the UN General Assembly on measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction has been co-sponsored by more than 75 countries and adopted by consensus. India, a victim of state-sponsored cross-border terrorism, has been at the forefront in highlighting the serious threat to international peace and security emanating from acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by terrorist groups. India at forefront of counter-terrorism. Delighted that annual resolution tabled by India 'Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction' was co-sponsored by more than 75 countries & adopted today by consensus in First Committee of UN General Assembly, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Tirumurti tweeted. According to sources, through its annual resolution, India has urged greater international co-operation to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and their delivery ...

Belarus warns west against UN sanctions, says would be harmful for everyone

"We call on our partners to demonstrate wisdom, restraint and impartiality," he said in a pre-recorded speech for the UN session held online because of the coronavirus pandemic

Modi's 'pharmadiplomacy': India's COVID vaccines to 'help all humanity'

Presenting India as a global power for universal good, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his 'pharmadiplomacy', promising the world on Saturday that the nation's vaccine manufacturing capability will "help all humanity" in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic while assuring global leaders whose worries about its availability has been a dominant concern at the UN General Assembly.

'Disregarded facts and fabricated lies' says China on Trump's remarks at UN

Trump blasted China for "unleashing" the plague of the "China virus" onto the world, demanding that the United Nations must hold Beijing accountable for failing to contain the coronavirus

UNGA adopts forward-looking declaration to mark 75th anniversary of UN

UN Member States also underscored in the declaration that the UN must better address all forms and domains of threats

US says all UN sanctions on Iran restored, stage set showdown at UNGA

The White House plans to issue an executive order on Monday spelling out how the U.S. will enforce the restored sanctions