Swaraj is set to participate in various meetings and discussions on the sidelines of the General Assembly session throughout the week.
Israel has rejected as "preposterous" the vote by 127 countries, including India, at the UN General Assembly that opposed the recent decision of US President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
On Twitter on late Tuesday, the US President claimed he met with "leaders of many nations who agree with much (or all) of what I stated in my speech!"
In his maiden address to the General Assembly, the US President said it is time to expose those providing safe havens to terror groups.
The president urged the UN to focus "more on people and less on bureaucracy" and to change "business as usual and not be beholden to ways of the past which were not working."
United Nations : Many member states have approved recent high-level reports on UN peacekeeping missions and promised procedures to ensure such missions "are effective as possible", Mogens Lykketoft, president of the 70th session of the
New Delhi : The only solution to the vexed issue of Kashmir is by adopting backchannel diplomacy, says former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri."Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi should appoint back channel negotiators instantly
United Nations : Over 150 world leaders will descend here today for the UN General Assembly's annual General Debate where issues like sustainable development, climate change, refugee crisis, terrorism and tackling ISIS would occupy the
United Nations : The Sustainable Development Summit at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York has started from Friday, ahead of the annual General Assembly gathering of world leaders that begins on Monday.Leaders of
United Nations: Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani education advocate, on Friday asked world leaders who are here to attend UN General Assembly to promise that every child will have the right to safe, free and quality
United Nations: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who survived a terrorist attack for advocating girls' education and shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize, spoke at the United Nations General Assembly from a gallery lit in
United Nations: India, backed by the United States, opposed a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution calling on New Delhi to voluntarily abandon its nuclear weapons. The resolution that also targeted Israel and Pakistan, however, passed
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday said the 69th session of the UN General Assembly (GA) opened as the world was confronted with an " unprecedented level of crisis" and called for unity among
United Nations: UN chief Ban Ki-moon would "very much hope" that India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the UN general assembly later this year and particularly participate in the climate change summit, according
United Nations, Sep 26: Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday appealed to the international community to not become “silent observers”, and immediately take notice of the anti-islam movie, insisting such acts be declared a
New Delhi, Sept 17: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the United Nations General Assembly session next week in New York where India's priority will be on reforms of the powerful Security Council to reflect
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