WTO Director-General Nzogi Okonjo-Iweala, after a pair of sleepless nights in rugged negotiations, concluded the WTO’s first ministerial conference in 4-1/2 years by trumpeting a new sense of cooperation at a time when the world has faced crises like growing food insecurity, war in Ukraine and a once-in-a-century pandemic that has taken millions of lives.
Taking to Twitter, Union Minister Piyush Goyal wrote "fighting for the rights of our farmers within an hour of landing WTO Geneva at the G33 Ministerial Meeting."
An unspecified private buyer acquired The Rock, for which the pre-auction estimate was between 19 million and 30 million francs.
UNHCR has assisted some 7,00,000 displaced people across the country in 2021, the majority since mid-Aug. Every week, the agency is helping nearly 60,000 people, according to the statement.
Switzerland is one of the few remaining countries in Western Europe where gay and lesbian couples do not already have the right to wed.
The vast majority of Afghans were not able to leave the country through regular channels, Mantoo said, adding that some 200 UNHCR colleagues, both national and international, remained in Afghanistan.
According to the UN health agency, 70 WHO-supported medical facilities across Afghanistan treated nearly 14,000 conflict-related cases last month, which compares with 4,057 cases seen a year ago.
"We have a huge number of countries currently that have had to suspend the rollout of their second doses of vaccine," Xinhua news agency quoted Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to the WHO Director-General on Organizational Change, as saying on Friday.
"As for the general assessment, I believe there was no hostility at all," Putin said during his solo press briefing, adding that the meeting, the first of its kind since Biden took office in January, was "open" and with "no pressure of the parties on each other."
Biden and Putin plunged into the face-to-face talks at a lush lakeside Swiss mansion, a highly anticipated summit at a time when both leaders say relations between their countries are at an all-time low.
Third-seeded Ruud served more cleanly and allowed no break-point chances to second-seeded Shapovalov.
Shapovalov and Ruud will be meeting on tour for the first time and both seek their second career title.
The head of WHO says that the UN agency has dispatched critical supplies to India, including thousands of portable oxygen machines that help patients breathe.
A recent WHO survey has found that about 66 percent of countries continue to report health workforce-related reasons as the most common cause of service disruptions.
Baloch activists have been highlighting persecution of Baloch people by Pakistan through a photo exhibition on the sidelines of the ongoing 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Responding to UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet statements on ongoing farmers' protest in India, Permanent Representative of India, Ambassador Indra Mani Pandey on Friday said that the Government of India has set a goal of doubling the income of farmers by 2024.
India slammed Pakistan on the issue of terrorism at United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on October 01.
A political activist from Pakistan occupied Kashmir lambasted on Pakistan and China for constructing mega dams in the occupied territories during the 45th Session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 28.
Exiled political leaders from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have raised the issue of abduction, torture and harassment of activists and journalists by Pakistani agencies at the illegally occupied region during the ongoing 45th Session of UN
While exercising India's Right of Reply in response to Pakistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva
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