The First Committee deals with disarmament, global challenges and threats to peace that affect the international community and seeks out solutions to the challenges in the international security regime.
About 24 hours after military chiefs from India and Pakistan surprised the world last month with a rare joint commitment to respect a 2003 ceasefire agreement, a top UAE diplomat flew to New Delhi for a quick one-day visit, the report said.
India has slammed a recent press conference by Pakistan's Foreign Ministry and the Establishment calling it, "Yet another futile anti-India propaganda exercise". Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said in response to a media query, "We have seen media reports on a press conference by the Pakistani establishment."
President Trump said he discussed Pakistan with PM Modi. "I have a good equation with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan too. They (Pakistan) are working to control cross-border terrorism," President Trump said.
A European source, heading into the Security Council meeting, had described the discussions on Kashmir during the closed consultations to be "low key." A top European diplomat said the issue should be resolved bilaterally and it was a "domestic affair."
My simple response to Pakistan is even though it is late, neighbour, heal thyself of your malaise. There are no takers here for your malware, said India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Syed Akbaruddin.
Pakistan has been reluctant to take any concrete action against Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed. It has also faced strict scrutiny and serious warnings from FATF (Financial Action Task Force) for its lack of action to curb terror financing by pro-terror groups and individuals.
Six Americans were killed in the 2008 attack by Pakistani terrorists and Pompeo acknowledged the threat of terrorism that puts his countrymen in its crosshairs.
In his maiden address at the UN General Assembly in New York in September, Prime Minister Imran Khan had devoted his 50-minute speech on Kashmir and resorted to anti-India rant.
If the president is asked to mediate by both countries, he has expressed his willingness and his interests to help facilitate a solution, the official told a group of reporters.
A villager in Raisingh Nagar area spotted the balloon and informed the police.
Jaishankar arrived here on Sunday night from New York after attending the annual General Assembly session of the United Nations along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Last year, then external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj left the room after her statement at the SAARC Council of Ministers' Meeting, amid tensions between the two countries following the brutal killings of three policemen in Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad releasing postage stamps "glorifying" a slain Kashmiri militant.
Imran Khan's statement came after he was questioned by a Pakistani journalist, over his strategy over Kashmir.
In 2015, the then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had addressed the UNGA, while Modi spoke at the UN Sustainable Development Summit.
The Indus Water Treaty of September 1960 lays down the rules for sharing the water from the Indus and its tributaries that flow through both the countries.
Harish Salve, former Solicitor General of India, said he is hopeful that Pakistan is treated with contempt by the global community, which it deserves for acts like 26/11.
Pakistan, which has become desperate ever since the government of India abolished the special status of Jammu and Kashmir granted under Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcated the state in August, is sending its Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to get the issue raised at the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
The remarks were made by Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Alice G Wells after a meeting of the leaders of the US Council of Muslim Organisations with State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Pakistan Affairs Ervin Massinga.
Qureshi's statement came after Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry took to the twitter on Tuesday and announced that the government was considering complete closure of airspace to India and complete ban on use of Pakistan land routes for Indian trade to Afghanistan.
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