An Indian delegation of political leaders and foreign policy experts will be visiting the United States ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit there address the United National General Assembly on September 27.
UN's paramount annual summit comes amidst heightened tensions between India and Pakistan. Pakistani ministers have openly been giving out hate speeches aimed at the Indian establishment as well as on religious grounds.
As per details, the Prime Minister will have his first meeting with the US President at a luncheon and another during a high tea.
Lieutenant General (retired) Abhijit Guha has been appointed as the Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) and head of the UNMHA.
"The support and safe havens enjoyed from beyond Afghanistan's borders by groups such as the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, Da'esh, as well as Al Qaeda and its proscribed affiliates, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, must be addressed," Syed Akbaruddin said.
The people of Balochistan, who seek independence from Pakistan, have earlier raised the issue of their "annihilation" by the Pakistani forces at the forum of UNHRC.
Joint Secretary (EG & IT) (Cyber Diplomacy) in the Ministry of External Affairs Upender Singh Rawat said on Monday that the issue of cyber warfare, cyber doctrines and their impact on international security should be taken up at all relevant international fora.
" Prime Minister Modi met only a few days ago with the Secretary General in Biarritz and recommitted to continue to lead on climate and particularly dealing with solar energy which they have a huge and very important initiative" UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the 2019 Climate Summit Luis Alfonso de Alba said here Tuesday.
In another attempt to internationalise the Kashmir issue, Pakistan on Tuesday wrote to the United Nations over the Kashmir issue. It claimed human rights violations in the region, a charge which has been rejected several times by India.
All-weather friends, Pakistan and China, were slammed at a meeting of the United Nations for human rights violations and abuse of religious minorities. The United States, United Kingdom and Canada raised the issue of suppression of religious freedom by Pakistan and China.
Syed Akbaruddin, India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, didn't just hammer Pakistan at the global United Nations forum but more followed. He had something for Pakistani journalists too - a stellar response.
The United Nations Security Council on Friday held a rare closed door meeting on Kashmir after India revoked the special status to Jammu and Kashmir, sparking a fresh row with Pakistan. However, Islamabad's move proved to be of no good to them.
It looks like Pakistan is conceding its defeat on the Kashmir issue. Well, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi's recent statement clearly reflects so.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's remarks came after US President Donald Trump said though the Kashmir issue was a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan but he would be happy to mediate if they want him to do so.
In the 'Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict', released Tuesday, Guterres said children continued to be affected by incidents of violence between armed groups and the Government, "particularly in Jammu and Kashmir and in the context of the Naxalite insurgency."
India said it is considering to commit aviation assets to help UN enhance its peacekeeping capabilities as the world organisation faces a shortage of critical enablers such as rapidly deployable forces, engineer companies and medical services for its peacekeeping operations.
The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) was released Thursday.
The latest UN human rights report on Jammu and Kashmir, slammed by India as a "continuation of the earlier false and motivated narrative", has several discrepancies that show up on closer reading and contradicts its own picture of Jammu and Kashmir as virtually bereft of human rights.
The total number of homicide victims fell from 48,167 in 2000 to 42,678 in 2016, the Global Study on Homicide 2019 released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) on Monday found.
In a strong reaction, the External Affairs Ministry said the report ignores the core issue of cross-border terrorism and seems to accord a legitimacy to terrorism that is in complete variance with positions of UN Security Council, which had strongly condemned the dastardly Pulwama terror attack and subsequently proscribed Masood Azhar, the Pakistan-based terrorist.
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