First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Paulomi Tripathi was speaking at a General Assembly 3rd Committee session on 'Report of the Human Rights Council' on Friday.
India, one of the largest troop contributing countries to UN peacekeeping operations, also reiterated the impact of caveats on performance.
The former Fox News anchor joined the State Department in April 2017 as a spokesperson and is now the Acting Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
India was vying for a seat in the Asia Pacific category. Along with India, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Fiji and Philippines had also staked a claim in the same regional group.
Apart from India, four other countries are slated to be elected unopposed to the crucial UN body.
More than 720,000 of Myanmar's stateless Muslim minority fled a brutal military crackdown in August last year, taking shelter in crowded camps in Bangladesh. There they recounted tales of rape, murder and arson as villages in Rakhine state were burned to the ground.
General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa also made a forceful plea before the Committee to finalise the CCIT.
"UNHCR regrets that the agency did not receive a response to this request and was unable to secure access for a lawyer from a state legal service," agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic told reporters in Geneva.
He added that the international community needs to work together to expose and destroy the linkages that exist between terrorists and their supporters.
PM Narendra Modi, in a column published for some dailies, said people need to talk, write, debate, discuss and deliberate as much as possible on questions relating to the environment.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives the 'UNEP Champions of the Earth' award from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres
Delivering a public lecture on "Global Challenges, Global Solutions" in New Delhi, Guterres said that the people of the Rohingya community cannot get married without permission and their children don't get access to basic education.
PM Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron were named recipients of the prestigious 'Champions of The Earth Award' by the United Nations on September 26.
According to the UN estimates, nearly 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state since August 25 last year when the army launched a military crackdown.
Dismissing Pakistan's accusation of sabotaging dialogue process, Sushma Swaraj said that Pakistan was responsible for obstructing the process every time India took a step forward.
Swaraj said the five-member grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa was started a decade ago to change the status quo in international organisations and correct distortions in multilateralism.
UN peacekeeping missions are facing allegations of sexual abuse in African countries. In 2017, Guterres had launched a campaign to prevent and end sexual exploitation by UN personnel.
"The world needs a roadmap for finance and technology to achieve the goals set out in the Convention and its Paris Agreement in everyone's collective interest," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said at a high-level meeting on climate change here on Wednesday.
"There is India, a free society (of) over a billion people, successfully lifting countless millions out of poverty and into the middle class," Trump said.
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