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UN chief calls for nuclear weapons-free Middle East
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], November 30 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called on all Middle East States to transform the vision of a region with no nuclear weapons, or other weapons of mass destruction, into a working reality.
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Violations of Palestinian rights along with expansion of Israeli settlemen
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], November 29 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres on Monday said that the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, continues to pose a significant challenge to international peace and security.
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UN chief welcomes recent trilateral meeting on Karabakh
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomes the recent meeting of the Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders and notes Moscow's contribution to resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the UN chief's office said on Saturday.
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UN chief condemns terrorist attack on UN-affiliated convoy in Somalia
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], November 27 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday strongly condemned Thursday's deadly terrorist attack on a UN-affiliated convoy in front of a school in Mogadishu, Somalia, said his deputy spokesman.
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Arab League chief welcomes political agreement in Sudan
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Cairo [Sudan], November 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Wednesday welcomed the political agreement signed between Chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok to end the month-old political crisis in the co
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UN Assistant Secretary-General says border walls not solving migration cri
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Erecting walls to restrict the flow of migrants from Belarus will not solve the border crisis, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with UNHCR, Gillian Triggs, told Sputnik on Tuesday.
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UN deputy chief calls for renewed global action against human trafficking
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], November 23 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Monday called for renewed global action against human trafficking.
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UN special envoy meets Taliban representative to address various challenge
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 17 (ANI): Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mette Knudsen on Tuesday met Taliban representative Mawlvi Qudratullah Hamza and discussed the needs and challenges of the people in Balkh province.
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Shringla, EU official developments, priorities in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 16 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had a telephonic conversation with Stefano Sannino, Secretary-General of European External Action Service (EEAS), during which they stressed the importance of preventing Afghanistan from being used as a base fo
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NATO presence in Black Sea, Baltic region is defencive: Stoltenberg
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], November 16 (ANI/Sputnik): NATO presence in the east, including in the Black Sea and the Baltic region, is defensive, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday.
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Stoltenberg says no consensus on having Ukraine become full NATO member
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], November 15 (ANI/Sputnik): North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members have no consensus on inviting Ukraine to become a full member, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says.
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COP26 closes with 'compromise' deal on climate, but it's not enough, says
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], November 14 (ANI): After extending the COP26 climate negotiations an extra day, nearly 200 countries meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, adopted on Saturday an outcome document that, according to the UN Secretary-General, "reflects the interests, the contradictions, and the state of
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