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UN suspends peacekeeper deployments until June 30
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 8 (ANI): The United Nations has suspended the rotation and deployments of uniformed personnel, including individual officers and already formed, police and military peacekeeping units until June 30, in view of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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UN condemns rocket attack on Tripoli hospital as Libya braces for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], April 8 (ANI): The United Nations (UN) has condemned the shelling of a hospital here which it termed a "clear violation of international law", as Libya struggles to prepare for an outbreak of the new coronavirus.
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UN Security Council may meet soon to discuss COVID-19, says Secy Gen Anton
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], Apr 6 (ANI): With the world under the grip of COVID-19, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres indicated that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) may meet soon to discuss the pandemic, which has infected more than 1.2 million worldwide and killed cl
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Impossible to contain COVID-19 in war-torn countries like Libya: UN
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], April 5 (ANI): The United Nations has warned that an outbreak of coronavirus in Libya could be worrisome and catastrophic for the country's Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and other 700,000 refugees in the country.
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ICJ urges UNHRC to act against China for coronavirus pandemic
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 4 (ANI): The International Council of Jurists (ICJ) has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to act against China for committing grave offenses against humanity by spreading the lethal coronavirus across the world resulting in the death of thousan
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UNGA adopts resolution in fight against COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New York [USA], Apr 4 (ANI): The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution on fighting COVID-19. UNGA also called for intensified international cooperation to against the pandemic.
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UN disarmament commission's session postponed to 2021 over COVID-19: UNGA
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New York [USA], Apr 3 (Sputnik/ANI): The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has pushed back the organizational session of the UN Disarmament Commission to 2021 in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.
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UN calls for $2.5 trillion coronavirus crisis package for developing count
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 31 (ANI): With two-thirds of the world's population living in developing countries (excluding China) facing unprecedented economic damage from the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations is calling for a 2.5 trillion dollars package for these countries to turn expressio
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UNSC condemns terror attack on Kabul gurdwara, underlines need to hold per
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 27 (ANI): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday (local time) condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack conducted by the Islamic State terrorists on the Dharamshala Sikh Temple in Kabul on March 25, which resulted in
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UN condemns Kabul Gurudwara terror attack
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New York [USA], Mar 26 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres on Wednesday condemned the Kabul Gurudwara terror attack which killed 27 civilians, and expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and wishes to those injured.
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UN in India welcomes PM Modi's 21-day lockdown to fight COVID-19
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 25 (ANI): United Nations Resident Coordinator in India, Renata Dessallien, on Wednesday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strategy of a 21-day nation-wide lockdown to curtail the spread of the coronavirus.
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UN Chief calls for 'immediate global ceasefire' amid COVID-19 pandemic
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New York [USA], Mar 23 (Sputnik/ANI) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for an immediate halt of fighting worldwide in order to focus together on combating the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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