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UNSC needs to be reformed to reflect today's realities: PM Modi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 2 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India and Egypt have agreed that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) needs to be reformed to reflect today's realities.
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India, Afghanistan, U.S. trilateral meet to resume this year: MEA
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 1 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said the trilateral meeting of India, Afghanistan and the United States, which had stopped in 2013, will resume this year on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
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Part of Kashmir is under illegal occupation of Pak: MEA
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 1 (ANI): Commenting on the recent letter written by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the United Nations regarding the Kashmir issue, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said these letters won't change the reality that Jammu and Kashmir is a
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UN chief, Lankan PM hold close-door discussions
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Sep. 1 (ANI): United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, who is on a three-day official visit to Sri Lanka, met Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during which the duo held close-door discussions.
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Kofi Annan to visit Myanmar amid demand to abolish advisory commission
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Sep. 1 (ANI): Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, who was recently appointed to head the Rakhine State Advisory Commission, will pay a visit to Myanmar next week even as nationalists demanding to abolish the commission led by him.
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Pakistan's media is manipulated says ex- UNDP country chief
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad[Pakistan], Aug. 31 (ANI):Highlighting that media should be one of the pillars of democracy, Marc-Andre Franche, the former country director for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan, has pointed out that Pakistani media is manipulated.
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UN aid programme in Syria under Assad's grip: Report
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Aug. 30 (ANI): Critics fear that the United Nations aid programme to Syria is on the verge of being compromised as the organization has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to the people closely associated with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the whim of the D
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Pak elite must stop abusing power if nation is to progress, says outgoing
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 29 (ANI): Marc-Andre Franche, the former country director for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan, has said that a critical change in the country can happen only when the elite, the politicians and the wealthy sections of society sacrifice their short term go
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UNGA President-elect to discuss UNSC reforms with Indian leadership
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], Aug. 28 (ANI): United Nations General Assembly president-elect Ambassador Peter Thomson, who arrived in New Delhi last night, will hold discussions on United Nations Security Council reforms with the Indian leadership.
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India calls on Pak to extradite 'global terrorist' Dawood based
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 26 (ANI): Calling upon the Pakistan Government to pay heed to the findings of the United Nations' 1267 monitoring committee which established that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim resides and own properties in Pakistan, the India on Friday asked the Asian neighbour t
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India confident of securing permanent UNSC seat
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 26 (ANI): Expressing confidence that India would very soon secure a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said New Delhi continues to remain engage with the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) process, adding the same wi
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Kofi Annan to head advisory commission to solve communal violence in Rakhi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Naypyidaw, Aug. 25 (ANI): Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan will head the advisory commission aimed at finding a long-term solution to solve the communal violence in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.
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