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India wants Israel to quit occupied areas: from the Archives, October 11, 1973

From the Archives

The Hindu · Oct 10, 2023

Is Taiwan a country or not?

Defining what is and isn’t a country is a lot more complicated than many people would realize. Take the case of Taiwan.

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2023

UN Security Council meets on Gaza-Israel, but fails to agree on statement

US pushes for harsh condemnation of Hamas but fails to achieve the consensus necessary for a statement.

Al Jazeera · Oct 9, 2023

More than 2,500 dead, missing as 186,000 cross Mediterranean in 2023

UN refugee agency says ‘no end in sight’ to the lives lost in Mediterranean and on land routes to sea departure points.

Al Jazeera · Sep 29, 2023

The UN and the multilateral system are in crisis – what the Global South must do

The planet is on fire, but almost all the firefighters have deserted. At the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 19 in New York, the leaders of four of the five permanent members of the Security Council – the UN’s most powerful executive body –…

The Conversation · Sep 28, 2023

Russian foreign minister lashes out at the West but barely mentions Ukraine in UN speech

Russia's top diplomat denounced the United States and the West on Saturday as self-interested defenders of a fading international power structure, but he didn't discuss his country's war in Ukraine in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

France 24 · Sep 23, 2023

Russia ‘mocks the UN’ with Ukraine invasion, Penny Wong tells general assembly in New York

Australian foreign minister says security council must be more representative or risk becoming an ‘anachronism’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 22, 2023

The U.N. system is 'sclerotic and hobbled' and needs urgent reform, top European Union official says

A top European Union official says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed an urgent need to reform the “sclerotic and hobbled” global decision making at the United Nations

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

Stripping Russia's veto power on the Security Council is all but impossible. Perhaps we should expect less from the UN instead

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this week that as long as Russia has veto power on the body, it will remain powerless to do anything to stop the war in Ukraine – or any other conflict.

The Conversation · Sep 21, 2023

UNGA Briefing: Permanent observers, more Security Council and what else is going on at the UN

It’s Day 3 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2023