India will be seeking to restructure multilateral financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank which are out of sync with present-day challenges, a top official said on Monday. These Bretton Woods bodies were created after the World Bank, and are largely focused on the direct lending which was necessary in the post-second … Read more
The war in Afghanistan has entered a “new, deadlier, and more destructive phase” with more than 1,000 civilians killed in the past month during a Taliban offensive, U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, told the Security Council on Friday. “A party that was genuinely committed to a negotiated settlement would not risk so many … Read more
The situation in Afghanistan is of deep concern to all members of the UN Security Council, President of the Council for the month of August Ambassador T S Tirumurti has said, underlining that “we cannot have terrorist camps” once again moving back into the war-torn country that will have a “direct impact” on India. India, … Read more
While condoling loss of lives in Myanmar, India has urged maximum restraint and called for release of detained leaders. These remarks were made by India’s Permanent Representative at UN TS Tirumurti at a special closed door session on Myanmar held on Wednesday. However, the senior diplomat also called for greater engagement with the Myanmar establishment … Read more
New Delhi: An Indo-Pacific guided by norms and governed by rules, with freedom of navigation, open connectivity, and respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all states, is an article of faith for India, emphasised Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla as he launched maiden India-Japan-France trilateral here on Tuesday. Outlining India’s Indo-Pacific vision Shringla said, … Read more
UNITED NATIONS: India on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that the practice of placing blocks and holds without “any rhyme or reason” on requests to designate terrorists and terror groups must end, an apparent reference to China which had repeatedly blocked New Delhi’s bids to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday questioned for how long will India, the world’s largest democracy and home to 1.3 billion people, be kept out of the decision-making structures of the United Nations, asserting that reform in the responses, processes and in the very character of the global body is the “need of the hour.” … Read more
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the UN following Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to UN (New York), Munir Akram’s claim on Twitter that he presented a statement at the Security Council on a day the UN’s highest body was not open to non-members. ET had first reported on Tuesday that in a … Read more