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Delegates attend the U.N. Climate Ambition Summit on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP The Climate Ambition Summit (CAS) in New York, as part of the United Nations General Assembly, that concluded on September 21, was marked…
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Leaders of a world fractured by war, climate change and persisting inequality gathered under one roof on September 19 to hear the U.N. chief summon them to take united action on humanity’s huge challenges — and to start delivering their own assessments on the most global of stages. “Our world is becoming unhinged. Geopolitical tensions…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. | Photo Credit: AP “More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents committed, on September 18, to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more,” the White House said. The adoption of the Declaration on Atlantic Cooperation was completed on Monday evening at a meeting hosted…
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United Nations (UN) nuclear chief on September 18 said he asked to meet Iran’s President on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to try to reverse Tehran’s “uncalled for” ban on “a very sizable chunk” of the agency’s inspectors. Rafael Grossi stressed…
The statement was released by the foreign ministry of G7 chair Japan Tokyo: The Group of Seven (G7) on Tuesday called on China to press Russia to stop its aggression in Ukraine after foreign ministers of the bloc met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and released a joint statement. The statement,…
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Heads of State and Governments, world leaders and foreign ministers have arrived at the UN headquarters for the annual high-level week described as the ‘Oscars of Diplomacy’, with agendas of Sustainable Development Goals, financing for development, climate action and pandemic response taking centrestage as global priorities at the session. At the high-level 78th session of…
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Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng. File | Photo Credit: AP China is sending Vice-President Han Zheng to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on September 15, suggesting that the country’s most senior diplomat Wang Yi will not attend. This year’s gathering of world leaders at United Nations headquarters in…
“The area under cultivation of various millets in India has been declining and the underlying reasons behind it could be attributed to the promotion of rice and wheat vis-a-vis millet production and lack of suitable initiatives towards millets,” a Niti Aayog report said. The government think tank NITI Aayog released a report on April 26…