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In 2025, India should play the role of peacemaker in world affairs
The New Year has brought a grim reminder from New Orleans of terror as a threat, even as war rages in West Asia, Europe and elsewhere. India must push for UN reforms and a permanent seat at the high table on the back of global principles with world peace as the aim.
3 min read3 Jan 2025Mint Quick Edit: When will the Gaza War end?
Of the 43,000-plus killed so far in Israeli military action, over two-thirds are women and children. Israel’s campaign must end but the US has again vetoed a UN Security Council call for a ceasefire. Will the US under Trump be any different?
1 min read22 Nov 2024Mint Explainer: How is India pushing to reform the UN Security Council?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged world leaders at the G20 leaders’ summit to make global structures, including the UNSC, reflective of current realities
2 min read12 Sep 2023Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj alleges bias for ‘five nations’, questions effectiveness of multilateralism
‘We are collectively aware of the inadequacies of the multilateral system that has failed to respond to contemporary challenges, whether it be the Covid pandemic or the ongoing conflict in Ukraine,’ Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said.
1 min read25 Apr 2023Europeans Weigh Confronting Russia at U.N. Over Evan Gershkovich Case
Moscow takes monthly presidency of Security Council; two European nations likely to raise reporter’s arrest, diplomats say
4 min read3 Apr 2023UNSC to ask Israel to ‘immediately’ stop all settlement activities in Palestine, calls it ‘flagrant violation’
The UNSC draft resolution is going to demand Israel to ‘immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory’.
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