UNITED NATIONS
UN to cut Haiti peacekeeping force
The UN Security Council on Friday ordered a cut in the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti and demanded strict enforcement of a 'zero tolerance' policy on sexual abuse after a rape case involving Uruguay
UN Council approves withdrawal of some Haiti troops
The UN Security Council on Friday agreed to withdraw nearly 3,000 blue-helmeted troops and police, bringing the unpopular force's size close to where it was before a devastating earthquake in January 2010.
UN chief praises women’s role in advancing peace
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday praised women’s role in advancing peace after this year's Nobel Peace Prize were awarded to three women.
India to join exercise to re-enact Indian Ocean tsunami
India and over 20 other nations will participate next week in a full-scale exercise to test a United Nations-backed early warning system which will re-enact the events of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
PM asserts India’s world vision
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on Saturday for a “cooperative rather than a confrontationist approach” in the world and underlined that societies “cannot be reordered from outside through milita
PM asserts India’s world vision
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on Saturday for a “cooperative rather than a confrontationist approach” in the world and underlined that societies “cannot be reordered from outside through military force”, drawing attention in general to India’s approach, abilities and actions which, in its eyes,
Abbas stakes Palestinian claim to state at U.N.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations on Friday to recognise a state for his people, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the world body as a 'theater of the
PM calls for early reform and expansion of UN Security Council
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday made a powerful call for early reform and expansion of the UN Security Council ‘to reflect contemporary reality’ and asked nations not to allow the global eco
Ahmadinejad anti-West speech sparks UN walkout
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went on the warpath against the West at the United Nations again on Thursday sparking a mass walkout by outraged US and European delegations.
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Manmohan Singh plunges into hectic diplomacy at UN
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins a hectic round of diplomacy here on Friday ahead of his address to the United Nations focusing on terrorism, the economic slowdown and the vexed Palestine issue.
