During her career of over 30 years in international humanitarian and development work, Parvathy had worked with the Asia Pacific, West Africa, Regional and Global Headquarters of WFP, according to the UN. Her experience includes strategic planning, risk management, conflict analysis and humanitarian access negotiations, the UN said.
Reflecting the confused attitude of Pakistan towards India, Bilawal stumbled in his attempts to refer to India, starting with “our friends within...” then trying “with our friend... our... our...” and then backtracking to settle on “our neighbouring countries”.
“Terrorism is terrorism”, he said dismissing excuses some countries make.
A woman with heavy makeup wearing a turban, a pendant on her forehead and necklaces introduced herself with what sounded as Vijayapriya Nithyananda, USK’s representative to the UN, She claimed that under “Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism” Nithayananda, “Kailasa has been implementing the ancient Hindu policies and indigenous solutions that are in alignment with a time-tested Hindu principles” for sustainable development”.
Sharif offered “to sit down then and talk to our Indian counterparts to pave the way forward for future so that our generations do not suffer, so that we spend our resources on mitigating miseries on building structures to face these floods and outburst of clouds” – but only after India gives in to his demands on Kashmir.
Modi's exhortation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war, saying the "time is not for war", has been widely welcomed, including by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other world leaders at the UN.
While some initial signs of the ice-breaking could be seen when Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu at Dushanbe in Tajikistan in April 2021, this was the first time the leaders of the two countries met in person since President Erdoğan’s last visit to India in 2017.
He said, “At one stage, international relations seemed to be moving toward a G-2 world; now we risk ending up with G-nothing. No cooperation. No dialogue. No collective problem-solving”.
From South Asia, the two newly elected leaders of troubled countries, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe, are among the scheduled participants along with Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Sher Bahadur Deuba of Nepal and Lotay Tshering of Bhutan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not attending the meeting this year and Foreign Minister S Jaishankar is scheduled to speak for India on Saturday.
US President Joe Biden will present at the high-level General Assembly meeting next week ideas for moving forward the long-delayed UN Security Council reform process that includes expanding it, according to US Permanent Representative Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
“What is happening in Pakistan demonstrates the sheer inadequacy of the global response to the climate crisis, and the betrayal and injustice at the heart of it”, he said.
The reform process known formally as the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) has been virtually blocked over decades from proceeding by a determined minority that has stopped it from adopting a negotiating text
“From Pakistan, I am issuing a global appeal: stop the madness; end the war with nature; invest in renewable energy now”
A small group of countries, including Pakistan and Italy, who call themselves United for Consensus (UfC), have been blocking the adoption of a formal negotiating text or procedures for the negotiations and the labelling of some discussions as “unformals” is an apparent sop to them
Callamard said the report “lays bare the scale and severity of the human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang – which Amnesty International previously concluded amounted to crimes against humanity. There can be little doubt why the Chinese government fought so hard to pressure the UN to conceal it”
Pakistan's Finance Minister Miftah Ismail was reported as saying that Islamabad would consider importing vegetables from India given the devastation to Pakistan's agriculture
“We join others in calling for the protection of the rights of women and girls, and to ensure that the long-fought gains of the last two decades are not reversed”, the Indian representative said.
Lt Gen. Mohan Subramanian of India has taken over the command of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, the largest of its 13 global operations
"Generations could be affected if we fail in our obligation to protect the Rohingya and all the people of Myanmar, their fundamental rights and dignity,” Special Envoy Heyzer said
