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As challenges mount across the globe, ‘the world needs the UN’, Egypt says
- UN News
Egypt’s Foreign Affairs Minister Badr Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty said it is time to “ring the alarm bells” as the international system is currently showing its structural shortcomings that come from ineffectiveness, double standards and inequality at a time of occupation, hunger, terrorism and injustice. Sketching out a path forward, he first stressed that there is no alternative to the multilateral system.
Indian minister says ‘we can change the world for the better’
- UN News
India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the world stands fractious, polarized and frustrated amid war, unfair trade practices, climate change and food and health insecurity. Trust has eroded, processes have broken down and countries have extracted more from the international system than they have put in it, enfeebling it along the way.
Violations of UN Charter and international law now ‘facts of life’, Cuban Foreign Minister says
- UN News
The Foreign Minister of Cuba expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, and highlighted global challenges such as wealth inequality, climate financing and debt relief, in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
Attempt to defeat Russia a ‘suicidal escapade’, Lavrov warns Ukraine and the West
- UN News
Ukraine’s hope of defeating Russia on the battlefield is senseless given that Moscow holds nuclear weapons and any effort by the NATO alliance to keep aiding Kyiv will prove to be a “suicidal escapade”, Russia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs told the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
China is committed to dialogue, ‘not throwing gas on the fire’, Foreign Minister Wang says
- UN News
Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister of China reiterated on Saturday his country’s commitment to playing a constructive role and engaging in mediation for peace, not exploiting volatile situations for “selfish gains”.
Lebanon crisis: Guterres urges parties to ‘step back from the brink’
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed grave concern on Saturday over the dramatic escalation of events in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, in the past 24 hours.
Ukraine: UN official deplores deadly double attack on hospital
- UN News
The top UN aid official in Ukraine has condemned Russian attacks in the northeastern city of Sumy on Saturday which damaged a hospital and killed and injured several people.
Uptick in Mpox Cases Raises Concern Among Health Officials
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - Yesterday, India's Federal Health Ministry reported the nation's first documented case of mpox. The infected individual was reported to have contracted the clade Ib strain of the virus, which is a far deadlier variant than the more common clade II. This development has raised considerable concern among health officials around the world as the mpox epidemic had been contained in the Democratic Republic of Congo until recently.
Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor Addresses UNGA Calling for International Cooperation, Freedom and Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - In his first major address at the United Nations, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh's interim government, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, appealed to the international community to engage with a ‘new Bangladesh' in the shared efforts to cooperate on global issues.
Inequality in Access to Abortion Rights in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Sep 27 (IPS) - The struggle for women's right to decide in Latin America and the Caribbean, for their access to legal, safe and free abortion continues in the region, with some countries fully criminalising it, others with severe regulations, and a few guaranteeing better conditions, while threats of regression persist.
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