Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government has signalled it is open to discussing climate “reparations” for the likes of Pakistan, as he prepares tax hikes and public service cuts at home in the name of fiscal responsibility.
Upwards of 40,000 people have flown from around the world to attend the United Nations COP 27 climate conference that began Sunday at a plush seaside resort in Egypt.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in a report on Tuesday that prices in Afghanistan for opium products “soared” in the past year and 32 percent more territory nationwide has been dedicated to cultivating the narcotic – statistics that reveal a booming industry under Taliban rule.
Russia announced it would no longer comply with the United Nations-negotiated pact to allow the export of grain from Ukrainian ports.
John Kerry has urged King Charles III to attend the United Nations COP 27 climate change conference after Rishi Sunak backed out.
U.N. General Secretary António Guterres warned Thursday that the world is headed for a “global catastrophe” thanks to manmade climate change.
Production of coca crops and potential production of cocaine in Colombia reached its highest recorded levels in two decades in 2021, according to a report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Integrated Illicit Crop Monitoring System (SIMCI) this month.
The figures underline the ruthlessness of smugglers leading migrants to their deaths while making a fat profit out of human suffering.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the Islamic republic is a law-abiding country of peace and coexistence that would never illegally supply military drones to Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine, denouncing United Nations Security Council calls for an investigation into such claims as “baseless.”
Iran is currently witnessing a revolution “in the making,” according to representatives of Iran’s Parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance of its fifth week.
A United Nations General Assembly debate on a resolution to condemn the Russian colonization of eastern Ukraine pivoted abruptly to South Asia on Wednesday as the permanent representative of Pakistan accused India of “modern-day colonialism” in the disputed region of Kashmir. India’s representative dismissed the complaints as “frivolous” and off-topic.
Venezuela’s socialist regime failed to obtain the necessary votes to be reelected into the United Nations Human Rights Council for a three-year term during the body’s elections on Tuesday.
The United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, met with senior Taliban leaders on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the country, legitimizing the Taliban with treatment as a formal state power.
The New York Times (NYT) reported on Saturday that the Biden administration secretly sent a team of diplomats to the Tigray region of Ethiopia last month in an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a halt to a devastating civil war that threatens to destabilize the entire Horn of Africa.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council proposing the creation of an international “rapid action force” to help police in Haiti combat the gangs that have taken over critical infrastructure and blocked humanitarian aid.
Ukraine has urged African nations “not to stay neutral” in the ongoing Western-backed clash with the Russian Federation following “devastating” missile strikes across the country on Monday.
BERLIN (AP) — Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday.
The nations on the U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Thursday against discussing China’s ongoing genocide of Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic people in East Turkistan, a decision aided by the abstentions of nations such as Ukraine and Brazil.
A United Nations representative revealed her globalist organization had partnered with Google to prioritize messages underscoring the gravity of the climate crisis.
Chinese Deputy Representative to the United Nations Geng Shuang urged the world to organize an “objective, impartial, and professional investigation” into multiple leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia and Europe in remarks to the United Nations this weekend.
A U.N. Agency wants the Fed to change its policy path to benefit the developing world.
Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia defended the referendums, claiming that more than 100 international observers from Italy, Germany, Venezuela, and Latvia who observed the voting recognized the outcomes as legitimate.
The socialist regime of Venezuela denied the existence of the country’s migrant crisis, describing it as “invented,” during a dialogue at the United Nations on Monday.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Monday at least $6 million worth of relief supplies were lost to looters in Haiti in the month of September alone.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesman told the news agency dpa on Monday.
Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Faría addressed the United Nations on Saturday to read an “open letter to humanity” signed by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in which he claimed that 60 percent of the Venezuelan migrants that have fled from his authoritarian socialist regime have “returned.”
North Korea’s representative to the United Nations, Kim Song, told the General Assembly during its last day of addresses on Monday that the rogue communist state will continue to develop its nuclear arsenal so long as it feels intimidated by the United States.
Syrian Foreign Minister Fayssal Mekdad’s address to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday was a funhouse-mirror view of the world from the vantage point of a brutal dictatorship.
China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper on Sunday applauded that nation’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, for allegedly bringing “confidence for peace” to the United Nations, while leftist American President Joe Biden made the world “nervous and anxious” with his address.
Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen, who also serves as foreign minister, devoted very little of his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday to discussing the brutal two-year civil war that heated up again over the past few weeks. He spent no time at all responding to the allegations of war crimes and human rights atrocities against both his government and its adversaries.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lectured the United Nations on Saturday to oppose the use of human rights as a “weapon to achieve political ends” and proclaimed Taliban-ruled Afghanistan as transitioning “from chaos to order.”
Invoking history ranging from the U.S. war in Iraq in the early 2000s to the 20th-century Cold War to a 19th-century U.S. policy that essentially proclaimed American influence over the Western Hemisphere, Lavrov portrayed the U.S. as a bully that tries to afford itself “the sacred right to act with impunity wherever and wherever they want” and can’t accept a world where others also advance their national interests.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned the United Nations in a speech to the General Assembly on Friday, asserting that U.N. bodies had passed “hundreds” of resolutions condemning Israel but had not taken any actions that Palestinian leaders considered sufficient to come to their aid.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called for more “collective” action in her address to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, especially on the issues of climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, pandemic response, and opposing wars of aggression like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s remarks to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday focused on what he described as “the latest Azerbaijani unprovoked aggression.” Armenia and Azerbaijan are once again skirmishing along their contested border, each side accusing the other of violating a cease-fire negotiated after they fought a six-week war in 2020.
Far-left Chilean President Gabriel Boric condemned fellow leftists during a conversation in New York on Thursday for failing to criticize the human rights abuses of leftist leaders, demanding “no double standards” for human dignity. He then proceeded to favorably quote Russian communist mass murderer Vladimir Lenin.
Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s foreign affairs minister, represented his country at the 77th United Nations General Assembly on Thursday with a brief speech in which he called for reforms in the United Nations Security Council after the Council failed to prevent the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The president of Yemen, home to an eight-year-old civil war and arguably the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday that as many as 20 million people in his country are facing famine.
The East Turkistan Government in Exile, which represents the majority Turkic population of the China-occupied Asian region, condemned President Joe Biden on Wednesday for failing to refer to China’s genocide of their people as a genocide during his speech that day at the United Nations General Assembly.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid lauded the moribund two-state solution for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his speech at the United Nations on Thursday, prompting political rivals including former Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to accuse him of “endangering” Israel.
