Tag: Un
Yemen’s Houthis indicate willingness to hand over port to UN: sources
WASHINGTON: Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have indicated they would be willing to hand over management of Hodeidah port to the United Nations, a potential breakthrough...
UN rights chief calls for probe of abuses by Venezuela forces
CARACAS: The United Nations human rights chief called Friday for an international investigation of atrocities in Venezuela, blasting the government's chronic refusal to probe...
UN, Russia call on US to rethink human rights body move
MOSCOW: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging the United States to rethink its decision to pull out of the organization's human rights body.
Guterres told...
Common ground emerging on Syria constitution, more talks planned: UN
GENEVA: Senior officials from Iran, Russia and Turkey held "substantive" talks on Tuesday on how Syria's constitutional committee will be set up and will...
UN relocates aid in Yemen, fearing access
SANAA: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says heavy fighting poses a danger to the warehouses used for humanitarian aid located...
Record 68.5 million displaced in 2017: UN refugee agency
The UN refugee agency reported on Tuesday that nearly 69 million people who have fled war, violence, and persecution were forcibly displaced last year,...
Pakistan elected to UN body with overwhelming support
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan was elected today to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for a three-year term starting January 1, 2019, during elections...
Ukraine, Russia fail to agree on UN peacekeeping mission
BERLIN: The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France met in Berlin on Monday to discuss the implementation of a fragile ceasefire for...
UN fears for 2.5 million in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib as fighting...
GENEVA: An escalation in fighting and air strikes in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province leaves 2.5 million civilians with “no place else to go” within...
Heavy clashes near Yemen’s Hodeidah as UN seeks ceasefire
ADEN: Clashes between troops backed by a Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-aligned Houthis intensified near Yemen’s Hodeidah over the weekend as the United Nations...
Pakistan asks UN to add more non-permanent seats to reformed UNSC
UNITED NATIONS: Emphasising that discussions on restructuring the United Nations Security Council are a serious matter that cannot be undermined by setting arbitrary deadlines...
Merkel calls for better EU coordination at UN
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel says European Union countries on the UN Security Council should coordinate their activities better, speaking as Germany hopes to...
Bangladesh body count mounts; group urges UN action to stop drug...
DHAKA/MUMBAI: The death toll in a Bangladeshi "zero tolerance" crackdown on drugs has risen to 140, with about 18,000 people arrested, the government said...
Pakistan opposes expansion of UNSC by adding to ‘privileged clique’
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has warned the international community that any “ill-conceived reform of the Security Council (SC) would be the greatest disservice to the rules-based...
Philippines Duterte tells UN human rights expert: ‘Go to hell’
MANILA: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has told a UN human rights expert who said the country’s judicial independence was under threat to ‘go to...
Myanmar says willing to take back all Rohingya refugees
SINGAPORE: Myanmar is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return, the country’s National...
UN agencies for Syria refugees warn of critical cash crunch
AMMAN: Regional heads of UN agencies helping some 5.5 million Syrian refugees say they've received only 20 percent of $5.6 billion promised for 2018,...
