UN to vote on Syria resolution to back political transition

United Nations: India abstained from voting on the Arab-backed, US supported resolution on Syria in the UN General Assembly, which called for a political transition. India was joined by 58 other countries who abstained in General Assembly voting on the ...

WAM NEW YORK, May 14th, 2013 (WAM) -- The United Nations Security Council last night condemned the attacks that occurred on Saturday in Turkey's southeastern town of Reyhanli in Hatay Province. The attack resulted in the deaths of 46 people and ...

UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The international community needs to adhere to international resolutions and make human security the highest priority, in efforts to help restore dignity to war-torn societies, a UN official on humanitarian affairs ...

Some four weeks after the foreign policy fiasco on the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) — which earned the UPA government the hostility of all sections in Sri Lanka and the Tamil political ...

That this House welcomes the recent draft resolution from the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Crime prevention and criminal justice responses to illicit trafficking in protected species of wild fauna and flora ...

The United Nations is gearing up for a vote on Sri Lanka this week that will hold it accountable for alleged war crimes against its ethnic Tamil population during the final phases of the bloody civili... Related Stories DMK quits UPA government over Sri Lanka ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was on Wednesday briefed by top officials on the United States-sponsored resolution on human rights violations in Sri Lanka, within hours of government announcing that it will move amendments to the final draft text at Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council to send a ‘resolute message’ on the issue. Singh was apprised of the document in a meeting which was attended by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, ...

In a resolution adopted on the second and final day of the Janata Dal (United)'s national executive meet in Delhi, the party listed out criteria for the NDA coalition's prime ministerial candidate. To... Related Stories Zakia Jafri to file a protest petition ...

The new sanctions imposed on North Korea by the United Nations Security Council would bite hard, US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said on Thursday after the passage of an unanimous resolution in this regard. "Taken together, these sanctions will bite and bite hard. They increase North Korea's isolation and raise the cost to North Korea's leaders of defying the international community," the US ambassador told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York. "The entire world stands united in our ...