United Nations, May 6 (IANS) The United Nations welcomes the unilateral ceasefires announced respectively by Ukraine and Russia, said a UN spokesperson. “We welcome the unilateral ceasefire announced by Ukraine, to begin on the night of 5 to 6 May, as well as the one by the Russian Federation, to take place over 8 and 9 May,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on Tuesday (local time).The secretary-general looks forward to their successful implementation,…
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New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Nearly 1.6 crore Bangladeshi citizens faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025, placing the country among the world’s top 10 worst‑affected nations, a new report has said, adding that conditions are unlikely to improve in 2026. The report from Daily Star cited Global Report on Food Crises by UN agencies as saying that those 10 worst-affected countries are unlikely to improve in 2026 due to conflicts, climate shocks, economic instability and supply‑chain di…
Singapore, May 1 (IANS) Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong warned on Friday that supply disruptions stemming from the Middle East crisis are likely to persist and could worsen in the months ahead, raising the risk that some economies slip into recession.”Globally, inflation will rise, spreading from energy to food and then other essentials. Some economies may well slip into recession, and Singapore will feel the impact directly,” Wong said in a May Day Rally speech.Even if the Strait of Ho…
United Nations, May 1 (IANS) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appreciates the Myanmar military transferring the nation’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to home detention from a prison, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.”We appreciate the commutation of Aung San Suu Kyi to a so-called house arrest and a designated residence”, Dujarric said on Thursday. “It is a meaningful step towards conditions conducive to a credible political process”, he said.The military-contr…
United Nations, April 30 (IANS) Warning of a steep fall in economic growth and a rise in poverty around the world due to the Iran war, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his demand for the immediate restoration of free navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.”As with every conflict, the whole of humanity is paying the price – even if a few are reaping huge profits,” he told reporters. “The pain will be felt for a long time to come.”The war’s “consequences are not cumulative. They ar…
United Nations, April 30 (IANS) Russia, as a responsible party to and one of the depositaries of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), strictly abides by the letter and spirit of the treaty, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an address to the 11th NPT Review Conference. “We believe that amid the current complex international situation, additional multilateral efforts are required to create conditions for further progress on the path to building a nuclear-weapon-fre…
United Nations, April 27 (IANS) Warning the humanitarian toll is mounting because of the blockade of the Strait of the Hormuz, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for ending the use of merchant shipping as a tool of political pressure. At meeting of the Security Council on maritime security, he also made a plea on behalf of the sailors trapped in Hormuz region, asking for the implementation of an emergency plan to evacuate More than 20,000 seafarers remain stranded at sea in t…
Washington, April 27 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for renewed efforts to “bring life” into the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).Across the decades, the international community developed a web of instruments to prevent the use, proliferation and testing of nuclear weapons, and achieve their total elimination, with the NPT as the bedrock of those efforts, Guterres said at the 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT, which will run f…
United Nations, April 26 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was deeply concerned by reports of attacks across Mali and strongly condemned the acts of violence, his spokesperson said Saturday.The UN chief expresses solidarity with the Malian people, stressing the need to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.”The Secretary-General calls for coordinated international support to address the evolving threat of violent extremism an…
United Nations, April 25 (IANS) The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has called for the peaceful use of nuclear weapons as the world marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. At a special commemorative meeting on Friday (local time), UNGA President Annalena Baerbock said the scale of Chernobyl underlined that nuclear technology, even when used peacefully, is fundamentally different from other technologies.The Chernobyl nuclear power plant saw one of the worst nuclear accidents in history o…