United Nations, Feb 5 (IANS) India has joined the UN Honour Roll by promptly paying up its 2026 dues of $35.187 million to the cash-strapped organisation, according to Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. India sent in on Tuesday (local time) its share of 1.016 per cent of the total 2016 regular budget of $3.45 billion for its operations except peacekeeping. The UN, which is facing a financial crisis because its biggest contributor, the US, has not paid its share for last year, has appealed to member…
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United Nations, Jan 12 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges the Iranian authorities to exercise maximum restraint and enable access to information in the country, his spokesperson said.”The Secretary-General urges the Iranian authorities to exercise maximum restraint and to refrain from unnecessary or disproportionate use of force,” spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.He further urges steps that enable access to information in the country, including restoring communi…
United Nations, Jan 9 (IANS) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is defiant that the world organisation will continue all its mandated activities despite US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US was cutting ties to 31 UN-related entities and ending funding.While he regretted the US decision, “all United Nations entities will go on with the implementation of their mandates as given to us by member states”, Guterres’s Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday.The US was le…
United Nations, Jan 3 (IANS) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply alarmed” by the US action on Saturday in Venezuela that captured President Nicolas Maduro and called it “a dangerous precedent”. Guterres’s Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general is worried the military action “has potential worrying implications for the region”.“Independently of the situation in Venezuela, these developments constitute a dangerous precedent”, the spokesperson said in …
United Nations, Dec 29 (IANS) As the Security Council wallowed in veto-induced inertia in 2025, the UN’s peace-making initiatives moved away towards the White House, which brokered an end to the seemingly intractable Gaza conflict and put others like that between Thailand and Cambodia in check.Yet also, in a symbol of the UN’s enduring global influence, US President Donald Trump, who had constantly denigrated the UN, had to get the Council’s stamp of approval for potential partners to sign…
United Nations, Dec 23 (IANS) Drought is affecting an estimated more than 4.6 million people in Somalia, around a quarter of the population, a UN spokesperson said.UN partners indicate that at least 120,000 people were displaced between September and December, as water prices soar, food becomes increasingly scarce, livestock die, and livelihoods collapse, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, at a daily briefing on Monday.He said education has also been severely affe…