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  • Russia alarmed at no US visas to attend UN leaders assembly

    Russia’s UN ambassador says it’s “alarming” that lower than three weeks earlier than the annual assembly of world leaders on the UN General Assembly not a single member of the 56-member Russian advance workforce and delegation headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has acquired a US entry visa.

    Vassily Nebenzia stated in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres obtained Friday evening by The Associated Press that “this is even more alarming since for the last several months the authorities of the United States have been constantly refusing to grant entry visas to a number of Russian delegates assigned to take part in the official United Nations events.” The Russian ambassador harassed that the United States, because the host nation of the United Nations, is legally required to subject visas, including that software to attend the high-level UN conferences beginning September 19 had been submitted to the US Embassy in Moscow.

    Nebenzia requested Guterres “to once again emphasize to the authorities of the United States that they must promptly issue requested visas for all Russian delegates and accompanying persons,” together with journalists overlaying Lavrov’s go to.

    Already dangerous relations between the United States and Russia have worsened dramatically since Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. The Biden administration sees Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warfare in Ukraine as essentially the most acute and quick menace to worldwide stability, and it has been main a world coalition supporting Ukraine.

    A spokesperson for the US Mission to the United Nations stated the United States takes its host nation obligations significantly and processes “hundreds of visas every year for Russian Federation delegates to UN events.” “To ensure timely processing, we repeatedly remind the Russian Mission to the UN, as we do all other UN missions, that the United States needs applications as early as possible,” stated the spokesperson, who was not authorised to be quoted by identify.

    “This is especially important,” the US spokesperson stated, “because of Russia’s unwarranted actions against our embassy in Russia, including the forced termination of local and third country national staff, which have severely limited our staffing and therefore our capacity to process visas.”

    In his letter, Nebenzia stated among the many final examples of US refusals to grant entry visas had been to Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev to take part within the simply ended UN chiefs of police summit and to Russian representatives looking for to attend a gathering that started August 29 and continues till September 9 on drafting an “International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes.”

    The Russian ambassador quoted from the 1947 settlement between the United Nations and the United States which states that “visas shall be granted without charge and as promptly as possible” and that this “shall be applicable irrespective of the relations existing between the governments of the persons referred to … and the government of the United States.” UN affiliate spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez stated the United Nations stays in shut contact with the US on points beneath the UN-US headquarters settlement together with visas, and “we are doing so in this case” raised by Russia.

  • Islamabad cannot conceal behind UN decision: India hits out at Pakistan over Hindu temple vandalism

    Image Source : ANI Islamabad cannot conceal behind UN decision: India hits out Pakistan over Hindu temple vandalism
    India on Thursday slammed Pakistan for being one of many co-sponsors of a United Nations decision on selling a tradition of peace at the same time as Pakistan authorities remained “mute spectators” as a mob vandalised a historic temple. In December final, a Hindu temple was set ablaze by a mob of tons of in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Paskitan.

    “The resolution can not be a smokescreen for countries like Pakistan to hide behind,” TS Tirumurti, the Indian ambassador to the United Nations mentioned.

    The United Nations General Assembly adopted a decision on ‘Promoting a tradition of peace and tolerance to safeguard spiritual websites. The decision requires strengthened worldwide efforts to foster a worldwide dialogue on the promotion of a tradition of tolerance and peace in any respect ranges, based mostly on respect for human rights and for the range of religions and beliefs.

    “It is a matter of great irony that the country where the most recent attack and demolition of a Hindu temple took place in a series of such attacks and where the rights of minorities are being emasculated is one of the co-sponsors of the resolution under the agenda item “Culture of Peace”, Tirumurti mentioned.

    Citing the destruction of a Hindu temple in Karak city within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in December 2020, Tirumurti mentioned, “a historic Hindu temple was attacked and set on fire by a mob in the town of Karak in Pakistan with explicit support and connivance with the law enforcement agencies which, stood as mute spectators while the historic temple was being razed.”

    India mentioned that on this world of rising terrorism, violent extremism, radicalization and intolerance, spiritual websites and cultural heritage websites stay susceptible to terrorist acts, violence and destruction.


    Further, Tirumurti pointed to situations in numerous elements of the world that remained susceptible to terrorist acts.

    “The images of the shattering of the iconic Bamyan Buddha by fundamentalists are still vivid in our memories. The terrorist bombing of the Sikh gurudwara in Afghanistan where 25 Sikh worshipers were killed is yet another example of this vulnerability,” he mentioned.

    Trirumurti mentioned India attaches nice significance to safeguarding cultural heritage and non secular websites. He additional mentioned that India additionally has a powerful authorized framework for acts of violence or discrimination based mostly on faith together with violence focused in direction of the locations of worship.

    India, he mentioned reiterates its name for the appliance of the rules of objectivity, non-selectivity and impartiality to kind the premise of discussions within the United Nations particularly on the difficulty of faith.

    “The United Nations together with UN Alliance of Civilizations mustn’t take sides and so long as such selectivity exists, the world can by no means actually foster a tradition of peace. We should stand united in opposition to the forces that supplant dialogue and peace with hatred and violence, Tirumurti mentioned.

    Tirumurti additionally acknowledged the efforts of Saudi Arabia and Morocco to pilot the fragile negotiations for attaining a consensus textual content of the draft decision.

    (With ANI inputs)
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