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  • UN urges Elon Musk to safeguard human rights at Twitter

    The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has requested Elon Musk to defend the correct to privateness and the correct to free expression on Twitter to the fullest extent permitted by the legislation.

    Geneva,UPDATED: Nov 6, 2022 09:49 IST

    The UN has urged Elon Musk to make sure that human rights stay central to Twitter’s administration (Photo: File)

    By Reuters: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the brand new proprietor of Twitter Inc, urging him to “ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter”.

    Twitter laid off half its workforce on Friday and tweets by workers of the social media firm mentioned the crew liable for human rights was amongst these affected, a improvement which Türk described as not “an encouraging start”.

    “Twitter is part of a global revolution that has transformed how we communicate,” Turk mentioned within the letter. “But I write with concern and apprehension about our digital public square and Twitter’s role in it.”

    “Like all companies, Twitter needs to understand the harms associated with its platform and take steps to address them,” he added. “Respect for our shared human rights should set the guardrails for the platform’s use and evolution.”

    “In short, I urge you to ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter under your leadership,” the High Commissioner mentioned.

    Friday’s layoffs capped per week of chaos and uncertainty about Twitter’s future below Musk, the world’s richest particular person, who tweeted on Friday that the service was experiencing a “massive drop in revenue”.

    Read | ‘No choice’: Musk defends Twitter layoffs, says firm dropping $4 million per day

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    Nov 6, 2022

  • Indian embassy asks residents to ‘leave Ukraine immediately’ in recent alert

    The Indian embassy in Ukraine has issued a recent advisory urging all remaining Indian nationals to depart Ukraine instantly.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Oct 26, 2022 00:22 IST

    Service members of pro-Russian troops, together with fighters of the Chechen particular forces unit, stand in entrance of the destroyed administration constructing of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works throughout Ukraine-Russia battle within the southern port metropolis of Mariupol, Ukraine. (Photo: Reuters)

    By Poulami Kundu: The Indian embassy in Ukraine has issued a recent advisory asking all residents to depart the war-torn nation as quickly as doable. Referring to its earlier advisory, the embassy said the Indians ought to go for obtainable means and speak to their officers in the event that they wanted assist.

    “In continuation of the advisory issued by the Embassy on 19th Oct, all Indian citizens in Ukraine are advised to immediately leave Ukraine by available means. Some Indian nationals have already left Ukraine pursuant to earlier advisory,” the Indian embassy in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, talked about in an announcement.

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    Advisory to Indian Nationals in Ukraine@MEAIndia @DDNewslive @DDNational @PIB_India @IndianDiplomacy @eoiromania @IndiainPoland @IndiaInHungary @IndiaInSlovakia pic.twitter.com/kFR3qJKlJR

    — India in Ukraine (@IndiainUkraine) October 25, 2022

    The embassy additionally shared a number of cellphone numbers for individuals to contact in case of bother.

    PREVIOUS ALERTS

    The embassy has been issuing alerts because the warfare scenario is getting extra intense by the day. Now that Russia has focused Ukraine’s infrastructure, the embassy has ramped up its efforts to evacuate Indians safely.

    In an alert issued on October 19, the embassy had suggested in opposition to travelling to Ukraine and people within the nation have been requested to depart instantly as Russia intensifies its offensive on its war-ravaged neighbour.

    “In view of the deteriorating security situation and recent escalation of hostilities across Ukraine, Indian nationals are advised against travelling to Ukraine,” the Indian Embassy in Kyiv stated in an advisory.

    Advisory for Indian nationals from Indian Embassy in Kyiv: pic.twitter.com/lltvbL9caH

    — Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) October 19, 2022

    RUSSIA’S ‘DIRTY BOMB’ CLAIMS

    The advisory got here at a time when Russia was about to press its case on the UN Security Council claiming that Ukraine was making ready to make use of a ‘dirty bomb’ (nuclear weapon) by itself territory. However, its assertion was dismissed by Western and Ukrainian officers as a pretext for escalating the warfare.

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    Oct 26, 2022

  • China places maintain on proposal by India, US at UN to blacklist Pakistan-based LeT terrorist Hafiz Talah Saeed

    China Wednesday put a maintain on a proposal by India and the US on the United Nations to blacklist Pakistan-based militant Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, within the second such transfer inside two days.

    Hafiz Talha Saeed, 46, is a key chief of the dreaded terrorist group LeT and the son of 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

    In April this yr, he had been declared a terrorist by the Indian authorities.

    It is learnt that China positioned the maintain on the proposal so as to add Hafiz Talah Saeed underneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.

    It is the second time in lower than two days that Beijing put a maintain on the bid submitted by India and the US to designate a Pakistan-based terrorist as a worldwide terrorist.

    India’s cost in opposition to Saeed

    In a notification, India’s Home Ministry had mentioned that Hafiz Talha Saeed has been actively concerned in recruitment, fund assortment, and planning and executing assaults by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in India and Indian pursuits in Afghanistan.

    He has additionally been actively visiting numerous LeT centres throughout Pakistan, and through his sermons propagating for jihad in opposition to India, Israel, the United States of America and Indian pursuits in different western international locations, it had acknowledged.

    Hafiz Talha Saeed is a senior chief of the LeT and is the pinnacle of the cleric wing of the terrorist organisation.

    China on Tuesday put a maintain on a proposal by India and the US on the United Nations to record Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Shahid Mahmood as a worldwide terrorist.

    Beijing positioned a maintain on the proposal by India and the US to designate Mahmood, 42, as a worldwide terrorist underneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.

    US’ findings

    The US Department of Treasury had designated Mahmood in addition to one other LeT chief Muhammad Sarwar in December 2016 as a part of the motion “to disrupt LeT’s fundraising and support networks.” According to data on the US Department of the Treasury’s web site, Mahmood “has been a longstanding senior LeT member based mostly in Karachi, Pakistan, and has been affiliated with the group since at the least 2007.

    As early as June 2015 via at the least June 2016, Mahmood served because the vice chairman of Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a humanitarian and fundraising arm of LeT.” In 2014, Mahmood was the chief of FIF in Karachi. In August 2013, Mahmood was recognized as a LeT publications wing member, the web site mentioned.

    “Mahmood was previously part of LeT’s overseas operations team led by Sajjid Mir….Additionally, in August 2013, Mahmood was instructed to forge covert links with Islamic organizations in Bangladesh and Burma, and as of late 2011, Mahmood claimed that LeT’s primary concern should be attacking India and America,” the US Department of Treasury mentioned.

    China in UN

    This is the fifth time in 4 months that China has put a maintain on itemizing proposals to designate Pakistan-based terrorists underneath the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee regime.

    In June this yr, China put a maintain, on the final second, on a joint proposal by India and the US to blacklist Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki underneath the 1267 Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council. Makki is a US-designated terrorist and brother-in-law of Hafiz Saeed.

    New Delhi and Washington had put in a joint proposal to designate Makki as a worldwide terrorist underneath the 1267 ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council however Beijing positioned a maintain on this proposal on the final minute.

    Then in August, China once more put a maintain on a proposal by the US and India to blacklist Abdul Rauf Azhar, the senior chief of Pakistan-based terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM).

    Azhar, born in 1974 in Pakistan, had been sanctioned by the US in December 2010. C The US Department of Treasury had in December 2010 designated “Abdul Rauf Azhar for acting for or on behalf of JEM.” The US mentioned as a senior chief of JeM, Abdul Rauf Azhar “has urged Pakistanis to have interaction in militant actions. He has served as JEM’s appearing chief in 2007, as one in every of JEM’s most senior commanders in India, and as JEM’s intelligence coordinator.

    In 2008 Azhar was assigned to organise suicide assaults in India. He was additionally concerned with JEM’s political wing and has served as a JEM official concerned with coaching camps.” In September, Beijing put a maintain on a proposal moved on the United Nations by the US and co-supported by India to designate Lashkar-e-Tayyiba terrorist Sajid Mir, needed for his involvement within the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist assaults, as a worldwide terrorist.

    Mir is one in every of India’s most needed terrorists and has a bounty of USD5 million positioned on his head by the US for his function within the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults.

    In June this yr, he was jailed for over 15 years in a terror-financing case by an anti-terrorism courtroom in Pakistan, which is struggling to exit the gray record of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

    Pakistani authorities had up to now claimed Mir had died, however Western international locations remained unconvinced and demanded proof of his dying. This subject grew to become a serious sticking level in FATF’s evaluation of Pakistan’s progress on the motion plan late final yr.

    Mir is a senior member of the Pakistan-based LeT and is needed for his involvement within the November 2008 terrorist assaults in Mumbai.

    “Mir was LeT’s operations manager for the attacks, playing a leading role in their planning, preparation, and execution,” the US State Department has mentioned.

    India’s stance

    External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned in his handle to the high-level UN General Assembly session in September had mentioned that “the United Nations responds to terrorism by sanctioning its perpetrators”.

    S Jaishankar has mentioned that terrorism shouldn’t be used as a political software.

    “Those who politicise the UNSC 1267 Sanctions regime, sometimes even to the extent of defending proclaimed terrorists, do so at their own peril. Believe me, they advance neither their own interests nor indeed their reputation,” he had mentioned.

    Amid repeated holds on proposals to designate terrorists underneath the UN sanctions regime, Jaishankar had advised reporters right here final month that terrorism shouldn’t be used as a political software and the concept one thing is blocked with out assigning a purpose challenges widespread sense.

    “We do believe that in any process, if any party is taking a decision, they need to be transparent about it. So the idea that something is blocked without assigning a reason, it sort of challenges common sense,” Jaishankar had mentioned in New York in response to a query by PTI on the problem of repeated holds and blocks on proposals to record terrorists underneath the UN sanctions regime.

    Earlier additionally, China, an all-weather pal of Islamabad, has positioned holds and blocks on bids by India and its allies to record Pakistan-based terrorists.

    In May 2019, India received an enormous diplomatic win on the UN when the worldwide physique designated Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist”, a decade after New Delhi had first approached the world physique on the problem.

    A veto-wielding everlasting member of the UN Security Council, China was the only real hold-out within the 15-nation physique on the bid to blacklist Azhar, blocking makes an attempt by putting a “technical hold”.

  • Russian missiles goal greater than 40 Ukraine cities, cities

    By Reuters:

    Russian missiles pounded greater than 40 Ukrainian cities and cities, officers stated on Thursday, after a U.N. General Assembly decision referred to as Moscow’s annexation of Ukrainian territory “illegal” and Ukraine’s allies dedicated extra army help.

    Russia repeated its place that the West, by serving to Ukraine, indicated that “they are a direct party to the conflict” and warned the admission of Ukraine to NATO may set off World War Three.

    “Kyiv is well aware that such a step would mean a guaranteed escalation to a World War Three,” deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Alexander Venediktov, informed the state TASS information company on Thursday.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy introduced a shock bid for fast-track membership of the NATO army alliance on the finish of September after Russian President Vladimir Putin held a ceremony in Moscow to proclaim 4 partially occupied areas as annexed Russian land.

    In the previous 24 hours, Russian missiles hit greater than 40 settlements, whereas Ukraine’s air power carried out 32 strikes on 25 Russian targets, Ukraine’s Armed Forces General Staff stated.

    Mayor of the port metropolis of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevich, stated in a social media publish that the southern metropolis was “massively shelled”.

    “A five-storey residential building was hit, the two upper floors were completely destroyed, the rest – under rubble. Rescuers are working on the site,” he said.

    A shipbuilding centre and a port on the Southern Bug river off the Black Sea, Mykolaiv has suffered heavy Russian bombardments throughout the war.

    Russia also targeted a settlement in the region of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv using explosive drones early on Thursday, the region’s administration said on the Telegram messaging app.

    Governor of the Kyiv region, Oleksiy Kuleba, said, based on preliminary information, the strikes were caused by Iranian-made loitering munitions. These are often known as “kamikaze drones”.

    Critical infrastructure facilities were hit by the drones, said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of Zelenskyy’s office.

    Missiles struck more than 30 multi-storey and private houses, gas pipelines and power lines in the city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and more than 2,000 families were left without electricity, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Valentyn Reznichenko wrote on Telegram.

    Reuters was not able to immediately verify the report.

    NATO’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, said Russia’s missile attacks were a sign of weakness. “Russia is definitely dropping on the battlefield,” Stoltenberg said.

    As his forces have lost ground since September, Putin has intensified the conflict, ordering the call-up of hundreds of thousands of reservists, proclaiming the annexation of occupied Ukrainian territory and repeatedly threatening to use nuclear weapons to protect Russia.

    Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons to protect Russian soil, which he says includes the four regions he declared annexed last month.

    U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he doubted Putin would resort to nuclear weapons. A senior NATO official said a Russian nuclear strike would almost certainly trigger a “bodily response”from Ukraine’s allies and potentially NATO.

    UN CONDEMNATION OF RUSSIA

    In New York, three-quarters of the 193-member General Assembly – 143 countries – voted on Wednesday in favour of a resolution condemning Russia’s “tried unlawful annexation” of the four partially occupied regions.

    Only four countries joined Russia in voting against the resolution – Syria, Nicaragua, North Korea and Belarus. Thirty-five countries abstained from the vote, including Russia’s strategic partner China, while the rest did not vote.

    Moscow in September proclaimed its annexation of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – after staging what it called referendums.

    Zelenskyy said on Twitter he was “grateful to 143 states that supported the historic #UNGA decision …(Russia’s) try at annexation is nugatory.”

    In Brussels, more than 50 Western countries met to pledge more military aid to Ukraine, especially air defence weapons, on the heels of heavy retaliatory strikes this week ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to an explosion on a bridge in Crimea.

    Pledges from allies included an announcement by Francethat it would deliver radar and air defence systems to Ukraine in the coming weeks. Britainpledged air defence missiles, and Canada saidit would provide artillery rounds among other supplies.

    At the meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Brussels, U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russia’s latest attacks laid bare its “malice and cruelty” since invading Ukraine on Feb. 24. At least 26 people have been killed since Monday in Russian missile attacks across Ukraine.

    Ukraine had shifted momentum since September with extraordinary gains, but would need more help, he said. “… We’re going to do every part we will to make it possible for they’ve what’s required to be efficient,” Austin told reporters.

    Since Monday’s attacks, Germany has sent the first of four IRIS-T SLM air defence systems, while Washington said it would speed up delivery of a promised NASAMS air defence system.

    “The extra help Ukraine will get now, the earlier we’ll come to an finish to the Russian warfare,” Zelenskyy said by video to a forum during International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Washington.

    Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the General Assembly ahead of the vote that the resolution was “politicised and overtly provocative,” adding that it could “destroy” efforts to achieve a diplomatic resolution.

  • Russia Ukraine War News Live Updates: Putin accuses Ukraine of Crimea bridge blast; calls it terrorism

    Volunteers work to wash the particles on a web site the place a number of homes had been destroyed after a Russian assault at a residential space in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, October 9, 2022. (AP)

    A Russian assault on Zaporizhzhia in a single day struck condo buildings and killed no less than 17 individuals, a prime official within the Ukrainian metropolis mentioned Sunday.City council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtev mentioned town was struck by rockets in a single day, and that no less than 5 personal homes had been destroyed and round 40 had been broken. The Ukrainian navy additionally confirmed the assault, saying that there have been dozens of casualties. The strike got here after an explosion Saturday induced the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia, damaging an necessary provide artery for the Kremlin’s faltering struggle effort in southern Ukraine and hitting a towering image of Russian energy within the area.

    Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, the most important in Europe, has misplaced its final remaining exterior energy supply on account of renewed shelling and is now counting on emergency diesel mills, the UN nuclear watchdog mentioned on Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency mentioned that the plant’s hyperlink to a 750-kilovolt line was minimize at round 1 am on Saturday. It cited official info from Ukraine in addition to studies from IAEA specialists on the web site, which is held by Russian forces.

    With the Kremlin distracted by its flagging struggle greater than 1,500 miles away in Ukraine, Russia’s dominium over its outdated Soviet empire reveals indicators of unraveling. Moscow has misplaced its aura and its grip, making a disorderly vacuum that beforehand obedient former Soviet satraps, in addition to China, are shifting to fill.

    On the mountain-flanked steppes of southwestern Kyrgyzstan, the end in only one distant village has been devastating: houses lowered to rubble, a burned-out faculty and a gut-wrenching stench emanating from the rotting carcasses of 24,000 useless chickens.

    All fell sufferer final month to the worst violence to hit the realm because the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union — a short however bloody border battle between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, each members of a Russia-led navy alliance devoted to preserving peace however which did nothing to halt the mayhem.

    Russia’s newest wave of threats to make use of nuclear weapons and minimize vitality provides even additional up to now haven’t scared off Ukraine’s allies within the US and Europe, solely hardening their will to see Kyiv win. What they’re not so positive about is whether or not they need Vladimir Putin to lose. Joe Biden introduced the stress into the open Thursday, warning that the Russian president’s nuclear threats will not be a bluff as his different choices for salvaging his invasion of Ukraine slender.

  • Embrace values, work throughout cultures: UN chief’s message on Gandhi Jayanti

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on the event of Gandhi Jayanti, mentioned the world can overcome challenges by embracing Mahatma Gandhi’s values and dealing throughout cultures.

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres mentioned Mahatma Gandhi’s life reveal a timeless pathway to a extra peaceable world (Photo: File)

    United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tweeted a picture of the ‘Knotted Gun’ on the event of Gandhi Jayanti and mentioned embracing Mahatma Gandhi’s values will assist in defeating challenges confronted by the world.

    In the tweet, Guterres wrote, “On International Day of Non-Violence, we celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday & values of peace, respect & the essential dignity shared by everyone. We can defeat today’s challenges by embracing these values & working across cultures.”

    On the International Day of Non-Violence, we have a good time Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday & values of peace, respect & the important dignity shared by everybody.

    We can defeat in the present day’s challenges by embracing these values & working throughout cultures & borders to construct a greater future. pic.twitter.com/EHJc2q4UZz

    — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) October 2, 2022

    The ‘Knotted Gun’ is an iconic international sculpture parting the message of peace and non-violence.

    The sculpture was created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswrd in 1980 as a tribute to John Lennon, the English songwriter and Beetles member, after his homicide.

    The sculpture is situated in additional than 30 locations on the planet, together with the United Nations headquarters, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, and the Peace Park in Beijing.

    Read | World is in ‘great peril’: UN chief warns international leaders

    Mahatma Gandhi’s UN look

    In a primary, Mahatma Gandhi made a particular look on the United Nations, sharing his message on training on the world organisation because it commemorated the International Day of Non-Violence.

    A particular life-size hologram of Gandhi was projected throughout a panel dialogue organised on Friday by India’s Permanent Mission to the UN and UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) on the UN headquarters right here to commemorate the International Day of Non-Violence, marking Gandhi’s start anniversary on October 2.

    (With company enter)

    Read | From the archives: Mahatma Gandhi, an enduring Legacy

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  • War crimes in Russian-occupied Ukraine, confirms UN probe physique; Children raped, tortured

    War crimes together with rape, torture and confinement of youngsters have been dedicated in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, the pinnacle of a U.N.-mandated investigation physique mentioned on Friday.

    Ukraine and its Western allies allege a litany of rights abuses by Russian troopers for the reason that February 24 invasion, however Moscow denies that as a smear marketing campaign.

    “Based on the evidence gathered by the Commission, it has concluded that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine,” Erik Mose, who heads the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, advised the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

    He didn’t specify who was responsible however the fee has targeted on areas beforehand occupied by Russian forces comparable to Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy.

    Investigators from the fee, created by the rights council in March, visited 27 locations and interviewed greater than 150 victims and witnesses.

    They discovered proof of a lot of executions together with our bodies with tied palms, slit throats and gunshot wounds to the pinnacle, Mose mentioned.

    He mentioned investigators had recognized victims of sexual violence aged between 4 and 82. While some Russian troopers had used sexual violence as a method, the fee “has not established any general pattern to that effect”, Mose added.

    ‘DARK WORLD’

    Russia denies intentionally attacking civilians throughout what it calls its “special military operation”.
    Russia was known as on to answer the allegations on the council assembly however its seat was left empty.

    There was no instant official response from Moscow.

    The fee will subsequent flip its consideration to allegations of “filtration” camps in Russian-occupied areas for processing Ukrainian prisoners in addition to claims of compelled transfers of individuals and adoption of Ukrainian kids in Russia.

    Ukraine and another nations urged the fee to additionally examine a mass burial website close to Izium, in jap Ukraine, the place lots of of our bodies have been discovered.

    “If left unanswered, (Russia’s violations) will drag us into a dark world of impunity and permissiveness,” Ukraine’s envoy Anton Korynevych advised the council by video hyperlink.

    Sometimes investigations launched by the council can be utilized earlier than nationwide and worldwide courts, comparable to within the case of a former Syrian intelligence officer jailed for state-backed torture in Germany in January.

    Mose mentioned he was in contact with the International Criminal Court concerning the fee’s findings. The physique is because of submit an entire report back to the council on the finish of its mandate in March 2023, together with with suggestions on find out how to maintain perpetrators to account.

  • Only PM Modi can dealer peace between Ukraine, Russia: Mexico at UN

    Mexico has proposed to the United Nations to arrange a committee that would come with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pope Francis, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to mediate everlasting peace between Russia and Ukraine.

    The proposal was put ahead by Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón, the international minister of Mexico, whereas collaborating in a UN Security Council debate on Ukraine in New York.

    This got here days after Modi, who met Putin on the sidelines of the twenty second assembly of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand, advised the Russian chief that “today’s era is not of war”. The Indian prime minister’s remarks have been welcomed by the western world together with the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

    ALSO READ | 4 Ukraine areas put together to carry referendums to affix Russia

    “Based on its pacifist vocation, Mexico believes that the international community must now channel its best efforts to achieve peace,” Casaubón mentioned.

    “In this regard, I would like to share with you the proposal of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to strengthen the mediation efforts of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, through the formation of a Committee for Dialogue and Peace in Ukraine with the participation of other heads of state and government, including, if possible, His Excellency Narendra Modi and His Holiness Pope Francis.”

    He mentioned the target of the committee can be to generate new mechanisms for dialogue and create complementary areas for mediation to construct confidence, scale back tensions and open the way in which for lasting peace.

    ALSO READ | Protests get away in Russia, over 1k detained as Putin orders partial navy call-up

    Casaubon mentioned the Mexican delegation will proceed with the mandatory consultations to contribute in the direction of producing broad help for the mediation efforts led by the UN secretary-general in addition to for the committee, “whose formation we hope will proceed with the support of the UN member states that so decide”.

    “As the Secretary-General has said, it is time to act and commit to peace. To settle for war is always to go to the precipice,” he mentioned.

    The Mexican international minister argued that peace can solely be achieved via dialogue, diplomacy and by constructing efficient political channels.

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    “Indifference is unacceptable, just as it is unacceptable to simply lament the fact that, so far, in the case in question, the Security Council has not been able to fulfil its essential responsibility,” he mentioned.

    “The reasons why this Council can become dysfunctional are well known. It is up to us to correct them. The time is right to consider, in all seriousness, the structural reforms required to do so,” Casaubon added.

    — ENDS —

  • India reiterates finish to hostilities, return to dialogue in Ukraine: Jaishankar at UN Security Council

    Iterating on PM Narendra Modi’s assertion to Vladimir Putin that this can’t be an period of struggle, India known as for the cessation of hostilities amid the Russia-Ukraine struggle.

    India reiterated want for fast cessation of all hostilities amid Russia Ukraine battle. (PTI/FILE)

    HIGHLIGHTSRussia-Ukraine struggle began in February 2022.India has known as for cessation of violence and struggle on the UN.Russia is dealing with heavy sanctions by international locations, notably the West.

    India on Thursday informed the UN Security Council that the necessity of the hour is to finish the battle in Ukraine and return to dialogue and stated the nuclear subject is a selected nervousness, underlining Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion to Russian President Vladimir Putin that this can’t be an period of struggle.

    “The trajectory of the Ukraine conflict is a matter of profound concern for the entire international community. The future outlook appears even more disturbing. The nuclear issue is particular anxiety,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar informed the 15-nation UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine’s ‘Fight in opposition to impunity’.

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    The briefing, chaired by French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna, was held Thursday as world leaders gathered within the UN headquarters for the high-level 77th session of the UN General Assembly.

    Addressing the Council briefing had been UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs James Cleverly and Foreign Ministers of different UNSC members.

    Jaishankar informed the Council that in a globalised world, the impression of the battle is being felt even in distant areas. “We have all experienced its consequences in terms of SURGING costs and actual shortages of food grains, fertilizers and fuel.”

    “On this core too, there are good grounds to be nervous about what awaits us,” he stated.

    India has not but condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and it has been sustaining that the disaster should be resolved by way of diplomacy and dialogue.

    On Wednesday, Jaishankar met Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on the UN headquarters right here and apprised him of India’s principled place that emphasises cessation of all hostilities and returns to dialogue and diplomacy.

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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.