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Embarrassment for Pakistan as UNSC rejects its application to add two Indians in 1267 sanction list as ‘international terrorists’

OpIndia Staff - 3 September, 2020

The China-backed move of Pakistan was blocked by five UNSC members, USA, UK, France, Germany and Belgium.

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Pakistan publishes fakes speech at UNSC meeting that it didn’t attend, Indian mission at UN busts its lies

OpIndia Staff - 26 August, 2020

The UNSC meeting that Pakistan has claimed to have attended was open only for UNSC members, and Pakistan is not a member curently

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India elected unopposed to non-permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council

OpIndia Staff - 18 June, 2020

India received overwhelming support as it was elected unopposed as one of the non-permanent members of the UNSC after winning 184 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. The minimum requirement to get elected was 128 votes.

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Terrorists might use coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to launch bio-terror attack across the world: UN chief

OpIndia Staff - 10 April, 2020

Secretary General of UN Antonio Guterres cautioned UNSC that Coronavirus pandemic is threatening international security as terrorists might use this opportunity to launch a bio-terror attack.

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USA calls for an analysis of the ‘origins’ of the Wuhan Coronavirus in UNSC meet, China says nobody should be made ‘scapegoat’

OpIndia Staff - 10 April, 2020

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met on Thursday through video conference to discuss the Wuhan Coronavirus crisis, where USA and China went head to head

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UNSC members snub China’s attempt at raking up Kashmir issue, maintain that Kashmir remains a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan

OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2020

Once again in a span of five months, China, nudged by Pakistan, held an informal consultation on the Kashmir issue at United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in New York.

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With $230 million deficit, United Nations could run out of money by October end, warns UN chief Antonio Guterres

OpIndia Staff - 9 October, 2019

The UN Secretary-General Guterres said member states of the international body have only paid 70 per cent of the total amount needed for regular budget operations in 2019.

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In a big setback to China, its ‘Belt and Road’ project dropped from UNSC resolution on Afghanistan

OpIndia Staff - 18 September, 2019

The resolutions passed in earlier years, the Belt and Road project was mentioned

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China and Pakistan only countries to raise Kashmir at UNHRC, Indian delegation meets UNHRC chief to apprise of the situation

OpIndia Staff - 12 September, 2019

Pakistan has been trying its level best to convince the entire world that India indulges in Human Rights violations in Kashmir, sadly it has not been able to convince its own ministers about the same

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You are thieves, you have been guzzling money for 20 years: Pakistani national accuses their UN representative Maleeha Lodhi

OpIndia Staff - 13 August, 2019

"Shame on you. You have been eating money all these years", said the Pakistani national to Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's permanent representative at the UN.

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