India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Norway are in the middle of their two-year term as non-permanent members. Enditem Norwegian UN ambassador Mona Juul, in her capacity as president of the Security Council for the month of January, welcomes the new members during a flag installation ceremony at...
The draft, proposed by the United States and Albania, was rejected because it was vetoed by the council's permanent member Russia. Any negative vote, known as a veto, from the council's five permanent members means a failed resolution. China, India and the United Arab Em...
All five candidates were running unopposed on Thursday. They will replace the outgoing non-permanent members of India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Norway. A candidate must obtain the support of two-thirds of the UN member states present and voting at the General Assembly session in order to sec...
To pass a Security Council vote, there must be nine votes in favour, with none of the five permanent members voting against. In February last year Russia vetoed a resolution that intended to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine (China, India and the United Arab Emirates all abstained). In S...
UN Security Council welcomes new members; 2 are first-timers 1 of 10 | CORRECTS NAME TO PEDRO COMISSARIO - Mozambique’s United Nations Ambassador Pedro Comissário Afonso, left, installs his country’s flag during ceremony for five newly-elected non-permanent members to serve ...
As of July 2020, there were over 290 million Facebook users in India. With 2.6 billion monthly active users, 98% of active Facebook users access the platform via mobile, with over 90% of Facebook’s ad revenues coming in via the device. [Source] Mobile advertising has become the lion’...
for increasing the number of both permanent and non-permanent members, including “permanent seats for those nations we’ve long supported and permanent seats for countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.” The United States also supports permanent seats for Germany, Japan and ...
While highlighting the critical role of the mission, India's permanent representative T. S. Tirumurti emphasized the importance of not burdening the mission with direct counter-terrorism-related operations, injecting a different perspective. These operations need to be undertaken by national security fo...
The two-tiered system of membership, with five permanent (P5), veto-wielding member states and 10 non-permanent members (the elected ten or E10) that have no right to the veto, renders the UN institutionally unequal. Further, while there is no permanent seat for any African country, ...
“No US Navy vessels were in the vicinity,” the official said, adding that Naval Forces Central Command is communicating with the struck vessel which is making its way toward India. The Indian Coast Guard posted on social media that there are 21 crew members on board and that “the vesse...