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In new strategy, G4 ministers to push 'consolidated text' to be draft resolution for UNSC reform
The Ministers of India, Brazil, Germany and Japan, whose group for Council reform is known as G4, said in a press statement after their meeting on Thursday that they have instructed their diplomats at the UN to work with General Assembly (UNGA) President Csaba Korosi and the heads of the negotiation process "to arrive at a single consolidated text as a basis for a draft resolution for consideration by the UNGA".
Quad foreign ministers to meet every year on sidelines of UNGA
The Quad, which started out in 2004 as the Australia-India-Japan-US Tsunami Core Group and later turned into the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, has witnessed intense engagement in recent years after it was resurrected in 2017 by the Donald Trump administration from its 2008 collapse.
Shehbaz Sharif fears 'all hell to break loose' sans debt relief
As per Shehbaz Sharif, there is a "yawning gap" between what Pakistan is asking for and what is available, warning that the nation is facing the imminent threat of epidemics and other dangers, Geo News reported. "God forbid this happens, all hell will [break loose]," he said.
Shehbaz meets Biden at reception for world leaders in New York
Shehbaz Sharif, along with other world leaders, were invited to the reception by the US President, Express Tribune reported. This is the first interaction between Biden and the Pakistani Prime Minister. Since his election, Biden had not spoken to either then Prime Minister Imran Khan or his successor, it said.
Reliance Foundation, Observer Research and UN in India to host two events in New York
According to a statement issued by the Observer Research Foundation, 'Aspirations, Access & Agency: Women transforming lives with technology' - a publication by Reliance Foundation and Observer Research Foundation - will also be launched at these events.
Donald Trump's presidential comeback looks snuffed out as legal problems mount
Former US President Donald Trump's efforts at making a comeback for the White House seems "derailed" and "snuffed out" with his legal perils becoming insurmountable, media reports said.
Turkey mediates Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap involving 200: Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Russia and Ukraine had exchanged 200 prisoners of war under the mediation of Turkey.
WHO warns against Covid complacency, urges for life-saving action
"(Covid-19) pandemic is not over, but the end is in sight ... Being able to see the end does not mean we are at the end," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated at a press briefing on Thursday. He cited as reasons that the pandemic is still inflicting a death toll of 10,000 per week, most of which could be prevented.
At UNSC, Jaishankar highlights China's stranglehold on sanctioning terrorists
"Politics should never ever provide cover to evade accountability. Nor indeed to facilitate impunity," he said when the Security Council met on impunity for the crimes in Ukraine.
China blocks action against Pakistan-based terrorist in 'favour' to close ally
China's move to stymie the proposal, tabled by the US and co-sponsored by India, in the UN Security Council's 1267 Committee for subjecting Mir to an assets freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo, comes soon after Chinese President Xi Jinping met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of the recently-concluded 22nd Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan.
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