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External Affairs Minister Jaishankar held talks with UN secretary general Guterres and UNGA President Francis on India's G20 Presidency, reform of international financial institutions and India's advocacy for the Global South. He also discussed development partnership, millets and rice production, digital delivery and defense cooperation with Madagascar Foreign Minister Sylla.…

If another pandemic happens, the world will again be unprepared

Niger's coup leaders accused the head of the United Nations on Friday of obstructing their participation in the body's General Assembly, saying it was "likely to undermine any effort to end the crisis in our country".

At the annual meeting of world leaders last year, the United Nations chief sounded a global alarm about the survival of humanity and the planet

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals — starting with an end to poverty — were set in 2015. At the halfway mark, the world is reeling from crises. Progress is stunted. Do the goals still help?

In the run-up to the summit, about 100 heads of state had written in response to a call from Secretary General Antonio Guterres to ramp up action to address the climate crisis

At the United Nations, “multilateralism” is always the goal, however fragmented and complex

The United Nations chief says Earth is facing a hellish problem in climate change and its leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb carbon emissions that’s causing it

US and France also condemn Azerbaijan’s military operation against separatists in Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh.

‘We must be united to make it - and we’ll do it.’