US casts third veto of UN action since start of Israel-Hamas warThe United States vetoed an Algerian-drafted UN Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate hum...
20 Feb, 2024, 10.41 PM IST
UN likely to vote Tuesday on Gaza ceasefire, US signals vetoThe United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Algeria's draft resolution for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-H...
18 Feb, 2024, 10.01 AM IST
UN Security Council demands Gaza aid deliveries 'at scale'After days of delays, the resolution also called for the creation of "conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities" but did not ca...
23 Dec, 2023, 05.21 PM IST
US vetoes UN resolution condemning Hamas attacks on Israel and all violence against civiliansThe United States has vetoed a UN resolution condemning Hamas' attacks on Israel and calling for humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza. ...
19 Oct, 2023, 11.18 AM IST
Hope India will lift wheat export curbs after UNSC meet: US"India will be one of the countries participating in our meeting at the Security Council, and we hope that they can, as they hear the conce...
18 May, 2022, 11.21 AM IST
US hopes India would 'reconsider' its decision to restrict wheat exportsThe Centre last week amended the country's export policy of wheat by putting its export under the "prohibited" category. The order that was...
17 May, 2022, 10.59 AM IST
U.S. pushes to suspend Russia from Human Rights CouncilA two-thirds majority vote by the 193-member assembly in New York can suspend a state from the council for persistently committing gross an...
04 Apr, 2022, 07.18 PM IST
There will be consequences for China if it decides to provide substantial military or financial support to Russia: US Ambassador to UNIn a call with China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday, US President Joe Biden "detailed the implications and consequences" if Beijing wer...
20 Mar, 2022, 10.56 PM IST
Russia using UN to spread propaganda, Western states say"Russia is once again attempting to use this council to launder its disinformation, spread its propaganda, and justify its unprovoked and b...
19 Mar, 2022, 11.51 AM IST
Vladimir Putin's nuclear alert 'totally unacceptable': US"This is a pattern that we've seen from President Putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that don't exis...
27 Feb, 2022, 09.12 PM IST
US envoy says Putin testing how far he can pushLinda Thomas-Greenfield told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Monday night that this move and Putin's earlier announcem...
22 Feb, 2022, 11.13 AM IST
9/11 Memorial site should remind us of collective resolve to fight terrorism: IndiaThe 15-nation Council issued a press statement on Thursday on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, recalling that th...
10 Sep, 2021, 08.13 PM IST
We must all ensure Afghanistan cannot ever, ever again be a base for terrorism: US in UNSCThe Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing an end to a two-decade campaign in which the...
16 Aug, 2021, 09.45 PM IST
US to work around the clock to help India in its battle against COVID-19 surge: US Ambassador to UNThomas-Greenfield noted that as India so "unfortunately demonstrates", it is hard to overstate the impact COVID-19 has had on the world.
26 Apr, 2021, 08.53 PM IST
India, US reaffirm strategic partnership at bilateral meeting of UN envoysNewly appointed US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield met India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti as ...
01 Mar, 2021, 07.49 PM IST
Senate confirms Joe Biden's choice for UN ambassadorThomas-Greenfield, a retired 35-year veteran of the foreign service who resigned during the Trump administration, will be the third African...
23 Feb, 2021, 11.00 PM IST
India's bid for permanent UNSC membership matter of discussion: Biden's UN ambassador nomineeThree previous administrations, that of George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, had publicly said that the United States supports Ind...
28 Jan, 2021, 08.32 AM IST