India pledges USD 10.95 million for UN development activities

Edit Deccan Chronicle 12 Nov 2016
India has pledged about USD 10.95 million for development activities across several UN bodies for the year 2017. "India has been a regular contributor to the UN since its founding ... Kumar said India is also processing contribution for the Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and for the Victims of Torture and UN Volunteers....

UN-brokered Cyprus talks achieve 'significant progress'; to reconvene on 20 November (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Nov 2016
UN - United Nations) ... Significant progress has been achieved,' the UN spokesperson for Cyprus said in a statement released to the press yesterday. The Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akıncı, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Nicos Anastasiades, have been engaged in sustained negotiations in Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland, since 7 November under the auspices of the UN ... Original documenthttp.//www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55544....

INTERVIEW: ‘Policing is about the passion to serve people’- UNAMID Police Commissioner Priscilla Makotose (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Nov 2016
UN - United Nations). 11 November 2016 - 'The police in the UN peacekeeping operations are there to assist the host country police,' says Priscilla Makotose, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Police Commissioner, the highest-ranking female police officer in the UN system, appointed in March 2016 ... Within the UN system, she has had a taste of peacekeeping operations before her current posting ... UN News Centre....

INTERVIEW: “Policing is about the passion to serve people”- UNAMID Police Commissioner Priscilla Makotose

Edit United Nations 12 Nov 2016
11 November 2016 – “The police in the UN peacekeeping operations are there to assist the host country police,” says Priscilla Makotose, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Police Commissioner, the highest-ranking female police officer in the UN system, appointed in March 2016 ... Within the UN system, she has had a taste of peacekeeping operations before her current posting ... UN News Centre ... UN Photo....

UN-brokered Cyprus talks achieve 'significant progress' to reconvene on 20 November

Edit United Nations 12 Nov 2016
Significant progress has been achieved,” the UN spokesperson for Cyprus said in a statement released to the press yesterday. The Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akıncı, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Nicos Anastasiades, have been engaged in sustained negotiations in Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland, since 7 November under the auspices of the UN....

Iran urges UN to remain impartial in Syria crisis

Edit Press TV 12 Nov 2016
He added that the UN needs to pay heed to all aspects of the Syrian crisis, dispatch immediate humanitarian aid to the crisis-hit people, adopt strategies to effectively fight terrorism and prepare the ground for the Syrians to determine their own future ... The UN envoy arrived in Tehran on Saturday at the invitation of Jaberi Ansari to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria....

China blocks NGO chairman from UN

Edit Taipei Times 12 Nov 2016
A Taiwan non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to the treatment of rare diseases was barred from a UN-affiliated meeting in New York because of a protest from China. Taiwan Foundation for Rare Disorders chairman Tseng Min-chieh (曾敏傑) was invited to the NGO Committee for Rare Diseases launch on Friday to talk about how Taiwan can contribute to the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development....

11/11/2016 Take five: Empowering women through climate-smart agriculture in the DRC (UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Nov 2016
UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women). As world leaders attend the Convention on Climate Change (COP 22) in Morocco from 7 - 18 November, UN Women's Country Representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Awa Ndiaye Seck, underlines the importance of empowering women through sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture ... UN Women DRC....

Yemen govt urges UN envoy to work on new road map

Edit Arabnews 12 Nov 2016
The Yemeni government announced on Friday that it can accept the UN envoy’s peace plan only if it takes into consideration three key issues. The UN Security Council Resolution 2216; the GCC initiative and the outcome of the Yemeni national dialogue. Abdulmalek Al-Mekhlafi, Yemeni deputy prime minister and foreign minister, stressed the need for UN ......

UN’s Syria envoy in Iran for talks

Edit Press TV 12 Nov 2016
The United Nations (UN)’s Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has traveled to the Iranian capital, Tehran, to discuss the ongoing Syrian conflict with Iranian Foreign Ministry officials ... The UN official has traveled to Iran several times since his appointment as the UN’s envoy for Syria to hold talks with Iranian officials....

Talks on reunification of Cyprus make headway: UN

Edit Press TV 12 Nov 2016
Significant progress has been achieved," the UN said in a statement released on Friday ... UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who opened the peace talks, said the opposite sides were committed to trying to reach an agreement this year ... Elsewhere in its statement, the UN said that the two leaders have decided “to take a ......

India pledges USD 10.95 mn for UN development activities

Edit One India 12 Nov 2016
New York, Nov 12  India has pledged about USD 10.95 million for development activities across several UN bodies for the year 2017. {image-unitednations-04-1478253343.jpg www.oneindia.com} "India has been a regular contributor to the UN since its founding. India believes that the UN ... ....
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