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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 13, 2022
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In India, a country of probing and often rambunctious political debate, another chapter in the “who we are” story has started in the wake of what President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is calling a Russian “war of annihilation” of…
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 25, 2021
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India cautioned today that tolerating extremism in Afghanistan would open the way to renewed terrorism in the region. The message was aimed at Pakistan, where the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is promoting…
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, UNGA76
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 2, 2021
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The presidency of the Security Council is always a high time for a country’s diplomacy, but for India right now, it’s more than that. In August, the country is going to try to show the world why it deserves…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 26, 2020
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India accused the United Nations of failing to update its work and adopt overdue reforms in his speech to the General Assembly’s 75th-anniversary session, on Sept. 26. He praised what he saw as India’s…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 2, 2020
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With five months to go before India takes its elected seat on the Security Council for 2021-2022, the country’s foreign minister says it will stay true to its founding tradition of nonalignment and not take sides with any big…
- Categories: India, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 27, 2019
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War clouds hovered again when the leaders of India and Pakistan, the South Asian adversaries that have failed over decades to end their perilous standoff over Kashmir, spoke on the same day at the United Nations, Sept. 27. India…
- Categories: General Assembly
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 25, 2019
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As a communications shutdown is still depriving people in the predominantly Muslim Kashmir Valley contact with the outside world, five eminent international human-rights advocates say that the Indian military chokehold may be obscuring continuing abuses against civilians, nearly three…
- Categories: India
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2019
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A familiar refrain often heard when the burgeoning crisis in Kashmir rises to the top of the news is that this is an old story from long ago; we have moved on. The United Nations is discovering, however, that…
- Categories: Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 14, 2019
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Donald Trump will shake hands with Emmanuel Macron, Jair Bolsonaro and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. But will Benjamin Netanyahu; Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel be there, too? The 74th opening debate of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts on…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 20, 2019
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Every national election in India is numerically mind-boggling, and this year is no exception. More than 800 million registered voters are expected to participate in an election spanning 39 days from April 11 to May 19. In this huge…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Take a Look
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 15, 2019
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As many political analysts see democracy weakened by introverted, xenophobic parties and autocratic leaders, a glimmer of hope is offered by a new generation of candidates and voters. This year will test that optimism in a series of important…
- Categories: Governance, Women
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- Soumya Shankar
- • September 28, 2018
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Now was supposed to be the first thaw in relations between Pakistan and India after talks have been stalled since 2016. But Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan recently tweeted about India’s “arrogant and negative response . . ….
- Categories: India, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 26, 2017
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In Washington, there is no question that the State Department is in a weakened position, a situation that the Trump White House — and the Trump family — seem to relish. To some in the understaffed, stripped-down Foreign Service…
- Categories: Middle East, Nikki Haley Watch, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 27, 2017
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Stephen Lewis is an outspoken and often impassioned Canadian diplomat and former United Nations official with a lot of experience in tracking health crises in Africa. Now he has turned his attention to tuberculosis in India, where he made…
- Categories: Asia, Health and Population, India
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 2, 2016
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Whatever the real reason that led Donald Trump to name Nikki Haley as his ambassador to the United Nations — that she is a “deal-maker,” a woman from an ethnic minority and a moderate Republican voice he may want…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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