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UN must evolve to ‘stand strong’ for the next 80 years: General Assembly president
- UN News
As the United Nations marks 80 years of existence, it must adapt and evolve to be fit for future generations, the President of the General Assembly said on Wednesday during a briefing to journalists in New York.
Why the Awaza Declaration Could Rewrite the Future for the World’s Landlocked Nations
- Inter Press Service
AWAZA, Turkmenistan , September 16 (IPS) - The theater of diplomacy can be more revealing than the speeches. Under a scorching Caspian sun in Awaza, two marines lowered their flags with the precision of a ballet. The green silk of Turkmenistan, folded into a neat bundle before the UN’s blue-and-gold standard, fluttered briefly and vanished into waiting hands.
The Cruel Deceptions of Peace in Palestine
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, USA, September 16 (IPS) - In a long past due move, the UN General Assembly voted 142-10 to approve a plan called “The New York Declaration” that hopes to revive the long dead Two State Solution for Palestinian Independence.
Closing the US$1.5 trillion Gap: How FDI can Help Achieve SDGs in Asia & the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, September 16 (IPS) - Over the past two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has been the single largest and most stable source of external development capital in Asia and the Pacific (see Figure).
Ahead of high-stakes General Assembly week, Guterres urges world leaders to ‘get serious – and deliver’
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged world leaders to “get serious – and deliver” as they begin arriving in New York for the high-level week of the 80th General Assembly.
UN’s humanitarian work is ‘underfunded, overstretched, and under attack’
- UN News
“Underfunded, overstretched and under attack” is how the United Nation’s top aid official has referred to the UN and the support it is providing to the humanitarian sector.
United Nations revises 2026 regular budget proposal, pairing cost reductions with initial reform measures
- UN News
The United Nations has finalised the revised estimates for its 2026 proposed programme budget, outlining more than $500 million in reductions, while also introducing the first measures of the UN80 Initiative - a wider effort to make the Organisation more effective and resilient as it marks its 80th anniversary.
NGOs on a Virtual Blacklist at UN High-Level Meetings of World Leaders
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, September 15 (IPS) - When the high-level meeting of over 150 world political leaders takes place September 22-30, thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their accredited UN representatives will either be banned from the UN premises or permitted into the building on a strictly restricted basis– as it happens every year.
The United Nations Turns 80: a Miracle it has Lasted So Long
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Chile, September 12 (IPS) - At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
Israel, Hamas, the US and Qatar—Unraveling the Mess
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, September 11 (IPS) - Israel’s brazen attack on Hamas’ negotiating team in Qatar while they were deliberating a new ceasefire with Israel raises serious questions not only about the legality of the attack, which violated international laws and norms, and concerns over Qatar’s sovereignty, but also the potential regional and international fallout.
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