The Human Rights Council opened in Geneva on Monday with a warning from the UN’s top rights official that, with forest fires raging in the Amazon, “we are burning up our future, literally”.
Syria’s relations with the Arab world are expected to witness a major breakthrough. In particular, this is being witnessed at the diplomatic level with Arab states reestablishing diplomatic ties with Damascus, as well as in the economic front with trade and investments being sought in Syria.
In the second quarter of 2019, the United Nations received 38 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) involving UN personnel, including civilian and uniformed personnel from peacekeeping operations, as well as those from agencies, funds and programmes, according to the latest figures released on Thursday.
The Prime Minister also strongly pitched for Indian human resource to develop Russia’s Far East, which is sparsely populated, and where, he reminded, India was the first contry to open a consulate when Vladivostok was still a closed city, something that testifies to the “high trust that our two countries share”.
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Indian firms have invested over $7 billion in taking stake in Russian oil and gas fields. India ventured into Russia when its flagship overseas firm ONGC Videsh in 2001 acquired a 20 per cent stake in Sakhalin-1 oil and gas field in Far East Russia
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India-Africa relations are being shaped by a world in which multilateralism is facing challenges aroundthe world, unilateralism and protectionist tendencies were rising
The makhalla support socially vulnerable groups of the population, protect motherhood and childhood, develop small business and private entrepreneurship, national handicraft, sanitary and environmental conditions of the territory of makhalla and the execution of the legislation by assembly of citizens.
Photo: Makhalla supported women’s entrepreneurship
President Shavkat Mirzioyev underscored the fact that the democratic processes in Uzbekistan became irreversible and inevitable
It is clear to analysts and observers of the region that after decades of depending and outsourcing its security concerns to its Western allies – primarily the US – the Gulf countries are having a rethink and coming into their own as far as international diplomacy and the security architecture of the region is concerned.
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Thirty eight countries are participating in the international fair, including Russia, China, Iran, the UAE, Indonesia, the Chamber of Commerce of the Sultunate of Oman, and others.
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