The UN Security Council on Thursday held its first straw poll on candidates vying to become the next UN secretary-general but made no announcement of the results.
Moscow expects to discuss at an upcoming meeting of the Russia-NATO Council the expansion of the military alliance to the east, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
The head of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria warned Tuesday that ongoing fighting and systemic human rights violations were a matter of extreme concern for the country's desperate population and attempts to broker a political end to the five-year conflict.
For the first time the U.N. Security Council has used language acknowledging violence targeting the LGBT community in an official statement.
The UN Human Rights Council (HCR) on Monday marked its tenth anniversary by holding a high-level panel discussion to reflect on its achievements and challenges.
After a second round of auditions of candidates for the next UN secretary-general concluded here on Tuesday, UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft said he will made conclusions on these auditions and report them to the Security Council.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday "strongly condemned" the most recent failed ballistic missile launches of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on May 31 and April 27-28.
More than a decade after the end of Liberia’s last civil war, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to lift the remaining sanctions against the West African country, enabling it buy arms on the global market and ushering in a new era of normalcy for a long-brutalized land.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday dismissed criticism from the international community for its test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The UN Security Council on Sunday "strongly" condemned Saturday's submarine-launched ballistic missile test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
On the 400th anniversary of his death, Shakespeare is more popular abroad than in Britain and makes a significant contribution to the UK’s prosperity and influence, according to a survey published on Tuesday.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday strongly condemned the firing of a ballistic missile by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) earlier in the day.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday denounced the UN Security Council for dismissing its call for convening a meeting to discuss ongoing U.S.-S.Korea joint military exercises.
A cross-departmental team will investigate the recent case of improper vaccines trading, Xinhua learned Monday.
There is "no reason, none" for the escalation of the situation in the Western Sahara after Morocco ordered withdrawal of 84 international staff members on the UN Mission in West Sahara to protest UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's use of the word "occupation" in describing the status of the disputed territory, Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, told reporters here Monday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to comply with UN Security Council resolutions and to halt inflammatory and escalatory actions.
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong chairwoman Starry Lee said Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has accepted her resignation from the Executive Council (ExCo).
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