Palestine: General Assembly discusses failed UN membership bid
A 2022 initiative, resolution76/262, calls for the UN’s most representative body to meet within 10 days if the veto is used in the Security Council by one of its permanent…
US vetoes Palestine’s request for full UN membership
In a vote of 12 in favour to one against, with two abstentions, the Council did not adopt a draft resolution that would have recommended the General Assembly to hold…
Palestinian request for UN membership in spotlight amid fears for Rafah invasion
At the same time, a full six months since Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel prompted an unprecedented Israeli military response, former residents of Khan Younis just north of Rafah are…
Palestinian request for UN membership moves on to specialized committee
The proposal for the referral, made by Ambassador Vanessa Frazier of Malta, Security Council President for April, received no objections from the body’s 15 members. “Unless I hear a proposal…
NATO Summit; Ukraine’s membership bid welcomed but not accepted
NATO once again gives the green flag to Ukraine; Photo: Reuters Vilnius: No progress was made on the membership of Russia-imposed war-torn Ukraine at the summit of NATO, the Western…
Erdogan made Sweden’s NATO accession conditional on Turkey’s EU membership
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that before the approval of the Turkish Parliament for Sweden’s accession to the NATO alliance, the way for Turkey’s accession to the European Union…
Rahul Gandhi’s appeal against disqualification from membership rejected
Rahul Gandhi’s membership was suspended for indirectly mocking Modi; Photo: File New Delhi: An Indian court rejected opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s appeal against the disqualification sentence in the defamation case.…
Iran’s membership will be formally approved
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Iran’s membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will be formally approved at the proposed meeting on July 4. This was announced by the…
Egypt has applied for the membership of the BRICS group
Russia’s ambassador in Cairo, Georgy Boryshenko, has announced that Egypt has applied to join BRICS. The Russian ambassador said in an interview to the news agency that the BRICS countries…
Turkey and Hungary ratify Sweden’s NATO membership, US demands
The US has asked Turkey and Hungary to support Sweden’s membership in NATO. On the issue of Sweden joining NATO, American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that Turkey and Hungary…