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• Karabakh: Azerbaijan must ‘guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians’

  2023-09-27

  A UN-appointed independent human rights expert on Wednesday called on Azerbaijan to “guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians” in the Karabakh region and ensure that civilians who remain “are respected and protected in line with its international obligations.”

• A ‘club of elites’ will not realise the multilateral future we need, Holy See tells UN Assembly

  2023-09-26

  The international community must maintain the universality of global multilateral forums and not turn them into “clubs reserved for a few elites...where some are tolerated” if they stay to themselves, a senior Holy See official told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

• Ukraine: Rape and torture by Russian forces continuing, rights experts report

  2023-09-25

  Russian forces in Ukraine faced new allegations of war crimes on Monday as UN-appointed independent rights experts published the findings of their latest report into Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour.

• Russian Foreign Minister hits out at West’s ‘empire of lies’

  2023-09-23

  Russia’s Foreign Minister told the UN General Assembly on Saturday that a new world order is being born through a struggle between a neocolonial minority and a “global majority” seeking to end decades of Western domination.

• Don’t turn back the clock, work together and ‘get the future right’, urges Prime Minister of Malta

  2023-09-22

  To make multilateralism work in this age of insecurity we need to ensure that a much wider group of voices are heard – in this United Nations, and around the globe, the Prime Minister of Malta said on Friday.

• World must pass ‘AI stress test’, UK Deputy PM says, announcing summit

  2023-09-22

  The United Kingdom will be holding a summit on artificial intelligence (AI) so that nations can come together to “understand it, govern it, harness its potential and contain its risks”, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden told the UN General Assembly on Friday.

• Equality among states is non-negotiable, France says at UN

  2023-09-21

  At the UN on Thursday, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna declared that her country defends the principle of equality between states – “a principle that no one can or must compromise” – and supports “African solutions to crises in Africa”.

• European Council President says it’s time to put multilateralism back on solid ground

  2023-09-21

  The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, appealed on Thursday to the international community to protect the principles of the UN Charter, reform the Organization’s governance structures and double down on efforts to fight the climate crisis.

• Human rights in Russia: ‘Significant deterioration’

  2023-09-21

  The human rights situation within Russia has significantly deteriorated since the invasion of Ukraine last year, according to a UN-appointed expert on Thursday.   

• At UN Assembly, Bosnia and Herzegovina slams ‘foreign influence’ on its institutions

  2023-09-20

  Zeljko Komsic, the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, addressed the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, railing against the impact of larger countries’ allegedly selective and exploitative immigration policies, a government defined by ethnic divisions, and the intentional undermining of his nation’s stability by its “western and eastern neighbours.” 

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