UN Security Council

Delwar Hossain, assistant researcher of ERGO Legal Counsel. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Time is ripe to re-think about the veto power of the UN Security Council

To make the security council more effective, the UN charter should be amended and a system of collective veto should be added

Pakistani Rangers (wearing black uniforms) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) officers lower their national flags during parade on the Pakistan's 72nd Independence Day, at the Pakistan-India joint check-post at Wagah border, near Lahore, Pakistan August 14, 2019. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
South Asia

Pakistan gives UN a dossier on India after India submits one on Pakistan

Pakistani Rangers and Indian Border Security Force personnel (obscured) are seen lowering the flags of the two countries during a daily flag lowering ceremony at the India-Pakistan joint border at Wagah, some 20 km east of Lahore, in this December 14, 2006 file photo/ Reuters
South Asia

India seeks to implicate Pakistan in dossier to UN Security Council members

UN General Assembly president Volkan Bozkir
World+Biz

UN General Assembly president assails Security Council

Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addresses the nation in Vilnius, Lithuania, in this still image taken from handout video released August 21, 2020. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Headquarters/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Belarus opposition leader to address UN Security Council: spokesman

Security Council adopts resolution backing UN humanitarian ceasefire call
Coronavirus chronicle

Security Council adopts resolution backing UN humanitarian ceasefire call

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New York City on Aug. 20, 2019. EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/GETTY IMAGES
World+Biz

World rebukes US over Iran

A boy's face is seen through the Indian national flag during Independence day celebrations in Mumbai, India, August 15, 2018/ Reuters
South Asia

India elected non-permanent member of UN security council

CanCham Bangladesh calls for support for Canada in UN Security Council election
Bangladesh

CanCham Bangladesh calls for support for Canada in UN Security Council election

FILE PHOTO; Chinese President Xi jinping speaks during a meeting with Tedros Adhanom, director general of the World Health Organization, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, January 28, 2020. Naohiko Hatta/Pool via REUTERS
Politics

China refuses Security Council meeting on Hong Kong

Members of the United Nations Security Council address a resolution to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria during a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York August 7, 2015/ Reuters
World+Biz

Russia, China boycott UN Security Council meeting on Syria

US prevents UN Security Council vote on pandemic resolution
Coronavirus chronicle

US prevents UN Security Council vote on pandemic resolution

Members of the United Nations Security Council address a resolution to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria during a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York August 7, 2015/ Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

UN Security Council nears virus resolution, and perhaps a new path