India At Un On Afghanistan

India's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj has reiterated the country's steadfast dedication to peace, stability and humanitarian support for Afghanistan.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that India is looking "positively" at the meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan to be hosted by UN chief Antonio Guterres in Doha next month.

The days when Afghanistan was used by others as so-called "strategic depth" are over, India said, asserting that such skewed approaches have only brought misery to the people of Afghanistan and mayhem in the region.

Expressing concerns over an increasing attempt towards removing women from public life in Afghanistan, India at the UN called on the international community not to look the other way when the rights of women and minorities are being trampled upon.

India on Friday voiced concern over the increasing attempt towards removing women from public life in Afghanistan at the 50th Session of the Human Rights Council.

India at the UN Security Council has said that it is willing to coordinate with "other stakeholders" to work towards enabling expeditious provision of much-needed assistance to the people of Afghanistan and called on countries in the region to come t

In all meetings of PM Narendra Modi, beginning with the US leadership, there was a "suo motu" recognition of the concerns that Pakistan has both supported and nurtured cross-border terrorism, including in and from Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary said

India on Monday said it is willing to stand by Afghans and called for unimpeded access to aid providers to the country as also a "non-discriminatory" distribution of relief supplies across all sections of the society.

India today expressed hope that the situation in Afghanistan "stabilises soon" and "there is an inclusive dispensation which represents all sections of Afghan society".

The situation in Afghanistan is of deep concern to all members of the UN Security Council, India's Permanent Representative to the UN TS Tirumurti said, underlining that "we cannot have terrorist camps" once again going back into Afghanistan.

India strongly condemns the killing of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui in Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said at the UN Security Council on Friday as he expressed serious concern over the violence agains

A significant part of terror group Al Qaeda resides in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, including its chief Aiman al-Zawahiri, who is probably alive but too frail to be featured in propaganda, according to a United Nations report.

India has "been a bridge" in a polarised UN Security Council, narrowing differences and helping shape the Council's statements, discussions on Afghanistan and Myanmar, pushing for greater meeting of minds to address humanitarian crisis in Syria and focusing on terrorism, India's envoy to the UN said.

India at the UN has said that the international community should work towards removal of all artificial transit barriers imposed on Afghanistan, ensuring that all such rights are guaranteed to the war-torn country under bilateral and multilateral agreements without any hindrance.

India has urged the UN Security Council to ensure that the first and foremost duty of international community is to ensure that the forces of terrorism and extremism do not find sanctuaries and safe havens anywhere and at any level.

India's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj has reiterated the country's steadfast dedication to peace, stability and humanitarian support for Afghanistan.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that India is looking "positively" at the meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan to be hosted by UN chief Antonio Guterres in Doha next month.

The days when Afghanistan was used by others as so-called "strategic depth" are over, India said, asserting that such skewed approaches have only brought misery to the people of Afghanistan and mayhem in the region.

Expressing concerns over an increasing attempt towards removing women from public life in Afghanistan, India at the UN called on the international community not to look the other way when the rights of women and minorities are being trampled upon.

India on Friday voiced concern over the increasing attempt towards removing women from public life in Afghanistan at the 50th Session of the Human Rights Council.

India at the UN Security Council has said that it is willing to coordinate with "other stakeholders" to work towards enabling expeditious provision of much-needed assistance to the people of Afghanistan and called on countries in the region to come t

In all meetings of PM Narendra Modi, beginning with the US leadership, there was a "suo motu" recognition of the concerns that Pakistan has both supported and nurtured cross-border terrorism, including in and from Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary said

India on Monday said it is willing to stand by Afghans and called for unimpeded access to aid providers to the country as also a "non-discriminatory" distribution of relief supplies across all sections of the society.

India today expressed hope that the situation in Afghanistan "stabilises soon" and "there is an inclusive dispensation which represents all sections of Afghan society".

The situation in Afghanistan is of deep concern to all members of the UN Security Council, India's Permanent Representative to the UN TS Tirumurti said, underlining that "we cannot have terrorist camps" once again going back into Afghanistan.

India strongly condemns the killing of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui in Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said at the UN Security Council on Friday as he expressed serious concern over the violence agains

A significant part of terror group Al Qaeda resides in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, including its chief Aiman al-Zawahiri, who is probably alive but too frail to be featured in propaganda, according to a United Nations report.

India has "been a bridge" in a polarised UN Security Council, narrowing differences and helping shape the Council's statements, discussions on Afghanistan and Myanmar, pushing for greater meeting of minds to address humanitarian crisis in Syria and focusing on terrorism, India's envoy to the UN said.

India at the UN has said that the international community should work towards removal of all artificial transit barriers imposed on Afghanistan, ensuring that all such rights are guaranteed to the war-torn country under bilateral and multilateral agreements without any hindrance.

India has urged the UN Security Council to ensure that the first and foremost duty of international community is to ensure that the forces of terrorism and extremism do not find sanctuaries and safe havens anywhere and at any level.