Russian officials, on Sunday (April 23) said visas were never issued for their country’s media representatives who were supposed to accompany the foreign minister for the upcoming United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting in New York, United States.

‘We will not forgive’: Moscow fumes after US allegedly denied visas to Russian journalists for UN visit

On Saturday (April 1), Russia takes over the rotating presidency of the 15-nation United Nations Security Council for a month, a move that is being decried by Ukraine and the US.

Russia takes over presidency of UN Security Council; US, Ukraine call it ‘April Fools' joke’

Ukraine asked for the exclusion of Russia from the United Nations Security Council amid the ongoing crisis. The statement from the Ukrainian authorities said that Russia "illegally occupies the seat of the USSR in the UN Security Council" since the fall of the Soviet Union back in 1991.

Ukraine calls for Russia's exclusion from United Nations Security Council

In its first resolution against Myanmar in 74 years, UNSC has urged the country's military junta to end violence and free ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.

UN Security Council resolution demands end to Myanmar violence in first resolution in decades

Russia has once again accused Ukraine of planning to use a “dirty bomb” in the ongoing crisis and the issue will now be discussed in front of the United Nations Security Council.

Ukraine war: Russia to raise dirty bomb issue in UN Security Council

A senior official of US President Joe Biden's administration has said that he supports Germany, Japan and India as permanent members of a reformed United Nations Security Council.

Biden backs India as permanent member of UNSC: White House official

India voted against Russia during a procedural vote at the UN Security Council. Why did India side with Ukraine? Does it signal a change in India's neutral position? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: India votes against Russia at UN Security Council

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution to bar weapons sales in violence-hit Haiti. The resolution, proposed by Mexico and the US on Friday, calls on UN member states to prohibit the sale of small arms, light weapons and ammunition to what it calls "non-state actors".

‘Alarmed’ over Haiti gang violence, UN Security Council bars sale of small arms

The United States called on Friday for tougher international sanctions against North Korea at the UN Security Council, accusing Pyongyang of "increasingly dangerous provocations" after it test-fired its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile.

US calls for tougher UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea

India has taken over the rotating Presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of August with plans to focus on Maritime security, peacekeeping and counterterrorism efforts.

India begins UNSC presidency; focus on maritime security, peacekeeping and counterterrorism

UN Security Council members on Thursday backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in a dispute over the operation of a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, urging the parties to resume talks.

UN Security Council backs African Union bid to broker Ethiopia dam deal

Arab states are calling on the UN Security Council to discuss the dispute over Ethiopia's plan to fill a giant dam it is building on the Blue Nile, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Tuesday after a foreign ministers' meeting.

Arab states call on UN Security Council to meet over controversial Ethiopian dam on Blue Nile

The UN General Assembly elected Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, and the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations Security Council on Friday for a two-year term starting on Jan.

Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, UAE elected to UN Security Council

The UN Security Council called Friday for an immediate end to violence in Myanmar as stated in an ASEAN plan, giving unanimous approval to a statement watered down to satisfy China and Russia.

UN Security Council calls for ASEAN Myanmar plan to be enacted

Alphabet Inc's YouTube has removed five channels of Myanmar's military-run television networks hosted on its platform in the wake of the coup in the Southeast Asian country.

YouTube removes five Myanmar TV channels from platform

India reportedly called out Pakistan's links with terror groups, which is the Al-Qaeda, during the United States Security Council meeting. Indian envoy to the UN said Pak is providing safe heaven to terror organizations.

India at UN Security Council: Pakistan provides safe heaven to Al-Qaeda

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday issued a press statement expressing concern over the developments in Myanmar and called for the release of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint.

UN Security Council calls for release of Suu Kyi, voices concern for Myanmar

India has been assigned the chairmanship of 3 bodies in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). India has been given the command of the Taliban Sanctions, Anti-Terrorism Committee.

India to chair 3 key committees of UN Security Council in 2021-22

Just hours after the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, Tehran demanded the United Nations Security Council condemn the killing and take action against those responsible, but diplomats say the call is likely to go unheeded.

UN Security Council unlikely to act on Iran scientist killing: Diplomats 

UN General Assembly president Volkan Bozkir on Tuesday criticised the Security Council, saying it was failing to respond to the world's biggest challenges due to "competing interests.

Now, UN General Assembly president Volkan Bozkir assails Security Council

Calling for "urgency of reform" at the United Nations Security Council "to better reflect contemporary realities", G4 countries--India, Japan, Germany & Brazil in a strongly worded joint statement have said the top UN body risks becoming "obsolete".

UN Security Council will become obsolete, if not reformed: G4 countries

The United States has suffered another setback over its bid to reimpose international sanctions on Iran with 13 countries on the 15-member UN Security Council opposing US push for sanction against The majority argued that Washington's move is void given it is using a process agreed under a nuclear deal that it quit two years ago.

Majority of UN Security Council members oppose US push for Iran sanctions

US President Donald Trump on August 15 said to use the snapback technique, a day after the UN Security Council rejected an American resolution to extend an Iranian arms embargo. Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif later said “American snapback is illegal and unacceptable and the Americans know they cannot use snapback."

Iran Nuclear Deal: US has been humiliated at the UN, says Iran

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday hailed a UN Security Council vote rejecting a US bid to extend an arms embargo on the Islamic republic, saying its foe has "never been so isolated".

Iran hails UN Security Council vote rejecting a US bid to extend arms embargo

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