India on Tuesday pledged support to United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki moon's re-election for the second term.
Ban Ki-moon said he is encouraged that more than 105 heads of state and government are committed to participate in the meeting of world leaders on the 18th of this month.
The delegates, who come from diverse fields, will consider how information technology and globalization can be used to propagate the language.
The United Nations has an observer team in Kashmir, which keeps the world body informed of the developments there, he added.
Addressing a press conference shortly after being sworn in as the eighth secretary general on Thursday, he also did not agree with his predecessor Kofi Annan's criticism of the US for its "go-it-alone" diplomacy at the cost of multilateralism.
In his first visit to India after taking over office, Ban Ki-Moon recalled India's long and glorious association with India and said, 'throughout these many decades, India has given its best to the United Nations and to the world -- its best economists, doctors and engineers, its most promising ideas.'
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a special brand of 'global leadership' and a new 'multilateralism' to deal with complex challenges like poverty, illiteracy and terrorism, facing the world today. In an address at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, Ban said: "Threats spill across borders. Just as the world's people have become more interdependent, so have the issues. No nation can deal with them alone."
Throughout the developing world, he emphasised, billions of dollars needed for healthcare, education, clean water and infrastructure are being drained by bribes and other forms of corruption. The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime called for greater adherence to the UN Convention Against Corruption that has been signed by 130 nations.
Speaking at a function in the United Nations headquarters in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that he had learnt 'diplomacy' in India, which was his first posting nearly four decades ago
United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared America's support to Ban Ki Moon's bid for a second term as the United Nations general secretary for the critical role the world body played under his leadership in responding to global challenges. The US support comes a day after the South Korean announced his willingness for a second term."President Obama welcomes United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's announcement that he will run for a second term," US said.
In September 2000, world leaders had agreed to tackle eight developmental challenges including poverty, employment, education and health.
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Marking World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on Sunday -- whose theme this year was "Protecting Children in Cyberspace,"-- secretary-general in a message noted that children and young people are among the groups of people who most widely use the Internet and mobile devices.
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Lucknow celebrated the successful return of astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla from the International Space Station (ISS). Family, friends, and the community rejoiced as Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to visit the ISS, made a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Shukla created history on Wednesday by embarking on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a commercial mission operated by Axiom Space, along with three other astronauts.
The best they say about him is that he is a man who attends to details and carries out instructions from the Security Council and the General Assembly, 'a carpenter rather than an architect.'
"This is, again, a very serious, important issue to which international community must pay attention on an urgent basis," he remarked. "We need to act on the basis of several principles, that this global warming is a global issue."
India's Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and three other astronauts on Thursday reached the International Space Station as the Dragon spacecraft docked with the orbital laboratory.
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