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Bangladesh Elections: PM's Awami League registers landslide victory
The ruling coalition led by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Awami League has registered a landslide victory in Parliamentary elections. The ruling coalition led by Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party won 288 out of 300 seats which are about 96 per cent of the seats. JatiyoShangsad Bangladesh has a unicameral legislature. The legislature is ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2019
Topics: António Guterres • Awami League • Bangladesh • House of the Nation • JatiyoShangsad • Sheikh Hasina • United Nations
India contributes $50,000 to UN Youth Envoy’s office
India has contributed $50,000 to United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s Office of Envoy on Youth to help with its mission of involving young people in the world body’s goals. The contribution was handed over by Paulomi Tripathi, a First Secretary in India’s UN Mission to the Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake. Key Facts The ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2018
Topics: António Guterres • India-UN • Office of Envoy on Youth • United Nations • Youth Development
Japan to host ministerial meeting of UNSC on North Korea’ nuclear efforts
Japan will host a ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on December 15, which will be focused on finding peaceful ways to pressure North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile tests and de-nuclearise the Korean peninsula. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to brief the council. This year’s meeting has the backing ..
Topics: António Guterres • Awards • Nuclear program of North Korea • Orders, decorations, and medals • Underground nuclear weapons testing
Peter Thomson appointed as first special envoy for oceans by United Nations
Peter Thomson, the outgoing president of the General Assembly, has been appointed as the first special envoy for the oceans by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Thomson played a leading role at the first-ever UN conference on oceans in June 2017. The 193 UN member states issued an urgent call for action to reverse the ..
Topics: António Guterres • Orders, decorations, and medals • Organizations • Peter Thomson • United Nations • United Nations Ocean Conference
Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed announced as new UN deputy Secretary General
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has confirmed Amina Mohammed as his Deputy Secretary-General (DSG). He has also appointed Maria Viotti of Brazil (Chef de Cabinet) and Kyung-Wha Kang of the Republic of Korea as Special advisor on policy (new role to be created). Amina Mohammed is Nigeria’s Environment minister. She has been instrumental in ..
Topics: Amina J. Mohammed • António Guterres • Ban Ki-moon • BBC 100 Women • Chivalric orders • Kang Kyung-wha • Orders, decorations, and medals • United Nations • United Nations Secretariat