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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (NNN-KPL) – Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Saleumxay Kommasith, yesterday, called for practical solutions to today’s global problems, through multilateralism, at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (NNN-XINHUA) – Uzbek Foreign Minister, Vladimir Norov, yesterday, stressed the need to strengthen the central role of the United Nations in tackling global and regional challenges.

The world today is facing a deep crisis of trust at the global level, an intensification of numerous challenges to stability and security, growth of geopolitical confrontation, and an increase of risks of bloc mentality, he told the General Debate of the UN General Assembly.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed the strategic and historical relations between the two countries, and also expressed the willingness to carry them out in a great number of fields.

In a meeting held at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Lavrov and Al-Mekdad discussed issues of common interest and various regional and international developments, official reports said.

WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The United States would respond decisively to any Russian use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine and has spelled out to Moscow the "catastrophic consequences" it would face, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.

Sullivan's remarks represented the latest American warning following the thinly veiled nuclear threat made by Vladimir Putin last Wednesday in a speech in which the Russian president also announced his country's first wartime military mobilization since World War Two. 

New York, Sep 25 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that he had a wide-ranging conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov during which they discussed a number of issues, including bilateral cooperation, the Ukraine conflict, G20 and UN reforms as he described Russia a "major partner in many domains." Jaishankar made the remarks during his interaction with a group of Indian reporters after his meeting with Lavrov on the margins of the UN General Assembly session, just hours before his address to the UN General Debate on Saturday.<

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Edward Davis said Saturday that taking climate action is "in the interests of every country."

For a long time, decision-makers in both the public and private sectors believed that climate action must come at the expense of economic growth, but now, many are beginning to understand that climate inaction is the most expensive option of all, he told the General Debate of the UN General Assembly.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday called on world leaders to put needs of people and communities at the center and focus more on stronger multilateral system, instead of "disruptive politics."

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic and an unequal recovery have cost the world three years of development progress, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday at the 46th Annual Meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 and China.

Guterres said that advancing the Sustainable Development Goals "has been his focus during high-level week" when world leaders converge in New York to discuss solutions to the pressing challenges facing the global community.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will begin their rebuttal case Tuesday, challenging his attorneys’ contention that he murdered 17 people because his birth mother abused alcohol during pregnancy, a condition they say went untreated.

Prosecutor Mike Satz’s team is expected to call experts who will testify Cruz has antisocial personality disorder — in lay terms, he’s a sociopath — and fully responsible for his Feb. 14, 2018, attack at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

NEW YORK (AP) — Saudi Arabia appears to be leaving behind the stream of negative coverage that the killing of Jamal Khashoggi elicited since 2018. The kingdom is once again being enthusiastically welcomed back into polite and powerful society, and it is no longer as frowned upon to seek Saudi investments or accept their favor.