Indian and 168 other countries on Friday voted in favour of a United Nations General Assembly resolution that recognised the coronavirus as...
Indian and 168 other countries on Friday voted in favour of a United Nations General Assembly resolution that recognised the coronavirus as one of the greatest challenges in the world and endorsed the role of World Health Organization in handling the pandemic, PTI reported. The United States and Israel objected opposed the resolution.
“The Omnibus Resolution on Comprehensive and Coordinated Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic” also reaffirmed commitment of countries to multilateral cooperation and solidarity as the only way to respond to the pandemic.
Ukraine and Hungary abstained from voting.
After the resolution was adopted, India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador K Nagaraj Naidu tweeted, “India votes in favour of the #Covid-19 omnibus resolution in the [United Nations] General Assembly recognising the pandemic as one of the greatest global challenges that calls for a global response based on unity, solidarity and multilateral cooperation.”
India votes in favor of the #COVID19 omnibus resolution in the General Assembly recognizing the pandemic as one of the greatest global challenges that calls for a global response based on unity, solidarity and multilateral cooperation. pic.twitter.com/Hya9Eyro3L
— Amb/DPR to UN Nagaraj Naidu IFS (@NagNaidu08) September 11, 2020
Afghanistan’s UN envoy Adela Raz and Croatian Ambassador Ivan Simonovic were co-coordinators of the resolution. It urged political and religious...
