
In this photo provided by the United Nations, Smriti Irani, India's Minister for Women and Child Development, speaks in the U.N. General Assembly, in New York.
In this photo provided by the United Nations, Atul Khare, right, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, and Olof Skoog, Head of EU Delegation to the UN, show the "Framework agreement between the United Nations and the European Union for the provision of mutual support in the context of their respective missions and operations in the field" during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York.
In this image made from UNTV video, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister of United Arab Emirates, speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York.
In this photo provided by the United Nations, President, Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani's pre-recorded message is played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. Protests against racial injustice aren't just part of the United States' national conversation. America's foes have taken note too, using the demonstrations and images of police violence to criticize the country at the U.N. General Assembly this year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses the United Nations General Assembly, from New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses the United Nations General Assembly, from New Delhi.
In this photo provided by the United Nations, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, at the UN. headquarters.
In this image made from UNTV video, Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of Cambodia speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters.
In this UNTV image, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan, speaks in a pre-recorded video message during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from heads-of-state, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic.
In this photo provided by the United Nations, President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron's pre-recorded message is played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters in New York. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from some of the planet's biggest powers, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic that will likely be a dominant theme at their video gathering this year.
In this image made from UNTV video, Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters in New York. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from some of the planet's biggest powers, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic that will likely be a dominant theme at their video gathering this year.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, talks in a televised address, following a cabinet meeting, in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan, who has long called for a reform of the United Nations, says the world body has failed in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. Erdogan claimed the UN was late in "accepting the existence" of the pandemic and had failed to "make its presence felt" for nations requiring help to fight infections.
Posters by Gurukul Art Academy along a street ahead of the celebrations for 75th anniversary of United Nations, at Lalbaug in Mumbai.
A screen grab of India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti’s message after India won the election for a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
Nethra (C), daughter of C. Mohan who is the owner of a salon, after she was appointed as 'Goodwill Ambassador to the Poor' for United Nations Association for Development And Peace (UNADAP), in Madhurai. Nethra convinced her father to spend their savings worth Rs 5 Lakh and donate essential items among poor people despite no other income source to meet their own requirements amid the nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic.
Smoke from the United Nations compound rises in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. Angry residents of this eastern Congo city burned the town hall and stormed the UN peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, after Allied Democratic Forces rebels killed eight people and kidnapped nine overnight.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
17-year-old Payal Jangid of Rajasthan receives Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's 'Changemaker Award' from UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J Mohammed, at the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards ceremony, in New York. The award encourages and honours the achievements of young activists, campaigners, and innovators across the world for inspiring social change according to the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations.
India's Ridhima Pandey (2nd R) along with other youth-petitioners at a press conference at UNICEF House in New York. 16 children, including Pandey, filed a complaint at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019 to protest lack of government action on the climate crisis. Pandey had filed a complaint against the Indian government in 2017 too.
Supporters of a regime change in Iran rally outside United Nations headquarters on the first day of the general debate at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, speaks to reporters during a news conference at United Nations headquarters.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, reaches across Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, center, for a hand shake during a special event commemorating the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, left, attends the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaks as he hosts a special event commemorating the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for a luncheon hosted by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, from left to right, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South Korea President Moon Jae-in, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness place hands on a light ball symbolizing earth for a special event commemorating the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets the President of Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) session, in New York, USA.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters in New York.
Lebanese men ride their motorcycle past fields that burned from Israeli army shells in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun el-Ras, Lebanon. The Lebanon-Israel border was mostly calm with U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the border, a day after the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles into Israel, triggering Israeli artillery fire that lasted less than two hours and caused some fires.
Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
India’s permanent representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin with others during an event to commemorate 2nd Anniversary of the India-UN Development Partnership Fund in New York.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, walks with at Al Noor Mosque Imam Gamal Fouda, right, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Guterres is on the final day of his three-day visit to New Zealand as part of a trip to the South Pacific to highlight the problems of climate change.
People hold posters protesting anti-Israeli bias, during the 'Rally for Equal Rights at the United Nations' on Place Des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie addresses a press conference at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority in Myanmar, are living in refugee camps in coastal Cox's Bazar after fleeing their villages following a military crackdown.
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie speaks during a press conference at government palace in Lima, Peru. Jolie, who met with Venezuelans refugees in Peru as a special envoy for the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees.
President Donald Trump meets with outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House.
In this file photo, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. Vajpayee rejected accusations by Pakistan that his government was pushing South Asia toward another conflict, saying "no one in our country wants a war."
UN General Assembly President Elect, Ms Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces calls on Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi.
A display of yoga postures through laser light beams on UN Secretariat wall to commemorate International Day of Yoga 2018, in New York, US.
Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of Netherlands with Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant during her visit as the UN Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development to NITI Aayog, in New Delhi.
Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of Netherlands with Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant at a meeting during her visit as the UN Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development to NITI Aayog, in New Delhi.
UN Environment's country head Atul Bagai (2nd L) with Bollywood actors Dia Mirza, Karan Johar, Kartik Aaryan, Ranbir Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor pose with reusable bottles to raise awareness and tie-up with UN Environment for the campaign 'Beat Plastic Pollution' during a press conference for 19th Edition of IIFA Weekend & Awards 2018, in New Delhi.
UN: Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour, right, is joined by ambassadors from Arab countries as he speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting on the situation in Gaza at United Nations headquarters.
The United Nations Security Council observes a moment of silence for Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers during border protests in Gaza at U.N. headquarters.
American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is seen the video screen of a translator as she speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation between Britain and Russia at United Nations headquarters.
British Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Pierce, left and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley share a note during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria at United Nations headquarters.
Nikki Haley, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, combs her hair before the start of a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters. The U.N. Security Council has rejected a Russian resolution that would have created a new expert body to determine responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Haley said the draft resolution was not impartial or independent since it would allow Russia to veto investigators and staff for the new body - and to block its findings.
United Nations Security Council President Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, the U.N. ambassador from Peru, speaks during a press briefing, at U.N. headquarters.
United Nations Ambassador from Syria Bashar Jaafari listens during a meeting of the U.N. Security council, at U.N. headquarters.
The United Nations Security Council meet and hear remarks from U.N. Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura via video broadcast at U.N. headquarters.
Former child soldiers stand in line waiting to be registered with UNICEF to receive a release package, in Yambio, South Sudan. More than 300 child soldiers were released by armed groups in South Sudan, the second-largest such release since civil war began five years ago.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, and the Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie leave after a media briefing at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
President Donald Trump, joined by from left, Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, United Kingdom Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Allen, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, national security adviser H.R. McMaster, and, Bolivian Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Pedro Luis Inchauste Jordán, speaks during a lunch with the United Nations Security Council in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington.
Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, reads out the excerpt message from the President of India during the celebration of India's 69th Republic Day in New York.
United Nations U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley address a U.N. Security Council meeting on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, at U.N. headquarters.
Matthew Rycroft, left, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N. and U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley vote in favor of a resolution, at United Nations headquarters. The council is voting on proposed new sanctions against North Korea, including sharply lower limits on its refined oil imports, the return home of all North Koreans working overseas within 12 months, and a crackdown on the country's shipping.
Afghan women carry winter necessities rations donated by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR) in Kabul, Afghanistan. UNHCR distributed winter necessities and cash to as many as 400 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kabul city.
South Indian actress Trisha Krishnan after being conferred with the UNICEF celebrity advocate status at a function in Chennai.
Sachin Tendulkar, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF South Asia, gives tips to an adolescent cricketer during a friendly match on World Children's Day, in New Delhi.
Sachin Tendulkar, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF South Asia, hugs an adolescent cricketer before the start of a friendly match on World Children's Day, in New Delhi.
Sachin Tendulkar, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF South Asia, Justin Forsyth (L), Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, Kartikay Saini (R), Chairman Special Olympics and adolescents who has actively participated in the model UN pose for a group photo after a discussion in New Delhi.
UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie stands to leave after giving the keynote address to delegates at the 2017 United Nations Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Minister of Cosumer Affairs Ram Vilas Paswan and Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, at the International Conference on Consumer Protection for East, South & South-East Countries, in New Delhi.
Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin, India's Permanent Representative to the UN delivers his inaugural speech on the occasion of observing International Day of Non-Violence also to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti at the United Nations.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with her Omani counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a meeting in New York.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj shakes hands with her Algerian counterpart, at a meeting during UN General Assembly in New York. MoS MJ Akbar and Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar are also seen.
Paulomi Tripathi, Permanent Mission of India to UN reply to Pakistan at UNGA with real picture of Pak-sponsored terrorism in J&K, during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, center, followed by his interpreter, left, walks to the microphones to speak outside the U.N. Plaza Hotel, in New York.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj delivers her speech during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in New York.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters.
India's Eenam Gambhir, First Secretary at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), New York, hit out at Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for bringing up the Kashmir issue and said Jammu and Kashmir is and will remain an integral part of India.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with South African Foreign Minister Mashabane on the sidelines of BRICS meeting, in New York.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is greeted by her Kyrgyz counterpart, Abdyldaev Erlan Bekeshovich before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of 72nd UN General Assembly in New York.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Marcelo Faurie at a meeting in New York.
President Donald Trump speaks during a luncheon with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. From left, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Vice President Mike Pence, Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at the U.N. headquarters.
Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.
The United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution to collect evidence to prosecute Islamic State, during the U.N. General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters.
President Moon Jae-in of South Korea addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walks to his seat at a luncheon with President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. From left, Vice President Mike Pence, Abe, Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Donald Trump, and White House chief of staff John Kelly listen as Trump is introduced during a luncheon with African leaders at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.
United States President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.
United States President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters.
President Emmanuel Macron of France addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets her Mexico counterpart luis Videgaray Caso at UN in New York.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj addresses the United Nations General Assembly high level meeting to launch the global pact for the environment, at U.N. headquarters.
External affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonpo Tshering Tobgay in New York.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump during a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly session.
External affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the UN in New York.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets people as he arrives for a meeting about universal health care during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.
President Donald Trump jokes with French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.