Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is an American political scientist who also served in the Department of State. In 2006,she was appointed as the first Ambassador for women's empowerment by the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on United Nations Reform. She was sworn in as the First American Muslim Ambassador in July 1990. Dr. Tahir-Kheli was the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy,Human Rights and International Operations at the White House National Security Council,from 2003-2005. She has served three Republican presidential administrations since 1980.
France has been a member of the United Nations (UN) since its foundation in 1945 and is one of the five countries,alongside China,Russia,the United Kingdom,and the United States,that holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),which is responsible for maintaining international peace and security.
The United Nations has played an advisory role in maintaining peace and order in the Kashmir region soon after the independence and partition of British India into the dominions of Pakistan and India in 1947,when a dispute erupted between the two new States on the question of accession over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. India took this matter to the UN Security Council,which passed resolution 39 (1948) and established the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) to investigate the issues and mediate between the two new countries. Following the cease-fire of hostilities,it also established the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to monitor the cease-fire line.
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad bin Zeid al-Hussein is a Jordanian former diplomat who is the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the president and CEO of the International Peace Institute. He also served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018. He played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court,and was elected the first president of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court in September 2002. He also served as a political affairs officer in UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia from 1994 to 1996.
Chenicheri Vijay Nambiar is a retired Indian diplomat and served as the UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Myanmar. He was Chef de Cabinet under UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from 1 January 2007 to February 2012. He held the rank of Under-Secretary-General and was a member of the Secretary-General's Senior Management Team. Mr. Nambiar previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor to the Government of India and Head of the National Security Council Secretariat. He previously served as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Earlier as Ambassador of India,he served successively in Pakistan (2000-2001),China (1996-2000),Malaysia (1993-1996),and Afghanistan (1990-1992). He was earlier Ambassador of India in Algeria (1985-1988).
St. Xavier's High School,Patna,is a private Catholic primary and secondary school,located in the neighborhood of Gandhi Maidan in Patna,Bihar,India. Established in 1940,it is the oldest Jesuit school in the city of Patna and in the state of Bihar,established by missionaries from the American Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus. Founded in 1940,it is named after St. Francis Xavier,a Spanish Jesuit saint of the 16th century,who travelled to India. The independent,non-diocesan school is operated by the Patna Province of the Society of Jesus and located in the heart of the city of Patna.
Ruchira Kamboj is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1987 batch,who currently serves as India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since August 2022. She has previously served as High Commissioner of India to South Africa,First female Indian Ambassador to Bhutan and Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO,Paris. She was the All India women's topper of the 1987 Civil Services batch and the topper of the 1987 Foreign Service batch.
India was among the charter members of the United Nations that signed the Declaration by United Nations at Washington,D.C.,on 1 January 1942 and also participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco from 25 April to 26 June 1945. As a founding member of the United Nations,India strongly supports the purposes and principles of the UN and has made significant contributions in implementing the goals of the Charter,and the evolution of the UN's specialised programmes and agencies.
Ambassador Ersin Erçin is a senior Turkish diplomat,with an extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy particularly on matters of international,Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security,disarmament,and economic and environmental security.
Hardeep Singh Puri is an Indian politician and former Indian diplomat who is currently serving as the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs in the Government of India. He presently also holds the record as the longest serving Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs in history.
Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri is a former assistant secretary-general at the United Nations and the former deputy executive director of UN Women. Prior to her 15-year stint at the United Nations,she served as an Indian diplomat for 28 years. From 1999 until 2002,she was India's Ambassador to Hungary,while also concurrently accredited to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce,Lady Roxburgh,,is a British diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to the United States at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office,and was previously the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
The Geneva II Conference on Syria was a United Nations-backed international peace conference on the future of Syria with the aim of ending the Syrian Civil War,by bringing together the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition to discuss the clear steps towards a transitional government for Syria with full executive powers. The conference took place on 22 January 2014 in Montreux,on 23–31 January 2014 in Geneva (Switzerland),and again on 10–15 February 2014.
Javid Husain,is a Diplomat,from the Foreign Service of Pakistan,who has had a distinguished career during which he served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to the Netherlands (1992–1995),the Republic of Korea (1995–1997) and Iran (1997–2003). During his tenure at Tehran,he was also the Pakistan Permanent Representative to the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).
Syed Akbaruddin is a retired Indian diplomat from 1985 batch of the Indian Foreign Service and served as India's permanent representative at the United Nations at New York from January 2016 to April 2020. He had previously served as official spokesperson of India's Ministry of External Affairs from January 2012 to April 2015 and was Indian representative at IAEA from 2006 to 2011. He is currently serving as the dean of Kautilya School of Public Policy.
T. S. Tirumurti is a retired Indian civil servant (Ambassador) of the Indian Foreign Service cadre. He served as the Secretary to Government of India and later as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York when India became a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 8th time.
Mihir Kanade is an author and professor of international law,human rights and development at the University for Peace (UPEACE),a university founded by the United Nations. He holds the concurrent positions of the Academic Coordinator of UPEACE since 2016,the Head of its Department of International Law since 2014,and the Director of the UPEACE Human Rights Centre since 2009.
Natarajan Krishnan was an Indian diplomat and negotiator who served in many capacities including as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York from 1981 to 86 and the President of the United Nations Security Council in 1985. He also set up the 1987 Africa Fund as Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Special Envoy and was India's representative on UNESCO's Executive Board.
Samar Sen was an Indian diplomat who served as the 1st permanent representative of India to the United Nations,Geneva,8th in New York and the 2nd high commissioner of India to Bangladesh from June 1974 to November 1976.
