All this week, dedicated nuclear weapons abolitionists have been meeting at the United Nations in New York. The up-beat gathering is the 3rd “Meeting of States Parties” (MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The Union minister for women and child development will deliver the National Statement at the Commission, and participate in the Ministerial Roundtable.

New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik's confirmation vote for United States ambassador to the United Nations is being held up because the House Republican conference needs her vote to help pass its fiscal 2025 budget resolution, says House Speaker Mike Johnson. The speaker says he has only a one-vote majority right now in the chamber over Democrats.

In a setback for the Trump administration the assembly approved a European-backed Ukrainian resolution, which demands an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and calls Moscow’s aggression a violation of the U.

The states parties of a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty on Friday adopted a declaration affirming the existential threat nuclear w