Viewpoint by Nagesh Kumar and Kevin Gallagher Nagesh Kumar, a former Chief Economist of UNESCAP, is Director of Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, a New Delhi based policy think-tank. He tweets @nageshkum. Kevin Gallagher is Professor and Director of the Global Development Policy Centre, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, USA. He tweets […]
Ambassador Azeez Agrees to Support IDN as Multilateral Diplomacy Advisor
By Ramesh Jaura, DG and Editor-in-Chief BERLIN (IDN) — The Non-profit global media agency International Press Syndicate, with IDN-InDepthNews as its flagship, is pleased to announce that beginning 1 October former Sri Lankan Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez has agreed to support us as “Multilateral Diplomacy Advisor”, with an additional honour of charge as “Editorial Coordinator” for […]
Erupting Caribbean Volcano Enhances Solidarity to Save Lives & Property
By P.I. Gomes Dr P.I. Gomes is former Secretary-General of the Organisation of African, the Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS was previously ACP Group of States). PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (IDN) — La Soufriere volcano in the northeast of the main island of St. Vincent & the Grenadines, after warning signs of rumblings […]
79-Nation OACPS Grows into The Power of Change in The International Arena
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | BRUSSELS (IDN) – The interregional ACP officially became the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) on April 5, when 79 leaders of the group endorsed the revised version of the 1975 Constitutive Act, known as the Georgetown Agreement, at the December 2019 Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. One month […]
Eminent Persons Warn Against Any Demonstration Nuclear Test Explosion
By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – Members of the CTBTO Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) have expressed “deep concern about credible press reports” that senior U.S. officials have discussed the possibility of conducting “a demonstration nuclear test explosion”. They warn that if carried out, it would break the global moratorium on nuclear weapon test explosions […]
COVID-19 Crisis: The Group of 77 Call for Strengthening South-South and North-South Cooperation
Applause for UN Chief’s Leadership While Missing Out His ‘Global Ceasefire’ Plea By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – Short of referring to the clarion call by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on March 23 for “an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world”, in support of the bigger battle against the devastating pandemic, […]
ACP States ‘A Powerful Catalyst’ To Achieve SDGs
By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS (IDN) – Dr. P.I. Gomes, Secretary General of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (OACPS), sees “great scope” for the 79-nation grouping in 2020 to be “a powerful catalyst and advocate to accelerate implementation” of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the 2030 Agenda.
Nairobi Summit Leads to ‘A Transformed ACP Committed to Multilateralism’
By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS (IDN) – The heads of government and state of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States have taken a decisive step towards “A Transformed ACP Committed to Multilateralism”. At their 9th Summit, they have revised the constitutive act, the 1975 Georgetown Agreement. An important outcome of the December 9-10 Summit […]
79 ACP States Resolve to Combat Terrorism and Climate Crisis
By Robert Kibet NAIROBI (IDN) – Threats of terrorism to global peace as an evolving transnational menace, coupled with the growing threat of climate change and the disruption it continues to cause among member states of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) requires them to lead from the front in providing recommendations on how the […]
79-Nation ACP & the EU Call for Implementing the Paris Accord
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS | MADRID (IDN) – The 79-nation African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union, which together make up more than half of the signatories to the Paris Agreement on climate change, have called for increased ambition at global level to close the gap between the commitments made […]