India backs Maldives’s candidature for UNGA President

India has decided to vote in support of Maldives’ Foreign Minister at the election for the President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for 2021-22 period.

  • This time the UNGA head will be chosen from the Asia-Pacific grouping.
  • By joining the Indian Ocean Regional Association, rejoining the Commonwealth three years after it had quit the Commonwealth over criticism of its human rights records and by playing a greater role in the United Nations, Maldives has demonstrated its value in the comity of nations.

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  • It is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), the only one ....
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