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New York: Egypt’s Foreign Minister today issued a call at the United Nations for stepped-up efforts to end the Middle East conflict, accusing Israel of prolonging negotiations for the sake of it and carrying out actions that prevent a solution from being reached.

New York: Fiji is about to enter a formative period that will result in the first ever elections based on common and equal suffrage rather than racial categorization, the country’s Prime Minister has told the General Assembly’s annual general debate.

New York: Nationalist or populist policies are not the answer to the debt crisis engulfing many European countries, Slovakia’s Prime Minister told the United Nations today, urging governments on the continent to ensure their actions do not jeopardize the cause of greater European integration.

New York: Nepal is committed to the drafting of a new constitution that will consolidate peace and democracy as the country moves away from the “feudalistic and autocratic” monarchy that was abolished in 2008, Prime Minister Bauram Bhattarai told the General Assembly today.

New York: Youth violence has reached epidemic levels in the Caribbean, a top official from Saint Kitts and Nevis said today, urging United Nations agencies to help the region’s countries curtail the growing problem.

New York: Lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are taking an enormous toll in human health and economic development on the Pacific islands, the leaders of two countries in the region told the United Nations today, calling for accelerated efforts to defeat the problem.

New York: Describing his country’s ongoing name dispute with neighbouring Greece as “utterly incomprehensible,” the President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia told the United Nations today that a solution must be found that recognizes “our commitment, desire and determination for coexistence, community, individuality and identity.”

New York: The Caribbean island State of Antigua and Barbuda today demanded reparations for injustices suffered by African slaves and their descendants, saying at the United Nations that segregation and violence against people of African descent had impaired their capacity for advancement as nations, communities and individuals.

New York: India today cautioned against protectionism in the face of the global economic slowdown, calling at the United Nations for effective ways to promote the coordination of microeconomic policies in the world’s biggest economies.

Jagannath Sarkar who died early this year at the ripe age of 92, was one of the veterans of the communist movement in India. He played a leading role in building up of the CPI’s mass base in Bihar in the 1960s and 1970s. The Left base faced erosion following the Mandal agitation and there has been no reversal till now. Sarkar in this perceptive analysis elaborates on the reasons of the decline of left base in Bihar. We are reproducing his article here on the eve of his birth anniversary on September 25.