Yateesh Begoore

PRESS RELEASE: The #ICJ will hold public hearings in the case concerning Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 (#Guyana v. #Venezuela) from Monday 4 to Monday 11 May 2026. The hearings will be broadcast live on @UNWebTV. Link to the press release: go.icj-cij.org/4sTFEsN

It was an honour to assist #UnitedNations Secretary-General António Guterres with his bilateral engagements during his recent visit to The Hague for the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s inaugural sitting.

MULTIMEDIA: Photos and videos of the solemn sitting to celebrate the #ICJ’s 80thanniversary in the presence of His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the #Netherlands (@koninklijkhuis) are available here. #ICJat80

WATCH LIVE: Solemn sitting to mark the 80th anniversary of the #ICJ’s inaugural session. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1y/k… #ICJat80

.@antonioguterres welcomes the announcement of a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. He reaffirms the support of the @UN to all efforts to end hostilities and alleviate the suffering of communities on both sides of the Blue Line. Full statement: un.org/sg/en/content/…

In a meeting with @jan_vanzanen, Mayor of The Hague, @antonioguterres said he couldn’t be in the city in a better moment: the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the #ICJ – a fundamental pillar of international justice in our common efforts to make international law prevail.

REMINDER: The #ICJ will hold a solemn sitting tomorrow, Friday 17 April, at 3 p.m. (The Hague) to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its inaugural session in the presence of HM King Willem-Alexander of the #Netherlands (@koninklijkhuis)… (1/3)

@ShashiTharoor Nagendra Singh, the great Indian jurist, warned in 1986 that "if use of force was made permissible not as a lone restricted measure of self-defence, but also for other minor provocations... the day would soon dawn when the world would have to face the major catastrophe of [WW3]"

अब क्या होगा, ये रब जाने ना वो माने, ना ये माने

They were posthumously awarded UN & LAF medals for their dedication. Our thoughts are with their families, comrades, and the injured. @antonioguterres & the Security Council condemned these incidents and urged all actors to uphold their obligations. PR: unifil.unmissions.org/en/press-relea…

@sidchat1 @ChinaAmbUN @MFA_China @Chinamission2un @UN_SDG @SyllaSori @SpokespersonCHN @ChinaAmbBelgium @ChinaSpox_India What a fantastic career! Thank you for your service and best wishes for your next chapter in life.

On March 1, 2026, as I stepped away from my role as the United Nations 🇺🇳 Resident Coordinator to China 🇨🇳 , I did more than conclude a five-year term; I closed the book on a career spanning nearly three decades of public service. To look back across thirty years is to see a tapestry woven with the threads of many nations, many crises, and many triumphs. Yet, as I stand at this final horizon, I can say with absolute clarity: my time in China 🇨🇳 has been the jewel in the crown of my professional life.

A rarely-used procedure for confidential info for the Security Council: OPCW has classified the 4th annex to its latest report on Syria entitled “Redacted paragraphs” as “OPCW highly protected” & Secretariat will therefore circulate individual copies only to each Council member.

@SandhuTaranjitS @narendramodi @AmitShah What a great choice! Congratulations, @SandhuTaranjitS ji!

Deeply honoured and grateful to Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji @narendramodi for the opportunity to serve the people of Delhi as Lieutenant Governor. Grateful also to Hon’ble Home Minister Shri Amit Shah ji @AmitShah for his trust and support. Committed to serving the people of Delhi and the nation with dedication and humility. 🙏🇮🇳

@J_A_Hillman How lovely! If you ever want to hop across the channel, it'd be great to have a hoya reunion in The Hague. :)

How lucky am I? I get to start my mornings in London directing Georgetown’s amazing #CTLS with a run in Hyde Park. A little extra spring in my step this morning in light of Supreme Court’s decision striking down Trump’s tariffs and a beautiful sunny morning.

@ABiggerSpalash You can find the full speech here-ia800604.us.archive.org/2/items/rajaji… (quote is from p.66 of the PDF)

@ABiggerSpalash The anger, sadly, is new! Remarkably, the generation that actually lived through colonialism and fought for freedom famously held no animosity towards the past. Rajaji, Nehru, Gandhi… all wanted to bid farewell to the British “as friends”. See below excerpt from Rajaji’s speech

Lee Kuan Yew chose NOT to remove Sir Stamford Raffles' statue from Singapore despite pressure from many leaders in 1965. His rationale was simple - Singapore cannot enter a new future with anger towards the past. Instead, reconciliation with history was necessary to even imagine a new era. This belief also aligned with his decision to attract investments from the West. India is still in a phase where it has a lot of anger about its own history. Our reconciliation phase is at least a generation away, if not more. While popular politicking will take its own course, well-meaning, patriotic Indians should move on quickly from anger to reconciliation. The world is what it is. History is what has happened. Anger is a waste of energy, a killer of imagination and a drag on our future potential.

@ShashiTharoor @NewIndianXpress So is it time to have a rethink about ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty? Its shortcomings aside, the world would undoubtedly be safer with a comprehensive norm against further testing... and States like India already have a voluntary moratorium on testing

My article in the @NewIndianXpress analysing the collapse of the “disarmament dream” that legions of Indian diplomats had long pursued, concludes that the world is a far more dangerous place today:

@KanwalSibal Cannot agree more with this! And it is important to remember that, if "strategic autonomy" remains the overarching foreign policy goal, then it is only the UN Charter that legally guarantees sovereign equality of States and non-intervention in internal affairs (Article 2)

There are far more weighty arguments for not joining this Board of Peace. Russia and China abstained on the UNSC resolution because the Arab countries which wanted the carnage in Gaza to end supported it as the only option available to give succour to the beleaguered Gaza Palestinians. Russian and Chinese in their statements in the UNSC seriously questioned this US initiative. This Board gives life chairmanship and totally arbitrary powers to Trump to take final decisions on all issues irrespective of decisions by the Board members. The spending of funds will be at Trump’s discretion. Even a disreputable person like Tony Blair has distanced himself from the $ 1 billion fee for life membership of the Board. Private business interests and Trump’s family members are involved in the Board. The reconstruction in Gaza seems real estate oriented- Riviera type of projects are envisaged. The Palestinian Authority is not a member of the Board. Instead there is a National Committee for the Administration of Gaza. This is not consonant with our political position on the Palestinian Authority. The Board essentially skirts the core principle of a two state solution. India has already recognised the Palestinian state. India’s stature and role in the region is not dependent on our membership of a flawed project . There are many other arguments against our endorsing this vanity project. Why should India be patronised in such a Board? to Trump,

@SandhuTaranjitS Namaste Sandhu-ji, are you in the Netherlands right now?

Always a delight connecting with friends Ratna and Rabin Baldewsingh, the National Coordinator against Discrimination and Racism — the highest-ranking Person of Indian Origin 🇮🇳 in the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

The record also shows that deliberations in the Constituent Assembly were not dry or boring, but rather witty and humorous. Here is the President of the Assembly cracking a classic lawyer joke- constitutionofindia.net/debates/29-apr… 3/

Remarkably, the record shows that the drafters & Constituent Assembly took extraordinary care to incorporate respect for intl law, & intl cooperation, in the foundational document of a newly independent, post colonial, State. Truly an era of egalitarian, high-minded, politics 2/

Today, India marks its 77th #RepublicDay. A good occasion to recall the considerable overlap between the obligations and values contained in India's Constitution (Article 51) and the purposes and principles set out in the #UnitedNationsCharter (Articles 1&2). 1/ @UN_Spokesperson