Monitoring Desk
NEW YORK: Pakistan has lauded the United Nations for the launch of the Urdu version of its ‘UN News’ stating it would broaden the world body’s outreach of Urdu-speaking populations across the globe.
UN News coverage
The UN News is a multilingual portal for news coverage and in-depth information on UN-related issues.
The portal features daily news updates and videos, photo essays, features, Interviews with UN officials, thematic focus pages, and advocates who have lent their voice to UN causes in six official languages — Chinese, Arabic, French, English, Spanish, and Russian– funded through UN’s regular budget. In addition, the content was produced only in a few non-official languages, such as Hindi, Kiswahili, and Portuguese.
Now the Urdu version of the ‘UN News’ website is live on the following dedicated link: https://news.un.org/ur/.
Pakistan UN Ambassador Munir Akram welcomed the launch of the Urdu version of ‘UN News’, saying it will expand the UN’s outreach to Urdu-speaking audiences around the world, and promote the diversity of its communications in a multiplicity of languages.
Ambassador Akram also lauded the UN Department of Global Communication for supporting Pakistan’s pioneering efforts towards promoting multilingualism and diversity in the UN’s communities to maximize the UN’s objectives and priorities across the world, especially those related to climate change, development, and human rights.
