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Guterres will attend opening ceremony of Winter Olympics
United Nations, Jan 17 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that he will attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
“I am also encouraged by the decision of North Korea to participate in the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea. I will be there myself in the opening ceremony,” the UN chief said at an informal meeting of the UN General Assembly to hear his briefing about the priorities for 2018, Xinhua reported.
“We need to build on these small signs of hope, and expand diplomatic efforts to achieve the peaceful denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula in the context of regional security,” he said.
“I welcome the reopening of inter-Korean communication channels, especially military-to-military. This is critical to lower the risk of miscalculation or misunderstanding and to reduce tensions,” the Secretary-General added.
The UN chief noted that one of his priorities for 2018 is to achieve the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula “without sleepwalking our way into calamity.”
He also said that he welcomed “the firm decisions the Security Council has taken in response to nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches by North Korea.”
“They must be fully implemented,” he said.
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The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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