New Delhi/Cape Town, Nov 20 (PTI) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said the UN remains indispensable even in the face of its "failures" over Gaza and Ukraine, asserting that the world body's challenge is to become more representative and responsive in a world that needs principled global cooperation more than ever.

Tharoor, who has served as the UN under secretary general in the past, said to abandon the United Nations would be to abandon the very idea of common humanity.

"We need to recommit ourselves to the UN. As someone who served the UN for three decades from 1978-2007, I witnessed first-hand its evolution from a Cold War battleground to a post-Cold War laboratory of global cooperation," the MP from Thiruvananthapuram said, delivering the 15th Desmond Tutu International Peace

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