NEW DELHI: While PM Narendra Modi will travel to New York this month, he won’t address the UNGA session and allow foreign minister S Jaishankar to speak for India at the annual debate.
According to the UN‘s latest list of speakers, Jaishankar will address the General Assembly on Sept 28. Modi, however, will address the UN’s high-level ‘Summit of the Future’ that aims to explore ways of achieving a better future in the face of global upheavals and conflicts.
Modi is expected to begin his US visit with participation in the Quad summit on Sept 21. Interestingly, the summit’s venue will likely be Delaware, and not UNGA in New York as was previously thought.
Modi and summit host US President Joe Biden will be joined by Australian PM Anthony Albanese and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, for the summit.
This will be the last Quad summit for both Biden and Kishida as they prepare to demit office. Japan’s Nikkei Asia quoted reports from Washington that the summit will be held in Biden’s hometown of Wilmington in Delaware on Sept 21. TOI had reported earlier that India had proposed that the much-delayed summit it had to host this year be held on the sidelines of the upcoming UNGA session. Biden, however, is said to be keen on having the summit in Delaware. Biden represented Delaware in the Senate for 36 years before becoming President.
India had additionally considered having the summit on the margins of the G7 summit in Italy this year, but Australia wasn’t invited for the meeting.
Indian govt had first proposed hosting the summit on the margins of the Republic Day celebrations in Jan, for which Biden was invited as chief guest, but the President declined the invitation citing scheduling issues.
Modi will be in New York to address a community event on Sept 22 at the 16,000-seater Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Long Island.
He will also address the UN’s landmark ‘Summit of the Future’ that is being convened at the global body’s headquarters on Sept 22 and 23.
The PM is also expected to have several bilateral meetings at the UN including one possibly with Bangladesh chief advisor Muhammad Yunus, who has sought a meeting with Modi in New York.
Govt sources here said that though Modi’s schedule hasn’t been finalised yet and it’s too early to confirm his bilateral engagements. According to a PTI report from Washington, over 24,000 members of the Indian diaspora have signed up for the community event in Long Island to attend Modi’s address. A provisional list of speakers for the General Debate of the 79th session of the UNGA issued by the UN in July had said that Modi would address the high-level debate on Sept 26. However, according to a revised provisional list of speakers issued by the UN on Friday, Jaishankar is now expected to address the General Debate on Sept 28.
The UN is convening the ambitious ‘Summit of the Future’ where leaders will adopt the ‘Pact for the Future’, which will include a ‘global digital compact’ and a ‘declaration on future generations’ as annexes. “The summit is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future,” UN said.
According to the UN‘s latest list of speakers, Jaishankar will address the General Assembly on Sept 28. Modi, however, will address the UN’s high-level ‘Summit of the Future’ that aims to explore ways of achieving a better future in the face of global upheavals and conflicts.
Modi is expected to begin his US visit with participation in the Quad summit on Sept 21. Interestingly, the summit’s venue will likely be Delaware, and not UNGA in New York as was previously thought.
Modi and summit host US President Joe Biden will be joined by Australian PM Anthony Albanese and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, for the summit.
This will be the last Quad summit for both Biden and Kishida as they prepare to demit office. Japan’s Nikkei Asia quoted reports from Washington that the summit will be held in Biden’s hometown of Wilmington in Delaware on Sept 21. TOI had reported earlier that India had proposed that the much-delayed summit it had to host this year be held on the sidelines of the upcoming UNGA session. Biden, however, is said to be keen on having the summit in Delaware. Biden represented Delaware in the Senate for 36 years before becoming President.
India had additionally considered having the summit on the margins of the G7 summit in Italy this year, but Australia wasn’t invited for the meeting.
Indian govt had first proposed hosting the summit on the margins of the Republic Day celebrations in Jan, for which Biden was invited as chief guest, but the President declined the invitation citing scheduling issues.
Modi will be in New York to address a community event on Sept 22 at the 16,000-seater Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Long Island.
He will also address the UN’s landmark ‘Summit of the Future’ that is being convened at the global body’s headquarters on Sept 22 and 23.
The PM is also expected to have several bilateral meetings at the UN including one possibly with Bangladesh chief advisor Muhammad Yunus, who has sought a meeting with Modi in New York.
Govt sources here said that though Modi’s schedule hasn’t been finalised yet and it’s too early to confirm his bilateral engagements. According to a PTI report from Washington, over 24,000 members of the Indian diaspora have signed up for the community event in Long Island to attend Modi’s address. A provisional list of speakers for the General Debate of the 79th session of the UNGA issued by the UN in July had said that Modi would address the high-level debate on Sept 26. However, according to a revised provisional list of speakers issued by the UN on Friday, Jaishankar is now expected to address the General Debate on Sept 28.
The UN is convening the ambitious ‘Summit of the Future’ where leaders will adopt the ‘Pact for the Future’, which will include a ‘global digital compact’ and a ‘declaration on future generations’ as annexes. “The summit is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future,” UN said.
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