Prime Minister Narendra Modi has his eye set on the United Nations with plans to get India a permanent position in the Security Council of the global body with his brainstorming. The Prime Minister hopes for a power packed summit, the first of its kind in almost a decade, during the United Nations General Assembly in US.
In a G-4 group, the special summit, the Prime Minister Modi, plans to host Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the New Yorks Waldorf Astoria Hotel, on Saturday before he heads out for the West Coast.
The 4 countries in the G-4 group will be backing the bid each one makes for the UN Security councils permanent seats. Narendra Modi had decided to involve the heads of the States of the four counties this time, after a consult with the Japanese Prime minister Abe. The G-4 group meet normally has the foreign ministers of the four countries presiding, but Modi altered the rules this time. The Japanese PM will be attending the summit and will be reaching the New York venue on Saturday 26th by plane.
India is the host for the high-octane summit that is subjective of the breakthrough agreement last week, made at the United Nations. The agreement text had subject matter that will manipulate the expansion of the Security Council and all the future negotiations made on the reforms professed by the United Nations.
The protests that were made by Pakistan and China have been evaded in the text draft say the Indian diplomats. According to sources the special meeting of the United Nations to celebrate 70 years, which was held in San Francisco, was notable because of the absence of the US involvement. The sources term that this was an inadequate response shown by America and it had stayed away from the meet.
India’s permanent representative at the UN, Asoke Mukerji, gave a statement to the NDTV saying , “All India, the world’s oldest democracy is pushing for is greater democratization of the United Nations.”
