According to the tentative itinerary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend and speak at the high-level United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session on September 26.
With the UN turning 80 this year and “Better Together: 80 Years and More for Peace, Development and Human Rights” as the subject of the General Assembly, this will be a historic gathering.
The 80th anniversary will be celebrated on September 22 with a high-level meeting.
The next day, as is customary, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will give the opening remarks at the regular high-level meetings.
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, will succeed him.
The high-level meeting will not be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speakers include Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Li Qiang of China, and Keir Starmer of Britain will take the stage before Prime Minister Modi in the morning session on September 26 that begins at 9 a.m. (6:30 p.m. in India).
Later that session, Prime Ministers Tshering Tobgay of Bhutan, K.P. Sharma Oli of Nepal, and Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan are scheduled to attend.
As the final speaker of the morning session, Bangladesh’s “prime minister” is identified as Muhammad Yunus, who positions himself as the Chief Advisor to the interim administration established following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, the democratically elected prime minister.
It will be PM Modi’s seventh speech to the high-level session of the General Assembly.
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