The project was announced a day earlier by External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during the India-UN event for the Global South at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The initiative complements the partnership between the South Asian state and the international organization with a portfolio of 75 projects implemented in 61 countries over the last 6 years.
Under the project, the UN team in India and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will work together to leverage India’s platform for technical and economic cooperation, national media detailed.
To this end, a memorandum of understanding was exchanged between the United Nations Resident Coordinator in India, Shombi Sharp, and the Gates Foundation.
The initiative will also put into practice India’s achievements as Chair of the Group of Twenty (G20), including the Action Plan to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, technological transformation and building digital public infrastructure.
The India-UN event for the Global South is part of Jaishankar’s agenda in the United States, which began last Friday to attend the UN General Assembly (UNGA) program at the head of his delegation, where he will deliver a speech tomorrow, Tuesday want to keep.
The Indian foreign minister hopes to meet with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Dennis Francis, president of the 78th session of the UNGA.
According to his publications on the platform from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elmedin Konakovic and the Armenian Ararat Mirzoyan.
Jaishankar also discussed the progress of the bilateral development partnership and the situation in Myanmar with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and spoke with his counterparts from Egypt, Sameh Shoukry from Guinea-Bissau and Carlos Pinto Pereira from Cyprus. , Constantinos Kombos, and from Uganda, Jeje Ondongo.
Once commitments to the international organization are fulfilled, Jaishankar will visit Washington from September 27 to 30 for bilateral meetings with American counterparts, the New Delhi-based Foreign Ministry said.
His program includes talks with his counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as well as senior members of the North American government, business leaders and that country’s think tank, diplomatic sources said.
The Indian Foreign Minister will also attend the Fourth World Cultural Festival organized by the Art of Living Foundation in the US capital.
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