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UN Deputy Chief Amina Mohammed to visit India from Aug 26
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed will visit India from August 26 to 28, stopping over on her way back to New York from China and Mongolia. She will meet senior officials in New Delhi to discuss UN-India cooperation and India’s role in advancing sustainable development, according to UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.
Mohammed will also visit the Indian Institute of Technology to discuss leveraging digital innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals. Before reaching India, she will convene an AI and human development dialogue in China from August 22-23, and attend a UN desertification conference in Mongolia on August 23.
This is Mohammed’s second visit to India since being reappointed as UN deputy secretary-general in January 2022. During her last visit in July 2023, she met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and visited Bengaluru to discuss India’s digital technology achievements for the Global South.
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Amina Mohammed’s visit comes as India pushes for a permanent UN Security Council seat and leads the G20 presidency’s development agenda. The UN-India cooperation on sustainable development is particularly significant given India’s ambitious goals to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070 and its recent progress in digital public infrastructure like Aadhaar and UPI, which the UN sees as replicable models for the Global South. Her interaction at IIT will likely focus on India’s use of digital tools for SDGs, a theme she also explores in the China AI dialogue. The real outcome to watch is whether this visit yields concrete announcements on UN funding or technical partnerships for India’s green transition or digital initiatives by mid-September.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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