External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday attended the 60th Asian African Conference Commemoration.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday attended the 60th Asian African Conference Commemoration.
The 10th anniversary of the New Asian African Partnership is taking place in the year 2015 in which various streams of the global discourse are gathering pace to culminate in four key events – COP21 on Climate Change in Paris, Summit to finalize Post-2015 Development Agenda, 70th Anniversary of the UN and the 10th WTO Ministerial in Kenya – each one of which will have far-reaching political and economic ramifications.
There are significant transitions and developments taking place in Asia, Europe and the Middle East with regional and global implications.
On Monday, India, represented by its Minister of State, Gen. (retired) V.K. Singh, said every country had faced the scourge of terrorism, and therefore, the time was ripe to use the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the New Asian African Partnership to send out a strong message to the world of the shared will and capacities to contribute to global peace, stability and sustainable development with the United Nations playing a central role in dealing with global challenges and threats.
India said that the year 2015 marks the 70th year of the foundation of the United Nations and added that it saw the tenth anniversary of the World Summit as a unique opportunity to demonstrate collective will to reform the UN which is the global institution for political governance.
It highlighted the failure to push for any kind of outcomes, saying this only added to the increasing sentiment of frustration amongst the wider membership, besides denting the credibility of the Security Council's decisions.
It lamented the fact that the world body continues to ignore the contemporary realities of the 21st century.
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