Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a strong pitch for reforms in the UN security council while addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit.
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Eradicating poverty is our most important mission.
“This gives a feeling to us that the UN Security Council of 2015 is a mirror of the geo-political realities of 1945 and not that of the 21st century”, Swarup said, adding that only a reformed Council would be capable to properly address the challenges of the present days. “Because it is neither representative and there are questions on its legitimacy”, Swarup said, adding that there is also a need to determine the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly. We have launched several programmes to empower the poor. He’ll be meeting with a variety of tech entrepreneurs and CEOs, seeing how we can further develop partnerships that will benefit both the Unites States’ and India’s economy.
“Nations have a national responsibility for sustainable development. We refer to this sector of individual enterprise as one that includes microfinance, innovation and start-ups”, he said. Our next generation should be raised to protect the environment.
I represent a culture where the earth is considered our mother.
Ahead of United Nations climate talks in Paris in late November, Modi said that India was concentrating on delivering the basics of development, “housing, power, water and sanitation for all” and expressed the hope that the developed world would fulfill its financing commitments for development and climate change. If our shared vision is that of a just world, a peaceful world, and a world with sustainable development then this will never be possible as long as there is poverty.
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PM Modi ended his speech with a mantra from the Upanishad: ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः, सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः । सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु, मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत् (May all be happy, may all be healthy, may all see welfare, may no one have any sorrow).
