Sushma Swaraj to meet G-4 leaders on strategy
The four countries are looking to be permanent members of the UN Security Council.
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will meet her counterparts of the other G-4 countries—Brazil, Germany and Japan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meet in New York on Wednesday.
The four countries are looking to be permanent members of the UN Security Council. Ms Swaraj will also meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meet.
The meeting with the Afghan President will take place just days after a meeting of the Strategic Partnership Council between India and Afghanistan in New Delhi between Ms Swaraj and Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani where it was agreed that New Delhi will “extend further assistance” to the Afghan armed forces to battle terrorism.
The two countries had also agreed on an “ambitious and forward looking next generation New Development Partnership” that will see “116 High Impact Community Development Projects to be implemented in 31 provinces of Afghanistan”. The meeting between Ms Swaraj and President Ghani will cement Indo-Afghan ties at a time when Kabul is furious with Islamabad for continuing to back terror in the troubled nation. Ms Swaraj will also meet the Brazilian foreign minister in a bilateral meeting apart from the Moroccan foreign minister.