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Diplomat Times (New York) – Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has met with United Nations ‘s General Assembly President Csaba Korosi and discused about global development and the UN’s role while assuring him of India’s support.

On Monday, the eve of the high-level Assembly meeting, he held bilateral meetings also with eight foreign ministers and attended two multilateral sessions covering a geography from Indonesia to Trinidad and topics ranging from security, food and agriculture to economy and development.

Jaishankar tried to bring focus in his meeting with Korosi and others to matters of vital importance to the developing nations like energy and food security, fertilizer availability, health issues, global debt concerns and trade disruption problems, according to an official source. After his meeting with Korosi, Jaishankar tweeted: “Assured him of India’s fullest support. Discussed the criticality of SDG agenda for global progress. Shared Indian experiences in that regard.

SDGs are the 17 sustainable development goals set by the UN to be achieved by 2030 and cover topics ranging from environment to education, and from poverty to peace but which are now facing a setback from the Covid pandemic and the fallout of the Ukraine war.

By Shasi Kumar

International (DT) 31, Aug 2022 | 19 : 36 PM

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War Two and brought about the reunification of Germany.

Gorbachev’s achievements

Gorbachev’s accomplishments were numerous. They included the negotiation of arms reduction treaties with the United States during a number of summits with US President Ronald Reagan. His suggestion to Reagan in Reykjavik that the US and USSR should eliminate nuclear weapons blindsided a US foreign policy establishment that initially saw Gorbachev as little more than a younger version of the gerontocrats he had succeeded.

After initially vacillating, he admitted the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, accepting that doing so would weaken him both at home and abroad. In 1988 he unilaterally drew down Warsaw Pact forces in Europe without waiting for a reciprocal agreement with NATO nations.

Earlier in his tenure he had developed a personal rapport with Margaret Thatcher, who famously told the BBC he was a man the West could do business with. He withdrew Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1988-89, and admitted their presence was a violation of international law.

He refused to intervene in many of the spontaneous demonstrations seeking to overthrow entrenched communist leaders across the Warsaw Pact, pressuring them not to use force against their own citizens.

New Delhi (Diplomat Times) 29, August 2022 | (ANI)

By diplomat times

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Delhi on Monday.

Former Australian Prime Minister Rudd is in Delhi with former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the launch of the Asia Society Policy Institute’s new report on how India can reach net zero. As is the case for any country, India has a huge opportunity ahead of it in reducing emissions, Rudd said earlier on Sunday.

In a tweet after the meeting, Jaishankar wrote, “Great to meet former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd this morning. Interesting discussion on the state of the world, as always.”