New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj would be meeting more than 100 of her counterparts from across the world, including the new British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, during a slew of meetings in New York this month.
According to external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin, the minister would be travelling to New York on September 23. She will accompany Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington for his summit meeting with US President Barack Obama on September 30.
Sushma Swaraj will stay back, after the prime minister returns, to attend the October 2 observance of the UN Day of Non Violence in honour of Mahatma Gandhi. She will be participating in a series of meetings in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. She will hold bilateral meetings as well as participate in plurilateral (more than two) and multilateral meetings while she is in New York.
Among the bilateral meetings she will hold there would be with Hammond who took over as foreign secretary on July 15. She would be attending the G4 foreign ministers meeting, along with her counterparts from Japan, Brazil and Germany, on UN Security Council reforms.
She would also attend the IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) foreign ministers meeting, the GCC ministerial meeting and the India-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States ministerial meet with the troika of Costa Rica, Cuba and Equador .
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