{"id":324689,"date":"2020-07-17T02:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T02:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324689"},"modified":"2020-07-17T03:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T03:32:57","slug":"prime-minister-modi-to-address-high-level-segment-of-ecosoc-on-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prime-minister-modi-to-address-high-level-segment-of-ecosoc-on-july-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Modi to address High-Level Segment of ECOSOC on July 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324341 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/modi-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12.jpg 772w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12-696x415.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12-705x420.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver a keynote address virtually at this year\u2019s High-Level Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council session on July 17. The Prime Minister will be speaking at the valedictory session along with the Prime Minister of Norway and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The annual High-level Segment convenes a diverse group of high-level representatives from the Government, the private sector, civil society and academia. The theme of this year\u2019s High-level Segment is &#8220;Multilateralism after COVID19: What kind of UN do we need at the 75th anniversary\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Set against the changing international environment and the COVID-19 pandemic, this session will focus on critical forces shaping the course of multilateralism and explore ways to bolster the global agenda through strong leadership, effective international institutions, a broadening of participation and enhanced significance of global public goods, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This will be the first opportunity for the PM to address the broader UN membership since India\u2019s overwhelming election as a non-permanent member of the Security Council on 17th June, for the term 2021-22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe theme of the High-Level Segment of the ECOSOC, on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the UN, also resonates with India\u2019s Security Council priority, wherein we have called for \u2018reformed multilateralism\u2019 in a post-COVID-19 world. It also recalls India\u2019s role, as the holder of the inaugural Presidency of ECOSOC (Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, in 1946),\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM had earlier delivered the keynote address virtually at the 70th anniversary of ECOSOC in January 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver a keynote address virtually at this year\u2019s High-Level Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council session on July 17. The Prime Minister will be speaking at the valedictory session along with the Prime Minister of Norway and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The annual High-level Segment convenes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13197,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324690,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324689\/revisions\/324690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}