UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed will visit India later this month and discuss the world body’s cooperation with New Delhi as well as the country’s engagement in advancing sustainable development.
In India, Ms. She had met with External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr. S. Jaishankar and had also travelled to Bengaluru, where she interacted with experts from premier information and technology research institutions and industry representatives to discuss India’s achievements in the digital technology domain that could be replicated in the Global South for addressing developmental challenges.
In China, she will convene the third dialogue on Artificial Intelligence and Human Development on Thursday (August 20) and Friday (August 21), Mr.
During her visit to India from August 26-28, she will meet with senior government officials in New Delhi “to discuss UN-India cooperation and India’s engagement in advancing sustainable development,” Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said at the daily press briefing in United Nations on Wednesday (August 19). Mohammed will also meet with students at the Indian Institute of Technology to “exchange on the opportunities and challenges to leverage digital innovation in support of the Sustainable Development Goals”. Dujarric said, adding that the convening is part of a global series of high-level dialogues bringing together leading thinkers from around the country, the region and the world to “examine how one of humanity’s most transformative technologies is shaping human progress”. During the visit, she will underscore the need to accelerate land restoration, strengthen resilience, and advance sustainable development in the face of the growing challenges posed by desertification, land degradation and drought, he said.
