Visits

Detail

Visit of External Affairs Minister to New York to chair India's Presidency Initiatives in the UN Security Council (16-19 August 2021)

August 15, 2021

External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar will be visiting New York during India's Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and will be presiding over two high-level signature events on August 18 and 19. The first event on August 18, 2021 will be an Open Debate on 'Protecting the Protectors: Technology and Peacekeeping' while the second event on August 19, 2021 will be a high-level Briefing on 'Threats to International Peace and Security caused by Terrorist Acts'. Both these topics are priorities for India during its UNSC innings.

2. The Open Debate on Peacekeeping will focus on the theme of 'Protecting the Protectors', including through the use of modern technological tools to enhance the safety and security of Peacekeepers and to aid Peacekeeping Missions to effectuate their mandates effectively and efficiently. In this regard, India, in collaboration with the UN, would be rolling out the UNITE AWARE Platform, which is a situational awareness software programme that allows a Peacekeeping Operations Centre to visualise and analyze the ground situation in a conflict zone on a real time basis. This project aims to demonstrate the impact of modern surveillance technology on the detection of asymmetric threats. The aim is to improve camp security for UN peacekeepers, the overall security situation, and quality of situational awareness. India has partnered with UN to roll out the UNITE Aware platform initially in four UN Peacekeeping Missions: MINUSMA (Mali), UNMISS (South Sudan), UNFICYP (Cyprus) and AMISOM (Somalia).

3. An MoU between the Government of India and the UN in support to the 'Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping' initiative is expected to be signed during the visit. The executing agencies for this MoU would be the Center for UN Peacekeeping (CUNPK - on the Indian side) and UN C4ISR Academy for Peace Operations (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaisance) based in Entebbe (Uganda) on the UN’s side.

4. On 19 August, EAM would preside over a briefing session on the six-monthly report of the UN Secretary General on the threat posed by ISIL/Da'esh, under the agenda item "Threats to International Peace and Security caused by Terrorist Acts”

5. During this visit, External Affairs Minister would also have bilateral meetings with Foreign Ministers of other Member States on the sidelines of these UNSC high-level events.

New Delhi
August 15, 2021


Click here for Urdu version Urdu.pdf
Click here for Bengali version Bengali.pdf
Click here for Gujarati versionGujarati.pdf
Click here for Kannada versionKannada.pdf
Click here for Malayalam version Malayalam.pdf
Click here for Odia versionOdia.pdf
Click here for Punjabi versionPunjabi.pdf
Click here for Tamil versionTamil.pdf
Click here for Telugu versionTelugu.pdf
Click here for Assamese versionAssamese.pdf


Comments

Post A Comment

  • Name *
    E-mail *
  • Write Your Comment *
  • Verification Code * Verification Code