While his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan had stridently targeted India on the Kashmir issue in his speech on Friday, Modi completely ignored Pakistan and mentioned the need to combat terrorism and drugs in his speech, which emphasized that India he will not hesitate to raise his voice against “enemies of humanity”.
Modi spoke passionately about the need for UN reforms in his prerecorded message as he sought to know how long India would be kept out of the world body’s decision-making structures despite its large population and successful democracy.
He said that reform in responses, processes and in the character of the UN is the need of the moment and that all Indians, seeing India’s contribution in the UN, aspire to the expanded role of India in the United Nations. , which enjoyed high credibility in the country.
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“When we were strong, we did not bother the world; when we were weak, we did not become a burden to the world. How long would a country have to wait, especially when the changes that are occurring in that country affect a large part of the world? world?” he asked, adding that India was also the country that had lost the largest number of soldiers in the course of UN peacekeeping missions. “Today, the people of India are concerned whether this reform process will ever reach its logical conclusion,” he said.
Modi said that the Indian pharmaceutical industry has shipped essential drugs to more than 150 countries. “As the largest vaccine producing country in the world, I want to give one more assurance to today’s global community, India’s vaccine production and delivery capacity will be used to help all of humanity in fighting this crisis.” he said, adding that the Indian government is moving forward with phase 3 clinical trials in the country and in the neighborhood.
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India will also help all countries improve their cold chain and storage capacities for vaccine delivery, he said. Significantly, while the border situation with China remains tense, Modi said that any “gesture of friendship” by India towards one country is not against another and that its approach to the Indo-Pacific is guided by a desire for security and growth for everybody. . Both China and Russia continue to harbor reservations about the Indo-Pacific concept and see it as a US-led initiative to contain Beijing. However, India maintains that the Indo-Pacific is a free, open, transparent and inclusive concept with Asean at the center and that it excludes no one.
Modi also sought to know where the UN was in the joint fight against the new coronavirus. “The whole world is fighting the global corona pandemic for the past 8 to 9 months. Where is its (UN) effective response?” I ask.
Modi also said, in an obvious dig at the China Beltway Initiative, that when India strengthens its partnership for development, it is not with the ill intention of making the partner country dependent or hapless. “We have never hesitated to share experiences from our development,” he said.
As India prepares to take office as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Modi said the country will not hesitate to raise its voice against the enemies of humanity, the human race and human values: terrorism, smuggling of illegal weapons, drugs and money laundering. .
Modi also said that India is moving forward with the vision of a “self-sufficient India” in the changing circumstances of the post-pandemic era. “A self-sufficient India will also be a force multiplier for the global economy. Today, it is also ensuring that there is no discrimination by extending the benefits of all schemes to all citizens of the country,” he said.
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