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Modi to attend G-4 summit on UNSC reform, visit Silicon Valley
New York, Sep 26
A day after he pitched
strongly for UN Security Council reforms, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
will on Saturday attend a summit of G-4 countries - India, Brazil,
Germany and Japan - that have taken the lead in pressing for the
overhaul.
This is the first such summit after 2004 and comes
after the UN General Assembly has resolved on a text-based negotiation
on the Security Council's reform.
Modi will meet with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the summit.
"We must reform
the United Nations including its Security Council so that it carries
greater credibility and legitimacy and will be more representative and
effective in achieving our goals," Modi said at the UN Sustainable
Development Summit on Friday.
Modi will later travel to San Jose, California.
He
will visit Tesla Motors, in Palo Alto in California, to see the
path-breaking inventions on renewable energy. He will meet Apple CEO Tim
Cook and later other tech company chiefs like Microsoft's Satya
Nadella, Google's Sundar Pichai, Adobe's Shantanu Narayen, Qualcomm's
Paul Jacobs, Cisco's John Chambers and TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)
president Venky Shukla.
Modi will also deliver an address at the Digital India and Digital Technology Dinner.