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“If there is one country which by its military strength and it’s size and economic potential.. one country that has a claim on the United Nations Security Council, that is India,” Abbot said, while speaking at the sidelines of an event in Delhi.
The Indian government on Thursday(14 – November – 2019) released 3.10 billion Nepali rupees ($27.9 million) to Nepal from the concessional Line of Credit as part of reimbursement of the third tranche of financial aid to rebuild houses in Nuwakot and Gorkha districts, the Indian Embassy said in a press release.
As a mark of solidarity towards the Palestinian refugees, India has increased its pledge to donate US$ 5 million to the core budget of the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) in 2020.
The two are in Bangkok for a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defence Ministers’ Meet. The talks between the two took place on the sidelines of the ASEAN meet.
Last year at the 10th BRICS Summit, the joint working group on counter-terrorism decided to constitute sub-working groups in five areas: terrorist financing; use of Internet for terrorist purposes; countering radicalisation; the issue of foreign terrorist fighters; and capacity-building.
The high commissioner said the UK’s civil service head of the Ministry of Defence and a Homeland Security Trade Mission led by Director of the UK Defence and Security Organisation will visit India this month.
Kumar said India’s pledges of contributions for operational activities of development for the year 2020 is to the tune of USD 13.5 million, in line with the country’s long-standing tradition of supporting development activities across the UN system.
“Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi invited the President of Brazil to be the chief guest at the Republic Day 2020. The Brazilian President has accepted the invitation with pleasure,” said a statement issued after a Modi-Bolsonaro meeting in Brasilia, on the side lines of the BRICS Summit.
Xi and Modi met in southern India last month, following their first informal summit in China last year as the two sought to put their often deeply strained relationship back on track.
The first round of the meeting on the 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue was held in New Delhi in September 2018 and had focussed on the need for upholding peaceful resolution of territorial maritime disputes, promoting market-based economics, supporting good governance, fundamental rights, and liberties, and preventing external economic coercion.
