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PM Modi to address the TERI’s World Sustainable Development Summit on Wednesday

Malvika Choudhary — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:58:21 +0000

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address on the inauguration day of The Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI) World Sustainable Development Summit on Wednesday. The upcoming edition will be held as a hybrid event scheduled from 16- 18 February 2022 in New Delhi. World Sustainable Development Summit is TERI’s annual flagship event. The prime minister will deliver his address through a video message around 6 pm, the PMO stated.

PM @narendramodi to deliver the inaugural address at TERI’s World Sustainable Development Summit on 16th February

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— PIB India (@PIB_India) February 15, 2022

The summit will discuss a wide range of concerning matters, like climate change, sustainable production, energy transitions, global commons and resource security.

The World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) is the annual event of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). The WSDS 2022 will be held under the umbrella theme of “Towards a Resilient Planet: Ensuring a Sustainable and Equitable Future.”

The three-day summit commencing on 16th February will be attended by Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Amina J Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations, heads of various intergovernmental organisations, Ministers and envoys from more than a dozen countries and representatives from over 120 countries.

“It is our conscious effort at creating a platform where stakeholders from across the world sit together to deliberate on solutions that are based on sustainability and green growth. TERI is a pioneer in these areas and WSDS 2022 will play a crucial part in accentuating our role in providing technological, policy as well as knowledge solutions as India works towards realising the commitments made at COP26,” Director General, TERI, Dr Vibha Dhawan conveyed.

Apart from Modi’s inaugural address, the other notable addresses will be delivered by President of the Republic of Guyana Dr Irfaan Ali and Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed. India’s Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav will make the opening address.

The Energy and Resources Institute is a research institute in New Delhi that specializes in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development and was established in 1974.

“International travel easier through mutual recognition of vaccine certificates,” says PM Modi at the Global COVID-19 summit

News Desk — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:15:09 +0000

On Wednesday Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on a high-level US visit, and at a meeting at Global COVID-19 Summit, Modi asked for mutual recognition of vaccine certificates.

Prime Minister Modi said “We also need to focus on addressing the pandemic’s economic effects. To end that, international travel should be made easier, through mutual recognition of vaccine certificates. As newer Indian vaccines get developed, we are also ramping up the production capacity of existing vaccines. As our production increases, we will be able to resume vaccine supplies to others too and for this, the supply chains of raw materials must be kept open.”

Currently, the world’s largest vaccination campaign is being run by India and about 25 million people got vaccinated on a single day. Over 800 million vaccine doses have been delivered at the grassroots level healthcare system and now more than 200 million Indians are completely vaccinated. Focusing on the economic effects of the pandemic we should make international travel easier through mutual recognition of vaccine certificates.

“Earlier this year vaccine production has been shared by India to 95 other countries, along with the UN as peacekeepers. The world has also stood with India at the time when India was going through the COVID-19 second wave, for all that solidarity and support extended to India, I thank you all,” said PM Modi addressing the pandemic’s economic effects.

Japan PM Yoshihide Suga becomes first foreign leader to visit US under Biden

Govindraj Muttepawar — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 06:46:55 +0000

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrived in the United States on Thursday for a summit meeting with US President Joe Biden.

The meeting will be Biden’s first in-person summit with a foreign leader since taking office in January. Suga and Biden are expected to present a united front on Taiwan, China’s most sensitive territorial issue, at Friday’s summit, according to a senior US administration official.

Biden and Suga are expected to agree on a joint statement on the Chinese claimed but democratically ruled island, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The last time US and Japanese leaders referred to Taiwan in a joint statement was in 1969, when Japan’s prime minister said maintenance of peace and security in the “Taiwan area” was important for its own security. That was before Tokyo normalized ties with Beijing.

The move now aims to ratchet up pressure on China. However, such a statement appears likely to fall short of what the United States has been hoping to see from Suga, who inherited a China policy that sought to balance security concerns with deep economic ties when he took over as premier last September. Biden and Suga will also discuss Beijing’s treatment of Muslims in the Xinjiang region and its influence over Hong Kong, while also announcing a $2 billion Japanese investment in 5G telecommunications to counter China’s Huawei Technologies.

Suga in September succeeded his ally Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, who was one of the few democratic allies to manage to preserve stable relations with Biden’s volatile predecessor Donald Trump. Biden’s inaugural summit, held an unusually late three months into his term due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to be a tame affair after the Trump era, with the president welcoming the soft-spoken Japanese leader for one-on-one talks and an expanded meeting with the cabinet before a joint news conference.

But Suga, who Japanese media reported arrived in Washington Thursday evening, is expected to balk at becoming an overenthusiastic cheerleader for the US line on China, which remains the vital top trading partner for resource-scarce Japan. Tokyo since Abe’s time has worked to stabilize relations with Beijing and not joined Washington in sanctions over rights concerns in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.

“The Biden administration, I think, is concerned at how aggressive China has been and how much ground the US has lost in recent years in Asia and wants to catch up quickly,” said Michael Green, who was the top Asia adviser to former president George W. Bush and is now senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Japan will welcome what is expected to be a fresh declaration that the Japanese-administered Senkaku islands where Beijing, which calls them the Diaoyu, has been increasingly assertive fall under the US-Japan security treaty that requires mutual defense.

Suga, and Moon next month, will also consult Biden as he reviews US policy on North Korea, where Trump’s unusual personal diplomacy with leader Kim Jong Un eased tensions but did not bring a lasting accord on Pyongyang’s nuclear program.