Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called upon the world not to let go of the chance to reform the United Nations. “The UN was originally born from the furies of World War II.
The fury of the pandemic provides the context for UN’s rebirth and reform.To enhance its relevance, to improve its effectiveness and to make it the basis of a new type of human-centric globalisation, let us not lose this chance,’’ he said in a virtual address to the high-level segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council session (ECOSOC).
The session was attended by the Norway PM and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The first president of ECOSOC was an Indian and India also contributed to shaping its agenda.This is the second time that PM Modi has addressed ECOSOC. He had delivered the keynote address at its 70th anniversary in 2016.
