Pak-wary Modi set to skip UN address

September 13, 2015 11:17

A fortnight from now, at the milestone General Assembly on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, India will cut off its nose to spite its face.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in New York for the occasion, but he will not address the General Assembly in a departure from the practice followed by every one of his predecessors on landmark UN anniversaries.

Instead, the job has been given to external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj who will speak in the iconic home of the General Assembly on October 1 with not even a single head of state or government to listen to her. They would all have left New York -including Modi - by the time it is the turn of ministers to address the "general debate" of the session which lasts till October 6.

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