India's permanent contribution to agenda of world community is of enormous importance for us: Guterres

UNITED NATIONS: (Feb 17) India's permanent contribution to the agenda of the international community and that of the UN is of “enormous importance for us”, the UN chief has said, as he pointed to a “positive mega trend” of the increasingly enhanced roles of developing economies like India in the world.

These remarks were made by Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who will be heading to New Delhi to attend the India AI Impact Summit, the first-ever summit on Artificial Intelligence hosted in the Global South.

“India became an extremely important leader in the discussions on all aspects of the activities of the UN, in peace and security, sustainable development, where I remember the G20 presided by India, the very important decisions that were taken there,” Guterres told PTI in an exclusive interview here.