Punjab, Sept. 21 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will lead India's delegation to the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and addresses the high-level session on 26 September.
Who India sends, and what it signals
India is represented by its foreign minister rather than its Prime Minister in most years. That is not a downgrade; it is the standard arrangement for a country that uses the General Assembly for bilateral work rather than for a single speech.
The address on the 26th will be reported. The meetings around it are the reason the delegation goes.
What is on the table this year
The session convenes with the US-Iran war unresolved, the Strait of Hormuz contested, and Saudi energy infrastructure ...