Source: Arab News:
The Prime Minister spoke at length about secularism, balanced and inclusive growth and need for electoral reforms.
At the meet, he also announced that India will ratify the Paris climate deal on Oct. 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Modi made the announcement at a meeting of his party’s leaders in the southern Indian town of Kozhikode, but gave no further details.
India accounts for around 4.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said this month that 60 countries accounting for around 48 percent of emissions had already joined the agreement.
The Paris Agreement asks both rich and poor countries to take action to curb the rise in global temperatures that is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and shifting rainfall patterns. It requires governments to present national plans to reduce emissions to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.