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Thursday, October 4, 2012

L K Advani among 13 MPs to attend UN General Assembly

India, the only country to send MPs to attend sessions of UN General Assembly, is deputing 13 Parliamentarians this time, including BJP leader LK Advani.

The MPs, representing both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, will be in New York in three groups one after another, from Friday Oct 05,2012.Each group will attend the session for two weeks and speak on various issues ranging from economy to disarmament.
Other MPs selected for the visit are -
P C Chacko, Rishang Keishing, Gurudas Kamat, Anu Tandon (all Cong)
Najma Heptullah and Ananth Kumar (both BJP)
Derek O'Brien and Vandana Chavan (both TMC)
 Dharmendra Yadav (SP)
Satish Chandra Mishra (BSP)
 N K Singh (JD-U) and
P Karunakaran (CPI-M)

During the visit, MPs attend deliberations of the General Assembly and its Committees and get an insider's view of how the work of multilateral diplomacy is conducted.

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