Heads of state and senior officials of fourteen island countries are participating in the summit.
Prime Minister Narender Modi will address the summit Friday Aug 21,2015
The objective of summit is to strengthen trade and bilateral relations between India and the Pacific countries.
Support for India’s claims for a permanent seat in the
United Nations Security Council will be high on the agenda at the second
Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) summit that will be
addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jaipur on Friday Aug 21,2015
On
Thursday Aug 20,2015, addressing the heads of the Pacific Island nations who are in
New Delhi for the summit, President Pranab Mukherjee said:
“UNSC reform
and expansion will be discussed and concrete proposals are expected to
be considered in the forthcoming UNGA session next month. An
inter-governmental negotiating text is already on the table, for which
India needs their support.”
President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi with heads of Pacific Island nations at a reception in
Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on Thursday Aug 20,2015
Of the 14 Pacific Island
nations, 12 have a vote in the United Nations, and India asserts it has
“firm stated commitment of support” from at least 10 of these. According
to MEA sources, of these two countries (that are yet to back India’s
claim) one supports the G4 resolution, which indirectly supports the
Indian position, while the other is yet to announce its stand.
Note
Forum for India-Pacific Islands cooperation is a multinational grouping developed in 2014 for cooperation between India and 14 Pacific Islands Nations which include -
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Nauru
- Niue
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Tonga
- Tuvalu and
- Vanuatu
All Head of State/Head of Govt of the above countries met in Suva, Fiji in November 2014 for the first time where the annual summit was conceptualized.
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