UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed to visit India later this month

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed will visit India later this month, discussing cooperation between the world body and India, as well as the country's progress in advancing sustainable development. Mohammed will be in China and Mongolia before returning to India. During her stay from August 26-28, she will meet with senior government officials in New Delhi to discuss UN-India collaboration and sustainable development efforts.

Mohammed will also engage with students at the Indian Institute of Technology, discussing opportunities and challenges in leveraging digital innovation to support the Sustainable Development Goals. In China, she will host a dialogue on Artificial Intelligence and Human Development, part of a series examining the impact of transformative technologies on human progress.

Her trip to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is scheduled for August 23, where she will attend the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, emphasizing the need for land restoration, resilience, and sustainable development in the face of desertification and drought. Mohammed will return to New York on August 28.

This will be her second visit to India since her reappointment as UN Deputy Secretary-General in January 2022.