The overseas ministers of India and Pakistan will come face-to-face at a gathering of the United Nations Security Council in New York on Wednesday.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will chair a UNSC ministerial meet on the on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: New Orientation for Reformed Multilateralism.” It is among the signature occasions being held on the UNSC in the course of the month-long presidency of India.

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari can even participate within the assembly.

Though Pakistan is just not a member of the Security Council, it may well attend the assembly as it’s an ‘open debate’ and all of the UN member states can take part.

The assembly might even see a disagreement between the 2 neighbouring nations as Pakistan might attempt to use the chance to boost the problem of Jammu and Kashmir to embarrass India whereas presenting its nationwide assertion, simply because it did previously.

Jaishankar and Zardari had previously attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s assembly in Uzbekistan in July and the UN General Assembly in New York in September. They, nevertheless, by no means had a bilateral assembly on the sideline of the multilateral conclaves.

India took over because the president of the UNSC for the second time throughout its present two-year-long time period as one of many non-permanent member of the council on December 1. Its time period as a member of the council will finish on December 31.

The major focus of the open debate on Reformed Multilateralism is to encourage all UNSC member states to noticeably deal with the urgent want for reforms within the world governance multilateral structure, together with the long-standing reforms of the UN Security Council. The assembly can even witness briefings by the Secretary General of the United Nations and the President of the 77th UN General Assembly, based on a press launch on the exterior affairs minister’s go to to New York.

The high-level briefing on counter terrorism will search to advertise consensus among the many UNSC members on the broad ideas of a world counter-terror structure and intention to additional construct upon the Delhi Declaration adopted in the course of the Special Meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee held on October 28-30 in Mumbai and New Delhi.

Jaishankar can even be unveiling Mahatma Gandhi’s Bust on the premises of the UN Headquarters. The bust, a present from the Government of India to the United Nations, would be the first to be put in on the UN Headquarters.