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India pitches for small island nations' development at Commonwealth summit
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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Apr, 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched India's interest
for the development of small island nations at the Commonwealth Heads
of Government Meeting (CHOGM) here.
Briefing the media here,
Ruchi Ghanashyam, Secretary (West) in the Indian External Affairs
Ministry, said that Modi's participation at CHOGM conveyed India's
interest in the development of the small island nations.
On the
sidelines of the summit, Modi met leaders of several of the island
nations of the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
India
has been increasingly reaching out to these island nations given their
vulnerability in the face of climate change and their stakes in the blue
economy.
"A large number of the Commonwealth nations are small island nations," Ghanashyam said.
According
to her, Modi during the two executive sessions across the day, said
that India will help these nations through the National Institute of
Oceanography in Goa.
Another important offer that Modi made that
invoked interest was that, through the Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI), India will help train 30 boys and 30 girls under the age
of 16 from the Commonwealth nations to undergo training in cricket.
According
to Ghanashyam, the Commonwealth leaders' discussions during the day
focused on four areas: democracy, international treaty rule, attaining
the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and security concerns.
Earlier
on Thursday, Modi attended the opening ceremony of this year's CHOGM,
becoming the first Indian Prime Minister to attend this biannual event
since 2009.
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