This refers to the editorial "A weekend in New York" (September 30). Narendra Modi's speeches pointedly underlined international issues: categorising "good" and "bad" terrorism, a realistic approach towards climate, restructuring international institutional architecture and the role of Indians. As a statesman, Modi drew the attention of the United Nations to the massive poverty in most of the world and urged the nations to fight it jointly. The 70-year-old international, political and institutional structure created in the mid-forties to suit the then situation by the powers-that-be, as Modi asserted, requires a drastic overhaul to suit the current structure of economic and political powers.
He could have also highlighted the need to restructure the international institutional architecture, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the rest of the institutions that deal with poverty-related, trade and commercial aspects. Yoga apart, Modi rightly brought to centre stage the missing link of assigning priority to sanitation, drinking water and power, which are sine qua non for sustaining development programmes.
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He could have also highlighted the need to restructure the international institutional architecture, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the rest of the institutions that deal with poverty-related, trade and commercial aspects. Yoga apart, Modi rightly brought to centre stage the missing link of assigning priority to sanitation, drinking water and power, which are sine qua non for sustaining development programmes.
K U Mada Mumbai
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