"There is India, a free society (of) over a billion people, successfully lifting countless millions out of poverty and into the middle class," Trump said.
The UN works best on the basis of multilateralism and "India's positions based on partnerships get a great resonance", he said on Sunday at a news conference while replying to a reporter's query about the possibility of Pakistan raising Kashmir at the UNGA.
According to reports, Islamabad would bring up Kashmir at the UNGA and give "unequivocal support to the cause".
The government had announced the meeting yesterday, the first such high-level engagement since suspension of dialogue between the two nations after the Pathankot air base terror attack in 2016.
Amid prevailing tensions with Pakistan, India is expected to call off the meeting between foreign ministers of both the nations on sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Kofi Annan served two terms as UN secretary General from January 1, 1997, to December 31, 2006. He died at the age of 80.
The first black African to carry the role of top diplomat across the world, Annan served two terms from 1997 to 2006.
The UN's Department of Public Information (DPI) is carrying out a major communications campaign titled 'UN Peacekeeping – Service and Sacrifice' during the 70th anniversary year of UN Peacekeeping.
India had rejected High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein's report in June in which he had called for a commission of inquiry by the Human Rights Council to conduct an independent, international investigation into the human rights situation in Kashmir.
UNHCR welcomed the actions taken this week by six European countries - France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Spain and Portugal - to take a share of around 450 refugees and migrants stranded in the Mediterranean amid a battle over where the rescue ship should dock
The aim of the partnership is to develop a platform to enable governments, NGO's and the public to track specific environment-related development targets with a user-friendly Google front-end, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a statement on Monday.
The UN secretary general was responding to questions on whether he supports an independent international probe into the human rights situation in Kashmir.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on nations to fight terrorism together with methods that do not compromise the rule of law and human rights.
Nikki Haley is on a visit to India from June 26-28.
The estimate of over 1 billion firearms worldwide at the end of 2017 also includes 133 million such weapons held by government military forces and 22.7 million by law enforcement agencies, it said.
In one of the largest Israeli military operations in recent years, Israel's military said that it had carried out widespread raids against Iranian targets in Syria after Iran fired more than 20 rockets at its forces in the occupied region of Golan Heights.
Mlambo-Ngcuka stressed that the assertion of the human rights of everyone, everywhere and their protection by the rule of law, is a fundamental tenet of the UN.
The UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held elections to a number of its subsidiary bodies on Monday.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told Parliament in New Delhi that the 39 Indians abducted in 2014 by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Mosul city were dead and their bodies had been recovered.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on February 28 unveiled a plan to open peace talks with the Taliban, including eventually recognising them as a political party, days after the militants called for direct negotiations with the US.
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