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India, UN Officials Discuss Peacekeeping Cooperation in New York
2026/04/22, 00:54
India and UN officials held talks on peacekeeping collaboration in New York. Senior representatives from both sides focused on key United Nations peacekeeping matters, according to India's Permanent Mission to the UN on Tuesday (April 21, 2026).
The discussion involved Sibi George, Secretary (West) in India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), and Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for West Asia, Asia, and the Pacific in the UN's Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations.
George and Khiari engaged in a "productive discussion on various topics, with particular focus on UN peacekeeping," the mission noted in a social media post.
India remains one of the top contributors to UN peacekeeping missions, with over 275,000 troops serving under the UN flag since 1948, per the UN India website.
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