Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to attend the United Nations General Assembly's high-level meeting in New York this September. According to the preliminary program released by the Assembly President Dennis Francis' office, Modi's speech is scheduled for the afternoon session on September 26.

India abstained from voting on a draft resolution presented by Pakistan and co-sponsored by China at the UN General Assembly. The resolution aimed to address Islamophobia, but India emphasized the need to recognize and combat religiophobia against multiple faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.

Applauding India's significant decline in multidimensional poverty, with nearly 250 million people escaping poverty in the last nine years, President Francis commended India's commitment to inclusive growth and transformative change.