India will do its best to promote South-South cooperation: United Nations envoy Ruchira Kamboj

Ambassador Kamboj was speaking at a joint side event hosted by UN Political and Peacebuilding and UN Development Programme on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Peace and Development at the ‘Global South-South Development Expo’.

India will continue to do its best in furthering South-South cooperation which has become even more crucial at a time when developing nations were mostly left to fend for themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's envoy to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj has said.

South-South cooperation is a broad framework of collaboration among countries of the South in the political-, economic-, social-, cultural-, environmental- and technical domains.

Triangular cooperation is collaboration in which traditional donor countries and multilateral organisations facilitate South-South initiatives through the provision of funding, training, management and technological systems as well as other forms of support.

South-South and triangular cooperation is one of the important drivers of regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific and has resulted in increased volumes of South-South trade, foreign direct investment flows and technology transfer.

"South-South and triangular cooperation, we feel very strongly here in India, is the right thing to do multilaterally, working for development is the right thing to do. And this is the small contribution that India with its commitment to multilateralism, and South-South cooperation is venturing to support at the United Nations,” Ambassador Kamboj said on September 13.

She was speaking at a joint side event hosted by UN Political and Peacebuilding (UN DPPA) and UN Development Programme (UNDP) on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Peace and Development at the ‘Global South-South Development Expo’. The event showcased concrete South-South and triangular cooperation initiatives in the realm of peace and development implemented by the Global South, with the support of UN DPPA and UNDP.

The event aimed to explore measures to galvanise strategic, coordinated and coherent policy and programmatic support for South-South and triangular cooperation to increase the impact of all UN activities at national, regional and global levels.