India's vaccine capacity will help 'all humanity', Modi tells UN

 India because the world's biggest vaccine maker will use its resources “for all humanity” within the battle against the coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the United Nations on Saturday.

In his address to the virtual UN General Assembly, Modi made no direct mention of global climate change or of India's current border tussle with China following a clash in June when 20 Indian troops died, however.

“As the most important vaccine producing country of the planet ... India's vaccine production and delivery capacity are going to be wont to help all humanity in fighting this crisis,” Modi said.

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“India also will help all the countries in enhancing their cold chain and storage capacities for the delivery of the vaccines,” he said.

On Friday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had insisted in his speech to the UN that any nation that develops a Covid-19 vaccine share it universally.

Morrison made the strongly worded appeal because the us resists global efforts to collaborate on a vaccine.

“This may be a global responsibility and it is a moral responsibility for a vaccine to be shared far and wide,” Morrison had said.

Modi also steered beyond directly mentioning Pakistan despite Prime Minister Imran Khan having used his UN address to lambast India over occupied Kashmir and therefore the New Delhi government's Hindu nationalist ideology.

But Modi reiterated India's involves reform of the UN and for the world's second-most populous country to tend more influence within the global body.

“Over the last eight to nine months, the entire world has been battling the pandemic of the coronavirus. Where is that the United Nations during this joint fight against the pandemic? Where is its effective response?” Modi said.

India's 1.3 billion people “have been expecting an extended time for the method for the reforms of the United Nations to urge completed”, Modi said.

“Today, people of India are concerned whether this reform process will ever reach its logical conclusion. for a way long will India be kept out of the decision-making structures of the United Nations?”

India along side Norway, Ireland and Mexico will become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a two-year term beginning on January 1, 2021.