Sushma Sawaraj to leave for US today to attend UNGA session

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will leave for United States this evening to participate in the United Nations General Assembly session. She will join the delegation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will reach New York on 26th of this month. The External Affairs Ministry spokesman said that Swaraj, will attend a series of multilateral meeting including foreign ministers of G-4, SAARC, India-Brazil-South Africa, G-77and BRICS countries. The External Affairs Minister will also hold bilateral meetings with her counterparts with whom she has not met before like UK foreign minister Philip Hammond. She will stay back to attend a UN event to mark Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary as Day of Non-violence on 2nd of the next month.