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India contributes USD 100 million towards UN partnership fund in 2017
India to contributes USD 100 million towards the UN partnership fund
India has pledged an additional amount of USD 100 million towards the UN partnership fund, scaling up its support to sustainable development projects across the developing world.
This information is shared by Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Anjani Kumar announced the multi-year contribution at the 2017 UN Pledging Conference for Development Activities on 6 November 2017.
The contribution would be in addition to India's contribution of 10.582 million US dollar to various other UN programmes.
India believes that the UN should have the necessary resources to finance its activities, in an appropriate and balanced manner.
A total of USD 398.98 million was pledged by about 20 countries during the conference session
