The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held from September 25 to 27 here and will be convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly.
Slated to be one of the largest ever gatherings at the UN, more?than 150?world leaders are expected to attend the Sustainable Development Summit to formally adopt the outcome document of the new agenda.
Modi is expected to address the gathering on September 25 after which he will head to the West Coast to visit San Francisco, sources said.
The 70th session of the General Assembly will open on September 15.
The annual high-level General Debate will begin on September 28 and will run through October 6.
Since Modi is likely to return to India around September 28, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is expected to represent the country at the General Debate.
Modi is expected to travel to San Francisco after his address to the Sustainable Development Summit on September 25, becoming the fourth Indian Premier to visit US’ West Coast.
Modi’s proposed visit to San Francisco would also revive –after a gap of four decades with the exception of the former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao in 1994 – the post-independence tradition of Indian prime ministers visiting the US cities other than New York or Washington DC.